PLEASE NOTE: My apologies in advance for typos. I lost power yesterday in the middle of editing. PLEASE leave a comment if/where you see a typo -- be brutal! (My fingers and my nose are frozen and I'm sponging off a neighbor's goodwill for power right now while trying to get as much done as … Continue reading One Faux Pest Control Technician & One Legit Entomologist

Well, maybe not a bar . . . but two quasi-fictional scientists do interrupt a scene in "A Pest Control Affair" with their playfulness. In this blog post, I’ll introduce you via 1:1 interviews to Roxanne Schroeder-Arce who is playing a botanist and married (on stage) to Rupert Reyes, who is playing a melittologist which … Continue reading Two Scientists Walk into a Bar . . .

Photographer: Bret Brookshire with Hyde Park Theatre, Austin, Texas No cockroaches were harmed in the taking of this photograph. Or, all the cockroaches were harmed and we're simply not telling you! Rehearsals began this week for “A Pest Control Affair,” and over the next 30 days, I will be introducing you to each member of … Continue reading A Pest Control Affair

Auditions are complete. Please be sure to attend Frontera Fest on February 2nd 2023! A PEST CONTROL AFFAIR is a play based on a true story and originally written as a blog post in Hook vs Pest Control. This 25-minute play will go live for Frontera Fest 2023 at Hyde Park Theatre in Austin. The … Continue reading AUDITION for A Pest Control Affair

Shortly after my mother’s 82nd birthday, her over-beating heart, the one that kept time with the chaos of her family and broke with each disappointment of her sons' and daughters’ losses, that organ that normally flushed oxygen and blood to her flesh, tightened and stopped. But I would say that Mom’s heart began the giving-up-process … Continue reading Anselma Cortés Sanchez Guzman