Oof, who came up with that tortured headline? This is a terrific photo of my son from a recent weekend camping trip to Kerrville. I didn’t take the photo (my kid’s pal did) but I’m ready to sell it to some sports drink, sneaker brand, or chain-link-fence company. Here are a few goal-like things...
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The Pact gets Picked
The play I worked on this winter was picked as a finalist for the Hyde Park New Play Workshop this summer. I’m happy about this, and of course hope that I get to be part of the workshop – which is always impressive with a good cast and crew behind it. But I’ll go...
Continue readingNew Play Exchange Shout-Out
So I joined NPX (New Play Exchange) a while back but didn’t do much with it at first. It’s kind of a lowkey form of playwriting social media, I guess. You post info about yourself and can upload plays and reviews and things too. A publicity tool. At some point I saw someone had...
Continue readingWinter to Spring to Summer 2021: Goal Check
Taking a look back at these goals I posted in November, how’d things work out… GOAL: Write a new experimental short play for The Fling the weekend of November 21st RESULT: Done. Actually wrote two plays. The first one was convoluted across multiple online platforms. I decided it was too messy and in the...
Continue readingA Few Goals Through Winter 2021
It’s been a while since I’ve been in here, and there’s been a lot going on in the world (obvi), but I wanted to get down some goals and try to hold myself accountable to them over the next several months. Here they are, in chronological order: Write a new experimental short play for...
Continue readingTEXAS HEAT ADVISORY (an online reading)
TEXAS HEAT ADVISORY (an online reading) by Max Langert Thursday, July 16th @8:00pm Central It’s about family, it’s about politics, it’s about your neighbor’s missing cat. And it all takes place during a state-imposed lockdown on the hottest July on record. Featuring the vocal talents of Lana Dieterich, David DuBose, Christi Moore and Laura...
Continue readingTexas Heat Advisory reading in July
All right, so this new audio piece is almost done, and we’re planning to do an online reading in July. Right now it’s scheduled for July 16th at 8pm Central Time. These are graphic concepts Ryan is working on for the event. Hope to finalize something in the next couple of weeks. And here...
Continue readingDramatic Audio Thriller in the Works
Now that it may be months (or years?) until people feel comfortable crowding into a theater again, I’m thinking on and off about alternate projects to work on. I have a prose thing that I may post about some day (and possibly even ask YOU about), but I’ve started to think about audio dramas...
Continue readingEmbracing Fatherhood Onstage
So I did this thing that scared the hell/heck out of me last week. I performed a semi-autobiographical/semi-fictional piece about being the father to a teenage son. Now that round two of this complex year is underway (and attitudes and behaviors changed almost immediately on his birthday; it was uncanny) I wanted to try...
Continue readingStay Ounded in Albuquerque
I had the opportunity to hike and travel through parts of Colorado and New Mexico last month, staying with friends and family along the way. The trip culminated in a kind of writers’ retreat in Albuquerque where I stayed in a house on the corner of a memorable scene in Breaking Bad. But I...
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