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Continue reading →: Must AI invade the theater space, too?The harmful technology is everywhere. Theater should be a refuge from the encroachment of AI.
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Continue reading →: February is a month of quantity, not qualityI just finished writing 28 plays over the course of last month, so I’m a little spent, creatively. To be specific: I wrote six monologues, six 10-minute plays, 12 1-minute plays and four plays that range from 2 to 5 minutes. If you were expecting “Hamlet,” either in length or…
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Continue reading →: The annoying art of revisionArt is never finished, but deadlines still matter. “Banshee” goes through more changes before rehearsals start.
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Continue reading →: Upheaval is a tale as old as timeWhy I set “Banshee” in the tumultuous era of the late 1700s.
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Continue reading →: What we should talk about when we talk about AIAI is great, except for all its many drawbacks.
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Continue reading →: What Yeats taught me about the bansheeThe Irish mythological creature has a deep and rich history.
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Continue reading →: Playwriting year in review: It’s not all about the productions (luckily)(Updated Dec. 30, 2025.) I have never felt as though I’ve written “enough” — however you want to define that word. “Enough” to support my family? I’m a playwright; that will likely never happen. “Enough” to get produced on Broadway? Nice dream, but unlikely. Even then, I will most likely,…
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Continue reading →: Get to ‘End of Play’ without your inner editorI typed “End of Play” but I didn’t mean it. I took part in “End of Play” even though it didn’t really exist this year. I got to the end of the play, which is odd because it was the first scene that I wrote. What matters, I suppose, is…
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Continue reading →: Ireland: the perennial source of a writer’s inspirationI’ve been a journalist for more than 20 years. Most of that time, I’ve worked in newsrooms. But I don’t write many journalism-related plays. There are a few, like “Hero Work,” my satire of superhero comics and modern politics. I’m also fond of my play “Clips,” a short play about…
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Continue reading →: Writing is a solitary act, except when it isn’tHow I learned to stop worrying and play well with others.
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Continue reading →: Write your way out of the darknessFor the last several years, I have taken part in a writing challenge called ’28 Plays Later’ — an exercise in both speed and stamina. As the name implies, participants are tasked with writing one play every day in February. It can be one page or it can be 100;…
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Continue reading →: First-time director has some notesI’m making my directing debut at the 2023 Reading Theatre Project’s 5-Minute Fringe Festival.
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Continue reading →: Playwrights you should read, part oneOne in an irregular series of posts, giving well-deserved shout-outs to writers I admire.
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Continue reading →: When the resolution goes astrayMy plan to finish a full-length play went a little off course, but in the service of another creative project.
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Continue reading →: For the new year, a simple resolutionI posted this on Mastodon earlier today, just a kernel of a thought. Since one of my New Year’s resolutions is (or ought to be) more blogging, it seems fitting to re-post it here as an actual blog post. In 2023, my New Year’s resolution can be boiled down to…
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Continue reading →: 5 Things I learned from writing a play every day in February
This year, as with every year, I made a New Year’s resolution to write “more.” Whatever that means. The best way to do this, of course, is to actually write more. Write every day. It’s that simple, and that complicated. But if you want to be a writer, that’s what…
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Continue reading →: A reflection about the news business, through the lens of one peculiar career path
[NOTE: This was posted on Twitter, at my @richterific account, then on Facebook. My wife urged me to share it so more people could read it, so I’m posting it here. I made some minor edits, because Twitter ≠ Facebook ≠ blogs.] I feel like writing a thread about how…
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