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i. PSYCHOMACHIA. Writing about this experience is long overdue and it was, to put it in a word, amazing. Working with The Bridge has been great so far, but it’s really my director Robin Paterson who helped me bring the play to the next level, challenging me to think critically ( Read more... )

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I’ve been thinking about this for a while, letting it stew in my brain for a bit in the hopes that I can make a clear and cogent argument. I still don’t know that I can so much as settle firmly on a point, but I thought I would give it a try.

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I think pretty much everyone knows that war sucks; the extent to which it sucks is sometimes intensely personal, sometimes very public, and sometimes fodder for propaganda! All right, to call Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen’s play Aftermath propaganda is perhaps unfair - it’s ( Read more... )

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I’m here - I made it! 23 hours and a brief stopover in Tokyo later, and I am in Singapore. I hope to have a chance to update and include pictures, but internet is expensive and I am sharing with Christine, so I may just document on my computer and post it all when I get back. ( Read more... )

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Did you know that Marsha Norman and David Mamet were born in the same year? Yep, it’s true. It was a good year for playwriting.

I’ve been thinking a lot about what Paula Vogel said at the Playwrights Convening a few weeks ago, about really digging in and learning from the ( Read more... )

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This has been one shit-kicker of a week. I have had several 13-hour-days this week, and I’m just about worn out. But I felt like being creative, even though my brain couldn’t process words. So I made a little logo/poster type… thing… for one of my plays. I think it turned out ( Read more... )

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So, January 11 was my 25th Birthday, and also the day a sizable number of Broadway shows brought down their final curtains. To begin, I will share with you that I went to see The New York Philharmonic with my boyfriend for a lovely, symphonic evening (all right, half of it was ( Read more... )

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I recently stumbled across Priscilla Ahn on iTunes and downloaded her Live EP. I listened to the above song 67 times while writing the first draft of my short play Uriel’s Garden. As I settle in to spend a quiet afternoon on draft 2, I thought I would share this lovely little ( Read more... )

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I finally saw Blasted at SoHo Rep on Thursday night and I have to say - it completely lived up to all the hype. Never in my life have I been to the theater where it has become a truly frightening experience. I was sitting in the first row and was inadvertantly hit with a myriad ( Read more... )