june 18, 2007 in^significant others and homeland in one fell swoop

today is my father's birthday - happy birthday dad! and thursday is my mother's birthday - happy birthday mom! just got off the phone with them and we always talk for quite a while and have a lot of laughs.

so it is time to update this blog: the latest is that i've started working at the z space studio here in san francisco as the interim executive director. check out z at www.zspace.org and see what we're up to over there. three programs: word for word, youth arts and z plays run by three terrific artistic directors, susan harloe, joanne winter and lisa steindler. a great crew of people at the z space, david szlasa our production manager, clayton lord our marketing director and kasa cotugno our administrative coordinator are a small and mighty group. having all of the other theatre companies there sharing offices with us, too (cutting ball, crowded fire, fools fury to name only a few) is exciting. lots of creativity going on there.

in^Significant others - the musical we work shopped last summer @ NCTC (www.nctcsf.org) music and lyrics by jay kuo is opening on july 14 at zeum (www.isomusical.com) and i am having a great time directing this. everyone is doing their personal best. david garcia, our choreographer is doing amazing things with plumbing and office chairs on wheels... all of this is very exciting. keri fitch has agreed to do our costumes (i've worked with keri many times at NCTC and am thrilled to have her with us), cathie anderson who works at brava and did the lighting design for my recent production of songs for a new world at ray of light theatre is doing our lights. owen stephens is doing our set and everything is coming together really well. this show is going to be fun.

homeland again for one night only: you may remember we did a preview of one of jay's other original musicals homeland last december at the magic theatre. we're doing a one night concert performance for the oca national convention at the sacramento community center theater 1301 L street, in sacramento, on june 29, 2007 @ 8:30 pm check out the website www.homelandmusical.com

there hasn't really been time for much else so that's it for now. don't miss jay's daily blog about putting our show up at www.sfmusical.com it is a lot of fun.

- george