My fellow New School alum Jennie sent me this picture of her son, Jasper, reading a book that I gave her first kid, Lilly, as a YAY YOU WERE BORN gift years ago. He’s basically …
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Vicariously through each other
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my favoriteist time
Second to any time I’m ever at the Dixie Classic Fair, my most favorite time is when I’m writing something new. I told myself I’d write a movie this year, and now I’m doing it. …
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Schwag
Original Works was the first company to publish me, namely You May Go Now, my REALLY STRANGE PLAY IN WHICH A MAN LIVES IN A REFRIGERATOR AND A GIRL FINDS OUT SHE WAS KIDNAPPED AFTER …
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Enter the Disgruntled Sleep Fairy
In honor of the WORST DAY OF THE YEAR, I’d like to share this monologue with you, from my play The Bedmaker’s Revenge, which I wrote for a 24 hour play festival years ago that …
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This Happened.
Here’s a cast picture from one of my first plays in college, Happen, in which, well, nothing Happens. See what I did there? I have so many questions I don’t even know where to start, …
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Support.
Since I posted that whine last week, lamenting my career fears, I have received a handful of emails from people I didn’t even know read my blog, with words of encouragement, incredibly kind compliments and …
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Let it be Done
I’d say that it’s rare on here that I divulge my inner most thoughts. I share like the atmosphere, or crust, but rarely the inner core. But why have a blog if I don’t occasionally …
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Let me, entertain You
NO SERIOUSLY. LET. ME. The newly formed playwrights of silverlake, lets call them that, has been a PERFECT excuse to execute a handful of my favorite tasks, including having people over, napkin stacking, baking bread, …
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PLAYS! IN! CARS!
So I was asked to write a car play for, well, Car Plays, an evening of plays in cars presented in Costa Mesa each year. I really did not know what to expect, but it …
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HUGE FAN!
Last night, at a holiday party for LA playwrights, I met the above pictured Sheila Callaghan and Jason Grote: two incredible playwrights turned TV writers, who continue to write their messy and weird and theatrical …