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I've undertaken a new project lately, one I'm kind of surprised to see myself working on. While modeling, I happened to comment to one of the photographers I was working for that I was a playwright. He said he was a musician who has always wanted to write a musical, might that be something I'd be interested in collaborating on? We talked about it a ( Read more... )

The talented iagotolycus is playing Miss Lillian Holland in my reading of Mrs. Loring. She's very likely to be e fan favorite character, as she is the sassy Bohemian dyke who's been in the asylum entirely too long. We came up with what happens after the story, when she finally gets out of the asylum many years later-- which, we think, likely involves her ( Read more... )

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Tonight I had some lovely people over for dinner who did me the favor of having a casual reading of my new play Mrs. Loring. We were a few people short and some of them had to talk to themselves, but they did a great job for having never seen the script before and just winging it. And even better, afterward they helped me work on what I should edit ( Read more... )

Today I submitted my thesis to my reader. That means it is technically complete. After I receive her comments, I will get a couple more days to revise before it gets bound up in its final form on Lesley's record, but that is the last time any of my teachers will read it. I confess I am a little disappointed it will basically still be in first-draft ( Read more... )

You may remember my decision to scrap my original plan for my thesis play halfway through and start an entirely new on instead. When I decided that, I wrote the first scene for my teacher to see if she thought it was a good idea. I only wrote the one scene in case she didn't like it, I didn't want to go too far with an idea I couldn't make work. ( Read more... )