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 the details together, but this one has a lot of personal resonance for me and is something I have a lot of emotional ties to.
Just to brag (or whatever) a little, here’s a sentence from the email I got:
We are VERY excited to work with you and are more than pleased that, out of the 300 submissions we got nationally, we landed on your show.
I mean that’s cool. Whatever. 300 people is like one-millionth of the country’s population so…
Yay! More details when I got ‘em. Really excited to work on this one with this particular creative team.
Hi Max,
My name is Ben Raanan. I am a Director who is currently pursuing an MFA in Directing at DePaul University. Most of my work centers around people with disabilities, specifically autism. I myself am disabled and have spent my life working with my brother, who is as profoundly autistic as one can be. I have read about your play Gibberish Molly and was wondering if I might be allowed to read a copy of the script? I’m happy to pay for a script.
I apologize I am commenting on your blog, the contact sheet was not working.
Thanks and all the best
Ben Raanan
MFA Director: DePaul University
ben.raanan1116@gmail.com