In a 1941 essay on playwriting Thornton Wilder reminds us that “a play visibly represents pure existing.” In a play something happens and in performance it happens now - right before our eyes. And that something happening right before our eyes is transformational. Nobody who creates it or witnesses it will ever be the same afterward. Because of that specific theatrical event we are present, we are new, we are alive. Together. This belief is the inspiration for my artistic philosophy. I have had the good fortune of working with a remarkably diverse group of organizations and artists over the past thirty years of my career from Karamu House, the Cleveland Play House, and the Cleveland Treatment Center in my own home town to the Honolulu Theatre for Youth to the Denver Center Theatre Company. Each and every experience has renewed my passion for the transformative power of live theatre. At this time in my life and career I am particularly drawn to the potential found in theatre created specifically for family audiences. Echoing Mr. Wilder’s charge, the multi-generational nature of this group is inherently dynamic and engaging and affords an artist a wonderland of possibilities to explore.