Recent Highlights

A few quick highlights of the recent past:

1. I made it through a month of furious back-to-back readings with the Ma-Yi Writer's Lab, EST's Sloan Project, Manhattan Theater Club's Education Department, Theater Development Fund, and last but not least, Making Books Sing.

Ma-Yi: 5 Plays...Almost 6 but I had to drop one for the PSA and consequently did not win the bicycle promised as an award to the actor with "Most Appearances." Although the prize for "Most Plays Attended" was 10 million dollars, so I'm not sure the bike really exists. Anyway, really amazing new work.

EST: 1 Play, Durenmatt's The Physicists. "The world is being run by a mad female pyschiatrist!"

MTC: 5 Plays by highschoolers in one sitting. Real issues, real drama.

TDF: 10 Plays--That's 5 plays per school and two school trips out to the ends of the Earth. Some of this stuff is like gold.

MBS: 1 Play, a musical about dancer Jose Limon. I played Jose. I neither danced nor sang.

GRAND TOTAL: 22 New Plays!

2. I was recognized in public! A woman named Moe who works at Kate and my favorite restaurant Red Bamboo came over to our table and said she had seen Fight Girl on a lark and not only liked it but had that funny moment of realization where she realized that the robot was a guy who she'd served at her place for years. It was totally awesome. She'd never known I was an actor and it was one of those A-Ha moments of city synchronicity. She did not mention if we were good tippers or not, but I felt like a consummate rockstar. Red Bamboo is NYC's premier destination for vegan soul food by the way, and if you don't know what that is, just go down there and try it; it's incredible.

3. Kate got into the Sam French One Act festival with her newest work, A Chicken Goes to Broadway to be directed by our friend Heidi Handelsmann! I read it and it's going to be hilarious. Not sure when it is going to be, updates to come. Kate also had a major triumph directing an evening of Flux Theater Company's Imagination Compact, a showcase of new plays

by writers like Liz Duffy Adams and Gus Schulenberg and featuring our friends Elena Chang, Kelli Holsopple, Will Ellis and Anthony Wills. A really beautifully done event with great work done by all sides.