an email I recieved from Epiphany Theater

Epiphany is on the brink and I need your help to get to the other side. I don’t usually send appeals to artists, but this is an extraordinary year and I’m hoping that you will pitch in to help us support the work of early career artists the way that it SHOULD be supported. I’m not asking for much – just the equivalent of a few drinks in a trendy bar. I’m very proud of the fact that we’re heading into our 9th season of producing the work of early career theater artists. Two short years ago, we were producing one showcase a year, had no paid staff, actors got $50 a week, and our designers scrounged together sets from found objects. I’m sure you’re familiar with the process. Now, just two years later – we’ve moved into a new theater in Saratoga, we’re on a full equity contract, and our designers have budgets with a whole extra zero on the end. We’ve come a long way. But let’s not kid ourselves, we have a long way to go. This year is the crossroads. If we can pull off our ambitious season plans (in Saratoga Springs), we will be in position to become a true regional theater committed to producing the work of early career artists. That means playwrights will see their work developed and premiered (even though they don’t have an agent), directors will have full rehearsal processes (even though they’ve never won an NEA fellowship), designers will have the budgets they need to realize their artistic visions (even while they’re moonlighting as dressers), and all of us in that very difficult first period of our careers, and those who follow us, will have the chance to work in the professional environment we, and they, deserve. So I appeal to you, as an artist, to help create a regional theater specifically dedicated to the work of early career artists - those artists who are either within the first 10 years of their professional careers or still earning supplementary income from something other than their craft. If you no longer meet that criteria I invite you to remember back to when you did. It was hard. Please take this opportunity to help make it easier. I hope you’ll consider donating $25 to $100 today. You can do it online with a credit card by clicking this link: http://www.epiphanytheater.org/newyork/ or you can mail a check to 154 Christopher Street, suite 2B, New York, NY 10014. Thank you! And we wish you the greatest of success no matter where you are in your career. Fondly, Amy Kaissar Producing Director

We Don't Get fooled again

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my next play

He takes a screwdriver to the artificial heart. He shimmies it
between the chambers. There must be some kind of missed connection.

"Beat, damn it! Beat," he rails at the artificial heart on the table
before him.

But the heart won't beat for him. Because a heart will only beat for
who a heart will beat for and no one has any say in the matter but the
heart in question.

Go See

Riding the Bull by my friend Gus in the Fringe Extension

http://sabo.seatadvisor.com/sabo/servlets/TicketRequest?eventId=60807&presenter=SOHO&venue=&event=

The Newest News

So that thing I wasn't sure if I was going to mention that I was so excited about was that I got into the MCC Playwrights Coalition. Apparently they are graduating some of their members and taking on some new members of which I am one. I find this incredibly exciting because 4 years ago I interned at MCC and I got to hang out with the Coalition and they were incredibly nice and amazingly talented and I must say I feel truly honored to be among their number now. I've already set up two table reads. I plan to make good use of their developmental help.

Indie Theater Fall Preview

http://www.indietheater.org/preview.htm

Check out the Blue Coyote. They just started rehearsals. Travis York is in it.

crazy mo fos in the white house at it again

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/georgepacker/2007/08/if-there-were-a.html

h/t freeman

http://matthewfreeman.blogspot.com/

brightly colored and ready for purchase

me and K this weekend past

http://www.lifemagical.com/index.php?c=1571

photo by minwin

another member of the theatrospehere

have you seen tlaloc?

http://tlalocnyc.blogspot.com/

welcome to the theatrosphere

director Andrew Utter

http://sfacting.blogspot.com/

and playwright Ruben Carbajal

http://reachruben.blogspot.com/

The realization of the satire of Catch 22

http://alternet.org/waroniraq/60950/

h/t grote

http://jasongrote.blogspot.com/

Iraq where "private companies are guaranteed huge profits no matter how badly they fuck things up."

This article is truly shocking. I didn't realize the extent that the US government is actively giving away money to unqualified people who are not doing the work they are hired to do and are merely ripping us off. Meanwhile whenever someone tries to hold these companies and individuals accountable, this person is threatened or demoted and Bush steps in to prevent the private companies from being accountable for their fraud.

November 5 at the NY Public Library for The Performing Arts

Reading of my play Herbie

http://www.nypl.org/research/calendar/eventdesc.cfm?id=3408