The Kilroys launched our list last night, and, you guys. …..You guys. We PACKED the living crap out of Edendale, my favorite neighborhood bar, with supporters – guys and gals alike – playwrights, directors, artistic …
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LAUNCHED.
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There in Spirit
The Cast of Theater Breaking Through Barrier’s Power Plays, now running on Theater Row in NYC! Whenever I have plays that are happening in other places that I cannot see, I say to the actors …
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I Like This
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fragent!
Went down to Costa Mesa yesterday for the Pacific Playwright’s festival. It’s annual weekend of productions of readings, which draws basically ever playwright and agent and lit manager and theater person ever from across the country …
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LADIES; SKITTLES FOREVER
Whenever there’s a new production of Be A Good Little Widow, two things definitely happen, aside from my standard back row hair-chewing and nostalgia / longing for days of just plays. I always meet two …
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Isherbook
I was shooting the shiz with some playwrights last night and we all had some pretty spectacular stories of terrible reviews. Like I was briefly trapped on an elevator with Charles Isherwood once en route …
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Beckett.
I’ve made a wonderful new friend named Russell Salmon. The End. Not. But that basically could be the whole story. Because his name is Russell Salmon. And so. But Sir Salmon has started this thing …
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Comfort
It’s hard to not be in NYC anymore and to feel disconnected from the play word, and to feel weirdly irrelevant, but it’s less hard when I go on a narcissistic vision quest journey to …
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Terrible. Just…Terrible.
I have been compiling a brain list of my favorite most terrible jokes and humor tropes, which I overuse, in writing and also life. So far I have two. In random order: 1.) when someone …
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Honesty
I had a huge Why I Write Plays Epiphany in writer’s group the other night. Someone said of my characters, what’s interesting about them / what I like them is that they are so, so …