I’m currently working on a play about the past five years and those to come. If I’m chosen, it’s for a month on Maui, Hawaii. This past week, two years later, as things are opening up, I received a note from them, complimenting what I sent two years ago and asking that I resubmit that same application for consideration in 2022.
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If you were chosen, you’d be given free room and board at a house in one of their more idyllic locations, along with several thousand dollars, to spend a month working on your chosen script. That same full-length play is in the hands of a publisher, who showed interest, and will let me know the results of their analysis at the end of January.Īnd to add an off-the-grid digression, I submitted an early draft of Tracks to a grant program sponsored by the National Park Service – just before all hell broke loose, and public programs were shut down. What stays with me is that they chose a speech given by a 16-yr-old kid in my play, Tracks, to be included with so many others monologues written by well-known playwrights and performed by adult actors in theaters across the US. It’s their annual anthology of monologues that may be used by actors and directors for auditions and/or examples of the power of short-form language on stage. I now have copies of the Best Monologues for the Stage, Men, 2021, published by Smith & Kraus this winter. I have since attended the Sewanee Writers’ Conference in the beautiful hills of Tennessee, leaving memories of mixed emotions about the next few years of American literature. Won’t know if it goes further until the end of January or early February. That play is also a finalist for a production at the JET Theatre in Michigan. Most of the plays put on by this theater are written by famous but dead playwrights, so they’re eager to talk to the ones still alive (even though not so famous). They put on a production of another comedy of mine a few years ago and the two or three talk backs I did then were so much fun (knowledgeable, curious people, drawn from northern CA, Oregon, Idaho, and Utah), I’ve been eager – for two plague-dominated years – to get in front of their real, live, not Zoomed audience again. Because it’s autobiographical and funny (at least that’s my intention), I’ve volunteered to do talk backs after each performance – two weeks’ worth.
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Although it’s a low bar, may 2022 be better.Ī production of A Fish Story is now scheduled for a full run at the Sea Ranch “Barn” in September.
June to December, 2021, in the land of the endless pan damn demic.
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