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I plan to post a series of homages to terrific theater- and playwriting-oriented podcasts. First up is The Parsnip Ship! Every month a new play, delivered right to your earbuds. The Parsnip Ship, hosted by Iyvon Edebiri, is an intimate series of plays performed before live audiences and made accessible as a monthly podcast. The series fosters community by exploring …
I’m deep in research for “Bystanders.” These paragraphs from New York Magazine state simply and clearly what we face when we face mass shootings: “There have been more mass school-shooting deaths in the past 18 years than in all of the 20th century. The long list of casualties includes a classroom full of first-graders, an event that shocked the nation …
“I don’t believe in it (writer’s block). All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes reasonably easily. Plumbers don’t get plumber’s block, and doctors don’t get doctor’s block; why should writers be the only profession that gives a special name to the difficulty of working, and then expects sympathy for it?” ~Philip …
Over at LitHub, Rebecca Solnit has a lovely piece on how the model of the individual hero has failed us. This hero concept is where we get the “good guy with a gun” theory of gun violence prevention. Got a problem with guns? The answer is one more guy with a gun! Solnit writes: “Positive social change results mostly from …
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.
My inspirations for plays come from many places … the news is a big source for me. I got interested in the issue of conflict palm oil a couple of years ago, when two Girl Scouts staged an activist campaign to get palm oil out of their cookies. These girls’ letter-writing campaign is mentioned in Act I, Scene I of …
The Turkish production of the play known in the U.S. as “Believers” opens February 2! They have taken a very steampunk riff on the design, and I’m excited to see it.
I’m excited to announce that “Believers” will be produced by Paper Wing Theatre Fremont in Spring 2016. From the theatre’s mission statement: “Paper Wing Theatre Company provides entertainment where questions of justice, morality, and humanity can be explored. We choose plays that challenge our moral and social consciences, inviting our audiences to be provoked, challenged, and stimulated. We maintain that …