I can’t remember how I got talked into it, but I’m very glad I did. Back in January, a group of us started scheming with Ensemble Studio Theatre/Los Angeles Artistic Director Tracey A. Leigh and Producing Director Troy Loftin about ways to foster new writing through the company. After hearing…
I hope you can join me on Monday, June 6th at 7:30 pm, for a reading of DEAD PEOPLE’S DISHES at The Road Theatre in NoHo. Feeling very lucky to back in the theater, working again with director Margaret Shigeko Starbuck. And we’ve got an amazing cast drawn mostly from the…
Well! I must admit I’m having a very “really?” moment in terms of this brand new squeaky play… I had some loose ideas in my head for a bit but decided to commit to writing it during the 2021 Playwrights Union New Play Challenge. PU’s Annual “Write a Play in…
Would love for you to join this incredible team Monday 3/29 at 7pm PT for The WORD @ The Road virtual reading of my dark comedy “Space Available,” followed by a talkback! Excited to share the work of director Mía Y. Anderson and incredible actors at The Road Theatre Company…
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…
I realize that, as I’m writing this, half of this year is over. Right. How did that happen? I feel like I’ve been crazier and busier than ever. Like it’s all coming out of nowhere and then I sit down and think about what’s been going on, and I say,…
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,…
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…
It’s official. The production of my play “Currency” that the incredible artists at The Inkwell Theater have mounted is the best thing that’s happened to me in… a long, long, long time. Heading into the third week of the run I keep having “pinch me” moments: we’re getting great reviews…
Just when my life couldn’t get any crazier, I get a message last month while I’m in NY from the lovely Carole Real, one of the intrepid Ensemble Studio Theatre Los Angeles Artistic Directors, asking me whether I’d like to be a part of Winterfest 2016 with my play “Crazy…