It’s easy to look back on this year and feel like nothing happened. It’s been feeling like that for a while. Stagnant. So many of us are feeling it, right? Productions seem harder to come by. Rejections are nearly expected. Maybe it’s getting on in the career and falling out of the zeitgeist. Realizing people […]

  Three facts conspire to make this a strange year—both the best I’ve had as a playwright and also the worst. First, I made almost my lowest number of submissions since I started keeping records back in 2011. Just 188. That’s about a third of what I was making in the peak submission years when […]

When it came to results, because of Zoom, this year was actually better than last in terms of readings, and Naatak theater gave FLOWERS IN THE DESERT a stellar virtual production, featuring a married couple who fully staged it from their garage and directed by Harish Agastya; it was so beautiful, I made my husband watch it!