Back in the day, I used to work for one of NaNoWriMo's sponsors. We were encouraged to sign up for NaNoWriMo and try to participate so we understood what the event was about when customers came to us with questions. I dutifully signed up and joked about writing a...
Let's chat NaNoWriMo! Come hang out with me in person this Monday night at 7 PM at the main branch of the Maplewood Library where I'll be answering questions and offering tips, tricks and advice on how to get through your first novel and the NaNoWriMo challenge! Ideal...
Exactly a month ago, I told you about my new short drama, Masks, which is part of the new anthology Bullying, INK. from YouthPlays. While you can purchase the play or license it as part of that collection, for the first time, it's now available as a standalone play...
Novelists have been doing this sort of post for a while, an all-in-one debrief on exactly how they wrote one of their books day by day (here's one example and another but there are many out there), but it hasn't caught on yet in the playwriting community. It's a shame...
It is my personal theory that everyone has one. "I can't pick you up right now, bud. I'm already carrying 37 billion things." "The doctor's went fine apart from the fact that I had to sit in the waiting room for 37 hours before they saw me." "Those socks are 37 years...
I did a guest post for the Playscripts blog on Friday called Frugal Fantasy: Making Magic on a Less Than Fantastical Budget filled with tips for making magical effects happen on the stage even if you're working on a school or community theatre budget. It's filled with...
My new short play, Masks, deals with bullying and I'm pleased to announce that it's been included in the brand new anthology on that topic from YouthPLAYS called... (Not an official logo or image in any way, just something I threw together in five seconds for this...
One of the challenges of an adaptation of The Green Bird is that I have to serve two masters (obligatory commedia reference!) which means that the sort of risque joke a commedia troupe or community theatre can do might be too much for a school. To that end, I'm...
If you were inspired by the visual spectacle of Julie Taymor's award winning Broadway production of Carlo Gozzi's The Green Bird back in 2000 and wanted to perform it with your students, you were pretty much out of luck... until now! For the first time, there's a...
The Green Bird is going out of print very soon as it moves over to Playscripts so if you want your copy of the original edition with the pretty green feather cover, you've got to act quickly! The books will be listed for sale for mere days more before I have to pull...
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