Evening, all. 2025 presented a lot of opportunities to me. I had lots of at-bats as a director and performer (including my debut as an audiobook narrator), ginned up a couple short plays and stories… Read More »It’s here! It’s here! The best of 2025!
Hello! In an attempt to ensure that the decostanza.com blog amounts to more than just a receptible for my EOY lists, I like to occasionally drop little midyear updates in here. It is entirely unclear… Read More »WWWWHWH? (Well well well, what have we here…?) Summer ’25
Hi! Sorry! I so enjoy writing these best-of posts, but this one is now a month late. Why? Thankfully, it’s for good reasons. I’m just busy. I’m working full-time as an educator, am preparing my… Read More »Better late than never! Best of 2024
*because things that came out this year are not necessarily more interesting to me than things that came out in previous years. MUSIC Slow, Deep, and Hard & World Coming Down by Type O Negative… Read More »The best things I heard, read, and saw in 2023*
It’s been over eight months since I’ve written a post here, and there are over eight months of news, developments, and happenings to report. I couldn’t possibly cover them all. I’ll pick out just a… Read More »Adapt or die! Summer ’23 update
Welcome back! 2022 was a relatively good year for me, but, all things told, it was pretty similar to 2021. I wrote, I directed, I performed. I took a whack at going back to school.… Read More »2022 reflection & best of!
*runs into room* *slams door behind me* *gasps for breath and sweats profusely* Okay, are we all here? Okay, good. Listen up, because I don’t have time to say it twice. So much has happened… Read More »Summer 2022 infodump!
Tomorrow I leave with Meg for Philadelphia, where we will see a performance of my play Edmonton, or Come From Out of the Stocks, Elizabeth. I began writing this play in late 2018, on a… Read More »Be not affrighted! “Edmonton” in Philadelphia
*because things that came out this year are not necessarily more interesting to me than things that came out in previous years. All told, 2021 was a good year for me. I fell in love,… Read More »The best things I read, saw, and heard in 2021*
Well, dear reader, I have quite a few debts of gratitude to pay, because my play “Penis Inspection Day, or, The Ape of Naples” opens as part of the Yale Cabaret’s 54th season. I have… Read More »“A feast, a feast! Set forth the tables! We owe’t all to this Ape of Naples!”