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After over a year of regular submissions, I got one of my short plays into Southern Rep’s 6×6 program. 6×6 is a new play slam that occurs several times throughout the year. New Orleans writers are given one week to write a short play on a selected theme (this month: “Better Luck Next Time”) and […]

  I was so honored this week to present my paper “Mirrors to Mirrors: Metadrama and Reflexivity in Shakespeare and Boogie Nights” at the Pop Culture Association’s National Conference. This was my first opportunity to present at an academic conference and everyone was very supportive. The chair of my area invited me to return for next year’s […]

“Here Comes Santa Claus”, the holiday short I co-wrote and performed in, is screening this Sunday, March 20 at the Byrd Theatre in Richmond, Virginia. Wish I could be there to check it out on a big screen. Maybe we should look into a screening at the new Broad Theatre in Mid-City New Orleans.   […]

Congrats to director Beau Bratcher, actor Becca Chapman, and my wonderfully talented classmate, Andy Vaught, all got nominated for Big Easy Awards their work on last summer’s “Robin Hood: thief/brigand.” It was a pleasure to perform in such a beautiful space with such a talented cast.    

Let’s start with the obvious – David Bowie was the tops. R.I.P. After all the good vibes from joining in the Bowie second line, literally rubbing elbows with Win Butler, it only seemed appropriate to keep the tribute going by getting a group of super-talented people together and reading my play “Hunky Dory,” inspired by […]

I was thrilled when my writing and film-making buddy Mr. Danny Caporaletti suggested we turn my holiday monologue “On Cupid” into a short film. What results is NSFW and NSFS (Not Safe for Santas).

It’s fortunate that I get to type this rather than talk about it, because there’s something about “Our Town” that makes me cry. Weeping. That tight throat ugly cry deep feeling kind of thing. And I get to play the role that I wanted more than any other – which never happens. Sam Craig. I was […]

I am so incredibly proud of, Katie Hallman. After several years of producing high profile concerts in some of the world’s greatest halls, my amazingly talented wife has taken over as the Managing Director at Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre, New Orleans’ oldest playhouse. Their 98th season just closed, and in the fall she […]

I’ve had a great time with The NOLA Project, playing Friar Tuck in my classmate Andy Vaught’s new adaptation of Robin Hood, at the New Orleans Museum of Art Sculpture Garden. Great reviews keep coming in, including one from the Gambit Weekly that says: “As the drunken friar, Hallman is hilarious; he gratuitously stumbles and […]