Loyal fanbase, my Valentine(s) to you are A:) this really disturbing picture of a couple’s glove: and B.) the best One Minute Play Ever by Tommy Smith: The Wire. You should really watch The Wire. …
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A Valentine
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Where Playwrights are Princesses
Last night, Kim Rosenstock (fellow NYC lady playwright; writer on New Girl) and I patroned other fellow NYC lady playwright Molly Smith Metzler’s play Elemeno Pea at South Coast Repertory, opening night. Here we all …
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If I only had a Brain / personal assistant
Sometimes when I’m asked to give a synopsis of a play I’ve written, I immediately forget what the play is about even, and I google it and steal a synopsis for it that someone else …
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High School; Robots.
I’m writing a play for a group of awesome high school students studying at a school for Performing Arts in Manhattan. I’m so impressed with the kids’ maturity and intelligence, given that when I was …
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Plays, Forever
I confess: I am not so much in love with the theater. Or maybe, more specifically: contemporary theater. I can’t pontificate for hours on why it’s essential, and the productions that grab me and stick with …
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Simplicity
Today on Life is a Highway, and for how long I would like to Ride it, I’m really enjoying how TV writing is forcing me to think more simply in terms of storytelling. There’s something …
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Be a Good Little Bekah
I don’t care how many times you’ve been published – is it ever not fun to get your first writer’s copies in the mail?! NEVER. NOT. FUN. And JUST in time for narcissistic christmas gift …
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RIP Vaclav Havel: 1936-2011
‘If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, run for President.’
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The Q word
I’ve said this many times before but I thought I’d go ahead and take to the internet about it and make it REAL. I really hate it when someone calls my writing ‘Quirky.’ They usually …
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A think that I thunk
Writers: do you think it’s possible to create a character that is more intelligent than yourself? Not that we are geniuses, I mean we have the limitations of our own knowledge, and our own thought …