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August 12, 2015
#PlaywrightRespect and #LowellArts
While on the Official Playwrights of Facebook group, I came across a call for submissions from the LowellArts, a group in Lowell, MI. This particular call for submissions is one of the worst I’ve seen (a $20 fee for a 10-minute play!) so I wrote them. What follows is a copy of my email. To […]
August 9, 2015
#PlaywrightRespect, #WeAreSeniorsToo and @WordsPlayers
It is amazing what a week can do. As I write this, at 2am, I’m in Kansas City on a mini vacation. A vacation before I start a new “real world job” a vacation from the struggle that was directing a musical (even with a talented co-director, music director and pit conductor), and a vacation […]
August 5, 2015
@WordsPlayers #PlaywrightRespect and an open Letter
The following was posted in the comment section of the Words Players Facebook page, re: the recent controversory over their call for submissions. There are some here who believe that the playwrights who have voiced our concerns have somehow “bullied” Words Players, Mr Driscoll, or their young actors and directors. I have been closely following […]
#PlaywrightRespect and Moving Forward: Minnesota Troupe Responds to Critical Dramatist Guild Letter About Rules for New Play Fest – Playbill.com
Earlier this week, I blogged about a youth theater program in Minnesota, their call for submissions and the backlash amongst playwrights that it was causing. It started with a blog from playwright Donna Hoke (you can find that in my previous two blogs on this issue), followed by a blog from producer and advocate Howard […]
August 3, 2015
#PlaywrightRespect and why it’s important
If you missed the hullabaloo over the weekend regarding the #PlaywrightRespect hashtag on Twitter, here is an overview. Saturday, the talented Donna Hoke posted a call for new, never produced, never published ten-minute plays from a group called Words Players. Donna went into great detail about WHY this call was offensive to playwrights in her […]
August 1, 2015
Donna Hoke » Blog Archive » DISSECTING THE MOST DISGUSTING CALL FOR PLAYS I’VE EVER SEEN
#PlaywrightRespect is important to any playwright-any AUTHOR period. We shouldn’t be so desperate for a production that we sell ourselves out. And in this case it’s not even selling ourselves out, because we’re not making money. Quit teaching young actors and directors it’s okay to change the script, IT’S NOT! Donna Hoke » Blog Archive […]
July 9, 2015
LuPone Strikes Back! Grabs Texter’s Phone at Shows for Days – Playbill.com
LuPone Strikes Back! Grabs Texter’s Phone at Shows for Days – Playbill.com. In light of this story and the recent one at Hand To God where a patron climbed up onto the stage to plug his cellphone in, I am reposting an old blog I wrote about whether Twitter may be the new version of Shakespeare’s […]
May 23, 2015
Upcoming Interview!
Just dropping in a note here to tell you that Tuesday (that would be the 26th of May) I’ll be appearing on Sherri Rabinowitz’s podcast Chatting With Sherri, heard on the BlogTalkRadio network. We’ll be discussing my new play #JohnDoe, the new season of Sherri’s Playhouse, theater, the arts and who knows what else. Sherri […]
May 22, 2015
Summer Lovin’ (The Theater)
Last summer (2014) I thought was going to be my busy summer theater summer, but it looks like this year is just going to be as busy. Last year, it was acting in Into The Woods for Hays Community Theater, acting in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer for Phillipsburg Community Theater, and acting and directing […]
