Now that the tour is over, my year-plus of freelance assistant directing, here’s the rundown on all the cities we played. Mind you, this entire trip is spent without a home base of any kind, living out of a suitcase – and I only paid for rent once, in May, in New York.

What a long, strange trip it’s been.

APRIL – AUGUST 2007
Based in Ashland, OR, with trips to Los Angeles in April and June.
Assistant direct ROMEO & JULIET at OSF (dir. Bill Rauch)
Assistant direct TARTUFFE at OSF (dir. Peter Amster)

SEPTEMBER 2007
(drive with Kersti from Ashland to SF)
Menlo Park, CA
San Francisco, CA
(Mini-WCX drive with Zack up to Seattle)
Ashland, OR
Crater Lake, OR
Eugene, OR
Portland, OR
Chorus WS at Many Hats in Portland
Seattle, WA
(fly back to the Bay Area for GOLDA rehearsals)
Menlo Park, CA
Assistant direct GOLDA’S BALCONY (dir. Aaron Davidman)

OCTOBER
Mountain View, CA
direct understudy rehearsals of GOLDA
Portland, OR
Chorus workshop @ Many Hats in Portland
Mountain View, CA

NOVEMBER 2007 ( my month of most travel until May 2008 )
Indianapolis, IN
Convergence meetings
Ithaca, NY
Los Angeles, CA
San Antonio, TX

DECEMBER 2007
San Antonio, TX
Denver, CO
Assistant direct LYDIA at the Denver Center (dir. Juliette Carrillo)

JANUARY 2008
Denver, CO
LYDIA cont.
New York City, NY
SAGN auditions
Red Bank, NJ
Philadelphia, PA
Indianapolis, IN

FEBRUARY 2008
Indianapolis, IN
Convergence: direct 1st draft of 13 WAYS OF LOOKING AT THE CHORUS, in Indianapolis.
Portland, OR
Assistant direct SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION at Portland Center Stage, dir. Aaron Posner.

MARCH 2008
Portland, OR
SAGN cont.

APRIL 2008
Portland, OR
Seattle, WA
Vancouver, BC
Ithaca, NYC
New York City
(try to move to New York. Get a real job.)

MAY 2008 (the most traveled month of the trip, until June 2008…)
New York City
(try to leave New York)
Boston, MA
Kauai, HI (a real vacation)
Los Angeles, CA
San Antonio, TX
Brownsville, TX
Matamoros, Mexico
Atlanta, GA
Seattle, WA

JUNE 2008 wins the Most Travel award, because of the WCX.
West Coast Extravaganza: travel down the coast with the 13 CHORUS composer, CF, working on the piece, doing feverish rewrites, and essentially cramming all the theater work possible into the end of a year of nothing but theater work
Seattle, Vancouver, Ashland, Mono, Mammoth, LA
Los Angeles
teach chorus WS at H-W
Direct reading of 2nd draft of 13 WAYS OF LOOKING AT THE CHORUS

END OF TOUR

JULY 2008
Los Angeles
Directing a reading of Ron Allen’s x restrung cortex (I guess I still have one theater project ahead of me…)
The band is recuperating in Pasadena and plans to move to San Francisco at the earliest opportunity. Read: move, with an apartment all their own, and a place to buy ceramics.

And then, from the home base of SF, should there be any future chorus-or-theater freelancing opportunities…like another Convergence…or another Lysistrata…you’ll just have to check this space for future updates on the tour schedule.

Once a freelancer, always a freelancer.