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I’m excited that House of International Theatre will perform “The Victorian Ladies’ Detective Collective” in Copenhagen this summer. They wrote, “We would absolutely love to perform your play “The Victorian Ladies’ Detective Collective.” It’s such a great play and I know that its theme(s) and humor will resonate very well with our audience.” It will be presented in the open …
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine is a book-length poem about race and the imagination. Rankine has called it an attempt to “pull the lyric back into its realities.” Those realities include the acts of everyday racism—remarks, glances, implied judgments—that are allowed to flourish in an environment where more explicit acts of discrimination are outre. In responding to these …
It was my pleasure to be interviewed by New Conservatory Theatre Center Artistic Director Ed Decker on Friday, May 23, on their Fridays at Five streaming program. The interview was followed by a short scene from my new comedy, “The Law of Attraction,” commissioned by NCTC a couple of years ago. The actors, Cary Ann Rosko as MJ and Chelsea …
The New Conservatory Theater Center in San Francisco has announced its 2020/21 Season, and the world premiere of “The Law of Attraction” is a part of it! We are scheduled to open January 15, 2021. Pandemic permitting. The show is sandwiched in between “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” and “The Glass Menagerie,” so no pressure, I guess. Here’s the marketing …
I’ve been trying to be diligent about posting, often reposting items of interest from my favorite playwrights and other creative people, plus my struggles and triumphs with playwriting. I’m pretty proud of my blog output since I switched over to my new website. However. I’m off to a writing residency at Vermont Studio Center. If all goes well, I’ll be …
Central Works Theatre has announced its 30th (!) Season, and Bystanders is one of the four plays that will premier there in 2020. It promises to be a kick-ass season, which includes a musical. Central Works produces only new plays. In 2019, three of four plays produced were written by women; next year, their playwright gender parity is 50/50. While …
Coming up this Fall: Just finished up a staged reading of “P/rn Yesterday” for Theatre Rhinoceros, directed by Alan Quismorio. It was so much fun! (Although I do cringe a little at its creakiness.) Update! We got a terrific review in the SF BAY TIMES: I was delighted to witness a stage reading of PORN YESTERDAY—loosely based on the hit 1950 …
My beloved friend TicTac, whom I have served for ten years, died the other day at the age of 15. Actually, we helped her over into the afterlife, since she had an enormous and untreatable tumor. It was very hard. Doing euthanasia at home was a blessing; I highly recommend it if you can arrange it when the time is …
Have you ever had an idea for a play (or any fictional story) that seemed workable, with a lot of promise … but you just couldn’t keep it going past the first two-dozen pages? I have. But I don’t like to get stuck in that situation, losing days or weeks writing something that doesn’t pan out. I’ve learned that I …
My latest play, Bystanders, takes place in the aftermath of a horrific act of gun violence. It’s a two-hander exploring an intimate story dealing with guns in America. This is a tough topic that was not consciously on my radar. The play presented itself to me almost completely fully-formed, with a number of clear reversals inside its tight, 75-minute, real-time …