I Interview Playwrights Part 173: Barton Bishop

Barton Bishop

Hometown: Tampa, FL.

Current Town: Astoria, Queens, NY.

Q:  What are you working on now?

A:  I've got a new play going up in the fall here in NYC, via the good and wonderful people at the New York Theatre Experiment. It's called Up Up Down Down. The title's a video game thing, a reference to the Konami cheat code from the original Nintendo days, but it's also a reference to bipolar disorder (well, lookit that, that there works on TWO levels!). It's about geeks and terrorism and vid...