Yesterday, the Lark play development center, which — in a pivotal life moment 11 years ago, SAVED MY WRITER LIFE — announced yesterday that it will close its doors after 27 years of service to …
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The Lark 💔
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TEAM
I got to see these two ACTUAL HUMAN BREATHING FACES yesterday: my agent, Derek, and my lawyer, David. I’ve been with Derek for….twelve years? And David for 8? They rarely get sung, so I want …
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we are here
Q: have I been away from New York just long enough that walking its streets makes me wax poetic like a little old baby Joan Didion in athleisure pants? A: OBVIOUSLY. My favorite thing to …
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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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the mouth
My shared workspace has gone maskless for the vaccinated and all of the sudden everyones mouths are out and they feel private and aggressive and wrong and strange. I go to the bathroom and turn …
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I can(‘t)
Whenever I have work put in front of me, specifically a rewrite of something I’ve worked hard on that involves the unravelling of that work, my process tends to go something like this: 1. I …
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okaynist
I’m in the midst of a zoom workshop / rehearsal for my new play, Mother’s Day, which is basically just a dramatized play by play of our journey to Joe. It’s about what happens when …
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Crying at Work
I am literally the last person in the world to watch Brene Brown’s Netflix special, The Call to Courage, so I will also be literally the last person to share what I gleaned from it. …
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The King
I very much treasure this tiny picture of Larry King and I that lives somewhere on the internet. I was early 20 something, post-playwriting Grad school in NYC, and a theater company I helped form, …
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motheirlooms
Morrison’s mom made us these amazing receiving blankets, and like anything one might want to get in the mail from a family member, THEY HAVE A STORY. When Cam was pregnant with her first kid, …