Adam Szymkowicz's Blog, page 130
May 4, 2010
I Interview Playwrights Part 163: David Caudle
photo by Laura Marie Duncan of LMD Photography
David Caudle
Hometown: Miami, FL
Current Town: New York, NY
Q: What are you working on now?
A: I'm working on a new comedy about the world of Yoga called DOWNWARD FACING DEBBIE, commissioned by Outcast Productions. I'm also really close to completion of a screenplay adapted from the book, MAJOR CONFLICT, by retired US Army Major Jeffrey McGowan. It's a great story, honestly told, about a gay officer's experiences in the military before and durin...
May 2, 2010
I Interview Playwrights Part 162: Jacqueline Goldfinger
Jacqueline Goldfinger
Hometown: Tallahassee, FL
Current Town: Philadelphia, PA
Q: Tell me please about the play of yours Azuka is producing next year.
A: "the terrible girls" is a wicked dark comedy set in the deep South. Three friends work in a bar off the interstate and end-up "accidentally" killing men and burying them in the walls. When one attempts to hide a murder from the other two, everything begins to unravel.
"the terrible girls" began as a short one-act play in the New York Fringe. Ov...
May 1, 2010
I Interview Playwrights Part 161: Christopher Chen
Christopher Chen
Hometown: San Francisco
Current Town: San Francisco
Q: What are you working on now?
A: A big surrealist epic about a group of theater artists working on a play about Mao Tse-Tung. I know, the play-within-a-play thing has been done to death, but I think I have a unique spin on it. I hope to make this an Asian Marat/Sade.
Q: You're a Resident Playwright at the Playwright's Foundation. Can you tell me what that's like?
A: It's really great. I'm really inspired by this diverse and ...
April 30, 2010
I Interview Playwrights Part 160: Craig Pospisil
Craig Pospisil
Hometown: New York
Current Town: New York. I'm a born-and-bred New Yorker and I love it here, through and through.
Q: What are you working on now?
A: I'm working on a commission for a musical comedy called DOT COMET, which is about the Dot Com boom of the late 90s. Mike Ogborn, who wrote BABY CASE and CAFE PUTANESCA, is writing the music and lyrics, and I'm writing the book. Mike's a great composer, and I love his music. It's really varied and smart. He lives here in New York, bu...
April 29, 2010
I Interview Playwrights Part 159: Jessica Provenz
Jessica Provenz
Hometown: Merrick, NY
Current Town: NYC and Princeton, NJ (my husband and I have yet to move in together)
Q: Didn't you recently have a short film screened? Can you tell me about that?
A: I wanted to *make* something. Last year, I wrote a screenplay and a pilot, but I wanted the words to go from my computer screen to the big screen - not in 1 year or 2 or 10 - but now! So I wrote the short NOTHING HAPPENED, a comedy about the one conversation girlfriends should never...
