Big News, No Whammies

Remember that resolution to blog more?

Yeah, me neither.

Although it's relatively unannounced (like, say, to the people at our respective jobs) I feel safe telling my non-existent readership (Hi Zack!) that Julie and I are moving to Des Moines.

Needless to say this momentous news has been brewing for a while. Zack Mannheimer has moved to Des Moines to start the Des Moines Social Club, a full-service arts center that will contain a restaurant and classrooms and a thoroughly flexible blackbox theater. You can take a look at the architectural drawings or the business plan via the magic of the interwebs. Julie will be the managing director and I will be the Education Director and co-Artistic Director, with Zack, of the Subjective Theatre Company Des Moines.

It's an amazing opportunity for us in a lot of ways. I've been wanting for over a year now to make the transition to directing, and haven't really gotten there in NYC. Julie's family will be three hours away rather than 15. We want to start a family soon (after the wedding, I suppose) and parts of that will be easier to do in Des Moines. So it's exciting and scaring the crap out of me at the same time.

I've re-named this blog because I'm going to use it to track our experiences as we do this. It's something we've never tried to do before, this wholesale creation of a cultural institution, although we both have experience in the field. And holy cow I'm moving to the prairie, which I never thought I'd do in a million years.

Life is delightfully odd.

M