I'm taking the leap further into the recovery universe, and I'm bringing a microphone with me.
You may know me as the person who makes dark, uncomfortable theatre in Milwaukee. What you may not know — or maybe you do, because I’ve long tried to be as transparent as possible — is that recovery has been a significant part of my life and my work for a while now. I ended my relationship with alcohol on 7/17/2017, and have been grateful everyday for it since. And recently, I earned my Peer Recovery Coach certification, and with that came a new sense of purpose: I want to be a better resource. Not just personally, but structurally. With intention.
So I’m starting a Recovery podcast.
Rehearsal & Recovery is a conversation-based podcast featuring artists who are in the process of moving on, or have moved on, from substance use. Each episode, I want to sit down with a guest to talk candidly about their journey — the chaos, the clarity, the grief, the rebuilding — and how recovery intersects with their creative life. How do you make art when you can no longer romanticize self-destruction? What does it mean to create without numbing? How does getting sober change the work — and the worker?
These are questions I think about constantly, and now I’d like to talk about them out loud.
The title is pretty deliberate. Recovery isn't a straight line. It's not a finish line, either. It's more like rehearsal — iterative, sometimes humiliating, occasionally transcendent, and always requiring you to show up again. The name felt right, blending my love of art with this new intention.
The podcast lives at rehearsalandrecovery.com, and I’m currently building episodes and getting ready for launch. If you're an artist in recovery, someone who loves one, or just curious about what happens when creativity and healing collide — this one's for you.
And if you'd like to be a guest, or you know someone who should be, I want to hear from you. There’a form on the R&R site you can fill out and I’ll get back to you asap.
Questions? rehearsalandreacovery@gmail.com