What a great time with such incredible artists! I was thrilled when The Road Theatre invited me to be part of their Summer Playwrights Festival again, this time with my comedy about negotiations, acceptance and belonging, The Big Red Naugahyde Booth (or, Would-be Elks)… online! This is a play that I’ve…
I’m so glad to get another chance to play with director Laura Stribling and a bunch of fab actors in new reading of INTO THE GOBPILE through The Word @ The Road on October 14! It’s been terrific digging into this play, which has been supported by The Road Theatre…
Super excited to have been working with a group of incredible artists since last September in the creation of my new play NOT CAKE! Being part of the inaugural Rogue Lab meant that I, alongside writers Lisa Dring, Eric Fagundes, John Guerra, Mildred Lewis & Chelsea Sutton, was challenged to…
Such a terrific time working on this new 10-minute play with the fabulous artists at Ensemble Studio Theatre Los Angeles as part of the 2019 One Acts! Director June Carryl put together a kick-ass cast for “Smiling Cat Candy Heart” (Lauren Campedelli & Desiree Mee June, alternating; Christopher T. Wood;…
Well, this year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival is over… although the energy is still palpable along Theatre Row, what with the great group of shows extended in Encore! performances through July. And, yeah, there are SO many shows that I missed during #HFF18, which I swore I’d catch if they were…
Awhile ago, I was thrilled to get an invitation from my good friend and amazing colleague, playwright Claudia Barnett, to visit her in Tennessee. Her idea to justify the trip at the end of February was that I’d work with her playwriting students at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro,…
How fantastic to get to play with some amazing artists on my little rape comedy, Rebecca on the Bus, included as part of a slate of one-acts to close Ensemble Studio Theatre LA‘s Launchpad2017, a festival of staged readings. Working with director Shaina Rosenthal, and actors Anna Lamadrid, Denah Angel…
So it’s always nice when a play that means a lot to you gets a bit of action and attention. In the best of all possible worlds, that means getting a chance to explore with new artists, in a new situation that reveals different aspects of the play. And in…
You know how sometimes you do things because that’s what you do and you just keep doing them because no one else has stepped up and then the years pass and even though a lot of the time you find yourself asking yourself, “Why am I doing this, again?”… there…
Originally Posted on the LA FPI Persons of Interest Blog SO! Any way you look at it, the 2016 Hollywood Fringe Festival, it was (again) a ridiculous and fabulous success. But from my (and LA FPI‘s) very particular perspective, it reached a whole new level of amazing. For the first…