This weekend at the Alabama State Thespian Festival.
The grumpy student says to the teacher, “I don’t want to go to the workshop.”
Says the teacher to the grumpy student, “Go to the workshop.”
Says the grumpy student to the teacher, “I don’t want to go to the workshop.”
Says the teacher to the grumpy student, “Go to the [...]
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I went to the Georgia State Thespian Conference earlier this month, and recorded a podcast about my workshop experiences.
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Teachers ask us all the time for ‘cuts.’ Since we deal with schools, we’re pretty flexible when it comes to some things such as language. But it really makes me crazy when administrators censors topics that are clearly important to expose students to. How do they expect students to learn, to make decisions, to become [...]
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I’m doing preliminary writing work over the next month. It’s the most forgiving work; fragmented note taking, internet browsing, gazing out the window thinking. No deadlines, no dialogue, no need to have a finished draft yesterday.
I’m always amazed at the access to information at my fingertips. How did people survive without the web? I guess [...]
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Issue plays are popular and important. They can bring an issue to life and allow an audience to directly connect to that issue. Having said that, they are not the easiest plays to produce.
For this newsletter I talk to teachers and students who have directed my play The Bright Blue Mailbox Suicide Note. Read about [...]
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A short video of Theatrefolk at the Texas Educational Theatre Association Conference in January 2008.
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Got some good news yesterday. Found out I’ve been accepted as a playwright mentor for the Uth Ink program. This program is sponsored by the Playwrights Guild of Canada and promotes youth writing.
The project starts out with a day long workshop were youth are encouraged to write something (short scene or monologue) inspired by their [...]
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