I’ve been asked to write a ten minute play somehow concerning the upcoming election and so far I’m totally constipated about it. Usually when I get asked to write a short play, it goes something …
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I got Nothin.
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Tapped
Every now and then, ie right now, I feel totally tapped in terms of Material. All of the big questions I’m asking about life, relationships, the way the world works, etc are wrapped up in …
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Widow Pt. 3!
Sometimes you hop a plane to see a production of your play, and they put you up in a nice hotel with a big white bed that you could sleep in forever, but you don’t, …
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To Thoroughly Quote Myself
“You can’t serve candy at a funeral! What would people think?” “They’d be like yay, candy!” Most perfect stage candy spread I’ve ever encountered.
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HAROLD!
Miss Lilly sadly has closed. It all happened so fast! It was such a stellar production of a play that I’m so nostalgically fond of. Incredibly specific and nuanced performances, direction that managed the ridiculous …
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Symmetry
I got asked the other day in a talk back how many full length plays I’d written. I guessed – 30? Yesterday I swept through the ol’ desktop, re-organizing drafts and drafts and drafts (sidenote: …
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C’est Fini
Well, I’m back from the Vineyard, this sad fact confirmed by the fact that i just opened up my planner to see what Real People Stuff I have going on this week, and a bunch …
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with Great aPlum
Three friends from high school and both of my Parents: the end of my Martha’s Vineyard fairytale sadly nears its end! Today the readings begin, 3 days of presentations for some awesome and arguably mellow …
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Fried
I was going to say something really profound about how playwriting sometimes feels like sifting through grains of rice, but I’m so brain dead from days of thinking and re-thinking and writing and re-writing that …
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Earth! Fire! Wind!
For any of you seething with hatred for me because I’ve spent the last week essentially in paradise, please note that now that my actors and director have arrived, it is officially time to work. …