Last week, I started rehearsals for Saint Joan with the Orchard Theater Collective in Minneapolis.
We've got a team of five actors playing the couple dozen roles. I'm playing Charles the Dauphin, John de Stogumber, Poulengey, some pages, and, for the briefest of moments, the Executioner.

The play has a short run (March 6 - March 21).
​For tickets and more details, visit this link.

And here's a first-day-of-rehearsal shot with the cast and our director, Ben Shaw (no relation to George Bernard Shaw...I think).

Movies and TV series watched in the year.
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1. Top Chef Denver
2. Killing Eve (season 1)
3. Lupin the 3rd: The Castle of Cagliostro
4. The Favorite
5. Rent Live
6. Jupiter Ascending
7. Ocean's 8
8. The Rover
9. Avengers Infinity War
10. Get Out
11. Bad Times at the El Royale
12. Us
13. Age of Consent
14. The Americans (final season)
15. Catastrophe (season 4)
16. Crashing (series 1)
17. Cold War
18. The Dark Crystal
19. Withnail and I
20. Kaili Blues
21. My Name is Julia Ross
22. Hopscotch
23. My Brilliant Career
24. Stalker
25. After the Wedding
26. Mulholland Drive
27. Born Yesterday
28. Fleabag (series 2)
29. Wine Country
30. Clue
31. Good Omens
32. The OA (season 2)
33. Avengers Endgame
34. Spider-Man Far From Home
35. Stranger Things (season 3)
36. Big Little Lies (season 2)
37. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
38. Veep (season 7)
39. Drop Dead Gorgeous
40. The Boys (season 1)
41. Weekend
42. Exhibition
43. Don't Look Now
44. Paris, Texas
45. The Triplets of Belleville
46. The Dark Crystal Age of Resistance
47. Late Night
48. Bringing Up Baby
49. Picnic at Hanging Rock
50. John Wick Chapter 2
51. Upstream Color
52. Chevalier
53. The Pirates of Penzance
54. Unbelievable (Netflix series)
55. Archipelago
56. The Devils
57. Arsenic and Old Lace
58. North by Northwest
59. In the Mood for Love
60. The American Friend
61. Intimate Relations
62. Booksmart
63. Women in Love
64. Doctor Foster (series 1)
65. Knives Out
66. Breathless
67. Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker

​2019 Books

1. Wish Her Safe at Home by Stephen Benatar
2. Milkman by Anna Burns
3. The Western Wind by Samantha Harvey
4. The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
5. Dreyer’s English by Benjamin Dreyer
6. The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch
7. Born Yesterday by Garson Kanin
8. Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
9. Undue Influence by Anita Brookner
10. Bowlaway by Elizabeth McCracken
11. Othello (Arden edition)
12. Some Hell by Patrick Nathan
13. Possession by A.S. Byatt
14. Jeeves and the King of Clubs by Ben Schott
15. The Wolf and the Watchman by Nilklas Natt och Dag
16. Saga Book Two: Deluxe edition by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
17. Saga Book Three: Deluxe edition by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
18. Leading Men by Christopher Castellani
19. Love Always by Ann Beattie
20. Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
21. Keep Going by Austin Kleon
22. Listen to Me by Hannah Pittard (audiobook)
23. Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
24. Normal People by Sally Rooney
25. Lanny by Max Porter
26. The Underneath by Melanie Porter
27. Early Work by Andrew Martin
28. A Philosophy of Ruin by Nicholas Mancusi
29. Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
30. Spring by Ali Smith
31. Loudermilk by Lucy Ives
32. The Lost Man by Jane Harper
33. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
34. Waiting for Sunrise by William Boyd
35. Elbow Grease vs. Motozilla by John Cena
36. I Really Like Slop! by Mo Willems
37. Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
38. The Divers’ Game by Jesse Ball
39. Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts by Kate Racculia
40. Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood by Ken Ludwig (play)
41. Unbury Carol by Josh Malerman
42. Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry
43. The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
44. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
45. Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
46. The Chain by Adrian McKinty
47. Going Dutch by James Gregor
48. Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw
49. Gingerbread by Helen Oyeymi
50. Borne by Jeff Vandermeer
51. The Sellout by Paul Beatty

I'm headed back to Texas Shakespeare Festival for the summer!

​I'll be playing:

• Eddie Brock in Born Yesterday, directed by Leda Hoffman
• Touchstone in As You Like It, directed by Matthew Simpson
• Iago in Othello, directed by Donald Carrier

Come visit me in Kilgore, Texas this summer. They're also doing Into the Woods and a brand-new children's show called The Girl Who Cried Throgmonster by my friend Grace Abele.

This leaves me booked until August 1 in 2019.
I'm eager to find work after that. 

Here's a running list of the books (and plays) I've read cover-to-cover:
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1. Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong
2. Crampton Hodnet by Barbara Pym
3. Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel
4. The Heart of Robin Hood by David Farr (play)
5. In the Distance by Hernan Diaz
6. The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker
7. 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
8. The Dry by Jane Harper
9. The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce
10. A View of the Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor
11. King John by Shakespeare
12. Oregon Shakespeare Festival Actors Telling the Story by Alan Armstrong and Mary Z. Maher
13. Leaving Home by Anita Brookner
14. Tartuffe by Moliere (Richard Wilbur translation)
15. The Bell by Iris Murdoch
16. The Sparsholt Affair by Alan Hollinghurst
17. How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee
18. The Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald
19. Sense and Sensibility by Kate Hamill (Austen play adaptation)
20. Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
21. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
22. The Summer Book by Tove Jonnson
23. The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley
24. Our Spoons Came from Woolworths by Barbara Comyns
25. The Expendable Man by Dorothy B. Hughes
26. Comemadre by Roque Larraquy, translated by Heather Cleary
27. Snap by Belinda Bauer (audiobook)
28. Census by Jesse Ball
29. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
30. Tin Man by Sarah Winman
31. Louisa May Alcott: The Woman behind Little Women by Harriet Reisen
32. The Book of Will by Lauren Gunderson
33. Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
34. French Exit by Patrick deWitt (audiobook)
35. Butcher's Crossing by John Williams
36. Less by Andrew Sean Greer (audiobook)
37. Design for Living: Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne by Margot Peters
38. The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan
39. Compulsory Games by Robert Aickman
40. Severance by Ling Ma
41. The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
42. Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
43. Eleanor Or the Rejection of the Progress of Love by Anna Moschovakis
44. The Feral Detective by Jonathan Lethem
45. The Witch Elm by Tana French
46. Winter by Ali Smith
47. Macbeth by Shakespeare
48. Blowing the Bloody Doors Off by Michael Caine
49. Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
50. The So Blue Marble by Dorothy B. Hughes
51. Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami
52. The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch

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"Sailer’s performance is a tour de force. He presents himself as cocksure and arrogant — and a warrior, but he is also the embodiment of the expression 'uneasy lies the crown.'” 
- Andy Coughlan, English with a Bit of Texas

Read the whole review, here