Creative Revolution just ended their run of The Love of Three Oranges and shared this great gallery of production stills from their run. See them all in a glorious full size slideshow here. One of my favorite things about looking through a gallery of production stills...
Tomorrow is the exact middle of the year. That just blows my mind because it does NOT feel like we are halfway through this year and also fills me with panic. There's so much I wanted to do this year and, while I have gotten a lot done, there have been several...
One of the biggest things I've struggled with in my writing life is keeping a balance between the types of writing i have to do. I tend to get laser focused and obsess over a certain project and, while that meant I finished it, it meant that I'd completely neglected...
"Traditionally, Hilary was the form used for males and Hillary for females, but since there are so few boy Hilarys these days, that tradition has fallen by the wayside." -Nameberry page for Hillary I was extremely excited to see this little note because I was always...
Once you harness your plot bunnies,  productive writing feels like cheating and the words come easier. Let me explain. I keep mentioning that my new percentage based writing goal is really working well but I've never really explained why. Let's go into that, shall we?...
I just thought this was funny. That almost the same day as I announced the new shortened version of The Love of Three Oranges that comes in at about half an hour, PBS announces that they're going to start airing a trimmed down version of Sesame Street each day that...
One of the biggest FAQs I get is about the scene in Act 1, Scene 1 between King Silvio and Pantalone and the double entendre speech. Many schools and theatres find that speech to be a bit too racy for their tastes and want to rework it. To that end, I wrote an...
I have some exciting news! For as much as I yammer on about my various works in progress, I've had a secret project going on in the background all this time and I'm so excited to finally be able to tell you about it. I sold another play! Actually, I sold the same...
New parents don't get any sleep. That's the cliché, right? Because newborns wake up every 4 hours to be fed or sometimes more often than that because they are babies and why shouldn't I be awake right now, human slaves? Serve me! Look how cute I am, you are powerless...
Want a free paperback book? If you're already a Goodreads member, and it's free and quick to sign up if you aren't, you have a chance to win a copy of the acting edition of my new play, New Year's Thieve, in a special promotional giveaway. It's free so you've got...
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