Summer Break Theatre is producing this new (dripping, hot off the presses) comedy of mine in the second half of July at Hyde Park Theatre. We had auditions earlier this week and I think things are lining up well. It’ll run two weeks, opening July 17th. A little background on this one, because it’s...
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Had an excellent time, and an excellent cast, and an excellent feedback session at the first in-person Salon at Hyde Park Theatre in a couple of years. Here’s a quote from an email from my friend Helen after the reading which encapsulates the tone of the event: First, let me tell you what a...
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Got a few things brewing over the next six months or so, which is much busier than I usually am. In chronological order: Sunday, April 24th: a reading of A MILLION MORE TO GO at Hyde Park Theatre Sunday, July 17th: opening night of THE DATING PROJECT at Hyde Park Theatre Thursday, September 29th:...
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A little late with an update here, but managed a 13-mile run on December 31st (hello 13/31) remotely and in pieces this year. I was in California and started on a 13.4 mile trail around the Briones Reservoir Loop Trail (below). However, about two miles in, I ran into an impassible mudslide and had...
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I was cleaning up a bookshelf recently and stumbled on an old magazine and brochure from back when I was, ahem, a big-time New York model. In fact, I was working for The Princeton Review at the time, and they were putting together some print ads, and Management decided that the agency we’d hired...
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A few days ago I learned that one of my best friends growing up has an advanced form of incurable cancer. I probably spent more time with this guy from 7th to 12th grades than with any other non-family person. Truly formative years. The news hit hard, of course, and I’m still digesting it,...
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I’ve never had a play “optioned” before, but in essence that’s what happened. We had a good, productive reading at Hyde Park Theatre last week. A company in town wants to produce it in the second half of 2022 at The Vortex Theatre. I’m waiting till it’s officially on the calendar before I completely...
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Another run in the can. This is the first time I’ve run a full ten miles (checks notes) since December 21, 2020. On target for the end-of-year showdown (I think)....
Biggest run of the last 11 months this past Saturday. 9.1 miles on Town Lake. Trying to get ready for the “traditional” 13/31 run at the end of the month. Will I make it? Time will tell. Side note: now that the 13/31 is a semi-regular thing, and 14/48 is a non-pandemic usual, I’ll...
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All right, we’re doing this! With temperatures rising and global crises escalating, a couple of grandparents decide to take action to heal the planet. But first they need to heal their own family. With a granddaughter flirting with a mysterious cult, an adult daughter peddling drugs out of her childhood bedroom, and another daughter...
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