My friends at Stories Found invited me back for another episode recently. They ended up recording a short interview and a 10-minute play of mine, Personality Test, which is probably officially my most-produced piece at this point. I wrote it in the aughts and it was first performed at the City Theatre in Delaware....
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I had a busy day yesterday meeting with the production companies for both THE DATING PROJECT and THE PACT (July and September openings, respectively). Anyway, at the evening meetup and rehearsal I was gifted this mug. I would be happy to have this as an epitaph, so… I feel like I’ve finally made it....
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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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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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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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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 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...
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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...
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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...
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