Category: Joe Orton

“All classes are criminal today. We live in an age of equality.” –Funeral Games, Joe Orton On August 9th, 1967, one of my favorite playwrights, the (in)famous Joe Orton was murdered by his lover Kenneth Halliwell. If you haven’t read any of Orton’s deliciously macabre oeuvre, especially his riveting diaries, I recommend Stephen Frears’ excellent…
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August 9, 2012 0

If you know anything about me and this business, you know…well, you definitely know too much about my dating habits, and The Kitten, sorry–but you also probably know how obsessed I am with accepting yourself. Both the bad and good. The good, the bad and the not-so-fantastic. And I say this as someone who went…
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June 12, 2012 0

This blog is supposed to be professional, yes? It’s supposed to be a way for potential clients to get a taste of my personality, my joie de vivre, and then actually wish to hire me, not back away slowly. But, as one of my fave playwrights, Joe Orton, famously said: “I’m an acquired taste.” Oh…
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July 29, 2011 0

I know that some of you, visiting this blog are perhaps thinking x-rated thoughts of me (one can only hope, right?), but when it comes to hiring me to be your very own creativity coach, someone to help you get your mind right, you’re all, “Oh, no, I’m fine. Fine and dandy! I don’t need…
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July 19, 2011 0