I’m looking to submit this play to a couple of local contests in the next week or two, and am also thinking about putting it on somewhere, like maybe at my house. Or maybe at yours. In the fall. I dunno. But the title isn’t right. The play is funny and poignant and light at...
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Live(-ish)blogging the ScriptWorks Fling
We get the three ingredients for the Fling tonight, and I have to say that this is still one of my favorite writing events. It’s fun to write with the random ingredients, and it’s also fun to be in a competition to get produced in the spring. There’s a small meetup planned for 6pm...
Continue readingLiveblogging Night Two of 14/48 (2017)
Back in the game. Got my randomly assigned slot #, actor quantity and theme: Second piece tomorrow night Write for four actors Theme is Witches Is that a theme? I guess it is. We were asked to try to use it metaphorically because seven plays in a row about witches could leave the audience...
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It’s been over a week since the play closed, and I’ve had a lot to think about and discuss with people. As far as official critical response goes, we got a great review, a really good review, and a not-so-great review. I’ve also had another theater in upstate New York ask to see the...
Continue readingRewrites are hard
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...
Continue reading4th 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 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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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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