#cardmonkey

A Shining Star Ten years ago, in 2014, I began a tenure at the Carolina Ren Festival. I had spent a couple of seasons as an ‘irregular guest performer’ doing an unpaid street gig, now and again, but in the 2014 season I was invited and hired to perform on a stage. A tiny one in the very center of the campus. I was to do four shows a day for around 45 minutes each. I did not feel as if i…

IDES The delicate balance of the ongoing show at the Stanley Hotel. The title of said show is “13: A Theatrical Séance Experience”.  A Theatrical Séance Experience. It’s. A. Show. When purchasing a ticket you have to check a box that states you understand this is a SHOW and that the host (me) will not entertain any request to contact your departed loved ones. I want to give the attendees a…

Blessed Definition: Blessings are good things unearned. While the guy who owns and runs the magic theater at the Stanley Hotel (Known as “The Underground”) was out of the country being a hero, I filled in his spots, being a #cardmonkey and performing my show “Bookends”. Three full weeks, and meanwhile doing “13” in the Séance Chamber. I came home exhausted, slept hard for eight hours each…

I lie in the pursuit of truth. I weave falsehoods so that my audience may know the heart of me. I show my wounds, I reveal my weakness so that you and I might know one another better. When your guard is down, I can then offer you the love I have been saving. Love I have saved by (in a myriad of different ways) denying it to myself. It has only been recently that I have allowed myself to love…

Don't call it a comeback.

Season of Solitude It’s been five years since I left Charlotte. A journey to … something. I had an offer from Hollywood, but I was not chasing fame (nor fortune), I was chasing my desire to be the performer I was made to be. Satisfy the need to create. On the ten day journey across America, I made some promises to myself. It’s time to fulfill those promises. Here I am in the heavenly mountains…