September 3, 2012
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Emerging From Under Deadline
Do you know that scene in Kill Bill Vol. 2 when The Bride is trapped in a coffin underground? We flash back to her training under Kung Fu master Pai Mei. We see her struggle, we see her broken and we see her overcome the physical demands of her training to become her master’s star pupil.
And then we return to see The Bride facing the solid wood of her coffin and feet of dirt.
“Okay, Pai Mei. Here I come,” she says as she begins punching. Punching. Punching with bloody knuckles until the wood fractures, breaks and she punches her way through climbing through the darkness, through the dirt to the surface, to freedom–alive.
This is all a bit dramatic, I know. But that’s what this playwright did this weekend. She spent all of Saturday hour upon hour finalizing her New Dramatists application. Reading through her scripts for typos and errors, bemoaning the fact that she saw a play on Wednesday (what poor timing, but what a great show–more on that another time), and putting the finishing touches on her bio and statement of interest.I know you may be wondering why I waited until the final week of August to finish my application. Well, a few reasons:
- Other deadlines had to be met.
- Actually, I was working on my statement of interest all month, slowly, carefully–and I’m quite happy with the end result.
- Life. Sometimes it just gets in the way.
Either way, it’s done. It was submitted on Saturday.
So now that the deadline has passed, I and all the other playwrights out there who threw our hat in the ring just have to wait. Good luck!
-M
