from Move On

5 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT OBAMA'S PUBLIC HEALTH INSURANCE OPTION The choice of a public health insurance plan is crucial to real health care reform. But right now, it's being smeared by conservatives and insurance-industry front groups. Here's what you really need to know: 1. Choice, choice, choice. If the public health insurance option passes, Americans will be able to choose between their current insurance and a high-quality, government-run plan similar to Medicare. If you like your current care, you can keep it. If you don't—or don't have any—you can get the public insurance plan.2 2. It will be high-quality coverage with a choice of doctors. Government-run plans have a track record of innovating to improve quality, because they're not just focused on short-term profits. And if you choose the public plan, you'll still get to choose your doctor and hospital.3 3. We'll all save a bunch of money. The public health insurance option won't have to spend money on things like CEO bonuses, shareholder dividends, or excessive advertising, so it'll cost a lot less. Plus, the private plans will have to lower their rates and provide better value to compete, so people who keep their current insurance will save, too.4 4. It will always be there for you and your family. A for-profit insurer can close, move out of the area, or just kick you off their insurance rolls. The public health insurance option will always be available to provide you with the health security you need.5 5. And it's a key part of universal health care. No longer will sick people or folks in rural communities, or low-income Americans be forced to go without coverage. The public health insurance plan will be available and accessible to everyone. And for those struggling to make ends meet, the premiums will be subsidized by the government.6

last week of PT in NYC

photo by Isaiah Tanenbaum www.fluxtheatre.org

Adopt a playwright

http://meadhunter.blogspot.com/2009/05/why-adopting-playwright-is-important.html

only one more week of Pretty Theft

don't miss it.

www.fluxtheatre.org

my actual bio

ADAM SZYMKOWICZ graduated in May of 2007 from The Juilliard School's Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program. In 2004, he received his playwriting MFA from Columbia University where he was the Dean’s Fellow. His work has been produced throughout the U.S., and in Canada, England, The Netherlands and Lithuania. His plays have been presented or developed at such places as MCC Theater, Ars Nova, South Coast Rep, Playwrights Horizons, LAByrinth Theater Company, The Lark, Kitchen Dog, HotINK, Theatre of Note and Studio Dante among others. Plays include Deflowering Waldo, Open Minds, Anne, The Art Machine, Pretty Theft, Food For Fish, Hearts Like Fists, Herbie, Incendiary, Old Fashioned Cold Fusion, Bee Eater, Temporary Everything, Susan Gets Some Play, Fat Cat Killers and Nerve. Several of his plays have been published by Dramatists Play Service. Szymkowicz is a two-time Lecomte du Nouy Prize winner, a member of the Dramatists Guild, the MCC Playwright’s Coalition and was a founding member of the Ars Nova Play Group. For more, go to www.adamszymkowicz.com.

Nerve in St. Louis

http://broadwayworld.com/article/Szymkowiczs_Dark_Romantic_Comedy_NERVE_Plays_6520_At_Echo_Theatre_Company_20090508

The bio is wrong, but I guess that happens.  I never claimed any of those folks produced me.
Update: It's been fixed.

Hart

"I have had many successes and many failures in my life. My successes have always been for different reasons, but my failures have always been for the same reason: I said yes when I meant no." — Moss Hart My friend Anna told me about this quote. It's a good one. I've always found it to be true.

blogroll et al

I just spent some time trying to fix the blogroll. If you are no longer on it and want to be please let me know. If you are now on it but don't want to be, please let me know that too. I think I did it right but I can't be sure. I read everything on google reader now anyway. Pretty Theft is still up in NYC--two more weeks. Go if you can. I am in MN again, unemployed reading lots of pilots and trying to figure out what to write next. how are you?