When the Broadway league announced that all shows were being cancelled through April 12, it was particularly arresting because A.) I am a theater person and thus obsessed with myself / my own community, but …
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THEATER EMERGENCY ALERT
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I gave Birth
I just realized a few days ago that at one point in time, I would’ve been about to have a baby, as our last pregnancy was due on Christmas Eve. I’m actually quite shocked that …
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Jesus in Maryland
I’m in Olney, Maryland for the week to workshop Teen Mary Magdalene hearts Teen Jesus musical at the Olney Theater Center, which is very exciting and career and work and play development and yay but …
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Very Long Game
If you play your cards exactly and precisely right, by which I mean, with missteps and occasional mistakes, a regular human amount, you May: Write a play about elephants, in which an elephant is a …
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Lunch as Person
I’m sharing a house in beautiful Rhinebeck, New York for the week with my A.D. 16 (teenage Mary Magdalene and Jesus musical) collaborators, director Stephen and composer / lyricist Cinco. We’ve got a week to …
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Oklahoma; Okay
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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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 …