Photo by Rosie Cole:

This is on my birthday 30-years ago today. I’m celebrating with Rosie, holding a chocolate éclair with lit candles in the back of our van, while on-the-road in Colorado.

Photo by Lloyd Brant:

I took this picture of Rosie in our campsite at the Colorado Renaissance Festival.  In those days you could camp deep in the woods with no neighbors within eyesight. It was like living on Gilligan’s Island.

Photo by unknown:

Here are Rosie and I performing in the Celestial Seasoning’s Pavilion at the Colorado Renaissance Festival. It was an ideal stage that provided cool shade from the hot sun, and dry shelter from the rain.

Rosie and I were young performers in paradise.

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Photo by Marc Norberg:

This is a favorite picture from a photo shoot with Marc Norberg at the Southern Theater in 2010.

Marc was in great form that day.

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Here is a quick clip from Rosie and my show A Life of Serious Nonsense.  We premiered it in 2008 at the Jewel Theatre in downtown St Paul above Twin Cities Magic.

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Photo by Lloyd Brant:

I just finished my grant application to the Elizabeth George Foundation for emerging playwrights.

The project is to adapt my children’s story “The Land of Clowns” to the stage and eventually the circus ring.  The story is about where clowns came from, why they are here, and why they now live in circus tents.

The most exciting part is that Kevin Kling has agreed to collaborate with me on the project.  We plan to workshop it at Open Eye Figure Theater over the April Fools weekend in 2016.

Wish me luck,

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Photo by Marc Norberg:

I simply wanted to post this photo on my blog to celebrate the Supreme Court decision in support of the right for all Americans to marry whom they wish.

Love is victorious!

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Photo by Marc Norberg:

This is a scene from THE VAUDEVILLIAN of me balancing the world.

Photo by Layne Kennedy:

This is a picture of my son getting a pie in his face.

Good job Gabe!

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Photo by Marc Norberg:

This is a photo of one of my favorite shows that I perform with my wife Rosie called, A Life of Serious Nonsense, which is an autobiographical story about our life together.  This is also the show that we first introduced our Emergency Clown Nose to the public.

Photo by Marc Norberg:

I’m posting a scene from THE VAUDEVILLIAN for the third day in a row.  Pictured here is Arsene, Rosie, and I in The Contract scene.  We were all playing the ghosts of the original cast of vaudevillians who first performed at The Southern Theater when they opened their doors a century earlier.

What first caught my imagination when I decided to write the play was that there was only one woman in the original show, and her name was Rose.

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Photo by Marc Norberg:

This is a photo of Arsene’s shadow in a scene from THE VAUDEVILLIAN in 2010 at the Southern Theater.  It is one of my favorite images from a series of “visual poems” we created for the show.

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