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...
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4th 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...
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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...
Continue readingLoneliness
I know, right?? This is the subject (and the working title) of the play I finished quickly last weekend. What if you were able to converse with (and confront) your own self at different stages of your life. You could ask your old self what was going to happen to your young self. Your...
Continue readingThe Sprint to 50
Once again, not an age-related thing. I’m okay taking my time with that. It’s this damn full-length-play-writing workshop. The full draft is due on Monday and I’m not happy where I am so I’m trying to speed-rewrite the whole stupid thing in two days. As of 8am today, I was on page 4. I’d...
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So I signed up for a five-week playwriting course with Caridad Svich which coincides with the father-son vacation I’m currently taking in Italy. I initially hesitated to enroll because I felt like it’d be yet another obligation at a time I wanted to relax and focus on the trip. But I ended up doing it anyway,...
Continue readingOut of Ink: One More Weekend
I just happened to see this review of the 19th annual Out of Ink production in the Chronicle today. Not that it’s interesting or important or anything, but I did get a nice little blurb about my piece, The Apes: …That sparked some imaginative approaches to dramatic situations, such as Max Langert’s cosmic view...
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