“I’m a singer. I’m doing a show in Sonoma.”
“What’s your sound?”
“Actually I write musicals. I’m performing a couple songs from one I wrote.”
“What’s the musical about?”
“It’s called ‘Witness Uganda’. It’s about me going to Uganda and starting a non-profit after meeting some orphan teenagers and confronting the complexities that all of that was. We opened for a band, I don’t know if you’ve heard of them, called Fun, in Chicago.”
“Yeah, I know Fun.”
“It’s been crazy.”

“How’d you get into writing musicals?”
“Well I’m an actor, the guy I’m writing the show with is a composer and he caught me ranting one night about how difficult it was to help people, and he recorded my rant. So it started like that, it’s sort of like a documentary in which I play myself. They story opens up and you meet the kids. You find out all the worst things that have ever happened, and all the best things. It’s supposed to go to broadway in the Spring.

Dijon

August 12, 2014