"There Are No Small Parts" reading on Monday, May 4

KC Public Theatre is doing their Online 10-Minute Play Project on Monday, May 4, and the first play in the set is There Are No Small Parts by Bryan Colley and Tara Varney.

It begins at 7:30pm on their Facebook Event page. Check it out.

Project Playwright Online This Weekend

Sorry about the late notice, but I'm participating in Project Playwright Online this weekend, and the first round has already happened (mine was the winning play!) There are two more rounds tonight and tomorrow with the other playwrights, and then I'll be back on Sunday for the final round.

How it works is that I'm given a writing prompt at 7pm the night before, and then I have overnight to write a short play based on that prompt. I deliver it to Project Playwright by 7am, and then the play will be memorized and fully produced and ready for voting at 6:30pm. All the actors are couples that live together so they can interact.

You can see the first round here (my script is Play #C):

https://youtu.be/gbpIsrc8rbo


And then check in at 6:30pm Sunday, April 26 to vote on the final round (you won't know who wrote which play, so just pick your favorite):

https://www.facebook.com/ProjectPlaywright

Watching Movies 2019

Here's a link to all the films I watched in 2019. 

I logged 185 movies.

Five Star Movies
  • Apollo 13
  • Dead of Night
  • Hobson's Choice
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  • In the Heat of the Night
  • Incredibles 2
  • The Irishman
  • The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
  • Lilies of the Field
  • Miss Julie
  • Pygmalion
  • Raging Bull
  • Sorry to Bother You
  • They Shall Not Grow Old
  • Tower
You can follow my film reviews on Letterboxd

"Enlarged to Show Texture" Video


Here's a video of Enlarged to Show Texture at the Kansas City Fringe Festival on July 27, 2019. Written by Bryan Colley and Tara Varney. Starring Tara Varney as Dysmenorrhea. 


And here's a video of all the audience volunteer "Battle of the Band" segments. 

What's New? November 2019

  • I had a great time visiting Portland, Maine for the US Association of Fringe Festivals Conference and taking a side trip to Acadia National Park. A trip video is in the works.  
  • King Pest and Red Death seems to be happening for next year's Fringe, and I've applied to take it to Orlando. I'll find out if we're going on Dec 2. 
  • I've started a massive photo scanning project to digitize my stacks and stacks of family photos, and I'm having fun putting some of them on Facebook.
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