For more than a decade, my year in review was dedicated to talking about submissions and how they paid off. Those days are gone. As I finish this, I have made just 136 submissions for the whole year, down just seven from 2023–so we must be leveling off–but a quarter of the fat years […]
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MY 2024 WRITER LIFE (a year in review)
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MY 2023 WRITER’S YEAR IN REVIEW
What a strange year… 2023 was the year I decided to double down on the screenplay momentum I started in 2022 and see if my back catalog of plays would do any work for me. As we all know, it’s been tough for the trenches playwrights to get in the mix—tougher than usual, […]
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Three playwright questions as theater reignites
I just purchased a plane ticket with some of the airline credit I’ve had since I chose not to travel to a writers’ retreat in March 2020. And it’s to attend a live production of my play, TEACH, in New York City. LIVE. SONS & LOVERS will be in Columbus, OH. LIVE. In August, […]
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2020: A PLAYWRIGHT’S YEAR IN REVIEW
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!
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