"I see your adaptation of The Green Bird and that's all well and good but I thought you were going to write a sequel to The Love of Three Oranges?" -People keep asking me, to my great confusion as The Green Bird IS a sequel to The Love of Three Oranges. I feel like...
Looking for ideas for staging Three Padded Walls? I've been incredibly fortunate to have some great productions of my play, Three Padded Walls, and I wanted to share some of these great productions with you. Rather than bombard you with a dozen posts on this, I...
I feel like I'm writing way too many blog posts lately the gist of which is, "I'm an idiot and totally screwed up." We need to talk about the Tale of Tales project nicknamed 4th Orange. I've talked about it in very general terms but I haven't really come out and...
I've discovered something super annoying about my writing process that I wish I could tap into on purpose but it doesn't seem to work that way. Namely, that when I get completely frustrated with a work in progress and decide that I'm completely stuck and that it's...
May flew by. Flew! And yet my concept of time is so tenuous that yesterday I asked my husband if the Fourth of July fireworks were this weekend so somehow I forgot June was a thing? My brain is a mystery. I have no idea if any of you find these little monthly recaps...
Here's some exciting news I've been eager to share with you. The Cuckoo's Theater Project in Chicago will be presenting The Green Bird from June 3rd-June 19th, 2016. Unfortunately, I'm not going to be able to attend as I hoped and it's absolutely killing me to miss...
While I'm not exactly live tweeting my revision (though a bunch of people are on Twitter and it's very useful to see other writers going through the process to know you're not alone), I've been trying to post regular-ish updates here to give you an idea of how it's...
My meta suspense drama, Three Padded Walls, is now available through YouthPLAYS. Â That means they've got printable eScripts and bound acting editions (with an extended Q & A session with yours truly I think you'll enjoy) up for sale as well as a very generous...
Here's a super quickie continuing my Self-Publishing a Stage Play series. This is a question I got from a reader and I'm sharing what I replied. Remember, you can read all the other posts in this series by clicking on the series title box just above this line. It will...
As both a playwright and a parent, it delighted me when my daughter starting integrating playwriting into her games. She's always telling me about the play she's writing and every keyboard is an opportunity for her to work on "her script" (which sounds way better than...
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