I have a new piece up on HowlRound today: From Submission to Searching: A Paradigm Shift in Connecting Plays and Producers. I’ve been working on it, in one way or another, for two years (if you include research and a hosting of meetings). I’m pretty proud of it. I hope you give it a look. I [...]
I wanted to make sure you knew about a very cool event I’ve been co-producing for the Intersections Festival. 360° Degrees of America features DC-area playwrights reading their own new short plays we commissioned for the festival, as well as an open mic in which audience members can read their own six-minute plays, monologues, and stories. [...]
In an ongoing series of posts, I’m examining the current state of affairs for those of us writing and making new plays in the DC metropolitan area. The series began with a look at what I call the audience problem, and it will continue throughout the next few weeks. Today’s subject: A Lack of Civic [...]
I’m very pleased to be able to share the news that I’ll be taking my play THE BUTCHER to the Great Plains Theatre Conference this year. Developed several years ago with support from the Cultural Development Corporation of DC (thank you!) and in collaboration with fellow theater artists Merry Alderman Ritsch (super double thank you!), [...]
I have to admit it (and I do, on TheatreFace): writing makes me self-centered. I don’t like it, but I can’t deny it. What’s your experience?
It hasn’t been long since we all learned that major components of the American Voices New Play Institute were leaving Arena Stage — and DC — for Emerson College in Boston. At the time, as I recall, there was more than a little concern about what the change might mean for the new play sector [...]
Over there in that right-hand column, under the menu heading that says “The Plays,” you might have noticed a new entry: HOT & COLD. Finishing a new play is always a bit bittersweet. There’s the inevitable post-partum blues, for one thing — what I like to call the necessary fallow period during which we all [...]
This HowlRound post made me feel more “understood” as a playwright than anything I’ve read in a long, long time. Please go read it and get to know me better. And then, if you want to know more, come back and read on. ——————– I’ve read it twice now. The first time, I was so [...]
If you don’t like a play, do you tell people? Not in private conversations with friends, but in public? Like… on a blog, or in a tweet, or via Facebook status update? For a long time I’ve largely remained silent. Is it time for that to change?
The Cultural Development Corporation of DC surprised the DC art community the other day with the launch of the DC Space Finder, a simple online search tool that will help those of us in the city who are looking for places to produce and rehearse plays deal with “the space problem,” as we’ve all come [...]
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