I recently started a group on MySpace called the New Play Network. If you'd like to check it out, it's at ( Read more... )

...famility, friends, artistic directors who can be fooled into staging my plays...but most of all, this of all great American holidays (thought less cool for Native American...thanks for the fuckin' smallpox, pal), let us join hands and look into the glistening eyes of our loved ones and give thanks...that Nancy Pelosi's is measuring for new ( Read more... )

For my colleagues in Austin (or if you know somebody in Austin), Vortex Theatre is having a public reading of my play "Altered States of America" on November 19th. Details follow below. Hey...free bagels. A couple of years ago, "Altered States..." was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award ( Read more... )

I'm having some weird, nostalgic jag for "Liberation"...my Bosnian War play.  God knows why.  It's just haunting me these days, maybe because I have this feeling Iraq is about to devolve into an ethnic bloodbath.  Anyway, did a bit of searching around the web and found my favorite review from "Liberation"...and maybe one of my favorite reviews ever ( Read more... )

Down to the wire, as all elections are, but at least some trends appear to be emerging.

One is that the Bush administration's (re: Karl Rove) strategy of trying to equate Democrats with Al Quaida has apparently run its course.  People don't seem to be buying that one anymore, which has as much to do with Iraq falling apart as is does any magic on ( Read more... )

After a notoriously long delay, I finally got around to redesigning and republishing my website SPLATworks.

The site, also known as Patterson Communications, has been floating around the ether...well, forever in Internet years, providing resources for playwrights, theatrical professionals, journalists, writers, and photographers. At this point, I' ( Read more... )

See you on election day, babe....


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It's an inspired notion.  Simple copy the list of politicians below and paste it into your blog.  The links take you to news stories the candidates would just as soon forget about.  The idea being that if enough people do it, the more Google will pull the attendant links.  Who knows if it'll work, but the thought is...delicious.  Especially since ( Read more... )

It's struck me that folks who've known me for years have heard me mutter and curse about "Tuquoise and Obsidian," this beast of a play I've been working on for years, but just a very few have read/heard the play or read excerpts from it. And, of course, folks who don't know me don't even know what I'm talking about. Anyway, for the hell of it, here ( Read more... )

Well, I have been busy.

Over the last two weeks, moved my mom from Southern Oregon to Portland, a wrenching experience, but one that's gone pretty well. So far. Miles to go before I sleep, baby.

Writing, did a lightning rewrite of "Lost Wavelengths" for a Major Festival Which Shall Remain Nameless. Cross your fingers. "The Centering" did well at ( Read more... )