I’m in Kalamazoo this week, staying at the house of the lovely Allison Williams for my twice annual writers retreat. On the last retreat I got pages and pages and pages done on a variety of different projects. Me and a notebook and a chair all day every day.
This time around is different. I’m working [...]
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The Dramatist Guild put out a bulletin today about a contest - the Wonderland One Act Festival. Not only is there a fee to submit a play to this festival ($15 ‘reading’ fee) there’s a registration fee ($185 dollars!!) if you get into the top 60 and then if you’re selected you [...]
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I have always been very aware that being a writer meant a lot of financial sacrifices. Once you get into the mindset that you won’t be able to afford certain things, you assume that will always be the case. Every once in a while I’d look around and feel extremely inadequate, it’s amazing how not [...]
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I did not want to see this movie. I resisted seeing this movie. I have seen clips, I have seen people quote it, I have seen those ‘Vote for Pedro’ t-shirts. When it was on tv and Craig wanted to see this movie, and I had nothing else to do and nowhere to go, I [...]
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Just got back from the South Eastern Theatre Conference. This is a different conference for us - it’s not all high school all the time. There are quite a few participants who just aren’t in our market. College students, Theatre companies, University professors. Folks who sometimes look somewhat askance at little old us. We like [...]
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I’ve had great news this week. I’ve got two plays moving on in the Sears Drama Festival - Flaky Lips and Stroke Static are going to be performed in their Regional Showcases, one in Toronto and one in Burlington.
It’s wonderful because these two plays are a really tough sell. Both are quite abstract, contain some [...]
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