Details will be coming soon re: how to sign up to attend the Pandemic Plays event, produced by Lower Depth Theatre Ensemble. We recorded my two short pieces, DELIVERY and UNDERGROUND, last week with two stellar casts directed by Gregg Daniel. Just a few recordings to go and then the…
LA Theatre Works’ production of SEVEN was in the middle of a 27-city tour of the U.S. when the pandemic closed down theatre venues across the country. But LATW thought it was important for people to have access to our play during the time of quarantine–and so they are making…
More news soon, but I’m thrilled to announce that I was one of the playwrights selected to create a short play for Lower Depth Theatre Ensemble’s Pandemic Plays project. The founders and artistic directors of LDTE are a multitalented, dedicated crew with a beautiful mission: “We are a social change…
I love the message from Playwrights Arena: ‘L.A. Playwrights will be heard again soon.’ Of course, the question is: When? And maybe more interestingly, how? The fact of the matter is that theatre artists haven’t stopped working. Playwrights are still out there, plugging away, hitting deadlines that only barely seem…
Playwrights are noted for their unique voices on the page, but singing? Well, that’s another matter entirely. So when artistic director Jon Lawrence Rivera asked a few of those of us who had been produced at Playwrights Arena in LA to sing a song on Zoom, the response was….uh….gulp….uh….really, are…
Here we all are, in quarantine, dealing with a global crisis that is full of anxiety and tragedy. But I’m a teacher, too, not just a writer, and it’s important to keep our students on track for earning their degrees, finishing their projects, and investigating what theatre will be after…
Better late than never to report that The Last Nights of Scheherazade was part of WinterFest this year, presented by Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA at Atwater Village Theatre. Directed by Laura Stribling, the staged reading of my new play was brought to life by the heartfelt performances of Laura Flanagan as…
To start off the new decade, my collaborator, composer Guang Yang, and I were so very fortunate to have I N V I S I B L E, our short opera, included in the Eurydice Found Festival, presented by LA Opera, on January 16, 2020. The opera was one of…
Nothing thrills me more than to see my plays getting out into the world–on their own. When someone discovers one of these works thoroughly on their own and gets passionate about it and then takes it to production, that is a thrill. It is also truly rewarding to find out…
Meet the playwrights of the Climate Change Theatre Action “LA – At the Intersection,” which will be performed Saturday November 9 at 2 pm at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles in partnership with Visions and Voices. The consequences of climate change in Los Angeles (and most urban areas)…