Minutiae and Flux

A playwright and teaching artist navigating the big city.

Openings & Closings, Beginnings & Endings

CLOSINGS Yesterday, last meeting of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab’s season.  We still operate on a school year schedule/theater production company schedule, so it’s summer and school’s out.  As a kid, … Continue reading

June 12, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Summertime as a Teaching Artist/All the Time as an Artist

I think I might’ve written the last post because living with less is on my mind because now begins the desert times for Teaching Artists.  Unless you’re extraordinarily lucky and … Continue reading

June 8, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Poetry, Found Text and Birthdays in America

I promised I would try to start getting to things before they close so that I could tell people about them.  I missed it this time, and I’m sad about … Continue reading

June 2, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The Good Negro, Joe Turner’s and That Pretty Pretty

Been a busy couple of weeks teaching.  One of the benefits to what I do for a living is that I get to see some great theater for free, sometimes … Continue reading

March 27, 2009 · 1 Comment

Red Rover and The Stimulus Package

HARD WEEKS Last week was hard.  We have some of those weeks.  Running back and forth between different sites, with different teachers and students, we have some successes and some … Continue reading

February 16, 2009 · Leave a Comment