Off Screen : Non-acting projects- On writing he's toying with
- (1998 Creation Con Burbank) I've always fancied being the Captain of the Starship Enterprise. I would like to do a series about the first Starship, right in the beginning when everyone was messing up and making a lot of mistakes and they really didn't get along with each other!
- (2-99 Dark Horse Comics) Some of the stuff that I adapted for the theater was a readaptation of Life is a Dream, which is the Latin Hamlet. It's a beautiful story, and I was lucky enough to work with someone who had majored in Spanish in college and had done his thesis -- he was a double-major in Spanish and theater -- so he did his thesis on the play -- and so we were able to go back to the original Spanish and see what other translators had done with it. We found huge changes in the plays -- excising scenes, adding their own scenes, changing characters and stuff, and we were really trying to get back to what the playwright had originally done. That was very exciting.
- (7-02 Shoreleave) I had been thinking of the same kind of series I wanted to do. I wanted to do “Enterprise” really. But I wanted to do it as the very first starship, back when Earth was still at civil war, when they’d be spying on each other in the space ships and they’d have to try to make the peace. I was always wondering... I used to love Star Trek and still do... how do you go from the civil war and this messed up part to the utopia that they found and that’s something they’ve never talked about, how do they bridge that? I thought it would be interesting for the Captain to try to create a microcosm on this little ship what the Earth was trying to obtain as well. It would be about betrayal... it would be about mistakes, about messing up, about thinking you’re a lot wiser than you are... It’s kind of the same road that Joss is going with... although his, again completely different from my idea, but thematically similar. So I just went on fire when I heard “Hill Street Blues” in space, I was like, ‘I’ve got so much material for that,’ which he’ll never use because he’s got real writers.
- (4-03 Cleveland) 'Writing? I've written all my life. I had theatre companies in Chicago and Seattle, and ah...a lot of our plays were taken from other source material and put into a play or original material. At one point we translated La Vida Esuena, which is 'Life is a Dream' which is the Latin Hamlet, written by Pedro Calderon de la Barca and uh...I was so proud of us, we..we read all of the translations and they all SUCKED, and so we went back and we re-translated and we discovered that a lot of liberties had been taken with that play and that maybe a lot of people didn't know a lot about that play and we did a really successful production. I'm proud of that.
- Can you talk about your experience writing the Spike and Dru comic book?
- Any interest in doing a novel on your own?
- On raising money for Pediatric AIDS by shaving his head - Was it scary?
- On conventions
- On running your own conventions
- On how and why the Queen Mary event came about
- What can we expect at The Rift event and your live gigs next month?
- New!Have you ever (at any age) performed in a magic act?
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