by Paul Halley | Mar 8, 2025 | Original Productions
TURN (excerpts of a novella) Workshopped at Elmwood Playhouse in Nyack, NY (Aug. 2024) Written and Performed by Paul HalleyDirected by Derek Tarson In an episode of manic despair, an unstable 23-year-old from New York exaggerates his way into a luxury California rehab...
by Paul Halley | Sep 19, 2024 | THOUGHTS
Feel everything. Observe everything. Talk. Walk. Learn. Say nothing at all when what I want to say isn’t very nice. Say what I mean, and mean what I say. Put on a show, and be the star of it too. Say something different when what I want to say isn’t very nice. Go as...
by Paul Halley | Apr 19, 2024 | THOUGHTS
I prompted AI with some of my favorite lyrics from Taylor Swift's new album "The Tortured Poets Department." This is what it imagined. Taylor’s lyrics provoked a visually intimate sense of heartbreak, longing and loss for the generative AI image tool on the...
by Paul Halley | Mar 29, 2024 | THOUGHTS
Paul-isms: Things I think about before I go to bed… It’s more fun to be curious about what other people do differently than it is to be judgmental. Try listening to someone you completely disagree with without speaking or reacting. Ask questions after they...
by Paul Halley | Mar 29, 2024 | THOUGHTS
You don’t receive love by trying to attract it. It doesn’t come with a new outfit, a new haircut, a new fancy job or car, a revision to the text you were about to send, or a selfie posted to your social media. If you keep thinking that way, you’re...
