12:08am: Falling down on the job a bit. Enjoyed Night One. On fumes now for Night Two. Theme: Mistaken Identity (I like it) I’ve got three women in my cast. Current approach: Duck, Duck, Goose. Two ducks, one goose. One of the ducks who’s a Mallard is mistaken for a Layson Teal (I know!),...
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14/48 Austin 2016: Night One
Hey look, I’m a veteran this year (not a virgin)! 11:02pm: The theme for the night is Emotional Hangovers. Nice and broad, but leaves a lot of options as well. I’ve got characters named Man1 and Man2 in this one, really working hard to come up with something unique. They’re talking in a not-really-talking-to-each-way...
Continue readingThe Great Zoo Switcheroo
Heya, happy July! Just signed another contract for the fall to have this play that I co-wrote with Tim at Express Theatre run in the fall. Contracts: they make me feel all business-y and pro-ish! Anyway, this one opens on Thursday, July 21st and will hopefully run again in September and October. Can’t...
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A bunch of activity this week. Bullet list cuz, you know, it’s late and I’d like to read a little before I go to bed: SODA MACHINE reading on Tuesday: thought it went well but not as extraordinarily brilliantly as I would have liked. I’m mulling next steps. I’d really love to produce an...
Continue readingGraphic Draft Options for Soda Machine
So there’s this really nice guy Ryan who I just got introduced to who’s working on beefing up his graphic design portfolio. I knew he was looking for things to work on, and I asked him if he wanted to come up with something for the June play reading. He came up with these...
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All right, I’m biting the bullet and just doing it. Have begun scheduling a reading for a new play-in-progress, SODA MACHINE, which was born out of another draft that wasn’t going where I wanted it to called THE POD. The idea for this play (which involves time travel and soda-drinking) came from a discussion...
Continue readingThere are No Words… (Play)
So I tried something new this year at the ScriptWorks Fling, writing a play without any words of dialogue. And I ended up really liking it, though I knew it would take a lot to make it work (characters age 60 years over the course of the play and it requires sound effects representing...
Continue readingThe Value of Attending Play Readings
I had the opportunity to host this past Sunday night’s monthly ScriptWorks salon where we heard a terrific reading of a new full-length play by Squid Night contributor Raul Garza. The actors were top-notch and maneuvered through Raul’s dialogue like Olympic slalom skiers. I’ve been to a lot of these monthly readings and, frankly,...
Continue readingThe Fickle Allure of FronteraFest
I wanted to get up a quick post about the short fringe show this past Wednesday. Best of Week is announced late tonight, and I didn’t want the post to seem sad or disappointed in case we don’t get it. I like how familiar the festival feels in some ways (I know the ins and outs...
Continue readingListserv City Planning Play Brainstorm
At some point I had written down a bunch of thoughts about how we might do a neighborhood listserv play, but I’m not sure where that is. So here are some notes/thoughts from what I remember/think: One easy thing to stage would be to have a selection of printed out (likely fictionalized so as...
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