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About Me

I am finishing my final year in grad school and will be receiving my MFA in Directing from UC Irvine in the spring. While I wish I could say I have learned all I need to learn, if these last three years have taught me anything (both personally and professionally) it's that I will never stop learning... or making mistakes. But the mistakes I make are often due to my passion for people, for life, and for art... so I'll keep trying to learn from those mistakes, and maybe, when all is said and done, I'll leave the world a better place than where it was when I came into it.My daughter is the most wonderful person in my life, and as much as I hope to someday find that someone who will share this life with me, my daughter will always be my favorite person in the world.

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My Interests

My Daughter. Theatre. Music. Reading. Soccer. Basketball.

I'd like to meet:

Creators. Lovers. Doers. People who work towards positive change in the world.

Music:

Radiohead. Smashing Pumpkins. Pink Floyd. Coldplay. U2. REM. Foo Fighters. The Killers.

Movies:

Garden State. Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Dead Poet's Society. Braveheart. Wedding Crashers. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Last Kiss.

Television:

Sports. Grey's Anatomy. Scrubs.

Books:

The Brothers Karamazov. Hamlet. The Sound and the Fury. Will in the World. A Prayer for Owen Meany.

Heroes:

My dad. Ethan Sawyer.

My Blog

Two more shows in Irvine (and then I'm off to Ashland)

So... If anyone is around Irvine over the next couple of days and wants to see my last shows here... ever... (okay, you can never really say ever... I did my "last show" at The Empty Space at LEAST th...
Posted by brian j sivesind on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 01:49:00 PST

I'm almost done with grad school... what now?

So... How about an update on where life has taken me?  And where I'm heading? If you already know the skinny, feel free to skim and focus on the good parts... or meaty parts... or whatever.....
Posted by brian j sivesind on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:39:00 PST

Director's Notes for The Tempest

Only two more weeks until the greatest production of my artistic career.  I hope some of my friends can make it.  Here are my director's notes, finally approved after a number of edits. ...
Posted by brian j sivesind on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:49:00 PST

New Year's Resolutions... seriously... (thank you Justin Gordon)

So... I've got this friend named Justin Gordon... he's an actor, and we all know what that means... but it's irrelevant to the point I am going to make, so forget I even said it.  Anyway, Ju...
Posted by brian j sivesind on Sat, 30 Dec 2006 11:04:00 PST

For those who want to see The Tempest

Hello Friends, For anyone who is interested in seeing my LAST PRODUCTION at UCI (that's right... I will have an MFA in less than six months), here is the information you will need.  Please make ...
Posted by brian j sivesind on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 11:52:00 PST

Christmas Eve at the Minneapolis Courtyard Marriott

I write this as I sit in the lobby of a hotel room on Christmas Eve (or Christmas Day, if we're talking Minnesota time).  Due to a late flight and a missed connection, I won't make it to Iowa unt...
Posted by brian j sivesind on Mon, 25 Dec 2006 10:35:00 PST

Just when I thought it couldn't get any better...

So... After two of the most painful months in my life, I have been experiencing absolute bliss and joy over the last few weeks.  Creating art with people I love and admire and respect.....
Posted by brian j sivesind on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 04:02:00 PST

An unexpected reason to be thankful.

So... I've been struggling through a lot of personal turmoil over the past couple of months, and I've not yet managed to achieve complete clarity on my present situation, but there are a few things th...
Posted by brian j sivesind on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 08:16:00 PST

"A tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning heard."

Yeah, I know... how can you "hear" lightning? But that's the Folio stage direction, so deal with it. And come see how we are going to deal with it here at UC Irvine!It seems like only yesterday I was ...
Posted by brian j sivesind on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:49:00 PST

meandering through the meaninglessness of existence...

   As I was driving along the Mississippi River in the darkness of midnight with thunderstorms lighting up the northern sky in my rearview mirror, I suddenly found myself very afraid of life...
Posted by brian j sivesind on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 12:57:00 PST