Oy-yoy-yoy-yoy-yoy, Okay, I sent press releases out to all the usual media outlets today. Our first listing is up here. Online submission forms will happen over the next several days for additional calendar events. Then massive invitations in the next week or so. It’s still really happening. And now some of the panic is coming...
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Ireland Update
The books arrived today. Also got an update from my cousin Amie who went on a hiking trip with her family. She suggested using this site (and suggested talking to Jean): http://www.govisitireland.com Amie summarized her trip: We did the Dingle Way self-guided hike. We did 11-15 mile walks each day, with stays in different...
Continue readingLiveblogging 1448_Austin Night #2
These guys killed it tonight (this is them earlier today getting accustomed with the script), and unbelievably, they’re going back onstage RIGHT NOW to do it again! A really fun night. Now working on the script for night #2… 10pm We just got the new theme: “Time to go” No idea what to do with it...
Continue readingLiveblogging 1448_Austin Night #1
I got my badge, we got the theme, my play goes up in the #1 slot tomorrow night at 7:30 and 10. How’s it going so far? Goal is to get to sleep at a reasonable-ish hour if at all possible. 10pm Characters are Jen, Karla and Ronald/Monster 2 draft pages written Keep it...
Continue readingSleeplessness, Nudity and Squid
That pretty much sums up the remainder of my year. In a few minutes I’m off to the kickoff meeting for 14/48. There’s a running list of performers and artists involved here: Check it out, everyone’s so young and fresh-faced (well, almost everyone). I’m 60% dreading two nights without sleep, and 40% excited about...
Continue readingFinally, a Reason to go to Houston
So about 6 years ago I wrote my first children’s play for a local theater competition. It had two characters: a wallaby who liked to play soccer and a penguin who liked to read. The characters were loosely based on two kids I know pretty well, the play took place at a zoo, and while...
Continue readingThe Music Dilemma: how much to press
So my kid is ramping up for his first orchestra concert of the season this week. He loves performing and the feeling of getting applause at the end of a show in a crowded hall (diva!) and so I think he’s looking forward to that. However, he hates to practice so much that he’s...
Continue readingFirst Time Naked, Onstage*
In other news… I wrote this story (pictured) when I was 25 or 26 after going to a fancy spa in Amsterdam and trying really, really hard to fit in with a bunch of confident, well-toned, well-coiffed Europeans all around me. Thanks to the fine folks over at austinstorytelling.com, I’ve finally got a chance...
Continue readingBreathtaking, Heartbreaking Art for Display During November Benefit
I just got back from meeting with Dr. Laurence Becker in Hyde Park who has been working with artists from around the world who have severe forms of autism. His house is full of art pieces that are often extraordinary and compelling, and he’s a fountain of knowledge and information (and he’s a fascinating...
Continue reading14/48: World’s Quickest Theater Fest Comes to Austin
So this festival has been running and growing in Seattle since 1998, and now a few of its company members have brought it to Austin, and I’m gonna be doing it in a couple of weeks. It starts the night of October 15th and ends with a bang on Saturday, October 17th. http://the1448projects.org/about/ This...
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