The Drama Bookshop BROADWAYYYYYYY! Seeing plays with friends Going to Dinner with friends after Play Being followed and accosted by a mentally disturbed man while leaving said Dinner, being told I’M GOING TO KILL YOU …
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GUESS WHAT’S BACK
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what are theater? what is plays?
I’ve always maintained, in real and imagined interviews and I guess the part of my soul that’s always trying to define itself, that I will always write Plays. I’ve said things like plays are where …
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Delta on Delta
We’re taking Joe to the East coast for the first time next week, eeeek! To my parents’ house in Virginia, to meet his Brunstetter cousins and aunts and uncles. I haven’t seen my brothers in …
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National Momshaming Week
It’s National Breastfeeding Week which means lots of posts on Instagram about how selfless Mothers are for solely breastfeeding their children, and what hard work it is. Both true things. Hashtag breast is Best. For …
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the only thing I know
I have a joke in my pilot that got passed on that I have to leave here because it’s as close to a quote unquote political joke as I’ll probably ever get. A Seattle based …
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Mom Brain
I read an ARTICLE! the other day (sometimes I read full articles) about new research regarding the actual science behind Mom brain. Where did I read it? When was it written? I don’t know. Who’s …
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Action Line
EXT. SHARED HOLLYWOOD OUTDOOR WORKSPACE. DAY. A WEATHERED HOLLYWOOD WRITER MOM sits at a table, shoving a salad into her face, desperately trying to eek out a few hours of work. A VERY PERKY AND …
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movie making machine
Hollywood can feel like a Template Movie Making Machine, and I am proudly and ashamedly part of it. Sometimes I’ll see a headline in the news and I can see myself three years in the …
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but the sea turtles
I think every generation has some specific environmental catastrophe awareness hammered into them in elementary school, and for mine, it was how you have to cut the little plastic rings that come around soda cans, …
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actions > words
It truly doesn’t matter how long I’ve been a working writer, I still have days where I feel like I need to go back to How to Write Good school and learn my colors and …