Sometimes play workshops feel like a a group of grown ups playing dress up for no reason and rolling around in a big living room cushion pile of their own ideas. But then every …
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why to workshop a play
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truly ideal scenario
PLS SEND HELP STOP STUCK IN NYC DURING SNOW STORM WITH ONLY MY FAVORITE SNACK AND ENTIRE PLAY TO REWRITE STOP JK SEND NOTHING I’VE NEVER BEEN BETTER STOP EXCEPT MAYBE SEND MORE SNACKS AND …
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Home again home again, jiggity jog!
I have no idea where that limerick (?) came from, if my mom made it up for all car rides home or if it’s an ancient Irish thing, but I shall use it to announce …
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I have an office
Last night I was writing in my office, and I suddenly stopped and thought to myself, I am writing in my office. I actually stopped, took stock of these things: I am a writer. I have a …
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this is Dance
Say Bekah, what have you been doing with whatever resembles your free time? I’ve been spending most to all of it getting deep into the world of disability: its politics, its history, its beauty. A …
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MARVELOUS HUMANS, ALL
The happiest of openings to the Cast (and some Creative) of La Jolla Playhouse’s The Cake! From R to L: Aubrey Dollar as Jen, Miriam Hymann as Macy, Director Casey Stangl, mennonite girl on her …
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WHO GON STOP ME NOW
SPENT AN OBSCENE AMOUNT OF TIME MAKING THESE MINI CHOCOLATE BUNDT CAKES WITH SALTED CARAMEL FROSTING FOR THE CAST AND CREW OF LA JOLLA CAKE FOR OPENING THEN SPENT MORE TIME PROCURING MINI CAKE BOXES …
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home office
As is the way with obsessive box-checkers, I usually like to roll out of bed and immediately start accomplishing things. But lately, I’m trying this new thing in which I wake up, get my coffee, …
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DISCOVERIES
Last night we attended the Ovation Awards (an annual ceremony celebrating excellence in LA theater.) The Cake got a few nominations and one MUCH DESERVED WIN. But let’s focus on the real high points of …
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t’aint always easy
Almost 14 years ago, I carefully glued all of my grad school rejection letters into a scrapbook, and amused myself by highlighting the word ‘regret’ in all of them. I think I sensed that someday, …