When I was 5 years old, my very best friend was my white-haired, oversized grandmother – “Grandma Spitz”. She lived just down the street and I honestly can’t remember having any other friends that really meant anything to me between the ages of 5 and 7, when I lived closest to her. Grandma Spitz and I would play cards endlessly …
Filming at The Lillian Booth Actors Home
In the summer of 2011, I had the wonderful privilege of spending six weeks at The Actors Fund’s Lillian Booth Actors Home with my filmmaking partner, Hank Rogerson, and our small film crew. We were chronicling the rehearsals and performances of the residents’ production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, co-directed by Ben Steinfeld and Noah Brody of Fiasco Theater. …