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I FUCKING HATE SHAKESPEARE

Developing a new play with Gina Femia is always a good time — even better when it’s a one-person play starring Gina Femia!

Thanks to the Shakesolo Festival at the Kraine Theatre, and New Georges for a timely micro-grant boost, Gina and I had a lot of fun during a much-needed development process, rehearsing for this play’s workshop festival debut.

She gave two delightful performances —  it felt so strange and so wonderful to be back in the Kraine with friendly, engaged audiences —  and we’re excited to get back to work on this piece about being a writer, a theater artist, and a young person navigating relationships and education and creativity… all under the shadow of the most famous playwright who ever lived.

More news about this work to come!

SAVINGS with New Georges

Had a terrific time with Gina Femia and our wonderful cast doing a staged reading of SAVINGS, Gina’s new play about the closing of a neighborhood supermarket.  Many thanks to Ramapo College and New Georges for giving us the opportunity to work on this play!

Berrie Center Event

(cast: Patricia Randell, Marie Elena O’Brien, Ren dSanti, Elise Santora, Matthew Trumbull, Matthew Barbot, Sara Minisquero)

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LTR House Party

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Had a terrific time with Less Than Rent Theatre at a reading of T(WO) TRAIN: to be in transiti(on) on October 16   —   it was a great opportunity to hear Tanya’s rewrite and work with an amazing cast!  Many thanks to LTR and Axis Theatre!

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Pussyfest!

I had an amazing time this month directing monologues for Pussyfest,
the extraordinary fundraiser/happening/party performance
to support Caps Lock Theatre!

Amy E. Witting, Kurt Stridinger, Brooke Ashley Eden, and Kari Bentley-Quinn
wrote for Kelli Lynn Harrison, Kelley Rae O’Donnell, Madeline Bundy,
and Kristen Krak, respectively, and it was a delight to work with all of them.

Mariah MacCarthy, Leta Tremblay and the whole Caps Lock team are terrific.

A+, would do again!

 

 

Shadow Walkers Reading

magic-timeI had a wonderful time directing a reading of SHADOW WALKERS by Shaun B. Fauntleroy at Judson Memorial Church last month!  This is a beautiful play, and the cast more than did it justice.

Thank you, CK Allen, Pun Bandhu, Patricia Randell, Nik Sadhnani, and Chandra Thomas!
(And Michele O’Brien knows that reading stage directions is an art!)