Found a bunch of my old writings. This is a collection of mostly stage plays and two or three short screenplays from 2005 to 2013. I'm not sure how much else from that period isn't here. The first draft of "54 Silhouettes" isn't here, and, of course, anything I wrote directly on a computer.

Today had a most pleasant surprise waiting for me. I lost my copy of this book (FIVE AFRICAN PLAYS edited by the legendary Cosmo Pieterse) back in university and pretty much forgot about it. I walk into a bookshop to buy a folder only to see two copies of it tucked in the corner of a shelf.

Round 1.

#photography

I had a really fun interview talking about my multi-award-winning play "54 Silhouettes" with Jerry Chiemeke for The British Blacklist.

Check it out here: thebritishblacklist.co.uk/out-of-afric...

I found an ancestor (and it still worked!)

Intensity is my favourite quality in an actor. I find it to be a defining quality of all masters of the craft.

I split this command of a performer's aura into 2 types: extroverted intensity and introverted intensity.

Simply put, extroverted intensity explodes while introverted intensity implodes.

Purr. Meow. Prince Jafar.

PARTS

This hole in my heart
I long thought a wound
Was really just a part
Carved in the shape of you

#poetry

PUZZLE

It's okay to break
Wholes are made of parts
Just build yourself back
The pieces rearranged
New made from old
Skin made from wounds
Smooths made from bends
Sometimes, discovery hides in loss

#poetry

How does a nut sneeze?

Cashew!

It's always great working with people who understand that preserving the spirit of playfulness is essential to quality creative work.

Fathers of unintended children.

Oppenheimer.
Big Boss.

Repost with a banger pic of you.

Restraint may not be a word that comes to mind when thinking of the grandness of Nolan and OPPENHEIMER, but I really enjoyed the composure he exhibits in letting visual techniques find their organic place rather than shoehorning them in.

#scriptsky

You can make any creative idea infinitely better by simply aspiring to touch even just a sliver of profundity through it. Something about making that commitment, taking that leap in earnest, opens you up to the muse.

Artistic talent is a blessing wrapped in a burden, and a career is its unwrapping.

I'm as curious to see what Nolan does after OPPENHEIMER as I was with Tarantino after INGLORIOUS BASTERDS. Both films mark a pinnacle of their visual and literary sensibilities over the years. What a storyteller does after a specific style hits a peak is always fascinating to me.