Mission Control Statement

 INTENTION OF THIS BLOG:

The RIPE Project was built as a framework to explore what it means to be creative. The process, the habit, the technique, the arc. The inaugural focus of The RIPE Project is to chronicle as I create a new solo show — “RIPE” — from original concept to the stage. Anything that sparks an idea is fair game for this blog.

HOW IT BEGAN:

The RIPE Project was born over dinner with one of my friends and collaborators, Gerry Stockstill. For the mini-series edition, your can read Post #1, Pennsylvania Six Five O-O-Ohhhh….

For you C students and the impatient, here’s the Cliff Notes:

I act and sing. I write. I wind a decent story. For a couple of years I’ve had this desire to create a solo show entitled RIPE. The concept for RIPE, the show has shadowed my brain for a while. It revealed itself in a flash then scurried away so I’m hunting it down again.

Essentially, RIPE is my desire to step up and be the real me as a person and as a performer, warts, bells, whistles and falls. In the course of this work I seek to uncover, discover, recover — me. On the stage in performance I hope to share the truth that is, well — us. People. Just living our lives on the way to those places we really want to go.

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