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Weekend Plan 1. Hang out with Enrique and Carrie. 2. Rewrites for American Triage and Braided Sorrow (one last pass). 3. Maybe work a little on the new plays I have tumbling around in my head. 4. Connect with Nakissa ab…
Bay Area Playwrights Festival Recap So this weekend I attended all but one event at the 2008 Bay Area Playwrights Festival. I saw a total of 5 full-length play readings and four short plays or excerpts. It's hard to d…
The End To A Long Weekend This weekend I did a lot more running around than usual (get used to it the Bay Area Playwrights Festival starts this Friday). There was the book launch on Friday night, Midnight Mass late Satu…
To Do List Update I'm making good progress with my to do list. I've finished my edits for Braided Sorrow. Though I may make some last minute ones, the major edits are complete. Whoo! I did my laundry last night and I…
Reading, Writing, and Monkeying Around It was a nice, restful weekend. Yesterday I did a bit of reading for the competition I'm judging. I've been reading essays and memoirs written by high school and middle school stu…
Dramaturgy Break Through Sometimes my dramaturgy sessions with Nakissa feel like therapy sessions. Take last night. We're sitting in our usual spot in her home, these two comfy leather chairs, scripts in our laps, pens…
NoPassport Coffee Meet Up This afternoon is the NoPassport Coffee meet up in Hayes Valley at 'Arlequin Cafe. NoPassport is an online artist-driven Pan-American theatre community founded by Caridad Svich. The listserv…
Leftovers: That Second Post From Yesterday Apologies readers that I didn't get to that second post yesterday. So here it is, this is it, that second post from yesterday today. That is today's first post, though there ma…
Hands Down My Best Reading Ever And actually one of Nakissa's theatre colleagues told her that last night's reading of Woman on Fire was one of the best reading she'd seen, meaning the caliber of the acting (and obvious…
Tonight: Woman on Fire reading It's official: I have the best cast ever!!!!! I'm so tired. I woke up with the same headache I had last night. What caused the headache? Who knows? Sleep deprivation, not having a proper…