I’ve been working with Lisa (director at Ground Floor Theatre) on updates to the script for Gibberish Mostly, and it’s been a lot of work. I’ve always kind of hated rewriting things (I remember in college making a deal with a professor of Creative Writing that I’d just write MORE short stories instead of...
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4th Annual One Minute Play Festival
It’s been a wild ride for the #1MPF this year. With theater shortages and the onslaught of Hurricane Harvey, there have been challenges of space, rehearsal availability and audience outreach. Because we’re in a smaller theater this year, we followed a model that was done in New York where there are two bills of...
Continue readingSomeday I’ll make it to Boulder
I’m scrambling this weekend to meet a deadline by the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company to enter a new play into their Generations competition. I’d love to win this thing using this play because I hear Boulder’s great, the company helps with travel expenses, gives a stipend, and I love the fact that part of...
Continue readingBreaking News: my kids are cute
While we were on vacation recently, the kids took photos of themselves with cartoon cutouts of their orthodontists as part of a photo contest. They just got picked for the finals, and if they win they get a drone with a mounted camera (which I’m sure they’ll use to peer in the bathroom window...
Continue readingFour Mini Interviews
I occasionally do short interviews with playwrights as part of my gig as the member rep for ScriptWorks, and in the last month or so I did a few of them a little differently, focusing on specific events I’d seen online instead of asking more standard background questions. Mostly so I can easily reference...
Continue readingGibberish Poster & the Immaturity of Parents
We just got done with a full day of auditions for GIBBERISH MOSTLY. It was really rewarding and fun, and I think we’re going to end up with a great cast, no matter who makes the final cut. I imagine the decisions will be made later this week. This is a draft of the...
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When I was at my dad’s house this past week, I found these two photos behind a door on an old dusty shelf. The first one (me!!) was taken when I was 21 or 22 outside the garage apartment I lived just after college. I remember liking it so much that I figured I...
Continue readingWelp, it’s official
At an informal gathering of neighbors* earlier this week, my kids were officially deemed “the coolest in the neighborhood (and beyond).” ** So… Life Objective #1 is now complete. *okay, so maybe a couple of the neighbors were a little tipsy at the time **and maybe that parenthetical was implied not spoken But still. Boom....
Continue readingWest Coast Surf & Story Tour
In the last few days, I’ve gotten invitations to both surf in San Diego and tell a story in Portland. So now I’m thinking it’d be great to string these events together into a fall tour. I’m looking at events in Seattle, San Francisco, The Bay Area in general, LA and San Diego. We’ll...
Continue readingGibberish Mostly
Got some exciting news today. A play I originally wrote almost fifteen years ago is getting a new life. GIBBERISH MOSTLY, which had a reading at Hyde Park Theatre and Boston Theatre Works in 2003, is slated to be the season opener this fall at a theater I really like. I’m still getting all...
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