TBB.o is the home of my professional development practice.

Inspired by 20+ years as a freelance teaching artist working with entrepreneurs, actors, public speakers, and corporate execs, TBB.o invites active participation, engaged dialog, and dynamic exploration of our current IRL challenges across disciplines.

(From Wikipedia...) A black box theater is a performance space, typically a square or rectangular room, with black walls and a black floor. The simplicity of the space allows it to be used to create a variety of configurations of stage and audience interaction...It is considered by many to be a place where more "pure" theatre can be explored, with the most human and least technical elements in focus.

Why the theatre metaphor?

...because in the most memorable moments of our lives and careers, we perform.

That doesn't mean we're performative, and it doesn't have to be in what we call the arts. It means that we can plant our feet and tell the truth as we see it, free of neurosis, with access to all of our understanding, flexibility, creativity and compassion, even as those moments change dynamically and become more complex. It means that, like artists, we aim to evolve our capacities through practice, experience and reflection...

...because even if we aren't a typical theatre, we invoke the spirit of collaboration, discovery, and maybe some fun for a change...

Why a black box theatre, in particular?

...because it pulls the rug out from under the old-yet-stubborn idea of a passive classroom with the teacher in front dispensing knowledge.

The feeling I always get in a black box is that everyone is involved, valued and invigorated. When something juicy comes up, we rearrange the whole damn space to explore it together and squeeze it for all its got. And

...because naming the space this way makes it about how we go into it instead of about "the expert."

Learn more, see what clients have said, subscribe to my monthly newsletter, and/or reach out!