Journal

2026-03-01

The next big project I'm excited about is a hopeful production of Ghost Quartet, by Dave Malloy. This is set to be a year and a half long process, with ideally two to three weekends of shows, directed by me and with a cast of four of my incredibly talented friends. One of them is a long time theatrical collaborator and fellow improv musician, and the other three are actor/musicians who I met through @jmax's production of Callback. I'll be directing, primarily motivated by being psyched at the idea of seeing a show with these four people in it.

We are starting to talk with potential venues and theater companies, so we don't have a date or a license secured for this production yet, and I'm eager to get those things figured out so we can really plan for it, but we're already digging into the music and having a great time jamming together.

The show is a musical, but all the music — and there's a lot of it and it's reasonably complicated — is played by the four actors. They're all multi-instrumentalists and between the five of us we have so many musical instruments that we're eager to squeeze into this thing. The story is haunting and beautiful but that's probably going to be its own blog post at some point. But it's enough material, and we're all busy enough, that we're going to take our time with this process.

It's really nice having something to look forward to right now. My political rants are probably best left off the internet, but the world is a bad place, and my cat just died so I admit I'm feeling a little lonely, so it's not lost on me that I have good friends who I'm excited to make art with.