Just got back from the dress rehearsal for the play I’m costuming, Iphigenia and Other Daughters. It’s a really good production and I’m proud to be a part of it. I know not all of you live in Pittsburgh, but if you do you should come see it! You can buy tickets here: http://

I sent off a query for The Ephemeralizing Device, a bunch of stories and a haiku I wrote on the train, in the hopes that the Friday the 13th/Full Moon/Pride conjuration will work in my favor. I try not to be superstitious but in this business it's impossible. I accidentally hit send on the query before I meant to, but I checked and it was all ( Read more... )

I am doing the costumes for a feminist retelling of the Oresteia! Not getting paid for it, but I don't mind too much since A) no one else is either, and B) so far it's mostly just been looking at dresses on the internet and going through the piles of ridiculous clothing I already own. I am slightly worried that the director will not let me dress ( Read more... )

I went on a date. We saw a children's orchestra perform The Rite of Spring.

It's been a crazy week and a bit: Phillip Glass's Orphee Friday before last, figure drawing on Wednesday, Russian Film Symposium on Friday, Pittsburgh Fringe festival on Saturday, followed by a show by my friends Robin Vote and The Working Poor. And tomorrow I catch a train back to Detroit a minute before midnight. I hope I get the time to catch ( Read more... )

Had my first figure drawing session (as an artist, not a model. Not that I've done that either, though I did do some nude performance art when I was in college) and it went pretty well. I can't post anything though, as my scanner's broken.

Heidi got us free tickets to Candida, which was pretty good. Having never seen a Shaw play before I can't help but compare him to his contemporaries; I think he is not as witty as Wilde, as daring as Ibsen, nor as brilliant as Chekhov. Wilde seems the most obvious comparison, as they were both Irish, both socialists, both living in England. But ( Read more... )

2013 seems to have been an atrocity for a lot of people, but for me it's been pretty great. I definitely accomplished my new year's resolution of having more sex, though the coffee table I broke on new years day was to be the only coffee table I would break all year ( Read more... )

Throughline, the theatre company in whose contest I am a finalist, has posted more information about the New Play Showcase on their main page. It's in Lawrenceville and it starts at eight. $20 sounds like a lot to me to watch excerpts of various plays, but... light hors d'oeuvres and drinks?

I finally heard back from the playwrighting contest I entered last summer and I'm a finalist!

Some of you probably remember Cocktails in Hell when it was a (not very good) short story. It's the one with the lesbian flapper ghosts. I came back to it last spring and spent a good chunk of the year expanding it into a full length play, which I'm ( Read more... )