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PURGATORIUM comes off the page!
There’s nothing quite like your first time! …Hearing your play out loud, that is.
Many thanks to the terrific actors who gave playwright Matthew Goldstein the chance to finally hear his brand-spanking-new play, PURGATORIUM, out loud this afternoon! They are…
Got to hear the play AND reconnect with some great Case/CPH MFA Acting grads from my time as Associate Producer at Cleveland Play House.
There’s nothing quite like your first time! …Hearing your play out loud, that is.
Many thanks to the terrific actors who gave playwright Matthew Goldstein the chance to finally hear his brand-spanking-new play, PURGATORIUM, out loud this afternoon! They are…
David Barnathan
Peter Hargrave
Josh Hyman
Rachel B. Joyce
Danny Kornfeld
Angelo McDonough
Kirk McGee
Megan Medley
Angela Pierce
Kelli Ruttle
Developing a new play with Evan Bernardin Productions
I’m thrilled to be directing a developmental reading of Matthew Goldstein’s PURGATORIUM, for Evan Bernardin Productions. We’ll be developing the script this summer, with an industry reading in September. Matthew’s keen ear for contemporary comedy which is both biting and borscht-belt answers the question, “what if Joshua Harmon and Ken Ludwig had an artistic lovechild?” I’m having a great time working with Matthew and EBP.
I’m thrilled to be directing a developmental reading of Matthew Goldstein’s PURGATORIUM, for Evan Bernardin Productions. We’ll be developing the script this summer, with an industry reading in September. Matthew’s keen ear for contemporary comedy which is both biting and borscht-belt answers the question, “what if Joshua Harmon and Ken Ludwig had an artistic lovechild?” I’m having a great time working with Matthew and EBP.
About the play: When the Kagan family patriarch “dies,” the two sides of this Jewish/Anglican family come together for a funeral…and a reckoning. Like they say: hell is other people—especially when those people are your ferkakta family!
Directing for The Playwrights Realm's Writers Block Party Gala
It was such a treat to be back with my “Realm Fam” working on The Realm’s Writers Block Party Gala. I got to write some zany new lyrics for the Season ‘18-’19 version of Music Director/Host-with-the-Most Michael Thurber’s original “Welcome to the Realm”, and loved collaborating with Realm All-Stars Olivia Oguma and Brian Quijada to come up with numbers to get the crowd excited about The Realm’s upcoming season and, of course, about donating to help support that season!
It was such a treat to be back with my “Realm Fam” working on The Realm’s Writers Block Party Gala. I got to write some zany new lyrics for the Season ‘18-’19 version of Music Director/Host-with-the-Most Michael Thurber’s original “Welcome to the Realm”, and loved collaborating with Realm All-Stars Olivia Oguma and Brian Quijada to come up with numbers to get the crowd excited about The Realm’s upcoming season and, of course, about donating to help support that season! (Hint: an original, live-looped jam by Brian and some classic ABBA from Olivia did the trick!)
For a taste of the exciting announcements made during the event last night, check out the two great new plays that The Realm will produce in the 2019-2020 season, and information about their exciting new Radical Parenting Inclusion Project.
And last, but certainly not least, my thanks to Founding Artistic Director Katherine Kovner, and Producing Director Roberta Pereira for having me!
"...Herbert Peabody" does New Jersey!
Playwright and performer Kirk McGee and I are looking forward to taking The Honorable Herbert Peabody on the road to headline Holmdel Theatre Company’s first “Evening of New Works!” We’ve spent the last several weeks revising and expanding the script from its original incarnation seen last Fall, and can’t wait to share the new draft with the fine folks of the Garden State! Special thanks to Artistic Director Kathy Connolly for inviting us.
Taking Andrew Rosendorf's "REFUGE" to New Heights (literally)
The air may have been thin, but the experience was rich as Andrew Rosendorf and I headed to Creede, CO (el. 8,799’) to work on his play REFUGE as part of the HBMG Foundation’s National Winter Playwrights Retreat! (I felt especially luckyto be the only director among this year’s cohort.) It was a rare treat to have a week to just work one-on-one with a playwright, and the town and its people couldn’t have been more wonderful!! And then there were the other wonderful writers—icing on the cake! Here are a few images of the experience.
(With special thanks to Anne and Manuel Zarate, Isaac Grody Patinkin, Rhonda and John at Arp’s, and the wonderful local actors who joined us for the readings!)
