I adapted one of my most popular NaNoWriMo pep talks into a video. Going to be doing that with several bits of old content in the near future since it just makes sense! Here is is below: https://youtu.be/lcq7Ga31URU
It's hard to say exactly what draws me to adaptation. Most of the time, I like something in it but hate the rest of it and I end up adapting it to "fix" whatever's annoying me about the original. But every now and then, I read a story that just makes me say aloud,...
In all the hubbub lately, I forgot to share that my play, Weak Days, won in the one-act category of The Chameleon Theatre Circle’s 16th Annual New Play Contest. They'll be a reading of the play with minimal staging at The Chameleon Theatre Circle's New Play Festival...
The end of summer is coming up and teachers other educators are looking for plays to do in the coming school year. Many of my plays are school friendly, The Love of Three Oranges is even a bestseller for high school theatre, so here's a quick overview of...
Sometimes a coincidence so weird happens, you just gotta share it. As you know, I'm adapting an old collection of obscure Italian fairy tales called the Pentamerone into several plays. Well, as part of that process, I wanted to find out the name of some other fairy...
Some people shouldn't own Photoshop because they'll just use it to make random stupid graphics. I am one of those people. Behold!...yeah. Somehow I convinced myself that making this was a productive use of my limited time tonight. It probably wasn't. But I kept...
The follow up to my adaptation to The Green Bird was already well underway when I finished that project and, while I've referred to it generally a few times before, it's time to really introduce you to my next adaptation. In college, when I was working on my...
Playscripts has been doing this neat thing where they feature a different play each week and this week the spotlight's on my adaptation of The Love of Three Oranges! That means you can read the entire play, for free, right here until next Wednesday, August...
While my adaptation of The Love of Three Oranges stayed fairly close to the original (outside of everything related to the whole Narrator/Celio thing which was all me, baby), my adaptation of The Green Bird is fairly different from Carlo Gozzi's original. While...
My adaptation of Carlo Gozzi's The Green Bird is done and I'm incredibly excited to share it with you. There's  a lot to debrief after this massive project but I want to get some business out of the way first. While I may someday pursue traditional publishing options,...
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