In Search of a Better Way
Welcome to Creative Insubordination! I decided to start writing this blog because I got tired and angry. For over seven years, I wrote the Theatre Ideas blog and wrote post after post trying to...
View ArticleThe Three Pillars of Artistic Independence
In my opinion, there are three pillars to artistic independence: Life choices Attitudes Business LIFE CHOICES are about the choices you make about how you want to live that have an impact on your work:...
View ArticleThe Sinatra Imperative
Of all of the things I will write here, this is the idea that is most important. It is central to one of the pillars of creative independence: attitudes. And one of those attitudes involves...
View ArticleThe Whole World Is Awash in Art
Once you have successfully freed yourself from the Sinatra Imperative, you have taken the first major step toward artistic independence. Suddenly, all the world is available for your creativity, and...
View ArticleSeeking a Blue Ocean
Once you have freed yourself from being chained to a place, and granted yourself permission to see what you want to do as not only important to you but also important to others as well, you are ready...
View ArticleSeth Lepore and Ruthless Reciprocity
I’d like to draw my readers’ attention to another project run by Seth Lepore entitled Ruthless Reciprocity Transforming the Performing Arts Community. Seth and I both share similar concerns about the...
View ArticleIncreasing the Capitalization of Creativity
I am disturbed by the sheer amount of waste in the theater. I don’t mean wasted wood or fabric – although there is a helluva lot of that, too – I mean the waste of talent of all kinds. The reality is...
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