GAME OVER, a new play that I began last semester at Rutgers, will recieve a world premiere production through From The Ground Up Theatre Company in Los Angeles with performances taking place at the Lyric Hyperion Theatre Cafe in Silver Lake (Los Angeles, CA). I’m SUPER JAZZED. More information to come…

www.fromthegrounduptheatre.org

KIDS ‘R US was presented on December 18th and 19th as part of Dark Luna & Mile Square Theatre Company’s Evening of Yuletide Shorts. It was a blizzardy evening, but many wonderful people came out to see some fine, fun plays performed by a wonderful group of very talented actors. Here’s the official blurb:

Dark Luna Productions and Mile Square Theatre cordially invite you to attend an evening of staged readings featuring the writing talent of:
Joseph Gallo, Josh Levine, Lia Romeo, Wesley Broulik, William Burton Henline
and featuring the acting talent of:
Arie Rossen, Christopher Halladay, Maria-Itzel Siegrist, Michelle Seaton, Siouxsie Suarez, Wesley Broulik and more.

I just found out that my poem/monologue/playlet THE TRYST BEFORE CHRISTMAS, a slightly raunchy retelling of the classic Twas The Night Before Christmas, was selected to be a part of the Reasonable Facsimile Theatre Company’s 2009 “Another Year and Still No Witty Title Chicago Christmas Spectacular!” I’m thrilled. More information to follow as it comes to me.

www.arftco.com

So, turns out, after all of my ups and downs with grad school, I will be starting in the Rutger’s MFA Playwriting program in four weeks! Lee Blessing runs the program, and I had the pleasure of getting to know and work with him at the Sewanee Writers Conference in July. And as it turns out, they had an incoming student back out at the last minute, and they needed a replacement. I can’t imagine what the next three years of my life are going to be like, but I know I’m going to make the most of it. New Jersey – here I come!

As part of the reading series Queer Quills, my play, AIR, will be read at the Orlando Center (946 N. Mills Ave., Orlando, FL) this Sunday, August 2nd @ 7pm

More info:

Kangagirl Productions and Heidi Dog Productions have resurrected their popular playreading series. Listen to GLBT classics and new works read and directed by some of Central Florida’s finest talent without the trappings of props, costumes, and sets. In the homey comfort of The Center, it’s like watching a play in your own living room! Each reading is followed by an informal chat over refreshments. Readings are the first Sunday of every other month at 7pm. Proceeds from a suggested donation of $5 benefit The Center.

Cast: Nate Bartman, Samantha O’Hare, and Scottie Campbell

This reading would not be possible without the support of John DiDonna, John Sullivan, and Micheal Vance.

My ten-minute play, HALLELUJAH, is going to be performed Friday, July 31st and Saturday, August 1st as part of Bakerloo Theatre Projects’s The Story Project.

I, along with three other writers, were asked to write short plays based on or inspired by a short story by an American writer. I chose Kate Chopin’s “The Story Of An Hour.”

More info:

The Story Project
a collection of new plays from American short stories
conceived and curated by William Addis and Ryan Howe

JULY 31 AT 7PM AND AUGUST 1 AT 2PM

…there seemed to be a gentle stir arising over everything for the mere sake of subsidence-
a very premonition of rest and hush and night

www.bakerloo.org

Just returned from the Sewanee Writers Conference where I had the pleasure of meeting and working with Lee Blessing and Dan O’Brien, among many new playwright friends. It took a while to adjust to the schedule of eating breakfast, going to a lecture, eating lunch, going to workshop, going to a reading, going to have a drink, going to eat dinner, going to another reading, and ending the night with yet another drink. This boy is used to getting in bed at 11pm with “The Nanny,” but once I got the hang out it, I was able to be (somewhat) productive. I look forward to applying again next year (come on, fellowship! come on, scholarship! no whammies aaaaaand STOP!), but I’m sure it won’t compare to the fun I had this year. Just cause it’ll be different. As it should be.

www.sewaneewriters.org