In 2014 he produced and directed the smash-hit "I’ll Say She Is", the first ever revival of the Marx Brothers hit 1924 Broadway show in the NY International Fringe Festival. But he has dreams - vivid, extraordinary day dreams - in which the life he leads is one of excitement and even adventure, in which he - a weary, put upon middle-aged man - is the hero of his own story. He has directed his own plays, revues and solo pieces at such venues as Joe’s Pub, La Mama, HERE, Dixon Place, Theater for the New City, the Ohio Theatre, the Brick, and 6 separate shows in the NY International Fringe Festival. Walter Mitty is an ordinary man living an ordinary life. Trav has been in the vanguard of New York’s vaudeville and burlesque scenes since 1995 when he launched his company Mountebanks, presenting hundreds of acts ranging from Todd Robbins to Dirty Martini to Tammy Faye Starlite to the Flying Karamazov Brothers. He has written for the NY Times, the Village Voice, American Theatre, Time Out NY, Reason, the Villager and numerous other publications. (is best known for his books "No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous" (2005) and "Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube" (2013).
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But confronting both and saving her town may cost her more than she ever imagined. Along the way she will encounter the Winter King of fairytales and a long slumbering chaos spirit. Only Vasilisa’s wild spirit and dangerous gifts long-hidden can protect the town and the save the spirits. Between the new priest’s desire to instill the fear of God in his followers and her stepmother’s beliefs, the household spirits begin to fade and chaos looms over their land and lives. When the local priest dies, she begs Moscow to send a new one. She forbids their rituals honoring the household spirits. When her father remarries an extremely devout woman from Moscow, Vasya world begins to change. Especially the tale of the Winter King, Morozko. Most of all, she loves the fairy tales told by her nurse around the hearth on cold winter night. She loves the forest and winter, lacking the fear those around her share for both. The Bear and the NightingaleĮver since her birth on a cold winter night, Vasilisa has been trouble. The series follows Vasilisa (Vasya) Petrovna from her birth the approximately 20 years of age. Set in 14th Century Russia, Arden spins a new tale which incorporates actual historical events of the era with Slavic folklore and fairy tales. Rule of Wolves: A Heroic End (?) to an Alluring Saga.An Author with the Same First Name as You. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me." "I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately." "I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing." "I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. It felt like entering a tradition." "However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned." "I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. I began with short stories and fiction for children." "However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. They are looking for delight." "Fiction came quite a while later. "A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into." "As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates." "Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good. |