blog of the Sam French short play fest

http://samuelfrenchoobfest.blogspot.com/

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

anti-love drug

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/13/science/13tier.html?_r=1&em

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.

http://arsnovanyc.com/out-loud/

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

My friend Jodi's new book

How to Love Like a Hot Chick

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0061706442

The Comtois list for best NY theatre of '08

http://jamespeak.blogspot.com/2009/01/top-10-of-2008.html

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.

Joe Kraemer's recent workshop

reviewed here by Moxie

http://www.moxiethemaven.com/2008/12/one-to-watch-joe-kraemer.html

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.

fascinating article

Passed on by Ninette who i met at Food For Fish in Baltimore.

about scent, attraction, love. (and perhaps the character Alice)

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026873.600-dna-dating-can-genes-help-you-pick-a-mate.html?full=true&print=true

Freeman reminds us to give to our favorite theatre this holiday season

http://matthewfreeman.blogspot.com/2008/12/tis-season.html

Great post by Alexis, America, land of Theatregoers

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/theatreblog/2008/dec/16/theatre-american-plays-nea

h/t freeman http://matthewfreeman.blogspot.com

reviews of the films no one is reviewing

http://www.bargainbinreview.com/mainreviewspage.html

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.

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.

the critic o meter

http://criticometer.blogspot.com/

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

hearing from William Ayers

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/06/opinion/06ayers.html?em