ATTN EVERY AMERICAN THEATER: when coughs are no longer weapons and the feeling of your shoulder against a stranger’s coat isn’t terrifying, and you open your doors again, PLEASE LET IT BECAUSE YOU ARE PRESENTING …
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Post-Covid Theater’s Vaccine
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My Brand
Someone is definitely telling young and early career writers that they need to have ‘a brand’ because I get asked a lot, Bekah, what’s yours? And at first I feel like apologizing to them on …
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Pandemic Pollyanna
The last few weeks have felt like a war on hope. Hope feels CRIMINAL, and focusing on any information that’s NOT bleak is punishable by internet shame. I literally read a headline this morning that …
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THEATER EMERGENCY ALERT
When the Broadway league announced that all shows were being cancelled through April 12, it was particularly arresting because A.) I am a theater person and thus obsessed with myself / my own community, but …
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Sounds Good
I went to Austin for less than 48 hours to workshop the teen Jesus and Mary Magdalene musical at the ZACH theater, and while it was COMPLETELY EXHAUSTING and I slept in a hallway, it …
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froworker
Noun: a co-worker who becomes a friend; WHAT I FORCE MOST EVERYONE THAT I WORK WITH TO BECOME. 13 days into this Notebook musical workshop and I’m feeling very very grateful for Ingrid, who bakes …
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I gave Birth
I just realized a few days ago that at one point in time, I would’ve been about to have a baby, as our last pregnancy was due on Christmas Eve. I’m actually quite shocked that …
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Jesus in Maryland
I’m in Olney, Maryland for the week to workshop Teen Mary Magdalene hearts Teen Jesus musical at the Olney Theater Center, which is very exciting and career and work and play development and yay but …
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WE’RE FINE, HOW ARE YOU?
I’ve finally located the most perfect anecdote to share whenever I’m asked, How are you, How are things? I will now reply: Well yesterday, I came home from the doctor frustrated because it takes a …
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Very Long Game
If you play your cards exactly and precisely right, by which I mean, with missteps and occasional mistakes, a regular human amount, you May: Write a play about elephants, in which an elephant is a …