I’m sure you already know this because it is OBVIOUSLY HOUSEHOLD INFORMATION, but I’ll say it anyways: Lynn Riggs was a part Cherokee playwright from Oklahoma, who wrote the play Green Grows the Lilacs, on …
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Oklahoma; Okay
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Quick Check-in with World
When I’m developing a play or musical, I tend to stick my head up its butt and ignore the tense and divisive and sometimes horrible things happening in the world, which is both blessing and …
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Dad; Dad
My Dad met Chris Coffey, the actor who plays the Dad in my Dad play, and they told Dad jokes while wearing different kinds of Dad shirts and drank Dad drinks and I felt so …
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MEDIUM OLD DOG / NEW TRICKS
I’m in Poughkeepsie for the week, accidentally twinning with Ingrid and workshopping the Notebook musical at New York Stage and Film. And while I can’t really share anything specific in terms of who it is …
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I AM HERE (?)
Public Servant opens tonight and sadly I am not there, because I can’t be Everywhere, so I’m across the country wishing it Well. But I dreamt last night that I WAS there, but I was …
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Theater as Theater
As a Theater Person, I see a lot of Theater — this trip: Oklahoma! and Hadestown, both remarkable in their own ways and deserving of all of the accolades, BUT — regardless of what I’m …
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DAD VIBES
I wrote my next play, Public Servant, for many reasons, perhaps too many? Because don’t we change as we live and so the play must change, as it Lives? But one of the main reasons …
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(MISSPELLED) CAKE POSTERS FOREVER
NO BUT REALLY DID YOU THINK I WAS DONE TALKING ABOUT CAKE? *NEVER NOT DONE / DRIVES TO DMV / CHANGES NAME TO CAKE* The Cake is currently backpacking around America like a dang college …
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VERY SUBTLE, GOD
Last night I found myself in a not unfamiliar and very overdramatic place, a place I like to hang out in basically after each of my plays debuts in New York — spiraling about my …
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Come back
Dear the two People who walked out during my play: Was it something I said, or didn’t say? What is it something I did? Is it just me? Or did you just have to pee? …