It's been several days since I've written here. As some of you know, I've been knee-deep in final rehearsals for my role as "Uncle Peck" in Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize-winning play How I Learned to Drive.

The rehearsal process is obviously an important one for an actor. You use it to experiment and to find your character's physicality, motivations and so much more. However, at a certain point, you need to just get on with the show. You can only rehearse for so long before you just start feeling like you're banging your head against the wall.

You need an audience to make your performance evolve. You crave their feedback and it doesn't matter if it's positive or negative. Something! They're the missing piece of the equation and after eight weeks of rehearsals with "heavy" material, I really needed one.

We had our dress rehearsal tonight in front of an audience of 20 people. There were a few minor glitches but overall it went very well and they were just what I needed. I felt my performance finally become complete. My energy was higher and my focus was dead on. It was such a rush. It reminded me of why I love to perform on stage -- the connection with the audience!