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 […]

  In my continual quest to prove that submitting does work, I again offer up total transparency in my year’s submission and results. As with 2014’s Recap: You Can’t Argue With Numbers and 2015’s Review in Numbers, the goal is always to show that submitting yields results. More than that, consistency yields momentum, which is […]

Gratitude journals and their more public cousins—gratitude Facebook posts—have become mindful ways to connect with what is good in our lives. I’ve never done one, but it occurred to me a while back that doing a 365 Grateful for playwriting might illuminate a year’s worth of reasons why we’re so loyal to this sometimes discouraging […]