Me and my shadow, a quarantine craft project.
It’s been kind of a year, huh? It’s been a challenging about 2020— global pandemic, rising threats of white nationalist terror, toilet paper shortages — so I have to admit the self-promotional act of updating my website has felt pretty low on the hierarchy of needs. But, even sequestered at home, this year hasn’t been a total loss personally, and this is my website and this is what it’s here for, so… Some 2020 highlights below. (And a couple 2019 ones that slipped through the cracks.)
SOLD FIRST FEATURE SCRIPT – At the beginning of this year I sold my feature script PAST & PRESENTS to MarVista Entertainment. It’s a time-traveling Christmas rom com that takes place in a department store and is secretly about the toxicity of nostalgia. If all goes well in this chaotic world it could go into production in 2021.
NEW LABS, READINGS, AND NEBRASKA – My play HUMAN RESOURCES was selected out of hundreds of submissions for the Great Plains Theatre Conference where it was slated for a staged reading. However, COVID pushed the actual conference until 2021. Again, if all goes okay in the next couple of months, I may head to Omaha in 2021.
This fall, Antaeus Playwrights Lab, the playwright’s group of an award-winning actor-driven LA theater, selected me to be part of their weekly playwrights night. Great to be part of new theater community, albeit a Zoom-based one for now.
My play THE SISYPHI is a boulder that keeps rolling. I ended 2019 with a workshop of it at the Apprentice Company of the Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, and this fall it was one of Parsnip Ship’s selections for its COVID-friendly Play Club reading series.
I received a commission through Playground-LA for my play about the millennia long history of the Bering Strait, TOWARDS TOMORROW ISLAND.
PUBS – I saw my name twice in print this year. This year I received a stack of Samuel French’s OFF OFF BROADWAY FESTIVAL PLAYS, 44TH SERIES which features my play A SMALL BREACH IN PROTOCOL AT BIG RICK’S ROCKIN’ SKYDIVE ACADEMY. I also contributed to the anthology THEATRE MAKER’S MAKING THEATRE WITHOUT THEATERS, a series of one page “plays” made during the pandemic.
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So, it’s been a pretty okay year. Here’s hoping 2021 will let me leave the house.