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BAMBOOZLED, nominated for seven 2018 Theatre Bay Area awards, was awarded four: Outstanding Production, Outstanding Ensemble, and two Outstanding Lead Actor awards, for Chelsea Bearce and Stacy Ross. Not a bad haul for the evening! The New York Times and Pro Publica reported recently on the catastrophic climate effects of palm oil, the subject of my 2016 play, HEARTS OF …
The 2018 Theatre Bay Area Awards includes a generous handful of nominations for “Bamboozled,” to wit: *Outstanding Costume Design: Tammy Berlin for BAMBOOZLED *Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble: BAMBOOZLED *Outstanding Performance in a Principal Role: Chelsea Bearce for BAMBOOZLED *Outstanding Performance in a Principal Role: Stacy Ross for BAMBOOZLED *Outstanding Direction: Gary Graves for BAMBOOZLED *Outstanding World Premiere Play: BAMBOOZLED …
My two-week residency at the Mudhouse in Crete is imminent! I’ll be working on my NCTC commission. Now called “Laws of Attraction,” it’s an LGBTQ romantic comedy that satirizes the self-help industry. It’s an outgrowth of my original proposal for “Unavoidable Admissions,” which I discovered I could not write as a comedy … and, in fact, had trouble writing at …
The experience of writing and developing BAMBOOZLED was one of the most memorable, joyful, delightful, meaningful… all the “ful’s” except “awful,” that I’ve experienced to date in the theater. To have any one of the amazing cast members – Chelsea Bearce, Susan Jackson, Stacy Ross, and Jeunée Simon – in the cast, would have been quite a coup. To get …
I’m so excited to see this play come to life, directed by Gary Graves, and with Chelsea Bearce, Susan Jackson, Stacy Ross, and Jeunée Simon. In “Bamboozled,” Abby is a young appraiser touring with “Antiques Roadtrip.” She’s a black woman from L.A. traveling in the south—Shelby County, Tennessee. When she’s accused of defrauding a Daughter of the Confederacy out of …
My play “Believers,” an apocalyptic romantic comedy about rigid beliefs being softened by love, is receiving a second production in Istanbul. The adaptation is called “Aşk, İlaçlar ve Yan Etkileri-Forte” (Love, Drugs, and Side Effects). The steampunk design is fun, and reflective of a dystopian future that has disrupted and destroyed all progress. The play runs through January.
I’m excited to announce that BAMBOOZLED is scheduled for a world premiere early next year in Berkeley, California. During the season announcement event, here’s what I said: Fact: the US market for Confederate memorabilia is a billion-dollar business. I have always been fascinated by what we value, and what it costs us. That curiosity led me to research Confederate heirlooms …
I am tremendously proud and excited to have been commissioned by the New Conservatory Theatre Center (NCTC) to write a new play for their 2020/21 Season! NCTC was instrumental in launching my San Francisco Bay Area playwriting career when Artistic Director Ed Decker commissioned Andrew Black and me to write a gay murder mystery. Andy and I had a ball …
I’m excited to visit Aurora, Colorado in October for two talkbacks, opening weekend of Hearts of Palm at Theatre Esprit Asia! The show will run October 7 through 29, 2017, Friday and Saturday 7:30pm | Sunday 2pm, additional 2pm matinee on Saturday, Oct. 21. TEA presents another regional premiere and comedy! Greedy American corporate executives find themselves enmeshed with rebels in …
There will be a Dramatists Guild Town Hall Tuesday, August 22, 7:30 pm at Potrero Stage, hosted by DG’s Director of Creative Affairs Tina Fallon. I’ll be on a panel with other playwrights talking about reacting to recent disastrous events. It’s part of 3Girls Theatre’s 6th Annual New Works Festival – Radical Hope & the New Resistance. Since all my …