tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-116739282024-03-17T02:53:10.505-04:00Adam SzymkowiczAdam Szymkowiczhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10195622524268234675noreply@blogger.comBlogger3054125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11673928.post-18085709933630687412023-12-25T15:07:00.001-05:002023-12-27T07:34:35.111-05:00My 2023 Year In Review<div>Hi Friends!</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibnVJUA2AVEjvIZoDDwaaF8JAFRQI4pcOmA1Cw8tpPFD3VyDXb5pbEEzPAFb2u67uveNLcIiVBrNsuXw7K7ZAeCe-1P-5QpDlxJ2wS7GQpK0CiX026OwwQKr68tJF7Wn5Bhf_gz2NgNXmtpymcW4uMjhOcASINACMRWJg4NrmRzaSV9HtEhz_MoA/s960/411186141_10106907712530512_6572918031782146625_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="958" data-original-width="960" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibnVJUA2AVEjvIZoDDwaaF8JAFRQI4pcOmA1Cw8tpPFD3VyDXb5pbEEzPAFb2u67uveNLcIiVBrNsuXw7K7ZAeCe-1P-5QpDlxJ2wS7GQpK0CiX026OwwQKr68tJF7Wn5Bhf_gz2NgNXmtpymcW4uMjhOcASINACMRWJg4NrmRzaSV9HtEhz_MoA/s320/411186141_10106907712530512_6572918031782146625_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>
<div><br /></div>I've been doing these summaries for a long time but also they start in 2007 when I was at Juilliard and exciting things were already happening. I don't have a year in review about 2000 when I was in Foxboro, MA working as an Asst Mgr at a Hollywood Video, writing plays and mailing them to people. I had just graduated from college and was living in a small apartment with my girlfriend at the time. I knew almost no theater people. I hadn't gotten into any of the grad schools I had applied to.<div><br /></div><div>Twenty-three years later, my life and my playwriting life are a lot different now. I started writing a book this year about playwriting for playwrights starting out so I've been thinking about what it was like early on. What I knew. What I didn't know. I started writing plays in college and I didn't really know what I was doing. It took a long time to figure out how to write and even longer to build a career.</div><div><br /></div><div>Last year I wrote in my year end summary about how it seemed impossible to make a living as a playwright. But then this year I had a lot of productions and I made a lot more money as a playwright. It no longer seems out of reach. </div><div><br /></div><div> I quit my job at Juilliard this summer, after 8 years. My wife took on a full time job making slightly more than what I was making at Juilliard. And now that we have health insurance through her, I am a full time writer, making, as a writer almost what I made 8 years ago at my day job at Juilliard. </div><div><br /></div><div>I'm making about half of that money from high school and college productions and the other half from (mostly) small theaters. The first time I had a production of one of my plays at a high school was 10 years ago. Today I have a lot more plays appropriate for high schools and some high school versions of plays that weren't initially appropriate. I'm really thrilled to have plays done at high school which was where I acquired my love of theater.</div><div><br /></div><div>As a full time playwright now, I also took over a lot of child care and home duties so my day is a lot shorter than it used to be, because I operate on the school schedule. But I'm also not trying to do 2 full time jobs at the same time.</div><div><br /></div><div>I wrote a lot this year--4 one act plays, 3 full length plays, one short film and a book about playwriting. Also working on a musical version of Marian. And I did a couple big revisions. I can't say for sure, but it may be my most productive year ever.</div><div><br /></div>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. Did a reading at Drunken Careening Writers. Made some short films about playwriting for PlayPenn. Did a podcast with Mershad Torabi at We Are Actors and a podcast with Erin Mallon at My Job Is To Play.<br /><br />This year apart from being in NYC a lot, I was at the Chance Theater in Anaheim for a reading, went camping in CT, went to Cape Cod and Delaware, spent a week in upstate NY at Theater4ThePeople's At The Barn. Went to Flux Retreat at Little Pond. Had a reading in NYC with Project Y. Zoomed with a lot of students. Visited Paris by myself. Was a guest speaker in MO at Lanford Wilson Fest. Spent time in Hoboken rehearsing for a premiere.<br /><br />Heather Cohn and I worked on my play God Splat with NYU students for four 4-hour sessions.<br /><br />I also started running 5k races. Did the first one in August of 2022 and have now run 8. I am not fast but it's good to do things you're not great at. I'm trying to get faster. Sometimes I place in my age group if not many people are running. There is a thing in CT where people try to run one race in each of the 169 towns. Don't know if I'll ever accomplish that but even running one race feels like an accomplishment right after I've run it.<div><br /></div><div>I had the most productions this year than ever before. </div><div><br /></div><div>This year, I had 79 productions of full length plays and 59 productions of one acts. There were 2 productions of nights of short plays. Almost all the one act productions are high school productions. Of the 79 full length productions, 19 were at colleges/universities, 23 at theaters and 37 at high schools.</div><div><br /></div><div>My two most produced plays by far were Kodachrome and Marian. Kodachrome one act was produced 14 times and the full length 19 times. My play Kodachrome will have its 100th production sometime next year. (In this count, I'm including productions of the one act version too.) </div><div><br /></div><div>Marian (normal and teen versions) was produced 32 times in 2023. Speaking of Marian, a cancelled production in Ft Wayne, IN made <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/05/31/marian-school-theater-lgbtq-indiana/" target="_blank">national news</a> when students decided to produce it themselves. They raised 80k to do the show for one night in a 1000 seat arena. It's possible I'm getting more productions of Marian because of this.</div><div><br /></div><div>Another play done a bit--The Bookstore was produced 12 times this year.</div><div><br /></div><div>First production of The Night Children happened this year-- they also took the play to Edinburgh.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Christmas Tree Farm premiered this December at Mile Square in NJ where my friend Kevin R. Free is the AD. Was subsequently done at Actors Bridge Ensemble in Nashville (who have done 3 other plays of mine) and by a high school in CA.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPnniFcBmA3UTNihyQZB-riZW0eHZuIG10Gjz6Oew3MxkQvOM7qrk8qdDh2Po0xV7P0kU0Ex-DHVOyWEQzhyphenhyphenmE302-3ESDlKCNxTbUpN2bHL0wvd3K-x_2zH33rv2qpbqEkCaVZBGhA_p9YfkhnAOZzKnplfOiLHjCmaD4yWJhiGf_NTQEYjrgYw/s960/411257820_10106915174546572_7434022167725710202_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="960" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPnniFcBmA3UTNihyQZB-riZW0eHZuIG10Gjz6Oew3MxkQvOM7qrk8qdDh2Po0xV7P0kU0Ex-DHVOyWEQzhyphenhyphenmE302-3ESDlKCNxTbUpN2bHL0wvd3K-x_2zH33rv2qpbqEkCaVZBGhA_p9YfkhnAOZzKnplfOiLHjCmaD4yWJhiGf_NTQEYjrgYw/w400-h266/411257820_10106915174546572_7434022167725710202_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><i><br /></i><div><i>photo by David White Studio</i></div><div><br /></div><div>Clown Bar Christmas went up for the first time at Little Theater in MN.</div><div><br /></div><div></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgj_fN4CNl9TpvTmiSohktaXRdZMO2WzJTxDFg7iF9LL4zQOB2DQuqQ8aLdRPwGkPbh1HLYVV-o1ZwvA2EDcTdZzB13124SXafi63xmR-y6XCrIXY3IxxRcQPNZCiaahT_LCHZauv6W95daHIvqMRnXQ7Y6bfK2m3S5bFej6YIvdBjYnOBNjv_BaQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1440" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgj_fN4CNl9TpvTmiSohktaXRdZMO2WzJTxDFg7iF9LL4zQOB2DQuqQ8aLdRPwGkPbh1HLYVV-o1ZwvA2EDcTdZzB13124SXafi63xmR-y6XCrIXY3IxxRcQPNZCiaahT_LCHZauv6W95daHIvqMRnXQ7Y6bfK2m3S5bFej6YIvdBjYnOBNjv_BaQ" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div>Hearts Like Planets was done at a couple of schools. I saw the one at AADA that Alberto Bonilla directed.</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhAyV0rgkPWNZ4rKFMIn5ve5ysc0wPXieBAzha0AX0ex6_N9yTaoNLDTC5FKt7cX3nmn3TgPbIXh_tRM5GsA3XATucu-hcPNPLKSqw5ksftU0_GIvlCtnoiXXBfu49vMThzGuMNN9dTSA7QLXrQGyksbplCM2jBvDfQ_lIQTPuBJ8p-z3oO4flaUg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1459" data-original-width="2048" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhAyV0rgkPWNZ4rKFMIn5ve5ysc0wPXieBAzha0AX0ex6_N9yTaoNLDTC5FKt7cX3nmn3TgPbIXh_tRM5GsA3XATucu-hcPNPLKSqw5ksftU0_GIvlCtnoiXXBfu49vMThzGuMNN9dTSA7QLXrQGyksbplCM2jBvDfQ_lIQTPuBJ8p-z3oO4flaUg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGNXVcw8CASwq1t_hWu717CZ-zRQPBf_SGrCBua3t9EkXSwU-QtFnoMwkBhLKTCKuGSvppMYdRJ8Y6Oll3Er9xygkm6mBfY1bZRUehVbhoe2lIWmAQpxseW5zNRDRWjRHsUWvMTCk6ylSRQG7sOp7Uq5fkxah5MmWz0ON_RXTzuQWwkaPRsJrWHg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1377" data-original-width="2048" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGNXVcw8CASwq1t_hWu717CZ-zRQPBf_SGrCBua3t9EkXSwU-QtFnoMwkBhLKTCKuGSvppMYdRJ8Y6Oll3Er9xygkm6mBfY1bZRUehVbhoe2lIWmAQpxseW5zNRDRWjRHsUWvMTCk6ylSRQG7sOp7Uq5fkxah5MmWz0ON_RXTzuQWwkaPRsJrWHg=w400-h269" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgJxiq4CIC_B7jjWSJYF53il3Cv9sLwOP0fOcL1wxiXx3Ddh8TafP79j0JBqC4uQtU4IZ6xpuJzBUv6jRLChh_z9fnsthKYcsKm9bs_fNT9r4jc4oDZmjwusWIa7U9wzy8VftMepAgkxDAztwYNZ7g4z4gSHf36xi9V2Eo2phpfVYN_fzQ-R9m6Ow" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1413" data-original-width="2048" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgJxiq4CIC_B7jjWSJYF53il3Cv9sLwOP0fOcL1wxiXx3Ddh8TafP79j0JBqC4uQtU4IZ6xpuJzBUv6jRLChh_z9fnsthKYcsKm9bs_fNT9r4jc4oDZmjwusWIa7U9wzy8VftMepAgkxDAztwYNZ7g4z4gSHf36xi9V2Eo2phpfVYN_fzQ-R9m6Ow" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><br />Also of note, Nerve was done in Mexico in Spanish. Clown Bar was done in Türkiye again. Marian had an English production and a couple Canadian productions. Kodachrome was done in England and The Bookstore was done in Canada. Ubu maybe happened in Australia.</div><div><br /></div><div>I have a lot of full length plays that had one or two productions this year.</div><div><br /></div><div>Publications this year included my book of monologues, Small Explosions from Applause, 100 Things I Never Said To You/100 Love Letters I Never Sent from Concord, When Jack Met Jill and Heart of Snow from Stage Partners, and The Wooden Heart from Theatrical Rights Worldwide.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnrNouLA1AOAH8k5Wd3iHsggZAdTT1yLL3qc0Bj6t2vw5wotqSXWApM0jRPfLnibgME0kbkjY2ySjicFdWwKEFqX_bBei8TdcKqUraXG2Pv7cRS1It6m5TD-OEx8MuZ4Rq88mZXT_OLpTKnVxhVGBYmYGSgGCphOKJgTwM56PxSDmBZ6fUl0Dp_g/s960/409717749_10106903897915032_3928213002938860479_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="504" data-original-width="960" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnrNouLA1AOAH8k5Wd3iHsggZAdTT1yLL3qc0Bj6t2vw5wotqSXWApM0jRPfLnibgME0kbkjY2ySjicFdWwKEFqX_bBei8TdcKqUraXG2Pv7cRS1It6m5TD-OEx8MuZ4Rq88mZXT_OLpTKnVxhVGBYmYGSgGCphOKJgTwM56PxSDmBZ6fUl0Dp_g/w400-h210/409717749_10106903897915032_3928213002938860479_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Next year, look for my book about playwriting from Applause and hopefully some more plays. So far, 27 productions of full lengths slated for 2024 and at least one production slated for 2025.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Love to you and yours. Here are my previous years in review.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://aszym.blogspot.com/2022/12/my-2022-in-review.html">2022</a></div><div><a href="https://aszym.blogspot.com/2021/12/my-2021-year-in-review.html" target="_blank">2021</a></div><a href="https://aszym.blogspot.com/2020/12/my-2020-in-review.html">2020 </a><div><a href="https://aszym.blogspot.com/2019/12/year-in-review.html">2019</a></div><div><a href="https://aszym.blogspot.com/2018/12/my-2018-in-review.html">2018</a><br /><a href="https://aszym.blogspot.com/2017/12/my-2017-year-in-review.html">2017</a><br /><a href="http://aszym.blogspot.com/2016/12/my-2016-in-review.html">2016</a><br /><a href="http://aszym.blogspot.com/2015/12/my-2015-in-review.html">2015</a><br /><a href="http://aszym.blogspot.com/2014/12/my-2014-in-review.html">2014</a><br /><a href="http://aszym.blogspot.com/2013/12/my-2013-in-review.html">2013</a><br /><a href="http://aszym.blogspot.com/2012/12/my-2012-in-review.html">2012</a><br /><a href="http://aszym.blogspot.com/2011/12/my-2011-in-review.html">2011</a><br /><a href="http://aszym.blogspot.com/2010/12/my-2010-in-review.html">2010</a><br /><a href="http://aszym.blogspot.com/2009/12/my-2009-in-review.html">2009</a><br /><a href="http://aszym.blogspot.com/2008/12/2008-in-review.html">2008</a><br /><a href="http://aszym.blogspot.com/2008/01/in-2007.html">2007</a></div></div><div><br />
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Adam Szymkowiczhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10195622524268234675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11673928.post-57675112425748540322023-09-11T09:23:00.002-04:002023-09-11T09:23:14.138-04:00I Interview Playwrights Part 1117: Paola Alexandra Soto<div class="separator" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLWQZZovTs90l1Y8pxCiGXdJZcYN5WGtJZa8CU8umVh_iKiU42f5jsxt9PAwBp58Grt9330NmmLrkATMn_sHPGlxiTy-ypnbqUjptXuQIiQqJtu1pFBGpRMNGxYGQBILzhGy0aIeKK6C9Ss-fttIKNrTQwFED7vSV80uEVPvklX6IL8yP8nVriig/s800/Paola%20Alexandra%20Soto%20Headshot%20%C2%A9Gregory%20Costanzo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="640" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLWQZZovTs90l1Y8pxCiGXdJZcYN5WGtJZa8CU8umVh_iKiU42f5jsxt9PAwBp58Grt9330NmmLrkATMn_sHPGlxiTy-ypnbqUjptXuQIiQqJtu1pFBGpRMNGxYGQBILzhGy0aIeKK6C9Ss-fttIKNrTQwFED7vSV80uEVPvklX6IL8yP8nVriig/w320-h400/Paola%20Alexandra%20Soto%20Headshot%20%C2%A9Gregory%20Costanzo.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <br /><br />Paola Alexandra Soto<br /><br /><br />Hometown: <br /><br />I was born in and grew up in an impoverished community in Santo Domingo the capital of the Dominican Republic. Although at the time I did not realize how poverty stricken the community I lived in was because my family gave me all that I needed. Though I must admit that recently I have become preoccupied with how I was potty trained when the shack I lived in had no indoor plumbing and only had access to one dilapidated wooden outhouse that we shared with another dozen or so families. This was in the 80s and 90s when the internet existed. <br /><br /><br />Current Town: <br /><br />When I was about seven years old my mother brought me to the US. When I arrived and saw the NYC skyline I thought this was a land of giants. We settled us down in Harlem, which is one of the best choices that she could have made. If for no other reason than within walking distance I had access to both a large Dominican population a few blocks north in Washington Heights. I was also within walking distance of 125th street and access to one of the most beautiful and historic neighborhoods in the city. Filled with people that looked just like me but spoke a different language, but once I learned English, as they say, “it was on, like Donkey Kong”.<br /><br /><br />Q: What are you working on now?<br /><br />A: Right now I’m working on what I hope will be my first full length play, La Sosa Sisters, which was a semifinalist for the National Black Theatre Playwriting Fellowship. It is a play about two sisters who are mourning the death of their mother. In the process of burying they uncover the secrets that their mother had been keeping from them. The play is about how death changes a person and transforms relationships. I am currently in the middle of rewrites. Every time I think that I know where the play is going I am surprised by a new turn, a new development that leads down a completely different path. I find myself in this state of start/stop, with the whiplash effect of when one is learning to drive a car. The more I write the less I know. As much as I love playwriting I am in that stretch of time where I’m struggling as a playwright. After spending so much time and money it seems that all that I learned is that I have so much to figure out. The irony of this paradox is not lost on me. <br /><br />It seems that for many the pandemic was inspirational and they were able to start and finish projects with ease. For me I found it to be incredibly harmful to my process. Playwriting is an isolating endeavor but COVID-19 really took it to another level. A very sad and depressing level.<br /><br />I think that finally I’ve cracked the structure of the play and now have the difficult work of figuring out the new flow of the story. The play is about two sisters who have lost their mother to cancer and unearth the secrets that their mother hid while in the process of burying her. <br /><br />Q: Tell me, if you will, a story from your childhood that explains who you are as a writer or as a person.<br /><br />A: When I was a toddler, my mother left me in the Dominican Republic while she came to New York City in the hopes of finding employment. Before she left I remember we were in one of the rooms in my aunt’s two room concrete shack, it was a sunny day, with the sun’s rays bouncing off the aqua blue walls. My aunt was painting my nails to distract me as my mom left for the airport. One minute I was with my mother trying to paint her nails, and the next minute she was gone. I didn’t see her for another three years. The loss and pain I felt when I realized that she wasn’t coming back, the thought that I would never see her again, I broke down, I started crying and in a way, it’s like I never stopped. I think in a way that experience has defined both my way of being in this world and the work that I do. That’s why I’m fascinated with telling stories about the mother and daughter dynamic. <br /><br />Q: If you could change one thing about theater, what would it be?<br /><br />A: Theater is a healing process, or at least for me when it’s done well the experience can be cathartic. It’s a space that has great potential to help entire groups and communities heal. More and more theater is starting to feel like a commodity as its primary function rather than the artistic journey that it is. It feels more and more like a product instead of the communal process that it is. I think it’s time to decolonize theater. Time to center the artists, workers, and audience. To create a more holistic path it is essential and timely to engage with indigenous and BIPOC communities. Who better to address theater’s flaws, than those that have been overlooked and ignored for far too long. <br /><br />Q: Who are or were your theatrical heroes?<br /><br />A: There’s so many people that I can list that I look up to and have loved their theatrical career Lynn Nottage, August Wilson, David Henry Hwang, Chuck Mee, Lorraine Hansbury, Carmen Rivera, Joe Papp, James Houghton, Paula Vogel, Katori Hall, Emilio Sosa, Danny Hoch, Kamilah Forbes, and Maria Irene Fornes. I know there’s so many that I’m forgetting.<br /><br /><br />Q: What kind of theater excites you?<br /><br />A: For me the most exciting theater is when it’s a small intimate space and it’s really about the story that the characters are telling. Of course a reveal or theatrical revelation is always so much fun. I think one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a long time was the theatrical effects in Fat Ham. A great song and dance is pure joy and a great fight or physical sequence is truly exciting. One of my favorite part of watching a play is sitting in a dark room. There's a surprising moment where folks gasp, or laugh, or when we applaud after a particularly wonderful section that communal experience is the reason I go to see plays. Flex is a great example, there are moments where I’m not sure if I was watching a play or a basketball game. <br /><br />Q: What advice do you have for playwrights just starting out?<br /><br />A: I would say the same thing that my mentors and professors told me: go to see and read plays to really get an understanding of the work that is being done and the legacy that you’re inheriting as a theater maker. Go to the theater in your community or the one that you love and find a way to work there. This is also a great way to get to see plays. Make sure to take care of your physical and mental health. <br /><br />Q: Plugs, please:<br /><br />A: On September 15, 2023 I will have a reading of my play La Sosa Sisters at the NoMAA Studies located in the United Palace in Washington Heights. I am one of <a href="https://www.oyegroup.org/" target="_blank">Oye Group</a>’s Resident Artists for 2023-2024 where I will be developing two of my plays, Lucha Libre and D’Carnaval.<div><br /></div><div><br /><div><br /><div>
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</div></div>Adam Szymkowiczhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10195622524268234675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11673928.post-28003601077846545292022-12-28T21:01:00.005-05:002022-12-29T09:02:45.759-05:00My 2022 in Review<div>Hi everyone! Happy New Year or soon to be New Year! Here is the photo we take in front of my parents' tree every year.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmFG_f0GzZdO11ibzQJwD2rs2rlhV9uNUsz9SoFyK-wcjUcvVZSoPI_yxZlPCjYQXrcJuuCEsTiEGGXZlDf5ULbkCl8volNYQKDbWdXNGLGNIjtVOTvnW_uCnP8w2bszfWzeu4JHFuLM-2bAiFX-sprCVJS_TXg4fhhq0Hpkt6wYYY27FLBf8/s2048/320694372_903862984301751_9185344209426308294_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmFG_f0GzZdO11ibzQJwD2rs2rlhV9uNUsz9SoFyK-wcjUcvVZSoPI_yxZlPCjYQXrcJuuCEsTiEGGXZlDf5ULbkCl8volNYQKDbWdXNGLGNIjtVOTvnW_uCnP8w2bszfWzeu4JHFuLM-2bAiFX-sprCVJS_TXg4fhhq0Hpkt6wYYY27FLBf8/s320/320694372_903862984301751_9185344209426308294_n.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>This year marked the first time I was back in a room with actors again. I didn't realize I think how much I missed it until it was happening. We shot a short film at Juilliard at the beginning of the year. I got to work with a great group of 4th year actors and my friend director Michelle Bossy. Excited for you to see it eventually. Here is the trailer.<div><br /><div><br />
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</div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><br /></div><div>This year we went camping twice, visited VA and Cape Cod both twice. I was in Los Angeles for a week for meetings. I was in Vegas for a week for the premiere of Clown Bar 2, a commission from Majestic Rep that was supposed to go up 2 years ago. It was a lot of fun and I'm super proud of the production and of the play.<div><br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC2wZlkiAeoOBUGyUOlZkuo0O0M2gVl8Uxtgs9N-1U29J8sLvaMxhpby7mdYzLhR7LZHA-rrovF8GdLi-150gvv_038tV-Pt6S9ENixrQIWVmg4qQCVnpZUxqsAxOomfVc_aOt4HT4F-bUovh_WNHDsclNiHJI7Kyuouu7CO7nrLHpf9NwPlo/s2048/281287418_10106238601858662_2556941181338038133_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC2wZlkiAeoOBUGyUOlZkuo0O0M2gVl8Uxtgs9N-1U29J8sLvaMxhpby7mdYzLhR7LZHA-rrovF8GdLi-150gvv_038tV-Pt6S9ENixrQIWVmg4qQCVnpZUxqsAxOomfVc_aOt4HT4F-bUovh_WNHDsclNiHJI7Kyuouu7CO7nrLHpf9NwPlo/s320/281287418_10106238601858662_2556941181338038133_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /><div><br /></div><div>I was also in the Bay Area for a silent writing retreat with Erik Ehn for a week. During that week, I wrote about half of my output for the year. Those retreats really work for me. Every day was like half a month of normal writing time.</div><div> <br />Writingwise in 2022, I wrote 30 short monologues for a book coming out next year. I wrote an hour long pilot, a 15 minute podcast pilot, three full length plays, most of a feature screenplay and one one-act play. I also did quite a bit of revising.</div><div><br /></div><div>I was in a writing group for parents, a writing group with friends and took part in Flux's core work.<br /><div><div><br /></div><div>I did only 10 interviews this year. I'm kind of semi-retired now at the interview thing. I used to do 100 a year.</div><div><br /></div><div>I counted how many books I read this year. 50. I didn't count how many plays I read for my job but it was probably more than 100.</div><div><br />Four plays of mine hit their 50th production this year: Clown Bar (2011), Hearts Like Fists (2012), Kodachrome (2018) and Marian (2017).<br /><br />Marian had 20 productions this year and Kodachrome had 25, which were both records for me. The most I ever had of a full length in a single year was 14 of Kodachrome last year.<br /><br />This year I had a record shattering 6 plays published with 4 more coming next year.<br /><br />From Sam French/Concord,<br />One Act version of Kodachrome<br />Clown Bar 2<br />UPCOMING: 100 Things I Never Said To You/100 Love Letters I Never Sent<br /><br />From Stage Partners, <br />Old Fashioned Cold Fusion<br />UPCOMING: When Jack Met Jill<br />Heart of Snow<br /><br />From Broadway Play Publishing Inc,<br />Stockholm Syndrome<br /><br />From Theatrical Rights Worldwide,<br />UPCOMING: The Wooden Heart<br /><br />From playscripts,<br />The Bookstore<br />The Night Children<br /><br /><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_vVdJdThP0dCMd7Km97hYS_iv-4LWE-POvV0nukqK3IDS2weQEGXUl7hizAwXlMD7pQZmQC9nTRKEWa15RUPQxOkIIM4NkzH28cWUNuUX5j5VvQyHrznL4qUmCbrOw4knpJWUvrEazL22XNRTg36VYXsIpa8VZm8mP7LNWs_WO2y3CXo6g_g/s1449/316261044_10106515481305032_8355441499342828002_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1449" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_vVdJdThP0dCMd7Km97hYS_iv-4LWE-POvV0nukqK3IDS2weQEGXUl7hizAwXlMD7pQZmQC9nTRKEWa15RUPQxOkIIM4NkzH28cWUNuUX5j5VvQyHrznL4qUmCbrOw4knpJWUvrEazL22XNRTg36VYXsIpa8VZm8mP7LNWs_WO2y3CXo6g_g/w400-h265/316261044_10106515481305032_8355441499342828002_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br />Next year, my monologue book comes out from Applause, Small Explosions, containing 90ish never before seen 1-2 minute monologues.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht8HBDGgWNDKSRMnjYeFJZMZbVCnnBmdx7N_ALEpEtK_i3AJheHqPWCOzHBqMJCC3zJ_lKFXj1qIqJ18bPoFUrMcx5YChIxugQNvnPCboK1yYol7TkOXiqCIj7ndaYIwAnMq78yKagIauulTc1NSDRkQFk3s8gconn5cEwocyGgoklA9mTiM0/s504/9781493071371%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="504" data-original-width="315" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht8HBDGgWNDKSRMnjYeFJZMZbVCnnBmdx7N_ALEpEtK_i3AJheHqPWCOzHBqMJCC3zJ_lKFXj1qIqJ18bPoFUrMcx5YChIxugQNvnPCboK1yYol7TkOXiqCIj7ndaYIwAnMq78yKagIauulTc1NSDRkQFk3s8gconn5cEwocyGgoklA9mTiM0/s320/9781493071371%20(1).jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div><br /><br />This year I had 67ish productions of full lengths. (20 more than my best year) Caveats— Some of them were probably one act versions of Kodachrome but I'm not sure how many. An overwhelming amount of these 67 productions were high schools and college productions with some notable exceptions. Only 12 were not done at schools. (This is, I think still a lot about the pandemic. Lots of small theaters are just now starting to do work again.) In terms of foreign productions, Kodachrome was done in England. Clown Bar was done in Turkey and at a university in Ireland. Marian was done in Wales, England, and Switzerland and also in Germany, in German at a 1000 seat outdoor venue. </div></div><div><br /></div><div>Including productions of one-act plays, I had just over 100 productions this year. Now I don't know exactly what the money is I'll make for all that because it sometimes takes six months to get paid but probably it's somewhere around what I made this year which is still far from making a living at this. I would venture to say a modest living would be 2 to 3 times what I make now. (So I really want to have 200-300 productions. Or even more than that if so many of them continue to be school shows where, if they only do one or two performances, I often make under 100 dollars per production.)<div><br /></div>I started writing plays in 1997, the summer after my sophomore year of college. And that was 25 years ago. I have written at least one play but often two or three every year for 25 years. <br /> <br /> And I’m doing really well in a lot of ways, but I’m not making a living. Would I be making a living if we weren’t still in a pandemic? Probably not. Definitely not a consistent living. I really thought after doing this for this long I'd have more movement in that way but I can never quite make the math work. On the upside, this was still a good year for me in a lot of ways.<div><br /></div><div>Love to you and yours. Here are my previous years in review.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://aszym.blogspot.com/2021/12/my-2021-year-in-review.html" target="_blank">2021</a></div><a href="https://aszym.blogspot.com/2020/12/my-2020-in-review.html">2020 </a><div><a href="https://aszym.blogspot.com/2019/12/year-in-review.html">2019</a></div><div><a href="https://aszym.blogspot.com/2018/12/my-2018-in-review.html">2018</a><br /><a href="https://aszym.blogspot.com/2017/12/my-2017-year-in-review.html">2017</a><br /><a href="http://aszym.blogspot.com/2016/12/my-2016-in-review.html">2016</a><br /><a href="http://aszym.blogspot.com/2015/12/my-2015-in-review.html">2015</a><br /><a href="http://aszym.blogspot.com/2014/12/my-2014-in-review.html">2014</a><br /><a href="http://aszym.blogspot.com/2013/12/my-2013-in-review.html">2013</a><br /><a href="http://aszym.blogspot.com/2012/12/my-2012-in-review.html">2012</a><br /><a href="http://aszym.blogspot.com/2011/12/my-2011-in-review.html">2011</a><br /><a href="http://aszym.blogspot.com/2010/12/my-2010-in-review.html">2010</a><br /><a href="http://aszym.blogspot.com/2009/12/my-2009-in-review.html">2009</a><br /><a href="http://aszym.blogspot.com/2008/12/2008-in-review.html">2008</a><br /><a href="http://aszym.blogspot.com/2008/01/in-2007.html">2007</a></div></div>
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Rosenblatt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo1doEo-5ZM_-AJPQNeBjB0gJCA4IfDcSIGdVxRlOvCWqRVdWcV5SQf--NySheZuZrEmJ__wC5zu57kmyM-Y8Mxqy0RBT4gTiLNjI7IBnAChpMQ_ti9L1sOgQ7kRqkKcgAXp6IlweyECZoxAmFCoS3If-akXAzGlBVroXM55Lp1Tok32ELBL0/s3255/cropped.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3102" data-original-width="3255" height="381" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo1doEo-5ZM_-AJPQNeBjB0gJCA4IfDcSIGdVxRlOvCWqRVdWcV5SQf--NySheZuZrEmJ__wC5zu57kmyM-Y8Mxqy0RBT4gTiLNjI7IBnAChpMQ_ti9L1sOgQ7kRqkKcgAXp6IlweyECZoxAmFCoS3If-akXAzGlBVroXM55Lp1Tok32ELBL0/w400-h381/cropped.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>Photo Credit:Seina Shirakura Photography</i></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>Julia B. Rosenblatt<br /><br /><br />Hometown: Hartford, CT<br /><br />Current Town: Back in Hartford!<br /><br />Q: Tell me about Can't Make This Sh*t Up<br /><br /><br />A: About two months ago Tjasa Ferme introduced me to Transforma Theatre and The Science in Theater Festival. While I believe in science thoroughly, (which is actually something one has to make explicit these days), I am terrifyingly intimidated by the subject. My freeze response kicks in and I assume I am incapable of understanding any of it. So when Tjasa said she needed a play about an eco-toilet connected to a laboratory that uses excrement to produce biogas, my head started spinning. <br /><br /><br />Jaewon Cho's BeeVi toilet is nothing short of mind blowing. And yet it makes so much sense, I can only assume the reason we haven't heard more about it, is that it involves acknowledging what the great children's author, Taro Gomi, has been telling us for decades: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everyone_Poops">everyone poops</a>. As we get closer to the point irreversible climate change, it's clearly time we get over ourselves and insist on sustainable forms of energy, no matter what (or whom) it comes from. Can't Make This Sh*t Up, is loosely based on my home, a small urban commune once known as <a href="https://www.courant.com/community/hartford/hc-hartford-scarborough11-withdrawal-1028-20161027-story.html">the Scarborough 11.</a> The play imagines the year is 2030. After yet another devastating natural disaster has wiped out the city's plumbing and sewage system, we decide to build a Biological Anaerobic Digestion System in our backyard. Our NIMBY neighbors go nuts, and drag us before the zoning commission, bringing national attention to our family once again. It's a comedy. <br /><br /><br />Q: What else are you working on now? <div><br /></div><div>A: Group! (lyrics by Eloise Govedare, music by Aleksandra Weil) is a musical that follows six women through intensive outpatient therapy for drug and alcohol addiction. The show has had two workshops and a brief run at <a href="https://www.passagetheatre.org/">Passage Theatre</a> in New Jersey. We are now in the process of rewrites, and looking for the next development opportunity. <br /><br /><br />Q: Tell me, if you will, a story from your childhood that explains who you are as a writer or as a<br />person. <br /><br /></div><div>A: Like many other playwrights, I have been "devising theater" in my parents' basement since I was in elementary school. I spent hours creating and rehearsing epic plays and musicals with anyone who was willing (most often my younger sister). I am eternally grateful to my parents, older sisters, aunts and uncles for sitting through our "performances."<br /><br /><br />Q: If you could change one thing about theater, what would it be? </div><div><br /></div><div>A: Purpose and access. Theater is essential to the human condition. It should not be something that is elite or reserved for specific times and places. Theater should be made and enjoyed by whomever chooses to do so. <br /><br /><br />Q: Who are or were your theatrical heroes? </div><div><br /></div><div>A: August Boal's Theater of the Oppressed changed my life. It set me on a path that I have rarely veered from in the last 30 years. As far as current playwrights, I fall in love with everything Lynn Nottage creates. <br /><br /><br />Q: What kind of theater excites you? </div><div><br /></div><div>A: Real, complex stories that use humor to challenge the status quo and demand systemic change. <br /><br /><br />Q: What advice do you have for playwrights just starting out? </div><div><br /></div><div>A: Oof, this is a hard one because every day I feel like I'm "just starting out." I guess I would say write with passion and seek feedback with humility. We should always be learning. <br /><br /><br />Q: Plugs, please: <br /><br /></div><div>A: Well of course coming up, <a href="https://www.transformatheatre.com/science-festival-2022">Science in Theater Festival</a>.<br />I am a co-founder and ensemble member of <a href="https://www.hartbeatensemble.org/">HartBeat Ensemble</a>.<br />Check out the professionally immersive theater training program at <a href="https://www.instagram.com/ccc_theatrearts/">Capital Community College</a>!</div><div><br /></div><div><br />
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</div>Adam Szymkowiczhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10195622524268234675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11673928.post-56666376774947956372022-11-15T11:26:00.002-05:002022-11-15T11:27:45.417-05:00I Interview Playwrights Part 1115: TyLie Shider<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggdnfpDEvCfrKCBmYKlp2y1chciWfKW7vVpH7VdDXspPvkh1lrHEYpO38VrIyKvqVFt8eaUPPbv6qA1vSrVJYAdJWukGc0OqNHSFkyafiDCLbT85EJebskWj4L3VNShtApsB7c1IvBX2bmASKcq7I_Ql9CeEE0vipAf1bKB_SkiRWXV3Z8fRI/s1030/tylie_headshot_2022_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1030" data-original-width="686" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggdnfpDEvCfrKCBmYKlp2y1chciWfKW7vVpH7VdDXspPvkh1lrHEYpO38VrIyKvqVFt8eaUPPbv6qA1vSrVJYAdJWukGc0OqNHSFkyafiDCLbT85EJebskWj4L3VNShtApsB7c1IvBX2bmASKcq7I_Ql9CeEE0vipAf1bKB_SkiRWXV3Z8fRI/w266-h400/tylie_headshot_2022_.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>TyLie Shider<div><br /></div><div><br />Hometown: Plainfield, New Jersey<br /><br /></div><div>Current Town: Minneapolis, Minnesota</div><div><br />Q: Tell me about <a href="https://www.nationalblacktheatre.org/the-gospel-woman">The Gospel Woman</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>A: <i>The Gospel Woman</i> is a traditional American family drama set in a 1970’s Baptist church. It’s a kind of tribute play that I built around a gospel record my mother recorded when she was a teenager. Lastly, it’s the 2nd installment in my “Mom & Pop plays,” which are a set of companion plays that I wrote based on the original music my parents recorded growing up. I wanted to concretize and honor their ambition, because their ambition led to my professional ambition. My father is a guitarist and singer, and my mother is a gospel singer. They are both songwriters. And I started writing creatively by watching them work and imitating them. The plays are set 5 years apart, and set against the backdrop of transformative moments in American history. The first installment, <i>Certain Aspects of Conflict in the Negro Family</i>, is set in the “long hot summer of 1967” when uprisings broke out across the country. And the second play, <i>The Gospel Woman</i> (NBT), is set in 1972, and it explores what happened to my hometown, Plainfield, NJ, after the riots. Both of the plays are family dramas that center two very different families in the same city. However, I call the plays “Rehearsal Dramas” because I grew up in recording studios and backstage at my parents’ concerts, and the rehearsal atmosphere is the soundtrack to my childhood.</div><div><br /></div><div><br />Q: What else are you working on now? </div><div><br /></div><div>A: The next play I am working on is called <a href="https://extendedplay.thecivilians.org/tylie-shider-nick-clausen/">Whittier</a>. It’s a contemporary docudrama I am developing at the Playwrights’ Center based on interviews I conducted during the 2020 uprisings in my neighborhood in Whittier, Minneapolis. </div><div><br /></div><div>Q: Tell me, if you will, a story from your childhood that explains who you are as a writer or as a<br />person. </div><div><br /></div><div>A: I was always interested in writing down the stories around me. My mother owned a hair salon when I was growing up, and she gave me an opportunity to create a “newsstand” in her salon where I would sell newsletters I had written on saturdays. The newsletters were basically comic strips which featured adaptations of her clients' conversations.</div><div><br />Q: If you could change one thing about theater, what would it be? </div><div><br /></div><div>A: I’d like to see more revivals of American classics. I was very excited to see Alice Childress’ Trouble in Mind on Broadway! </div><div><br /></div><div>Q: Who are or were your theatrical heroes? </div><div><br /></div><div>A: August Wilson is one of my literary heroes. Also I had an opportunity to study with in graduate school at Tisch, Anna Deavere Smith and her course really validated my investigative esthetic.<br /><br /></div><div>Q: What kind of theater excites you? </div><div><br /></div><div>A: Quarantine deepened my appreciation for live theater. It’s become a privilege to congregate with people in the same room. Therefore, any opportunity to see live theater outside of the “metaverse” excites me.<br /><br /></div><div>Q: What advice do you have for playwrights just starting out? </div><div><br /></div><div>A: I think writers should study the biography and careers of other writers.</div><div><br />Q: Plugs, please: My play <a href="https://pwcenter.org/event/whittier">Whittier</a> is part of the Playwrights’ Centers’ public season next month.<br />Check it out in person or online.</div><div><br />A: In person: Monday, December 5, and Tuesday, December 6 at 7:00 p.m. Available online:<br />Thursday, December 15 – Wednesday, Dec 21, 2022 <div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />
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For anyone who has forgotten what happened in October of 2017, a lot of women came forward in the news with histories of sexual abuse, and the world questioned their veracity. <br /><br />I like to write fast, especially hard material, and then revise slowly. I think it's important to get to the end of the arc and then figure out what's missing. It feels more honest, unconscious and unplanned. The prompt was "Self as Villain, No 4th Wall." Most of the play just fell into my head the minute I opened the prompt on October 31st. The first reading was November 9th at the Dramatists Guild Foundation with the 29th Street Playwrights Collective. I was afraid if I didn't get it into the world in front of some colleagues, I would hide it away forever. <br /><br />FUKT is a dark comedy about my own personal journey healing from traumatic memories. It's meta and immersive. It sits between Slave Play and What the Constitution... I developed it with New Circle Theatre Co and Dixon Place. I appreciate all the love it gets on NPX. FUKT was a finalist with BAPF and Unicorn. I'm producing it at The Tank in NYC this fall. It will live-stream and be live in person. So anyone can have access. October 27 - November 13th. <br /><br />Q: What else are you working on now?<br /><br /><div>A: I'm working on a commission from Experimental Bitch about the history of medical misogyny. Tanya's Lit Clit is a phantasmagorical musical - a comedy with ballet and burlesque - about autoimmune disease and how women, especially Black women, are mistrusted by the medical establishment. I'm also working with EmptyRoomRadio.com on Tamar (The Two-Gated City) about raper culture in the Bible, in particular about a woman who isn't heard in court. <br /><br />Q: Tell me, if you will, a story from your childhood that explains who you are as a writer or as a person.<br /><br /></div><div>A: I fell in love with theatre early. As an abused autistic child with chronic illness, I took everything literally. So when I saw TinkerBell healed from collective applause, I realized, and fully believed, and still believe today, that theatre holds a kind of magic that gives audiences agency to create our own transformations. I had to find a way to do that. <br /><br />Q: If you could change one thing about theater, what would it be?<br /><br /></div><div>A: Access! Who gets to tell the stories that create the culture we live in? Who gets to decide who gets to tell these stories? I am part of a lost generation of women who are never taken seriously by the gatekeepers. Lit managers look right past me. It's extremely disheartening. I'm a member of the advocacy organization Honor Roll! to try to change how older female artists are seen. If a theatre takes public funds, it should have a mandate to represent the lived experiences of its public. Why must we watch the same revivals over and over again? How does that provoke change? <br /><br />Q: Who are or were your theatrical heroes? </div><div><br /></div><div>A: too many<br /><br />Q: What kind of theater excites you? <br /><br /></div><div>A: I love theatre that is conscious of its audience. We have enough walls and screens between us.<br /><br />Q: What advice do you have for playwrights just starting out?<br /><br /></div><div>A: Find a supportive community! 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<span style="font-size: medium;"><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>I tried writing some new things the last couple of years. The jury is still out on what will happen to the YA novels I wrote. But another thing I tried was writing new monologues. For about three months last summer I wrote a monologue most days in the morning. <br /><br /><br />Most of my plays have monologues in them and there has been a steep uptick in the past five years in the number of actors doing my monologues in auditions and acting classes. <br /><br /><br /> I thought I would lean into it and put even more monologues in the world. So I wrote these 60 monologues and I sent it to applause and they liked it and asked me to write some more. And I did. So now there are 90 or so monologues collected in a <a href="http://www.applausebooks.com/books/9781493071371?fbclid=IwAR0FQv40b3RuFQjnpmuG8jkeflWSf3yT2BLrwZwQIy4_ajhQ_IRYV-ms9i0">book coming out in early 2023</a>.<br /><br /><br />And it is now <a href="http://www.applausebooks.com/books/9781493071371?fbclid=IwAR0FQv40b3RuFQjnpmuG8jkeflWSf3yT2BLrwZwQIy4_ajhQ_IRYV-ms9i0">available for preorder</a>. So maybe you know an actor or an acting teacher who would like it. Maybe you could ask your local library for it. Maybe you could buy a bunch of copies and donate them to a theater program. <br /><br /><br />Anyway, pitch over. I'm super happy about this and proud of it and glad it worked out. If applause said no, there aren't a lot of other publishers of monologues, so I'm feeling very lucky. And I'm sure this isn't a moneymaking endeavor. It's the theater person's version of writing a bunch of poems. So more than anything it feels like I wrote this gift for you. (Although the book does cost money.) But I think you'll like it. And I love the cover.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div></div>
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</div>Adam Szymkowiczhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10195622524268234675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11673928.post-48646401835316385822022-07-07T09:23:00.001-04:002022-07-07T09:23:06.505-04:00I Interview Playwrights Part 1113: Isaac Byrne<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0p5ogENmN63nkDuLXPZT9wiqMFUlVvmeJv1M8E4iYHPZj4gHles4pYLEdj-jNQdTYdJY3Egm4EoTc-8xAsBsEguqttkKMJGwLtJ7T69vCCsgD30CaHxXkaRjAd32jUnQPcfXkQUn5kEesZF_5gHIquonhRZhSZH5kEo_eXMK3aqdGoM4j47M/s2160/unnamed.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="1632" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0p5ogENmN63nkDuLXPZT9wiqMFUlVvmeJv1M8E4iYHPZj4gHles4pYLEdj-jNQdTYdJY3Egm4EoTc-8xAsBsEguqttkKMJGwLtJ7T69vCCsgD30CaHxXkaRjAd32jUnQPcfXkQUn5kEesZF_5gHIquonhRZhSZH5kEo_eXMK3aqdGoM4j47M/w303-h400/unnamed.jpeg" width="303" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>
<div><br /></div>Isaac Byrne<br /><br />Hometown:<br /><br />Oh, I grew up moving constantly. If you get count all the times I lived with extended family, I think I moved about 21 times by the time I was 18. I was born in Riverton Wyoming, but I grew up mostly in Louisiana and Texas. If I had to pick a “hometown” it would probably be Austin, Texas. Good music, easy vibes, and great breakfast tacos. <br /><br />Current Town:<br /><br />I live up in Holmes NY, but I’m in NYC constantly. <br /><br /><br />Q: What are you working on now?<br /><br />A: Too many things! <br /><br />I’m in the middle of directing Under the Dragon’s Tail, four short plays written by….me! It’s terrifying and exhilarating to be putting myself out there like this. I’ve been developing new plays for almost 20 years now as a director, but this step feels like skydiving into the abyss. I wrote these plays in Erika Phoebus’ playwriting class (it’s incredible!) as a series of exercises in between working on full length plays. As I worked on each of them, I started to realize I was writing about the grief, loss, and the absolute comic absurdity of the last 4 years of my life. What started as unrelated little scenes grew into these interrelated, funny, and frequently scary examinations of mental health and emotional coping mechanisms in extreme circumstances—both physically and emotionally.<br /><br />I’m rewriting my first full length play, Outlaw Wedding, which was inspired by my mother’s illegal lesbian wedding in Texas eleven years ago, which had drag queens, Muslims, and some local religious and police interference. That play used to feel like a bit of a period piece, and I’m sad to say it’s starting to feel unsettlingly timely again.<br /><br />I’m also finishing up the first draft of a wild fever dream comedy about a group of actors trying to rehearse Miss Julie and Doll’s House over and over again—Think a satirical 15 Minute Hamlet/Noises Off that explodes into a haunted house of misogyny, revenge, and buried ghosts. <br /><br />Q: Tell me, if you will, a story from your childhood that explains who you are as a writer or as a person.<br /><br />A: When I was 7 years old, I convinced a group of would be bullies to leave me alone because “I knew karate!” I scared them off, and they left me alone. I didn’t know karate, but I had watched Karate Kid a lot. I guess I was pretty convincing. They were the tough older kids, and they harassed everyone in the neighborhood. But they left me alone after that. That was when I realized that sometimes a make believe story could save your life.<br /><br />Q: If you could change one thing about theater, what would it be?<br /><br />A: Oh, so many things should be changed. Stop making artists jump through so many hoops just to work. Someone who writes a great artist statement, isn’t necessarily the best playwright. Look past the “best schools” and look at the actual artist. I’m so sick of classist gatekeeping. I guess that’s the main thing for me. I didn’t come from a well to do family. I didn’t go to an Ivy League school. There’s a lot of long overdue upheaval and shift today towards a more diverse group of theatre artists, and I am all for it. But I still don’t see economic class being part of that change. We need to shift how theatre gets made, and make sure it’s not just a new different looking group of trust fund kids that get to make theatre.<br /><br />Q: Who are or were your theatrical heroes?<br /><br />A: I love Lanford Wilson and Marshall Mason. I got to meet both of them. 16 years ago, I stood outside of Phebe’s with Lanford and talked theatre with him for hours one night while he bummed cigarettes off of me and told stories about Cafe Cino. It was amazing. Right now, Jackie Sibblies Drury is writing on another level. Every play she writes blows my mind a little. I love Anne Washburn’s weird strange plays, they’re so deeply satisfyingly…unsatisfying. I love them.<br /><br />Q: What kind of theater excites you?<br /><br />A: Risky theater is what I love. When the audience starts to look around at each other with wide eyes and a real sense of danger in their body. Whether if it’s because something is emotionally dangerous or because there’s a new wild idea happening in front of us that disrupts what we think we know. <br /><br />When a play feels like it’s dangerously close to careening off the rails, that’s when I fall in love with it. <br /><br />Q: What advice do you have for playwrights just starting out?<br /><br />A: Write the thing that scares you. The scene that you write that you think will embarrass you and make everyone hate your play? That’s where the good stuff is. Write the thing that you’re scared will ruin your play. It’s where you’ll find the real heart of it. And if no one is producing your work, produce it yourself. Find a way. Don’t let other people decide your career for you.<br /><br />Q: Plugs, please:<br /><br />A: Under the Dragon’s Tail opens at the Matthew Corozine Studio Theatre July 20th and runs till August 14th. <br /><br />Snakes, mythological heroes, cosmonauts, self help, and philosophy collide and hijinks ensue!<div><br />You can find out more about it here at <a href="http://www.theatre4thepeople.org/">www.theatre4thepeople.org</a><br /><br />Or just buy tickets here! <br /><br /><a href="https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/5487859">https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/5487859</a><br /><br />Also take Erika Phoebus’ writing workshops! <p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>
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</div>Adam Szymkowiczhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10195622524268234675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11673928.post-27989806275490917252022-06-08T10:33:00.002-04:002022-06-08T10:33:29.758-04:00I Interview Playwrights Part 1112: Jake Brasch<br /><br /><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://newplayexchange.org/users/36675/jake-brasch__;!!CilDcCkfibc!lz3jSkrDjyrsgculvXrvtTkQMeB3_JJ5hwZB9LVc5R0UBT0ejSw7kQLVpCypiH1j43bIlX_msQgBcFYod97HD0IRcg$"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1686" data-original-width="2276" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmVHK7dnZH9IQYhZJ7Lw5T1JERiFHfaoz1sgQjiPHm9vwbImbUiKPw4rdFb1W7wM1KiZP7RLjgB07slKQsoCRwpEr7M8icav5uoA3sGB6m3n4hUYLSK9_xFUuZTM9WSnnf4Im6kGo-xU4Wl3oo70kmtGV2R3my4posxcyjiAbzeq73G42U7CY/w400-h296/JakePic%20(1)%20(2).jpg" width="400" /></div><div><br /></div></a><br />Jake Brasch<br /><br /><br />Hometown: Denver, CO<br /><br />Current Town: New York, New York<br /><br />Q: What are you working on now?<br /><br />A: This morning I cleaned the freezer. It was the most difficult project I’ve taken on in quite some time. A haunting expedition into the land of questionable past choices. Impossible to chart the dramaturgy of the thing. Harrowing.<br /><br />Pre-freezer, I’ve been spending the bulk of the Spring hacking away at three pieces: I’ve been working on OUR TEMPEST with The Farm Theater’s College Collaboration Project. It’s a piece about Climate Change, queerness, and the perils of devised theatre. I’ve also been developing THE RESERVOIR with the EST/Sloan project, a super personal piece about Alzheimer’s disease, addiction, and what, if anything, we can do to prevent or recover memory loss. I just completed and shared the first draft of SPIN, a play I wrote with the Arthouse INKubator group. It’s a kaleidoscopic piece about reincarnated owls, birthday party clowns, the scarcity mentality, and Jewish mysticism.<br /><br />I’m currently chewing on a nascent idea for a play that is about Bernie Sanders and apricot farming.<br /><br />Q: Tell me, if you will, a story from your childhood that explains who you are as a writer or as a person.<br /><br />A: At four years old, I staged a 90 minute “Oklahoma!” on my rocking horse. I wore a cowboy hat and Barney underwear, nothing else. My grandma played Aunt Eller, but I played the rest of the characters. You should have seen my one person dream ballet; I went so hard I broke a lamp. My parents filmed the whole thing and at several points you can hear them trying to rush me along, especially during a painfully under-tempo “Poor Jud is Dead.” I stubbornly persevered.<br /><br />My auntie says I was born a 40-year-old gay man. My AOL Instant Messenger username was NathanLaneRules. Embarrassing beyond belief, but explains a lot.<br /><br />Q: What kind of theater excites you?<br /><br />A: I love theatre that scrambles you, that doesn’t allow itself to be classified, that has you laughing and crying and shaking your head in disbelief. I want to be surprised. I want real risk. I want plays to be journeys into the unknown rather than thesis statements. I want playwrights to build exquisitely weird structures that miraculously work. I want questions rather than answers. I want pain, humor, and heart all at once.<br /><br />Q: What advice do you have for playwrights just starting out?<br /><br />A: Write. Don’t be precious. Write a bunch of bad plays. Write your way into your voice; don’t try to think your way into it– it won’t work. Focus on language, not ideas. Follow the flow. Surprise yourself. Make yourself laugh. Let the play sneak up on you.<br /><br />Invite people to your apartment to hear a play you haven’t written yet. Lose your mind trying to write the play. Almost cancel the play reading several times. Miraculously finish a draft. Become painfully unsure of said draft. Share it anyway. Hear what you’ve written. Feel seen. Repeat.<br /><br />Write write write stop reading this and write.<br /><br />Q: Plugs, please:<br /><br />A: Have you tried Angie’s Boom Chicka Pop Kettle Corn??? I am in no way affiliated, but it’s so unbelievably good so here’s a huge plug for the snack to rule all snacks. It’s in a purple bag and at most grocery stores. Best advice I can give.<br /><br />I share work often in NYC, especially with Youngblood at the Ensemble Studio Theatre and The Farm Theater. For the next couple years, I’ll have a chance to share work at Juilliard as well!<br /><br />For up to date plugs, you can visit <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://jakebrasch.com__;!!CilDcCkfibc!lz3jSkrDjyrsgculvXrvtTkQMeB3_JJ5hwZB9LVc5R0UBT0ejSw7kQLVpCypiH1j43bIlX_msQgBcFYod950XXrcLA$">jakebrasch.com</a>. 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</div></div>Adam Szymkowiczhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10195622524268234675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11673928.post-25859954614761850252022-04-12T13:59:00.001-04:002022-04-12T14:36:37.692-04:00I Interview Playwrights Part 1110: Steve Harper<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqPQYemHBdQAoZhD2wg_oQ8zZ3wHSGcAPABSCSKxkvg88PIXMNFJ5Yws1PM1VoeAhQ7gfbUeeMBp-nNe-H7hMJvSWeMz5sRDUP3aJHJnv6P3QDisctZV4dXGkDXW6ZlHul7Iou9hh2JJHoEUfcFiVbiT634IgpJ5gGbpTpef557o9vQo2MNy4/s962/Screen%20Shot%202022-03-28%20at%208.49.53%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="956" data-original-width="962" height="359" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqPQYemHBdQAoZhD2wg_oQ8zZ3wHSGcAPABSCSKxkvg88PIXMNFJ5Yws1PM1VoeAhQ7gfbUeeMBp-nNe-H7hMJvSWeMz5sRDUP3aJHJnv6P3QDisctZV4dXGkDXW6ZlHul7Iou9hh2JJHoEUfcFiVbiT634IgpJ5gGbpTpef557o9vQo2MNy4/w361-h359/Screen%20Shot%202022-03-28%20at%208.49.53%20PM.png" width="361" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>Steve Harper<br /> <br /> Hometown: I was born in Brooklyn, NY. And we lived there (in Fort Greene) until I was 5. I grew up on Long Island. <br /><br />Current Town: I currently live in Inglewood, CA - which is just outside of the city of Los Angeles (and in Los Angeles county). It’s where the Super Bowl was this year. <br /><br />Q: What are you working on now? <br /><br />A: I’m working on few things (I’m always juggling a few things). Several years ago, I collaborated on a piece (two monologues) - I wrote one - about police profiling black people. The play is called Black Lives / Blue Lives. I kept writing and now my monologue has morphed into several others (based on interviews) with police officers and black people (and black police officers). So, now there’s an entirely new piece comprised of the new monologues. The play doesn’t have a name yet. It’s fascinating to dive into this kind of intersectionality on an issue like this. I’m excited to see how it develops and how it lands on audiences. I’m also working on a new (original) piece for TV that I can’t really talk about yet. I’m developing a few other TV things that will hopefully see the light of day. And there are a few plays that are waiting in the wings, haunting me. <br /><br />Q: Tell me, if you will, a story from your childhood that explains who you are as a writer or as a person. <br /><br />A: I went to Catholic school as a kid - my father was Catholic and we were raised that way even though my mother was Episcopalian but never went to church. Mom was (and is) obsessed with true crime and serial killers as well as horror novels (Stephen King was her favorite). So I was always fascinated by the notion of what was lurking around the corner - things / beings / entities we could see and things we couldn’t see. I zeroed in on what I call the invisible things. And today, I write about those things (sometimes there are ghosts and spirits in my work, sometimes it’s about race or sexuality or politics or religion). At one point, maybe in 4th grade, I went through this period where I was always telling on my older brother when he did something a bit sketchy (my brother had a rebellious streak and I was a rule follower). At the time I thought I was saving his soul, though I was really just annoying him. (And he stopped hanging out with me because of it). But I think it was also me trying to be transparent - to tell the truth about what was happening. I’m still trying to do that - tell the truth about stuff - in what I write. (Hopefully the results are entertaining and not as annoying as I was in 4th grade.) <br /><br />Q: If you could change one thing about theater, what would it be? <br /><br />A: More diverse storytelling and more opportunities! I was an actor before I was a writer, and I remember being in acting class and trying to find scenes with parts that I would actually get cast in. But we were doing all those “classics”: O’Neill, Miller, Williams, Chekov. Solid plays, but not a black person in sight. We still recycle those classics - and it makes American theater more challenging for students of color and professional actors trying to make a living. That’s one of the reasons I wanted to put out an anthology of short plays - to give those actors and artists some fresh material with diverse characters. It is much better now thanks to some amazing playwrights of color, but it’s not solved. It’s still pretty easy to find those classics recycled and new plays by white writers with few diverse roles. And, as a black playwright, there are only so many opportunities. A theater may have one person of color slot - so we all have to fight to get that one slot. And we’re fighting with the talented prominent black writers. One slot and they have to choose among Lynn Nottage, August Wilson, Dominique Morriseau and lesser known writers (like me). It’s challenging to find those opportunities. <br /> <br />Q: Who are or were your theatrical heroes? <br /><br />A: I think Lynn Nottage is amazing. Her plays are so visceral and moving. And they are so different. I’m a big fan of Angels In America - Tony Kushner has so much going on in his work. There are a handful of writers: Lorraine Hansberry, Katori Hall, Richard Greenberg, John Guare, Suzan-Lori Parks, Tarrell Alvin McCraney, Charles Fuller (who is a cousin on my mother’s side). I met James Baldwin when I was in college (I was in a production of his play The Amen Corner). I didn’t know that much of his work then, except that play, but read a ton of his writing later - and it floored me. <br /> <br />Q: What kind of theater excites you? <br /><br />A: I like theater that makes me feel something. And makes me think deeply about my life. I grew up watching so many kitchen sink plays - and I dig the realism, but I want to have some magic, too. And people of color. And furniture. I’m not a fan of plays where the director takes all the furniture out and makes the actors mime things and imagine the world around them. I want to see walls!! Nothing too abstract and heady. I want to SEE the world and the people and get the resonance when they bump up against each other. I guess I enjoy seeing American homes - the ones that have people of color in them. I’m a fan of plays that feel like they’re happening in someone’s living room and you’re just eaves dropping on their joy and their agony. <br /> <br />Q: What advice do you have for playwrights just starting out? <br /><br />A: Find your peeps. Make stuff. Don’t wait for people to put on your plays. Do it yourself. The system is broken. You’ll repair it by giving yourself permission to reinvent. And be gentle with yourself and each other. Find ways to nurture yourself. Everything happens little by little and there’s only one you. And then - teach. Anything you learn is something that you can pass on. <br /> <br />Q: Plugs, please: <br /><br />A: My new anthology: A Few Short Plays to Save the World is coming out (May 1st) published by Laughing Panda Press (and available all over). My two-monologue play: Black Lives / Blue Lives (written with Bill Mesce Jr.) is being presented by The Theater Project in New Jersey for community groups and schools. My play Urban Rabbit Chronicles will receive its world premiere at Georgia Southern University April 20th - 24th. <div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>
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</div>Adam Szymkowiczhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10195622524268234675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11673928.post-74304532889502748702022-02-04T09:08:00.001-05:002022-02-04T09:08:59.335-05:00I Interview Playwrights Part 1109: Talene Monahon<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjmHiQVcaWXFLDQIAKPvF5p5jMxvOLhjgyVd1S7Tylq-KBP3RELVJqu2T-g_xp1ZdznU83a-9DvSHx1PDpVSZOMCKrigDQ3gpnuNzxNkQvBi85EFK7CHCKtqlrE8RG1Sf0HnMmkZnVyyEtPwuzuyk8_AfNxqobOimzWFsOuA1niV-AASZh86Mw=s640" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="427" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjmHiQVcaWXFLDQIAKPvF5p5jMxvOLhjgyVd1S7Tylq-KBP3RELVJqu2T-g_xp1ZdznU83a-9DvSHx1PDpVSZOMCKrigDQ3gpnuNzxNkQvBi85EFK7CHCKtqlrE8RG1Sf0HnMmkZnVyyEtPwuzuyk8_AfNxqobOimzWFsOuA1niV-AASZh86Mw=w268-h400" width="268" /></a></div><br /></div>
<br />Talene Monahon<br /><br />Hometown: Belmont, MA.<br /><br />Current Town: Brooklyn, NY.<br /><br />Q: Tell me about Jane Anger:<br /><br /><div>A: I call it a Jacobean feminist revenge farce. I wrote it early on in the pandemic when everything was fully shut down and I had returned home to Massachusetts to nanny my sister’s children. I think the play is very much the product of full-on pandemic brain—both in that it is literally set during a plague outbreak and in that it is generally insane. At the time, I was reading Jacobean revenge tragedies and watching a lot of Monty Python. I became strangely interested in merging the genres and centering women a little more than is usually done in either. I don’t want to give too much away. The play is about some real people and also some people I’ve made up. There’s a lot of true history in there and also a flagrant disregard for historical fact. There’s a bit about a sticky pudding that is truly disgusting.<br /><br />Q: What else are you working on now?<br /><br /></div><div>A: I have a play called The Good John Proctor about the girls from The Crucible that is in development and will be presented as part of Bedlam Theater Company’s Spring Reading Series. I’m also working on a piece that traces the Armenian American community’s relationship to whiteness over the course of the twentieth century, starting right after the genocide and leading up the Kardashians.<br /><br />Q: Tell me, if you will, a story from your childhood that explains who you are as a writer or as a person.<br /><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>A: When I was a child, I made up a ghost story about a slaughtered cat who haunted the electrical shack a little way down the street. I told this story to my friends in an attempt to be spooky and interesting. Unfortunately, as the weeks went on, I grew to believe the story that I had fabricated from my brain. I became very frightened of the electrical shack and worried that the bloody cat ghost would snatch me as I walked past it. I dealt with this fear for years. I guess this set me up for a life in the theater because I love to believe my own lies.<br /><br />Q: If you could change one thing about theater, what would it be?<br /><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>A: Accessibility, baby! There are a lot of things that need to change in order to make theater more accessible—both to artists and audiences. Maybe I should have gone big and said capitalism.<br /><br />Q: Who are or were your theatrical heroes?<br /><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>A:</div><div>Annie Baker.<br />Jackie Sibblies Drury.<br />Anna Deavere Smith.<br />Liza Birkenmeier.<br />Michael Friedman.<br />Anton Chekhov!<br /><br />Q: What kind of theater excites you?<br /><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>A: I love plays that are rousing and mysterious. I like feeling like the audience I’m a part of has become a cute little cult. I’m very happy watching theater that doesn’t have an easy explanation—like, how did she sing that high note? Or, what was that weird noise? Or, what was the playwright’s overall message? We have no idea! I love to see it.<br /><br />Q: What advice do you have for playwrights just starting out?<br /><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>A: Find smart collaborators whom you trust and then embrace it when they have the better idea. My work has always grown stronger through collaboration.<br /><br />Q: Plugs, please:<br /><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>A: The Lamentable Comedie of Jane Anger, That Cunning Woman. And Also of Willy Shakefpeare and his Peasant Companion Francis, Yes and Also of Anne Hathaway (also a Woman) Who Tried Very Hard starts performances February 21st at the New Ohio. Tickets and more info here:<br /><br /><a href="https://www.janeangerplay.com/jane-anger">https://www.janeangerplay.com/jane-anger</a><div><br /></div><div>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />
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<br /></div></div>Adam Szymkowiczhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10195622524268234675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11673928.post-52726663010200160972022-01-14T13:45:00.003-05:002022-01-14T13:45:24.346-05:00I Interview Playwrights Part 1108: Dave Osmundsen
<div class="separator"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhAUgbEcYaIUudN0ozXX0Igo6E-lTfl1QyKpkjwJhS8tjiIl5afSOOV8yi4ZQfN467EaSvfcvn7N8vlKFBWAdpXI_SqxP7Rt7OMwnyeU61qguoXB0YFych94mDER-okL3IUUAv2Gv2eJ4V7DNRQjo26aGwCkourjMojBRnMS4qqYKx0A7jCpao=s1848" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1224" data-original-width="1848" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhAUgbEcYaIUudN0ozXX0Igo6E-lTfl1QyKpkjwJhS8tjiIl5afSOOV8yi4ZQfN467EaSvfcvn7N8vlKFBWAdpXI_SqxP7Rt7OMwnyeU61qguoXB0YFych94mDER-okL3IUUAv2Gv2eJ4V7DNRQjo26aGwCkourjMojBRnMS4qqYKx0A7jCpao=w400-h265" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br />Dave Osmundsen<div><br /></div><div>Hometown: Pompton Plains, NJ</div><div><br />Current Town: Pompton Plains, NJ (by way of Sarasota, FL and Tempe, AZ)<br /><br />Q: What are you working on now?<br /><br />A: I’m working on a few projects (including prepping for the world premiere of my play Light Switch), but one work-in-progress I’m particularly excited about is an adaptation of Autism awareness advocate Michael John Carley’s article The Brat in Your Classroom. The article depicts his tumultuous years at a private school called Moses Brown, and how he emotionally processes those years in the wake of receiving an Autism diagnosis in his mid-thirties. It’s still in early stages, but I’m really excited for people to (eventually) see it!<br /><br />Q: Tell me, if you will, a story from your childhood that explains who you are as a writer or as a person.<br /><br />A: In my backyard, I would stand between two trees and pretend I was on a stage. Or I would make myself a minimalist set with a few chairs on the backyard patio (my “second stage,” if you will). Armed with two sticks (which I would bang together to make percussive sounds), I would sing made-up lyrics to musical theatre melodies I knew. I would act out musicals with plots that fused derivatizations of other musicals with my own contributions—a musical that was vaguely about a gay rights activist with a score lifted directly from Evita, an Into the Woods-style musical featuring an assortment of Bible characters (and a Devil Giant who embarked on a murderous spree in Act Two), a Wicked-like story about a gay teenager whose jealous emotions literally overtake him, to name a few. I would never get through a whole show, but rather repeat my favorite musical moments and/or songs. There was no audience because there didn’t need to be one. I was my own audience. Just when I was getting lost in the music and the stories, my sister would scream from her bedroom window “DAVID STOP SINGING.” And I would stop. Then I would tap the two sticks together, quietly, gently, and ease myself back into the musical world I had created for myself.<br /><br />Q: If you could change one thing about theater, what would it be?<br /><br />A: Just one thing??? Aside from the usual wishes that it was cheaper and more accessible, I would change the perception of neurodivergent artists. There seems to be some astonishment and bewilderment that neurodivergent artists can tell their own stories from their own perspectives. Why is this? Why can’t there be an assumption of competence? Why does autism specifically (since that is my neurodivergence) have to be portrayed solely as “Inspirational”? Why can’t it be treated with complexity and nuance? Why does it always have to be the neurotypical playwrights who tell neurodivergent stories? Why is Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, a play that doesn’t even mention the word “autism,” the most famous example of neurodivergent theatre? I would change all that.<br /><br />Q: Who are or were your theatrical heroes?<br /><br />A: Amy Herzog, for her ability to take messy situations and add beauty and clarity to them.<br /><br />David Lindsay-Abaire, for his sharp observations about humanity, even in the most absurd of his plays.<br /><br />Mickey Rowe, for fearlessly working and living as an autistic artist.<br /><br />Paula Vogel, whose generosity in mentoring young artists is legion.<br /><br />Larry Kramer, whose activism inspires me to be more politically aware and active in my work and life.<br /><br />Patti LuPone, for never bullshitting.<br /><br />Q: What kind of theater excites you?<br /><br />A: Theatre that complicates. Theatre that is tight. Theatre that is grand. Theatre that expands. Theatre that runs. Theatre that fucks. Theatre that caresses. Theatre that leaves you shooketh. Theatre that moves you to make your life, or someone else’s life, or the world’s life better. Theatre that makes you laugh in hysterics in the midst of devastating heartbreak. Theatre that is a well-executed well-made play. Theatre that splatters on the living room wall. Theatre that is messy and elegant at once. Theatre that, for its brief duration, lives.<br /><br />Q: What advice do you have for playwrights just starting out?<br /><br />A: If you’re a fan of an artist and you find yourself in the same space as them, thank them for their work.<br /><br />If an artistic director or literary manager or fellow artist you’ve reached out to never replies, that says more about them than it does about you.<br /><br />Find your people. Whether they be playwrights, designers, actors, administrators, what have you, find the people who get your work and want to see it succeed.<br /><br />That being said, no one will be a better advocate for your work than you. So if you wrote a play, and you believe in what it’s saying, don’t be afraid to put it out there.<br /><br />This quote comes to mind: “Those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.”<br /><br />Q: Plugs, please:<br /><br /> <br />A: My play Light Switch will be receiving its world premiere from Spectrum Theatre Ensemble in Providence, Rhode Island this coming April. Watch this site for more info: <a href="https://www.stensemble.org/">https://www.stensemble.org/</a><br /><br />The Gift of BS will receive a virtual reading during the Clay & Water Playwrights Retreat the weekend of February 24—27. Watch this site for more info: <a href="http://www.clamourtheatre.org/events/2022-2/clay-and-water-2022/">http://www.clamourtheatre.org/events/2022-2/clay-and-water-2022/</a><br /><br />The Dummy Class will receive a workshop reading with Purple Crayon’s PLAYground Festival of Fresh Works the weekend of April 30—May 1.<br /><br />If you’re interested in learning more about Light Switch and neurodivergent theatre, I’ve developed a course through theatre.university: <a href="https://www.theatre.university/courses/neurodivergent-theatre-light-switch/">https://www.theatre.university/courses/neurodivergent-theatre-light-switch/</a><br /><br /> Read some Actually Neurodivergent playwrights! 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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div>Adam Szymkowiczhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10195622524268234675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11673928.post-78607377382713062962022-01-10T06:18:00.002-05:002022-01-10T06:18:32.576-05:00I Interview Playwrights Part 1107: Sharon Yablon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjeODXFxhcs6uZ9qjZ58qdcCAp7CHRq0jBacSwHxH_-MDUjSx1ixBpYsIthDWR5JfaqP6N9qnOdxFMkx1at_7gTibu1TgDDn5JghojTvYCmuoS_Y57LKWP8JpubWSIjJeK8-wLAC8bPiaYqynr-oXLRgibkstnw2whKF9MIyDoKoa4Z6qc3oos=s2100" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1575" data-original-width="2100" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjeODXFxhcs6uZ9qjZ58qdcCAp7CHRq0jBacSwHxH_-MDUjSx1ixBpYsIthDWR5JfaqP6N9qnOdxFMkx1at_7gTibu1TgDDn5JghojTvYCmuoS_Y57LKWP8JpubWSIjJeK8-wLAC8bPiaYqynr-oXLRgibkstnw2whKF9MIyDoKoa4Z6qc3oos=w435-h298" width="435" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>
<div><br /></div>Sharon Yablon<div><br /></div><div>Hometown: Los Angeles<br /><br />Current Town: Los Angeles<br /><br />Q: Tell me about “A Garden of Terrible Blooms.”</div><div><br /></div><div>A: “A Garden of Terrible Blooms” started out as a collaboration with my neighbor, who is a very talented sound designer and musician. We had worked together before, with him providing live music to my plays. I have been at this awhile and realized I had many short ones, all set in different parts of L.A., which is a very spread out city, and that most take place at night, or night that is encroaching. With the anxiety of the pandemic, and my own onset of middle age, I started to imagine a sort of metaphysical or supernatural radio where, if you were experiencing insomnia and tuned in in the middle of the night, you might hear these voices seeking to talk to you. I also love sound, and music, and the actors’ spoken words, and wanted to whittle the experience down to just the hearing sense and explore what that would be like.<br /><br />Q: What else are you working on now?<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>A: I have a longer play set in the San Fernando Valley that I am in the process of finishing and hope to produce, and more to continue working on after that. <br /><br />Q: If you could change one thing about theater, what would it be?<br /><br /></div><div>A: I would love for more people to be exposed to it.<br /><br />Q: Who are or were your theatrical heroes?<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>A: Some favorite playwrights include Wallace Shawn, David Mamet, Edward Albee, Harold Pinter. My favorite play is A Delicate Balance, and there are many underappreciated ones that I love, such as Come Back to the Five and Dime Jimmy Dean by Ed Graczyk and What Happened Was by Tom Noonan. I would love to see Mark Rylance perform. I also enjoy the work of Caryl Churchill, Annie Baker, Sheila Callaghan, Greek Tragedies and, of course, Shakespeare, but not really the comedies. There are many musicals that I love as well.<br /><br />Q: What kind of theater excites you?<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>A: Language that has some poetry or rhythm and that is specific to the theater and not film/television. Hearing a writer’s unique voice. Work that has some mystery, or what I call “terror” onstage. I love silence and pauses onstage too. Noh Theater is wonderful. <br /><br />Q: What advice do you have for playwrights just starting out?<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>A: Don’t worry about ‘writing what you know.’ We know more than we think, although it may need to be mined from the unconscious. Try directing your own work. Don’t focus too much on plot, it will come, and there are all kinds of plots and structures that one can do onstage. It’s okay to not know where you’re going right away, it will come. Not every play has to be about social justice, or what the cultural norm is. Learn to cut and be relentless about trimming the ‘fat’ from your work so the good stuff will pop. If something you’re writing doesn’t excite you, you may not be connected to it, so don’t force it; it’s okay to not finish everything. Enjoy the process, don’t worry too much about the outcome (fame, productions) because most of us will not get this. That said, if producing entities aren’t responding to your work, put it up yourself! Find your people (they are out there!), which includes actors who are excited to be in your work, and a writer’s group that can critique and whose works you admire, so it keeps you on your toes with your own writing. Plays absolutely must have an audience, and I’m not talking about readings, but productions.<br /><br />Q: Plugs, please:</div><div><br />A:You can listen to “A Garden of Terrible Blooms for free” at <a href="https://www.terribleblooms.net/">www.terribleblooms.net</a>, or where you get your podcasts. The first ten plays are already available, and the newest one, “Dear Marie,” will be released on Valentines Day. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>
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</div>Adam Szymkowiczhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10195622524268234675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11673928.post-69863503923898073282021-12-30T11:37:00.002-05:002022-08-10T17:09:55.330-04:00My 2021 Year In Review<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Hi Everybody! Here is our Christmas Card.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhZQ0WhTaP3LonYs6ujhROXqJ_RBFTIqUZVbF_CC1SMDS-YQ3d2U1ppgEMjvLOyGKnPqQurx7WjBIuiMTJtxPWQ6jsCJyrAMLBbmEslKsWRZrXtotHw4cQ89rDWcRcNBLPCqYdinJTlhh6hNTlN4tvFA9r23sdgSyV-y272AZQYcRABsXhWO3A=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1750" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhZQ0WhTaP3LonYs6ujhROXqJ_RBFTIqUZVbF_CC1SMDS-YQ3d2U1ppgEMjvLOyGKnPqQurx7WjBIuiMTJtxPWQ6jsCJyrAMLBbmEslKsWRZrXtotHw4cQ89rDWcRcNBLPCqYdinJTlhh6hNTlN4tvFA9r23sdgSyV-y272AZQYcRABsXhWO3A=w341-h400" width="341" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Hope you're well. We are still pandemic-ing. Although our son is back at in person school and that is a relief. I have also been back in person (as much as I ever was) at my day job which means 2 days a week in New York. And working from my shed-office the rest of the time.<div><br /></div><div>I had a breakthrough case of covid a few months back after being fully vaxxed and was mostly just really tired for a couple of days. Luckily, I managed to not pass it on to my family somehow. (Masked and living in the basement)<br /><div><br /></div><div>Writingwise, I finished writing my second YA novel, and wrote half of a Middle Grade novel, wrote 60 one-minute monologues, finished a forty-minute play called 100 Things I Never Told You that I'd started at the beginning of the pandemic, wrote a 20-minute film for some Juilliard students and wrote one full length play.</div><div><br /></div><div>When I look at that, it's actually a lot of writing, even if I feel like I didn't do all that much.</div>
<div><br /></div><div>I did only 10 interviews this year, partially because I think people just aren't into being interviewed right now and partially because it was hard for me.</div><div><br /></div><div>I read a lot of books this year and quite a few plays but I didn't count them so I don't know how many.</div><div><br /></div>One milestone I hit this year was having a play done 100 times -- a one act that was published in 2015 had its one hundredth production this year. <div><br /></div><div>Also up until this year, the most productions I've had from a full length has been 11 in a single year. Kodachrome had 14 this year which is kind of amazing during a pandemic. Most of them are at schools who are still doing work right now.</div><div><br /></div><div>I had 32 productions this year, not as many as 47 in '19 but more than last year's 20.</div><div><br /></div><div>These 32 were-- 2 of The Parking Lot, 1 of The Book Store, 1 The Wooden Heart, 14 Kodachrome, 1 Elsewhere (which hadn't been done in 10 years), 6 Marian Or the True Tale of Robin Hood, 5 Clown Bar, 1 Nerve, 1 Hearts Like Fists.</div><div><br /></div><div>My night of one acts, 7 Ways To Say I Love You had 1 production.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgTsjs5p-i2HcsY0gaRwtOlkIHAQoqTeEVDFMwM1gV9Ccgh3kUX26Cu1KTK80Zyp4phkKyqd5_-mqftk_o-DfBWK2FGp8Gxg9KQiNsZWHDQo5eKp0idfdHSL4I-1f_Pp1vnLczYInfpX5Lza4sp97poYOz8QUERI0DWqza-JFZw46ccDHj9QzM=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgTsjs5p-i2HcsY0gaRwtOlkIHAQoqTeEVDFMwM1gV9Ccgh3kUX26Cu1KTK80Zyp4phkKyqd5_-mqftk_o-DfBWK2FGp8Gxg9KQiNsZWHDQo5eKp0idfdHSL4I-1f_Pp1vnLczYInfpX5Lza4sp97poYOz8QUERI0DWqza-JFZw46ccDHj9QzM=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>I also had some fancy readings including <a href="https://www.broadwayworld.com/chicago/article/Northlight-Presents-A-Reading-Of-SUCH-SMALL-HANDS-20210113">Such Small Hands at Northlight</a> and a zoom workshop of <a href="https://chancetheater.com/production/hearts-like-planets/">Hearts Like Planets with Chance Theater.</a></div><div><br /></div><div>BPPI published my play The Parking Lot and Sam French/Concord put out a teen version of Marian. Playscripts is going to publish a couple more-- <a href="https://www.playscripts.com/play/5101">The Book Store is now able to be read on its site</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>I know of 17 or so planned productions for 2022 including the premiere (finally) of Clown Bar 2. This is a lot considering we're still in the thick of it. And again, it's mostly schools. I don't know when more of the small theaters who have been my mainstay will be back and I know some of them won't.</div><div><br /></div><div>I don't mean to end on a bleak note. I just want to acknowledge that my momentum on a life in the theater has taken a huge hit and I know some people were hit a lot harder. The pipeline has never been more clogged up so even sending plays out right now seems more pointless than usual. And there is a big question about when or if the normal level of theater producing will return. Especially for small theaters without spaces or small theaters who lost their spaces.</div><div><br /></div><div>So it takes a lot more hope than normal to keep writing. And I want to acknowledge that.</div><div><br /></div><div>Love to you and yours. Here are my previous years in review.</div><div><br /></div><a href="https://aszym.blogspot.com/2020/12/my-2020-in-review.html">2020 </a><div><a href="https://aszym.blogspot.com/2019/12/year-in-review.html">2019</a></div><div><a href="https://aszym.blogspot.com/2018/12/my-2018-in-review.html">2018</a><br /><a href="https://aszym.blogspot.com/2017/12/my-2017-year-in-review.html">2017</a><br /><a href="http://aszym.blogspot.com/2016/12/my-2016-in-review.html">2016</a><br /><a href="http://aszym.blogspot.com/2015/12/my-2015-in-review.html">2015</a><br /><a href="http://aszym.blogspot.com/2014/12/my-2014-in-review.html">2014</a><br /><a href="http://aszym.blogspot.com/2013/12/my-2013-in-review.html">2013</a><br /><a href="http://aszym.blogspot.com/2012/12/my-2012-in-review.html">2012</a><br /><a href="http://aszym.blogspot.com/2011/12/my-2011-in-review.html">2011</a><br /><a href="http://aszym.blogspot.com/2010/12/my-2010-in-review.html">2010</a><br /><a href="http://aszym.blogspot.com/2009/12/my-2009-in-review.html">2009</a><br /><a href="http://aszym.blogspot.com/2008/12/2008-in-review.html">2008</a><br /><a href="http://aszym.blogspot.com/2008/01/in-2007.html">2007</a><div><div><br /></div><div>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />
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Trusting in new found friend and colleague Sonia Preko, the two women stumble into what they think is a scientific discovery but ends up being so much more. <br /><br />Q: What else are you working on now?<br /><br />A: In June of 2022 I plan to complete my first coming-of-age sci-fi novella “Never Eat Alone”. Based on a real, but short lived, NYC school policy enforcing teachers to eat with their students, the novella is told from the perspective of high school student Tara Santos and her relationship with Izel, her replica. It is a piece that explores self-love, grief, and getting good at disaster through uncanny methods. <br /><br />Q: Tell me, if you will, a story from your childhood that explains who you are as a writer or as a person.<div><br /></div><div>How about a fairy tale instead.........<br /><br /> <span> </span>Kiki stared at her reflection in the water bucket outside her hut, focusing her eyes on the slits under her breasts. They were subtle lines in her dark brown skin and almost imperceptible, but she could feel the power that rested underneath them. She knew what it meant. She was one of them, the Azinza. Tears stung Kiki’s eyes and she struggled to breathe, already feeling the effects of her change. She would soon have to go to water and abandon her family, her village, and the person she was.<br /> <span> </span>What will I tell my mother?<br /> <span> </span>Her mother, her whole family in fact, hated the Azinza and considered them to be abominations. If they were to find out that they had one in their midsts they would be devastated and the news would bring shame to her family. They may even be cast out of the village and forced to live in exile. She would have to say her goodbyes quietly, and disappear without explanation. She felt horrible thinking about the pain she would cause by vanishing but it would be worse if they knew the truth. <br /> <span> </span>She tip-toed back to her hut and stopped to gaze at her sleeping family. Her brothers lay on their backs with round bellies rising and falling peacefully. She smiled and kissed them on their foreheads before looking over to her parents, both snoring softly. She thought about all the laughter and love, safety and warmth they had provided and bit down on her lip to keep from sobbing. She decided not to touch them at all for fear that her anguish would wake them up and force her to explain herself. She slipped out into the moonlit night and began her pilgrimage to the ocean.<br /> <span> </span>Once at the beach she stepped mournfully up to the tide and stared out at the thin gold line of the horizon. Dawn was approaching and she was running out of time.<br /> <span> </span>“Kiki?” her mother’s voice said, softly, from behind her.<br /> <span> </span>She jumped in surprise and then froze.<br /> <span> </span>What will I tell my mother?<br /> <span> </span>Her mother held a stern look on her face as she stepped, slowly, towards her. She reached out and cupped her face in her hands, kissed her forehead and then held her. They stayed this way and said nothing as the sky turned a pink yellow from the rising sun.<br /> <span> </span>“Every new moon I will come here and sing so that Oshun will protect you. Every new moon I will sing and hope to see your face,” pledged her mother.<br /> <span> </span>Kiki gripped her mother in a fierce embrace and trembled with fear, sadness, and tears. She felt the heat of a new day on her back and her body began to ache and pull her towards the water. Her time was up.<br /> <span> </span>She slipped off her clothes and walked, naked, into the rush of the waves. The steady heartbeat of the ocean wrapped around her and she barely noticed when her feet ceased to be. She felt the steady thrum of the water pull away from her skin as she rose to the surface to look back at the shore one last time. Her mother stood on the beach, arm outstretched, lonely and strong like a lighthouse.<br /> <span> </span>Though Kiki was never seen again by anyone in her village, every new moon her mother would sing and a great bounty would wash ashore with fish, shells, oysters, and pearls. For a few brief moments before the sun would take its place in the sky, before the moon would rest until its return, mother and daughter would look at each other from across the waves. 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Francisco Mendoza<br /><br />Hometown: Mendoza, Argentina<br /><br />Current Town: Brooklyn, New York<br /><br />Q: What are you working on now? <div><br /></div><div>A: A couple of things! I’m taking a second pass at a TV pilot, a dramedy about the modern advertising world and the experience of being in the U.S. on a visa. In a couple of weeks, I’m taking a trip with a friend to write a movie about an artistic director who’s getting pushed out of her theater company. And my play Machine Learning just finished a run at Two River Theater’s Crossing Borders festivals, so I’m taking a couple of meetings for possible productions.<br /><br />Q: Tell me, if you will, a story from your childhood that explains who you are as a writer or as a person. </div><div><br /></div><div>A: I was a big adventure junkie as a kid; I read soooo many pulpy books about jungle explorers and ancient civilizations. I remember one day playing in the yard and looking up seeing a branch of a neighbor’s tree poking out from our wall, and behind it, the Andes (which can be seen from anywhere in Mendoza). I got this deep longing, almost a sadness—and mind you, I’m 6 or 7 at this time—because there was a whole world out there that I wouldn’t be able to see if I stayed in my yard.<br /><br />Then at 12, my family relocated to Brazil, and at 25, I moved to the U.S. At this point, I’ve lived in four different cities and traveled to four continents. I’m not exploring jungles or discovering ancient civilizations, but there’s definitely a bit of the explorer still in me...<br /><br />Q: If you could change one thing about theater, what would it be? </div><div><br /></div><div>A: Something that really annoys me is how much people can change their mind about my work based on what other people have said. The same script someone read a year ago and had no reactions to is now somehow better because it won an award? That makes no sense to me. I wish more people in literary/artistic positions trusted their own taste and made decisions based on the kind of work they want to program, not what’s “hot.” It’s like people are afraid to make a call either way for fear of making a mistake—this is art, there’s no way to turn it into math. Risk will always be a part of the equation, so stop being so afraid of it! There’s maybe three or four plays in the entire 2021-22 season that I actually wanna watch; the rest was programmed without any risk. <br /><br />Q: Who are playwrights or plays you’re excited about right now? </div><div><br /></div><div>A: Francisca Da Silveira; she’s a fellow at The Playwrights Realm, where I work, and her play non-for-profit is a hilarious takedown of that sector. I can’t wait to see it at a SummerWorks-like festival. Charlie O’Leary’s The Allies is a play that has really stayed with me, an exploration of what gay shame means after coming out of the closet—it’s funny and cruel in equal measure. Asiimwe Deborah Kawe’s Appointment With gOD, which The Realm showcased in its Beyond The Realm Festival; I’ve never seen anyone capture the feeling of applying for a U.S. visa with such accuracy or poetry. <br /><br />This season I can’t wait to see Eric John Meyer’s Antelope Party (Dutch Kills at the Wild Project), Eliana Pipes’ DREAM HOU$E (The Alliance/Long Wharf/Center Stage), and John J. Caswell’s Man Cave (Page 73). I’ve seen/read them already and they are some of the most exciting theater going on right now.<br /><br />Q: What advice do you have for playwrights just starting out? </div><div><br /></div><div>A: I’d say learning to navigate asking for help but not depending on it. For the first few years, you are your own agent, publicist, lawyer, cheerleader. People in our industry are notoriously overwhelmed and mostly weary of new people, so don’t sit on the couch waiting for someone to fight your battles; go out there and give it your best. But you won’t get too far alone! I wouldn’t be anywhere without a few key champions who decided to take a chance on me. So make sure to ask for at least a sit-down, a coffee, some specific advice—the worst thing that happens is someone says no.<br /><br />Q: Plugs, please: </div><div><br /></div><div>A: Sign up for my <a href="https://notrealmendoza.substack.com/">newsletter</a>! I send biweekly recommendations of things I love (as well as the odd short story), and I do include anything of mine that’s going up or has been published. Or you can follow me on <a href="https://twitter.com/notrealmendoza">Twitter</a> if you wanna keep your inbox empty. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />
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Yes, below Atlantic City)<br /><br />Current Town: Bushwick, Brooklyn<br /><br />Q: Tell me about "No Pants in Tucson" and your devising process:<br /><br /><div>A: As with many of the shows that I’ve devised with The Anthropologists, "No Pants in Tucson" was born out of an event that made this story necessary. The core company members had been toying with an idea of creating miniature dance pieces in response to a handful of state laws targeting women that remained on the books. Some of them were ridiculous: “No wearing a housecoat while driving in California” and others were more overtly dangerous: “No withdrawal of consent in North Carolina.” Just as we were sitting down to brainstorm, Brett Kavanaugh was nominated to the Supreme Court and suddenly it became a very real possibility that Roe v Wade would soon be under attack. The connection between some of these outdated ordinances, specifically one from Tucson Arizona in 1883 that prohibited women from wearing pants, and current legislation aiming to regulate bodies felt palpable, like an invisible string you could follow from corsets to heartbeat bills.</div><div><br />And so we set off to investigate that. Is it possible that this archaic ordinance was this catalyst for the slew of anti abortion bills and anti transgender bills that we’ve been seeing over the past 3 years.<br /><br />And from here "No Pants in Tucson" was born. We begin devising by asking the question, “What is up with America’s obsession with legislating bodies?” The Anthropologists uses source material and physical theater to explore and tell stories. We held a series of exploratory labs where we played with language, legal text, self defense choreography, transgressive acts via theatrical clown, Supreme Court transcripts, just to name a few. <br /><br />Now as I’m sure you may have guessed, just as we were getting started, we all ended up in lockdown in our homes and our devising process, which is heavily movement-based, got stuffed into a Zoom box. At that point we made a very deliberate decision that we would be devising virtually to create an in person show. This required a shift. We started to zero in on historical characters that had been arrested for dressing “outside of their sex.” Ensemble and team members created digital explorations of these characters fused with other legislation texts we were discovering. We would film these compositions and then share them, build upon them, and share them again. The Anthropologists aims to work as horizontally as possible for as long as possible. This means that we invite all team members into the devising process. Dramaturgs, designers, directors, writers, actors. We are all exploring in whatever capacity the storytelling needs. <br /><br />In Summer 2021, we began transitioning into scripting workshops. We started to pull from our content dictionary (a precious document that holds descriptions and videos of everything that has been created in the rehearsal process) and weave a story. Melissa Moschitto, the writer/director on the project began assembling script maps which the actors would improvise around and create within which then turned into script drafts. By the Fall we began working with a close-to-frozen script IN REAL LIFE, in a rehearsal room. We are currently in the production rehearsal phase. <br /><br />In honor of that, here is the official blurb for the show:<br /><br />"No Pants In Tucson" is a subversive comedy propelled by America’s obsession with regulating the female body. Drawing upon archaic state laws from the 19th and 20th centuries that made it illegal for women to wear pants in public, The Anthropologists’ newest devised play dares to calculate the costs of gender-oppression today.<br /><br />Q: What else are you working on now? </div><div><br /></div><div>A: For now, "No Pants in Tucson" is my main focus. I’m a mother of two young children who eat up any remaining creative energy I may possess. <br /><br />Q: Tell me, if you will, a story from your childhood that explains who you are as an artist or as a person. </div><div><br /></div><div>A: When I was in the 6th grade I was cast as Mrs Peterson in "Bye Bye Birdie." I freaking loved it. It never occurred to me to want to be Rosie or Kim. Mrs. Peterson was bizarre and quirky and got to wear my grandmother’s fur coat and my yellow rubber rain boots. <br /><br />Q: If you could change one thing about theater, what would it be? </div><div><br /></div><div>A: I think there’s still a stigma or an untrue consensus about which kinds of performances are legitimate and which kinds are not. I wish that weren’t the case. Theater gets to be whatever it wants to be. That’s what makes it exciting. <br /><br />Q: What kind of theater excites you? </div><div><br /></div><div>A: Truth be told. I like most of it. In grad school I was known to thoroughly enjoy sitting through everyone’s scene work and presentations. I like performing the weird shit. I like to move my body. I like to do choreography on stage that’s crisp and sharp. I love when there’s singing in a place that’s not expected. I love the swell of a giant Broadway musical number. I saw Adam Driver in "Burn This" and truly I cried because I was having so much fun. I adore solo shows both as a performer and audience member. I even laughed out loud during "The Play that Goes Wrong." It was silly. And I love silly.<br /><br />Q: What advice do you have for theater artists just starting out? </div><div><br /></div><div>A: There’s no such thing as cool. There’s making art. There’s joy. There’s vulnerability. There’s truth. But don’t try to guess what someone will like. Make something that matters to you. Tell the story you wish someone would tell you. Also work with people who you admire. I was so fortunate to have an incredible roll model when I first moved to NYC. Kara M Tyler, I’m looking at you! She taught me how to go all out and forget about playing it safe. She shaped the kind of artist I would become and one, I might add, that I am proud of. <br /><br />Q: Plugs, please: </div><div><br /></div><div>A: Come see the show! Did I mention it's funny? 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</div>Adam Szymkowiczhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10195622524268234675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11673928.post-22458239673784108472021-10-19T13:29:00.000-04:002021-10-19T13:29:11.974-04:00I Interview Playwrights Part 1104: Andy Boyd<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisyuKxx_cGWJvU0ugvJQ3k9FaGy7ektzQfYxbO5Xe37XxWLkbE6Qd1Yu0SiCjqKU5mo2kpj9C-5gRcsExSeED2uBj-tFKix3uNoHocwpxAXvQq66CJakV-3Py7h62H9kiT4I-10Q/s1464/43221143_10156656589759354_5603175005346070528_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1464" data-original-width="1464" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisyuKxx_cGWJvU0ugvJQ3k9FaGy7ektzQfYxbO5Xe37XxWLkbE6Qd1Yu0SiCjqKU5mo2kpj9C-5gRcsExSeED2uBj-tFKix3uNoHocwpxAXvQq66CJakV-3Py7h62H9kiT4I-10Q/w400-h400/43221143_10156656589759354_5603175005346070528_o.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>
<div><br /></div><div>Andy Boyd</div><div><br /></div>Hometown: Phoenix, Arizona<br /><br />Current Town: Brooklyn, New York<br /><br />Q: Tell me about Occupy Prescott.<div><br /></div><div>A: Occupy Prescott play begins in the fall of 2011, when a libertarian rancher, an anarchist punk, an aging hippie, a radical priest, and a single mother gather in Courthouse Square in Prescott, Arizona determined to fix America. They all agree that the one percent is too powerful, and the rest of us are getting screwed. When they try to get more specific than that, though, they find themselves disagreeing about nearly everything. For me, this a play about how the task of rebuilding the world is both vitally important and...kind of annoying? Boring, even? I spend a lot of my non-theatre time doing political organizing, and most of the time it's a brutal slog. But every once in a while something happens that reminds you that what you're doing is actually really important, and it can mean the difference between someone being pushed out of their neighborhood or not, or getting arrested or not, or living next to a toxic dump site or not. The victories are so few and far between, and to me that means you have to find ways to make the struggle itself worth it. So this play is also about how being part of a movement creates a temporary community, and how intense those bonds can be, for good or for ill. It is very much a piece of political theatre, but more than that it's a character study about how being in a movement changes you. It's about how just sharing space and time with people who don't look like you or think like you can be a deeply transformative experience. In that way, it's also a play about theatre. People often called Occupy "political theatre," by which they meant performative bullshit, but just because something is theatre doesn't mean it isn't true. At least I hope not.<br /><br />Q: What else are you working on now?<br /><br />A: I was part of the 2019-2020 Pipeline PlayLab group, and for that I wrote a play called Red Clay Halo about the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, which was a radical interracial sharecroppers' union that drew equally from Karl Marx and fundamentalist Christianity. I was supposed to have a reading of the play in the spring of 2021, but that obviously didn't happen. There will be a reading of that play eventually. I also have a few other projects cooking that aren't in the kind of shape yet where I can talk about them in a public forum.<br /><br />Q: Tell me, if you will, a story from your childhood that explains who you are as a writer or as a person.<br /><br />A: This is maybe stretching the definition of childhood a bit, but when I was a senior in high school I saw Teatro Campesino do a play called The Tent of the Underdogs, which was originally performed in 1974. This play is about the struggles of migrant workers in agriculture, and it really opened my eyes to the brutal conditions farmworkers faced at that time, and still face. It also looked at issues of racism against the Chicano community. At the end of the play, the performers encouraged the audience to chant United Farm Workers slogans with them, and I left the theatre really feeling like I wanted to throw myself into the movement. (Incidentally, there is a character in Occupy Prescott who is a former UFW organizer). That spring, SB 1070 was passed in Arizona. This was known as the "show me your papers" act, and it basically deputized local cops to demand immigration papers of anyone brown. I remembered the sense of purpose the play had generated in me, and decided to become involved in the local protests against SB 1070. My involvement was very low-level, just showing up to a half a dozen or so marches, but it still changed my life. I met real-life anarchists and Marxists for the first time, and heard speeches from people directly affected by this bill. This convinced me that political theatre isn't always just preaching to the choir, and that it can absolutely have direct, tangible results in the real world. I don't think I would have gone to those marches if I hadn't seen that play. It is my hope that after seeing my plays audience members feel one step closer to actually taking action to change the world. In Red Clay Halo I have characters questioning why we need to have landlords. Of course, we really don't. Society could function perfectly well without them. If someone sees my play and starts up a tenants union, I think I've done my job.<br /><br />Q: If you could change one thing about theater, what would it be?<br /><br />A: It's always bothered me that so much theatre is centered in New York. I know I'm doing nothing to help this situation by living in Brooklyn, but I still do think that if half the theatre artists in New York moved to Denver, or Phoenix, or Oklahoma City, those cities would change immediately, while New York would barely notice we'd left. It just feels to me that we're all competing for so few opportunities here, when there's such a need for what we do everywhere else. By that I'm not at all trying to denigrate the wonderful work that is done outside New York, but the disparity in funding and audience numbers and number of artists is very stark. I'd love to live in a world where theatre felt local, homegrown, and relevant to its immediate community. We'd probably need something like a new Federal Theatre Project to make that happen. So if I could change one thing I'd have the government create a program that enabled artists to make a living wage while creating new work grounded in communities all across the country. We've done it before.<br /><br />Q: Who are or were your theatrical heroes?<br /><br />A: I've already mentioned Luis Valdez and Teatro Campesino, but in addition to them I love Caryl Churchill, Tony Kushner, Wallace Shawn, David Henry Hwang, Lynn Nottage, and Adrienne Kennedy. I'd say the common denominator of all of them is that they make work that is explicitly political, but is also grounded in theatricality and character and language. I don't think there is any necessary tension between good politics and good art, and I'm drawn to artists that have both. I certainly aspire to both in my own work.<br /><br />Q: What kind of theater excites you?<br /><br />A: I've sort of answered that question, but one other thing that excites me is dumb cheap theatre magic. I live a short walk from Target Margin in Sunset Park, and I see everything they do because it's all animated by a really wonderful Let's Put on a Show! energy. They have dance numbers and Party City streamers and magic tricks and I just sit there giggling like a little kid. <br /><br />Q: What advice do you have for playwrights just starting out?<br /><br />A: I still feel like I'm just starting out, but I suppose I can try to give some advice. I think there are many good ways to write a play. Sophocles' plays don't look anything like Caryl Churchill's, which don't look anything like Arthur Miller's, but all three are great writers. I still sometimes encounter people who offer you the One Right Way to write a play or a musical, and as soon as they do that my brain just starts wanting to poke holes in whatever they say. Musicals have to have a happy ending? What about Little Shop? A protagonist in a play needs to know what they want? What about Hamlet? A play needs a strong central character? What about Sweat? All these rules are just so transparently wrong that I don't think it's really even worth learning them. Read as many different kinds of plays as you can, and then try to write the play you would like to see.<br /><br />Q: Plugs, please:<br /><br />A: Occupy Prescott runs until October 31st at Jalopy Tavern in Red Hook, Brooklyn! 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</div>Adam Szymkowiczhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10195622524268234675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11673928.post-39310948717804075432021-10-08T11:21:00.004-04:002021-10-08T11:21:17.944-04:00I Interview Playwrights Part 1103: Peter Michael Marino<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRdVaAapEig9PstKsdIMUxket27MIXwD0HP4Tt8Xt8R4aVTHwInAbtp1BjepDX4kITKMnBRx0HZZ45FzrWpkjgC5KvzlVw3BiAmunGZWwjk0UzoK8NV4GENQyvzSo5iWXyouQjDw/s640/ORLANDO-BANNER-01.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRdVaAapEig9PstKsdIMUxket27MIXwD0HP4Tt8Xt8R4aVTHwInAbtp1BjepDX4kITKMnBRx0HZZ45FzrWpkjgC5KvzlVw3BiAmunGZWwjk0UzoK8NV4GENQyvzSo5iWXyouQjDw/w400-h225/ORLANDO-BANNER-01.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><i>photo credit: Mikiodo</i><br /><br /> Peter Michael Marino<br /><br />Hometown: Queens, NY<br /><br />Current Town: Manhattan, NY<br /><br />Q: Tell me about "Planet of the Grapes Live:<br /><br />A: “Planet of the Grapes Live” is the result of what happens to an artist during a global pandemic. As soon as lockdown began, I immediately pivoted my solo show and my family-friendly show to become interactive, live, digital presentations. I wound up doing over 100 of them. It was…a challenge, but a fun one. During that time I was afraid I wouldn't ever create anything else again, so I spent a lot of “worry time" on Rockaway Beach, just thinking. I had always been obsessed with the original 1968 “Planet of the Apes” film. While I was working in London on my flop musical “Desperately Seeking Susan,” I always passed a wine shoppe called “Planet of the Grapes.” I’m not usually a pun person, but that name always stayed with me.<br /><br />I started playing around with some ideas and sketches of how to bring this thing to life and stumbled upon the history of toy theater which originated in the Victorian era. It was a way for people to literally bring theater into their homes. It seemed like the perfect time to revive that movement, since people weren't able to leave their homes and were craving theater. I started building a tiny stage in my tiny apartment and did some tests and ran them by my frequent collaborator Michole Biancosino and we decided it was something we wanted to dive into. I learned a lot about puppetry and I used some of my skills as a set and lighting student to re-create a tiny theater. I then added the sounds of an audience entering the space and an intermission and the program, and suddenly we had an actual theater event that people could experience from the comfort of their couches.<br /><br />When I first started working on it, it was really just gonna be a short, silly thing that made people laugh. But as I dug through the screenplays of the original film and saw that Rod Serling was a big part of the development of the screenplay, I became obsessed. The film is not just about some astronauts who land on a planet where humans don't speak. It's about global issues like treatment of animals, the caste system, and mankind’s irresponsible treatment of our own planet Earth. We realized that this story had an important message, and that we could make an impact by telling it in a new way. It has now played virtually around the world over 50 times (live digitally) and we had a fabulous virtual run for the Edinburgh Fringe this past August which brought in a whole bunch of great reviews and an award. So, this next step is now adapting the digital version for the live stage with live music and special effects. We are really looking forward to being back in front of a live audience!<br /><br /><br />Q: What else are you working on now?<br /><br />A: I'm not really working on anything else right now because I'm completely committed to bringing “Planet of the Grapes" to stages here in NYC and beyond. We're thinking about things like technical elements and also really important things like how to transport a tiny theater stage with characters, sets, lights, and sound to venues around the country and the world. I can't tell you how many trips I've taken to the Container Store to find the right vessels to store all of this stuff in.<br /><br />Q: Tell me, if you will, a story from your childhood that explains who you are as a writer or as a person:<br /><br />A: It amazes me and my friends and family that I wound up becoming a writer/performer. I never saw a play until I was in junior high school. But as a kid in Queens, I really loved television and had a fondness for anything that was comedic. I was also into “old movies” as a kid. In the Tri-State area, we had something called “The 4:30 Movie” which showed old movies. I couldn't get enough of these old movies and would beg my parents to let me eat dinner in front of the TV when a good one was on. I also had a neighbor down the street who was older than me who had a camera, and he would shoot little black and white movies in the neighborhood using all of the kids. I really looked up to this guy and I loved seeing what he created. I suppose he was a big influence on my creative life. Once I started seeing more theater in high school, I knew it was for me. I actually didn't start writing until much later in my career, as I had spent so much time acting on stage. I think learning improvisation is what opened my mind up to being a writer. When I became dissatisfied with the types of roles and plays I was being submitted for, I started writing my own stuff. I haven't stopped since. Sometimes I have imposter syndrome - but it seems nearly everyone in the arts has that, so at least I feel like I'm part of a large, somewhat dysfunctional, artistic family.<br /><br />Q: If you could change one thing about theater, what would it be?<br /><br />A: Just one thing? Ugh. That’s hard. It became clear during the pandemic that there was a difference between Broadway-lovers and Theater-lovers. So many people missing Broadway shows, yet there were so many international artists creating theatrical content - digitally. But, folks were more into those kinds of events if celebs were involved. I think some of the most creative theatrical experiences I've had during pandemic were from digital theater shows. I hope in the future that more Broadway-lovers realize that they are actually theater-lovers and take greater chances on the unknowns. <br /><br />Q: What kind of theater excites you?<br /><br />A: I am a huge fan of Fringe Festivals. The kind of unconventional work that I've seen in these festivals around the world is more creative and thought-provoking to me than most mainstream theater. If I could spend my life traveling around the world only seeing what artists create at fringe festivals, I'd be very content. 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