The People Game

When I was a kid my father and I played a game. We looked at people on the subway and made up stories about where they came from, what they did for a living, and whether they were happily married. We called it The People Game. As a Broadway producer I continued playing The People Game. I watched actors audition and tried to imagine them as one of the characters in a play. Now I am playing The People Game as an artist. I paint people in restaurants, concerts, theaters, markets, parties and casinos. While I am painting a story emerges.

When I played The People Game on the subway I never found out if the story I made up was true. If I picked the wrong actor when I played The People Game on Broadway I lost money. Playing The People Game as an artist is less dangerous than Broadway. And best of all the stories are true.