This Made Me Laugh Heartily

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December 7th, 2009

Staff chat during tonight’s performance of Black Nativity, Intiman’s annual Christmas production. William: It sounded like they just said “Sanjaya”. Me: They did. He’s in the show this year. William: WHAT???!!!! Are you serious? Madeline: Does that mean you’re gonna see the show, William? William: No. But if Sanjaya had done the one person Joan [...]

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I’m Published In A Magazine! (ad)

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November 12th, 2009

If you happen to flip thorugh the latest issue of Relevant Magazine, you’ll find something that looks like a non-bifurcated version of this nestled into an article about the new face of homelessness, somewhere after the Matisyahu and Switchfoot interviews… (My ellipses are trying to connote irony, but about what, I’m not entirely sure). MHGS [...]

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"If I Read Your Play, Will You Promise To Stop Writing Them?"

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September 21st, 2009

This is my third year reviewing submissions for a playwrights’ residency program in NY. Every year I wait excitedly for my packet of plays to arrive in a giant manilla envelope. Then, every year my smile slackens upon reading the first line of the first play, wherein I remember that 4,999 out of every 5,000 [...]

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Time To Say Goodbye (Imagine this in an insipid Sarah Brightman voice)

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August 12th, 2009

Ian is moving to New York on Monday morning to start Columbia’s MFA prgram for dramaturgy. Ian’s parting is significant for me in many ways, not the least of which being that for 3 years, he’s been the one person I could really talk shop with here in Seattle as far as theatre/collaboration/avant garde/narrative studies/crazy [...]

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No, We Do Not Make Mojitos…

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August 10th, 2009

…but we do come up with clever cocktail tie-ins for every production. Here’s the batch from the last two shows at Intiman. The next show, which opens in two weeks, is gonna have cucumber martinis! My idea! (followed by collaboration on the recipe of course) The Clown CarPatrón Silver tequila Rose’s Lime Juice Splash of [...]

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I Never Really Blog About Theatre…

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June 11th, 2009

…mostly because it’s such a small world and one negative comment can easily make it back to the person you’re talking about, and I’m not really into that. I’ve had to spend years working on my ability to speak respectfully of shows I hate, whether its because I’m giving an usher speech, or because someone [...]

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Go To This

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May 17th, 2009

Urban Hymnal

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And They Spelled My Name Right Too!

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April 25th, 2009

Okay, this post is going to be grossly self-aggrandizing (but isn’t that what blogs are anyway?), but you see, I was bored and so I plugged my name into Amazon.com’s book search and tada! found myself in two published books. Yes- me, actually me. This cracks me up! Admittedly, I knew about one of them [...]

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Crime & Punishment Cocktails

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April 14th, 2009

It’s a new season at Intiman, which means a new selection of show-themed cocktails. Wasn’t hard to guess what we’d name the cocktails for the current production of Crime and Punnishment. The CrimeMuddled lime and blood orangeMandarin Orange VodkaTriple SecSpalsh of Sour MixShake and serve upDrop 1 count of Sloe Gingarnish with slice of blood [...]

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"We Don’t Develop Plays. WE DO THEM"

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April 13th, 2009

Just got Invivted to THIS. It’s days like this that I miss New York.

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