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2011 Year End Playwriting Work Plan Assessment The new year is nigh and since I want to spend tomorrow writing my 2012 playwriting work plan, I thought I better get this year end assessment of 2011 in before midnig…
Swimming With Sharks...Er, I Mean Fourth Graders You go in the classroom. Kids are in the classroom. Don't get me wrong, I love kids. But when it comes to teaching them--yowzers. Coming from a family of educators I…
Do I Have The Will To Teach? Okay, so you may have guessed that the italics in the subject of this post will result in some sort of horrible pun. Proceed with caution. Today I got an email from Education & Outreac…
Grading, Crocodiles and Oliver Platt--Oh My! As promised today's first post (as I hope to write one this afternoon about last night's reading) of today is about the fact that I watched Lake Placid about 4 times this pas…
A Playwright Can Not Exist On Coffee Alone She needs sleep! For all sorts of reasons I got less than a satisfactory night's rest because a) I was up until 2am grading the last of those SOTA plays. Grades are due soon.…
Grading, Grading, Grading The post title should be read to the tune of Rawhide. This is it folks, my last bit of grading for my SOTA playwriting class. Grades are due at the beginning of next weekend and I'm a little m…
SOTA Performance Night Two: Second Verse Same As The First Well, almost. Tonight is a completely different program. And last night's performance went well. Really well. I have to admit I am surprised. Perhaps it was t…
SOTA Performances Tonight and Tomorrow Finally, the culmination of my six weeks of teaching is tonight and tomorrow night as the SOTA students put on readings of their one act plays. Tonight we're at the high school and…
SOTA Rehearsals, Family Drama, & Shifting Gears SOTA rehearsals are underway. I'm acting as the dramaturg, trying to give last minute notes to the students so they can make some rewrites during the rehearsal process…
An Incurable Condition: Poetry On The Mind I don't know what it is about yesterday and today, but I have poetry on my mind. Perhaps it was the conversation I had yesterday with one of my SOTA students. Y has been critiq…