My 2024 Year In Review

Hi!  Happy Holidays everyone!  Here's my 2024 in review.

I made a living this year!  A modest living-- So like imagine an overworked non profit level salary but take the overwork part away.  It's not really the kind of money you want to make as a 47-year-old man with a preteen child at home but I was able to be only a playwright all year because my wife brought home the health insurance.  

This year I wrote one one-act play, one full length play, one graphic novel adaptation, one feature film script,  and am a third of the way through another feature.  I worked on the book for the musical version of Marian too with composer and lyricist Masi Asare.

I ran four 5k races.

This year my book Letters To A Young Playwright came out from Applause (now Bloomsbury)  My graphic novel adaptation of Clown Bar came out from Rare Earth.  (Art by Carl Mefferd.)  Clown Bar Christmas was published this year by Concord.  The Christmas Tree Farm was published by Broadway Play Publishing Inc.

Hearts Like Planets will come out from DPS (Broadway Licensing) soon and Marian The True Tale of Robin Hood, THE MUSICAL will come out from Concord (Sam French).

In 2024, I had 101 full lengths productions,  87 one acts, 1 musical,  1 night of short plays (190 total)  Last year was 79 full lengths and 59 one acts.

23 of the full lengths were at theaters, (same number as last year) 16 at colleges or universities, (down from 19).  The other 62 were high schools with a few camps and middle schools thrown in. (Last year that number was 37.)

There were 27 full length productions of Kodachrome, (up from 19); 36 one act productions of  Kodachrome (up from 14);  31 Marian (1 less than last year); 1 Touring production of  Elsewhere in Türkiye, in Turkish.

4 productions of Clown Bar 2; 4 productions of Clown Bar; 5 productions of Hearts Like Fists;  18 productions of The Bookstore (six more than last year); 4 Night Children; 4 Christmas Tree Farm; 1 Sex Writer; 2 Bart and Arnie; 1 Marian Musical.

I had productions in Türkiye, Malaysia and Ethiopia and a whole lot in Canada.

Bart and Arnie premiered at Idiom Theater.  And Poly Prep.  Melancholics Anonymous will do in in Minneapolis in the new year.

The Sex Writer went up in NYC.

This year I was in a writing group for parents again with Project Y, and took part in Flux's Core Work writing group. Did a signing at the Drama Book Shop with Jackie Goldfinger.

Apart from being in NYC a lot, for Clown Bar 2 (Directed by Andrew Block) and The Sex Writer (Directed by Phil Cruise), I also went there for Comicon for the fist time. 

 Developed our musical at Penn State and at the International Thespian Festival in Bloomington IN. (both Directed  by John Simpkins.) Visited New London MN to meet the first group to do all three Clown Bar plays. (Dir Matt Hegdahl)   I was honored to again attend the Flux Retreat at Little Pond.

Next year, there are 30 full length productions so far slated for 2025.  There will be 2, possibly three productions at TCG theaters, one of which will be a not-yet-announced production of Clown Bar 2.

Such Small Hands opens in Feb at The Chance Theater in Anaheim CA.

Love to you and yours!  Hope we all have a great 2025!

Here are my previous years in review.

2023
2022
2021

2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007

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