Jan 13, 2009
Coming up--Mark your calendars
My new play Hearts Like Fists at Juilliard
(65th between Broadway and Amsterdam)
Wed, Feb 11th @ 1:30pm
Thurs, Feb 12th @ 7pm
Fri, Feb 13th @ 7pm
Sat, Feb 14th @ 2pm
Sun, Feb 15th @ 7pm
My playlist play at Ars Nova.
Fri Jan 23, 8pm
Sat Jan 24, 2pm
Sat Jan 24, 8pm
Sun Jan 25, 8pm
Food For Fish at Northwestern
2/5-2/7
Three plays of mine
at Bryant Lake Bowl (Minneapolis)
March 12 +19
Jan 9, 2009
Monday: Go see my friend Deron's play
01/12: Putting the Days to Bed
By Deron Bos
Directed by Paul Willis
A long night of drinking in which Annie considers her marriage, Mara
offers dreams of personal finance perfection and Simon discovers the
subtle pleasures of Back to The Future Part II.
Jan 8, 2009
Playlist!
I have a short play in this. Hope you can come!
http://arsnovanyc.com/sill/2009/01/playlist_is_coming_dancing_shoes_on.php
Jan 6, 2009
Jan 5, 2009
Jan 1, 2009
Happy New Year!!
Today we went cross country skiing on and around the Lake of the Isles. This is what it looks like at night. Sometimes.
I find I really enjoy self propelled motion.
Next up--ice skating. Then who knows? The world is our oyster. Our very cold, icy oyster.
I find I really enjoy self propelled motion.
Next up--ice skating. Then who knows? The world is our oyster. Our very cold, icy oyster.
Dec 30, 2008
Dec 27, 2008
2008 in review
I had 6 productions of my full length plays, in '08, all from the publications. I had some short pieces go up in various places, wrote some songs for the Rapid Response Team. Two of my short plays were made into films, one of which I'll get to see next month and the other which I hope you've all seen by now. Two short plays are being published as well.
I went to LA and had lots of TV meetings. I wrote and rewrote a pilot, and then threw it out and wrote it again. I pitched another pilot a couple of times which I hope to write when I get a chance.
I had a commission from South Coast Rep, I had a good time reading Incendiary with Labyrinth in Vermont and New York. Hung out with Single Carrot Theatre in Baltimore who did Food For Fish. Bought long underwear and moved to Minneapolis for my wife's fellowship.
Oh yeah, did I mention I got married? I got married.
I've been thinking of it as a year of setting up, resting, regrouping, preparing for the real work ahead, but when I look at all those things, well, those are a lot of things. I guess that was a busy year.
And more to come. Two plays for sure coming up. Two more possible and a lot of maybes in the air.
Dec 19, 2008
fascinating article
Passed on by Ninette who i met at Food For Fish in Baltimore.
about scent, attraction, love. (and perhaps the character Alice)
Dec 18, 2008
Dec 17, 2008
Dec 14, 2008
Dec 12, 2008
what we have in MN
A Klingon Christmas Carol -- Paul and Sheila Wellstone Center, Saint Paul, MN
Scrooge has no honor, nor any courage. Can three ghosts help him to become the true warrior he ought to be in time to save Tiny Tim from a horrible fate? Performed in the Original Klingon with English Supertitles, and narrative analysis from The Vulcan Institute of Cultural Anthropology.
The Dickens classic tale of ghosts and redemption adapted to reflect the Warrior Code of Honor and then translated into tlhIngan Hol (That's the Klingon Language).
A co-production of Commedia Beauregard and the IKV RakeHell of the Klingon Assault Group.
more and photos here.Dec 10, 2008
what's going on
So right now I'm temping at a job all day where I can't get on the internet and can only have my cell phone on during lunch and my two 15 min breaks. So I am incommunicado most of the day. and you know, it's ok so far.
The other day I rode my bike home in a blizzard and then the next day rode my bike back to work in what the blizzard left behind. I wiped out a couple of times but I didn't die and in fact I kind of loved it. Biking is the form of transportation that I never knew was perfect for me.
Coming up next playwise is a production of Food For Fish at Northwestern University. At the same time I'll be in new york rehearsing my new play at Juilliard. I'll be in town from Jan 19 to Feb 14. I'd love to see you all during that time. Oh and maybe you can come see the packawallop-produced short film The Moment then which stars Susan Louise O'Connor and Jeff Biehl.
what else? Writing a completely different version of the pilot I was talking about. Got three plays and one pilot on the backburner all dying to get written.
I like minneapolis. It's nice here. I like snow. And it hasn't gone below zero but once so far. I'll let you know how that progresses.
those wacky wallop packers
http://packawallop.wordpress.com/2008/12/09/happy-holidays-from-packwallop/
Coming in 09-- a screening of the short film I did with them entitled
The Moment.
Dec 7, 2008
a promo for a 2 hour documentary on ABC of Scott Pafumi's class performing the Wiz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96mvOp5o2FE
Monday, December 15th at 9pm on ABC
Dec 6, 2008
Dec 5, 2008
Nov 29, 2008
playlist for Incendiary
Ring of Fire --(Cash or cover)
Fire and Rain --Me First and the Gimme Gimmes cover
This Fire--Franz Ferdinand
Firestarter--Prodigy
Light My Fire (Doors or Cover)
There's a Fire--OK Go
Fire On The Mountain (cover?)
Dig For Fire --the Pixies
Fire--Hendrix or cover
Bath of Fire--Presidents Of The United States...
Fireball Stomp-- Amazing Royal Crowns
Vampire Forest Fire --Arcade Fire
Living in an Abandoned Firehouse --Magnetic Fields
The Roof Is On Fire --Bloodhound Gang
Piano Fire --Sparklehorse
This Heart's On Fire --Wolf Parade
Love-Building On Fire --Talking Heads
Burning Down the House --Talking Heads
If You Love Somebody, Set Them On Fire --Dead Milkmen
Down In Flames --Reel Big Fish
Burn --The Cure
Felt Good To Burn --Flaming Lips
Burning Too --Fugazi
Burn, Don't Freeze --Sleater Kinney
anything to add?
photos from Nerve at Naked Stage in FL
Don't forget, it closes on the 30th. Go see it now!
Photos by Michael Paul.
Nov 28, 2008
11,002 THINGS TO BE MISERABLE ABOUT
Playwright Lia Romeo has started a Blog
http://www.thingstobemiserableabout.com/
Things to Be Miserable About.
A book about the same topic comes out in Feb.
Nov 27, 2008
something new
this is the beginning of something new. It is very much a first draft.
LOUISE
(on the phone)
Physics has a name for the things you can’t see. Elsewhere. Like if I’m transmitting something light years away, the time it’s in transmission, we lose it. During that time it’s elsewhere. It’s unknowable. My sister used to bury my favorite toys when we were kids. It took me a while to figure out what was happening. I would get a new doll and I would express my love for it and its yarn hair and it’s jagged smile and before I knew it, it was gone. When I finally figured it out, I was able to unearth some of my toys. Never the ones I wanted most, but I found a few by digging all day long, day after day in randomly chosen places. Eventually the adults got involved and my excavations were shut down.
Maybe I should have become an archeologist. Are archeologists lonely? Do they stay up at night thinking about civilizations they wish they could have been a part of? You know, loneliness is the only thing I can’t get over. I accept that he’s dead. I accept that I’m terrified of leaving the house, but I can’t stand how much it hurts to be alone. It burns with lack. The emptiness. I could take all the rest if there wasn’t such an emptiness. Sometimes I order things I don’t want just so the delivery man will show up and talk to me for a minute. But he just hands me the package and leaves again. What about you? Is your job lonely? It must be nice talking to people all day. No, I know, but still. Oh, right. I’m sorry I wasn’t letting you talk. Oh, well I don’t have a car so no, I don’t need car insurance. Hello? Hello?
Nov 26, 2008
Nov 24, 2008
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