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As the decade draws rapidly to a close, I find myself ruminating over the soon-to-be-concluded year. And in the fashion of livejournals long since past, I decided to write a brief Year in Review for 2009. It was a profoundly tumultuous year emotionally speaking, but really ( Read more... )

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i. PSYCHOMACHIA. Writing about this experience is long overdue and it was, to put it in a word, amazing. Working with The Bridge has been great so far, but it’s really my director Robin Paterson who helped me bring the play to the next level, challenging me to think critically ( Read more... )

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I disappeared briefly from the internet, but after a few tweaks and fixes (read: paying the damned hosting service with a NOT expired credit-card) all systems are go. I have a lot I’d like to talk about, namely the sort of amazing process that this Kafka project has undergone, ( Read more... )

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I’ve been thinking about this for a while, letting it stew in my brain for a bit in the hopes that I can make a clear and cogent argument. I still don’t know that I can so much as settle firmly on a point, but I thought I would give it a try.

The issue has been raised in ( Read more... )

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Wow, ok, so it’s been a while since I’ve had a spare moment to myself to update this blog. The sheer volume of work I’ve had to do in the last three weeks has been intense, to say the very least. I’m 30 pages into a brand new play; I have rewritten my 117 page play down to 108 ( Read more... )

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Yesterday was the first class with Chuck for the year, and I’m excited that we’ll be generating new work - I have something, or the beginnings of something, percolating in my brain. It uses elements of an idea I mostly threw out last year that is somewhat of a collage of ( Read more... )

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I think pretty much everyone knows that war sucks; the extent to which it sucks is sometimes intensely personal, sometimes very public, and sometimes fodder for propaganda! All right, to call Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen’s play Aftermath propaganda is perhaps unfair - it’s ( Read more... )

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After I interviewed at the New School, I became obsessed with the idea of finding non-writing-related hobbies. During said interview, I was asked, “So, what do you do outside of writing?” I stared, blinking, at my interviewer and wracked my brain for what felt like a small ( Read more... )

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i. Mental - I’m all shades of chemically imbalanced. Which is what happens when I use my birth control to skip my period (yes, we are venturing into the realm of Too Much Information, but it’s a very simple explanation for an otherwise debilitating condition - the kind wherein ( Read more... )

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Part I can be read here.

August 20, 2009 - Today we went to Malaysia! I got more stamps in my passport! We visited Johor Bahru, which is the second largest city in Malaysia, next to Kuala Lumpur. It is certainly more what I expected Asia to be like: their signage is primarily ( Read more... )