View Spark segment on Josh Kornbluth. Original airdate: May 2003. (Running Time: 10:38)

Monologuist Josh Kornbluth grew up in New York City. After working for several years as a journalist in Chicago and Boston, he relocated to San Francisco, where he performed his first monologue, "Josh Kornbluth's Daily World," in 1989. His second show, "Haiku Tunnel," debuted in 1990. The film adaptation of "Haiku Tunnel," was co-directed by Kornbluth and his brother Jacob. Sony Pictures Classics released the film nationwide in 2001. Currently, Kornbluth tours the United States performing "Red Diaper Baby," "Haiku Tunnel" and "The Mathematics of Change." Three of Kornbluth's stage pieces have been collected in a book titled "Red Diaper Baby" (Mercury House).

In the Spark "Solo Acts" episode, we travel along the bumpy road of the creative process with Kornbluth. Two months before the debut of his latest full-length autobiographical monologue, "Love and Taxes," he hasn't written a word of it down on paper. Under the direction of The Z Space Studio's David Dower, see how Kornbluth pulls it all together, mixing humor, angst and the IRS in his one-man show.