Antoine Valot

This past sunday was the final performance of the Ten Buddhist Tales. The show was excellent, the audience reaction was excellent, and the spirits were high. I was transformed and elevated by the experience of assembling, leading, motivating and supporting a diverse team. What gives me the most pride however, is that I believe all of [...]

Behold: Sausage!
Wow. We’ve done it. We’ve opened our show. What a rush!
After a hell week that went surprisingly well, we had energy aplenty for opening. The cast was on fire, lots of friends and family in the audience, and the show rocked! It’s 90 minutes of pure seat-of-your-pants craziness, both on-stage and off. I screwed up [...]

Third version of the Department of Redundancy Department’s website, this time using Wordpress. Wordpress is a beautiful piece of software, highly discoverable… of course, it’s targeted at geeks, but I think it broadens the target a bit.
For the DRD’s site, I chose a simple theme, and tweaked the typography. Videos will be hosted on YouTube, [...]

Introducing the Department of Redundancy Department, an absurdist comedy group from Denver, Colorado.

Yesterday was our last performance of Huis Clos (No Exit), Sartre’s existential masterpiece. I’d been dreaming of playing the role of Garcin ever since I first read the play, at 16. Well, I got my wish, and it was more than I bargained for.
The three characters in the play are in hell, and for good [...]

Tonight was the last showing of The Subgenius Police, a cyberpunk comedy, written by Don Becker.
What a show! I had the honor of helping out with projections, music, posters and the website. I got to participate closely in the rehearsal process.
This play is unique. First of all, “cyberpunk” is not a term usually associated with [...]