Emerson Collins

I loved last night’s Drag Race! Interesting designs, but even more, I loved the humor and fun of the work room and that the episode gave it that time. Genuine community, you see why they all end up sisters even if there’s drama in a season.
Just great queer community of people showcasing their art.

KRISTI NOEM FIRED!
And the only person sad about it is her concubine cabin boy Corey Lewandowski.

One of the most bonkers parts of arriving in Texas in the days before the primaries was seeing commercial after commercial of Republicans painting each other as “TOO TRANS FRIENDLY.”

Seriously. That was the accusation. Over and over.

So so so so so…pretty!

Settled in Dallas on off to rehearsals for this world premiere directing gig!
So my spring of theatre continues. 💃🏽🎭

Closed a world premiere play in Birmingham Sunday afternoon, jumped in the car and drove to Shreveport to get to Dallas yesterday for 12:45 walkthrough at the theatre where I’m directing the world premiere of Douglas Lyons’ new play PURE GLITTER!
From one adventure to another!

Closing Matinee of this Del Shores WORLD PREMIERE play THE RECIPE BOX!
It has been an absolute joy to build and create this new piece and Birmingham has been wonderful on all fronts!

There is a baby in the audience of this matinee of RENT, so it just hilariously seems like Mark and Roger have a new mom living below them.
I was really hoping the baby would hear its cue after Mimi’s “…when the Spanish baby’s cry-y-y-y…” but alas, apparently not a Spanish baby.

BEYOND irritating to have news orgs push out alerts spoiling Olympics results the vast majority of us can’t see until tonight.
UGHHHHHH.

I know the medals are so important of course, but I love so much watching and seeing the joy in the athletes for whom just being an Olympian - on the snow, ice, whatever - is their win.

I am invested in this 42 year old Canadian ice skating pair comeback queen’s journey as if I have known her my WHOLE LIFE!

I..have never read Wuthering Heights.
(And I read a lot lot! Just missed both Brontë’s somehow.)

And now I need to so I can decide who’s being ridiculous about this movie. 😜 (that I also have not seen.)

Heading onstage to do a play, my parents drove in from Texas to see tonight, just excited and sharing!

Still cackling at Pam Bondi talking about the crime in Culver City as if it isn’t aggressively deep into its gentrified/walkable/patio party era.
Whose last trip in the 90s did she get such bad intel from? 🤣

Thank you my friend!!

We had an INCREDIBLE sold out opening weekend of the World Premiere of Del Shores’ THE RECIPE BOX here in Birmingham this weekend at Terrific New Theatre!
Thank you to the friends who came from near and far, I love telling stories with wonderful artists.

Back at it tonight till 2/22!

As a kid watching Olympics ice skating, we always skipped ice dance because it wasn’t “impressive” with jumps/throws.
Now, it’s my favorite, because the artistry element shines the brightest (in scoring at least) there. The nuance, rhythm, lines, the mood all feel equal to the athleticism required!

This one hurts. As an earnest boy who talked too much, and felt too loud, and wanted to tell stories - Dawson was a touchstone.

I need ilia Malinin to skate to Les Miz because he looks so much like a Gavroche who aged out.

🤣 there is so much! And I’ve always said Houston is that (I was born in Waco, grew up in Houston)

🤣 it’s the college age ones that are scary, the grown grown I know how to deal with 😜

Wearing my little gay shirt to a gym in a Southern college town, and it’s a buffet of amusing types I haven’t seen since Baylor.

The most terrifying are still the “love the sinner, hate the sin” women - there’s a tightness in the eyes that the smile doesn’t reach that chills my blood to this day.

Love that the 90s soundtrack to the Ice Dance Rhythm skates was 70% just an eldest millennial throwback to every gay bar dance floor in 2000.

All of the applause to the American Olympic athletes using the singular moment all eyes are on them to speak against injustice happening in the United States. Hunter Hess, Chris Lillis, Amber Glenn - THANK YOU! 👏🇺🇸👏

Emerson standing, mid full on breakdown (onstage.) in a blue striped polo, with a disheveled actress in a house dress sitting behind him in a porch swing. Sitting on the front steps of a stage house porch, another actress sits, face in hands.

Been a little MIA, opening night of this world premiere Del Shores’ play THE RECIPE BOX is tonight in Birmingham at Terrific New Theatre!
I’m having a blast, this cast is glorious, and only a dozen tickets left for the opening weekend!
Running through Feb 22!

STREAMING LIVE in 30, the winners of the unproduced LGBTQ+ Southern playwrights and screenwriters Writers Search I created and run!
Live on the Del Shores Foundation YouTube and Facebook page!
Come meet our fourth season of winners!

Like how DARE she even suggest it!!