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June 8, 2010
I Interview Playwrights Part 190: Andrea Lepcio
Andrea Lepcio
Hometown: Boston, Mass
Current Town : New York, New York
Q: What are you working on now?
A: I work on multiple projects at once. That seems to work for me. Currently, I'm getting ready for a work in progress presentation of a new musical The Ballad of Rom and Julz at Bard Summerscape in the Spiegeltent this July. Cheryl Davis is the lyricist and Brooke Fox is the composer and I'm the bookwriter. This Spring, I workshopped Sad? Mad? Glad? Bad? at New Georges. I've been de...
June 7, 2010
I Interview Playwrights Part 189: Gregory Moss
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Gregory Moss
Hometown: Newburyport MA.
Current Town: No fixed address.
Q: Tell me about your play coming up this fall.
A: There's two coming up, both directed by the fantastically skilled Ms. Sarah Benson.
The first is called Orange, Hat & Grace which will be at Soho Rep in September. It's about a older woman sorting out her biography, putting her house in order as she approaches the end of her life - doing some imaginative gymnastics to come up with a narrative, a version...
June 6, 2010
I Interview Playwrights Part 188: Hannah Bos
Hannah Bos
Hometown: Evanston, IL
Current Town: Brooklyn, NY
Q: Tell me about Buddy Cop 2.
A: Buddy Cop 2 is the third play in our Americana Trilogy but sort of the second play in our architecture trilogy and the first play in our actors getting haircuts for roles trilogy and….
The play is about racquetball, cops and Christmas.
Q: What is the process in which you and Paul write together?
A: Paul and I write plays together and it's horrible. He talks down to me because I'm a woman and because I'm...
June 4, 2010
I Interview Playwrights Part 187: Steven Levenson
Steven Levenson
Hometown: Bethesda, Maryland
Current Town: Brooklyn, New York
Q: Tell me about Seven Minutes in Heaven.
A: Seven Minutes In Heaven began a little over a year ago as a conversation between director Adrienne Campbell-Holt and me. Adrienne came to me in the spring of 2009 and asked if I wanted to work on something together. The only ideas she had in mind were that it would somehow involve both dance and the eighties prom classic "Forever Young" by Alphaville, and it would not be a ...
June 3, 2010
I Interview Playwrights Part 186: Molly Smith Metzler
Molly Smith Metzler
Hometown: Kingston, NY (in the Hudson Valley by Woodstock)
Current Town: Brooklyn Heights, NY
Q: Tell me about the play you're taking to Chautauqua and The O'Neill this summer.
A: Sure, it's a comedy called CLOSE UP SPACE and it's a father/daughter play. It's set in a publishing house, which was fun for me to write because by day I'm an editor, so I got to put all the typographical proofreading symbols in my head to good use. ("Close up space" is actually an editing term th...
June 2, 2010
I Interview Playwrights Part 185: Matthew Lopez
Matthew Lopez
Hometown: Panama City, FL
Current Town: Brooklyn, NY
Q: Tell me about the play The Whipping Man.
A: The Whipping Man focuses on the period immediately following the surrender at Appomattox, which ended the Civil War and effectively freed all the rest of the slaves still being held in southern states. I've long been fascinated with the idea that history is made up of more than just great, calamitous events; it is also the quiet moments (which, in truth, are never all that quiet) ...
May 31, 2010
I Interview Playwrights Part 184: Lee Blessing
Lee Blessing
Hometown: Minneapolis.
Current Town: Brooklyn.
Q: Tell me about When We Go Upon The Sea.
A: When We Go Upon the Sea is a funny play about shame. It's set slightly in the future, on the night before George W. Bush goes on trial in The Hague for acts committed while he was the President. So it's speculative as well, of course. It doesn't suggest that anything like this will happen necessarily, but it helps us contemplate our own impulses to punish the man we twice elected to l...
May 30, 2010
I interview Playwrights Part 183: Joshua James
Joshua James
Hometown: Farnhamville, Iowa: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farnhamville,_Iowa
Current Town: New York City (specifically, Astoria, Queens: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astoria,_Queens)
Q: What are you working on now?
A: I've recently completed a screenplay called A BLACK HEART, an action thriller, which is being handled by Bunce Media and Captivate Entertainment. I'm thrilled, I'm very proud of the script and they're great people to work with.
Currently I'm working on a new scree...
May 29, 2010
I Interview Playwrights Part 182: Chisa Hutchinson
Chisa Hutchinson Hometown: Newark, NJ
Current Town: Maplewood, NJ
Q: Tell me please about about the Lily you just won. What is a
A: The Lilly is the beautiful brainchild of some really smart, really serious theater folks who were pissed at the conspicuous lack of recognition of women's accomplishments in the theater (specifically by the Tony committee). They were like, "That's bullshit. We should do something about it." And they did. And it was good. When Gl...
May 28, 2010
I Interview Playwrights Part 181: Rob Ackerman
Rob Ackerman
Hometown: Columbus, Ohio.
Current Town: Upper West Side, Manhattan
Q: What are you working on now?
A: A short play called RAW HEAT, a new musical called VOLLEYGIRLS, and a dramatic memoir called THROWING GUMBALLS. Just finished a new draft of CALL ME WALDO, a play about an electrician who becomes possessed by the spirit of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Q: Can you talk about dropping gumballs on Luke Wilson?
A: It's one of things I had to do at work this year. I earn a living as a unio...
