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First-time director has some notes
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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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Playwrights you should read, part one
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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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When the resolution goes astray
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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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For the new year, a simple resolution
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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 FebruaryThis 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 →: Playwriting year in review: It’s not all about the productions (luckily)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, as writers do, fret…
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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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Ireland: the perennial source of a writer’s inspiration
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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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Writing is a solitary act, except when it isn’t
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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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Write your way out of the darkness
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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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