Miss Lilly Gives Notes! Me with cast and some crew outside theater! Lily and I! Myself, standing outside a pretty thing!
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ello, more of this!
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Miss Lilly: a thorough report
Ahhhhhhh It’s been indescribably awesome to finally get to see Miss Lilly realized, after writing and rewriting it for nearly four years. It seems perfectly at home in the tiny Finborough, on a rustic white …
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FUN
For the first few days of rehearsal, we have been having Fun. I nearly forgot about Fun! I knew I wanted to write about the Maxwells, but I also knew I wanted to fictionalize it. …
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monologues!
Please enjoy that fairly irrellevant picture of a child auditioning for a….personal pan pizza commercial? BOOKIT!!!!!! Last night, Kerry and I went to the see the acting company – 26 incredible actors – do their …
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ours!
It was amazing to walk into our space today and say, this is ours. We will do something in here. GAH, I love an empty theater, ripe for lights! Metaphors!
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well I’ll be!
Wouldn’t you know, I had a really great reading today! My morale seriously needed it. Cutie and Bear, the suggar daddy play that I’ve been writing and re-writing for about a year, finally heard …
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I has a child star!
Here is a sweet picture of Daniel Roche from BBC’s Outnumbered, in rehearsal for Miss Lilly. Um, look at that pudum. I will be squeezing his face and playing with his hair in NO TIME. …
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Whoa!
So: my play Miss Lilly was inspired by this really powerful article in the New York Times Magazine ‘An Elephant Crackup’ that I read years ago (thanks to Isaac for passing it along.) concerning elephant …
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A VERY POWERFUL METAPHOR
Workshopping a play is kind of like – or very like – swimming through the dark, messy swamp of your SOUL. As you get deeper and deeper, as you ‘unpack the scenes’ (like suitcases? …
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lucky me!
One of the 8 zillion reasons that I love Ars Nova, sides their generosity / support, is their sweet sweet penthouse. I’m workshopping Be a Good Little Widow this week and get to sit …