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BroadwayWorld has announced the upcoming production of The Victorian Ladies’ Detective Collective at Central Works. Central Works season of new plays continues this spring with a “cheeky” thriller written by the local award-winning playwright Patricia Milton, The Victorian Ladies’ Detective Collective, opening May 4 running through June 2 (previews 5/2 & 3); world-premiere # 63, from the Central Works Writers …
For most of my plays, I create a dramaturgical resource site on Tumblr. The site contains links to resources, inspiration, and research that I used in writing the play. For “The Victorian Ladies’ Detective Collective,” I read a lot of books, so I am providing links to the books and quotes from them. Visit my tumblr site for more.
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 …
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 …
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’ve just spent two weeks as playwright-in-residence at Porte Peinte in Noyers sur Serein in the Chablis region of France. Beautiful, serene, and inspiring! Spent many hours working on a new adventure, “Late Night at the DHP,” a satire about government leaks, and rewrites of “Carpetbaggers.” Hosted by the gracious Michelle Dominique Anderson, La Porte Peinte Centre pour les Arts …
Wanda Sabir writes for the Oakland Post and the SF Bay View Newspaper, and has her own website dedicated to the arts and the African diaspora. She reviewed the Off Broadway West Production of “Without Mercy” and conducted an hour-long interview with me about the play. Listen now: Wanda writes, “It is quite moving, the conclusion both unexpected and …