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I’ve launched a BELIEVERS storify with pertinent links and photos. There are so many new social media aggregators proliferating (Pitch Engine is another I’m trying), that I’m having a hard time choosing the best one to use. Storify is super easy: you just drag-and-drop. You can integrate Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and flickr.com. And I do like that it is story-based. …
After our first production meeting yesterday, I’m very excited about our team. In addition to Sara Staley as Director, Laylah Muran de Assereto as Executive Producer, and Quinn Whitaker as Producing Director and Lead Designer, Wes Cayabyab has signed on as Technical Director and will be constructing sets, and Anya Kazimierski will be Asst. Set Designer and responsible for Props …
“Stuck in the Middle,” also called “That’s the Way the Cookie Crumbles,” has been produced and read in San Francisco, Berkeley, Boston, and Toronto. It’s a creepy little play about a woman who’s recently been released from the psych ward, who wants some attention from her husband. She tells him how she spent her day . . . and that’s …
I am helping to organize an evening of short plays and monologues on the subject of women’s bodily autonomy, to take place in October 2012 in San Francisco. We plan to find an organization to sponsor, such as Planned Parenthood, but a prime motivator is to raise awareness. There have been many political moves to roll back progress in this …
“Mission: Irresistible” debuts in Sheherezade XII, May 11 In “Mission: Irresistible,” the Russia’s troubled Phobos-Grunt Mars Probe, stuck in the wrong orbit for more than a month, has experienced a fiery and uncontrolled fall back to Earth. The same can be said for NASA administrators Wanda’s and Bill’s relationship. Can a Russian astrophysicist make an emergency repair? This 10-minute comedy …
Wily West will be holding auditions for the world premiere of my romantic comedy BELIEVERS, directed by Sara Staley, Saturday, April 28th from 10 am to 2 pm in San Francisco. 2 women and 2 men are needed. Inside Tower Labs, drug researcher Rocky Wise hopes to create a love vaccine so he will never again feel the pain of …
December 8, my play about the Greek goddess Demeter will have a reading as part of the San Francisco Olympians Festival. It’s on my mind since we have a writers’ meeting coming up April 15. We’ll be meeting with several artists who will be creating the poster art for our plays. To me, the “juice” of the play is when …
Linda Ayres-Frederick recently interviewed several members of 3 Girls Theatre company, including me, and posted it on the “For All Events” website. I’m an Associate Playwright with the 3GT company, which recently co-produced readings of “Not Without Our Women.” Linda is a long-time SF Bay Area theatre critic, and a talented playwright in her own right. I found reading the …
The idea of a love drug or a love vaccine is explored this week in a New York Times op-ed by Diane Ackerman. Here are the money paragraphs: “Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful. As imaging studies by the U.C.L.A. neuroscientist Naomi Eisenberger show, the same areas of the brain …
“I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.” ~Ella Fitzgerald “Ever notice ‘What the hell?’ is always the right decision?” ~Marilyn Monroe