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  • Directors Lab West: Day 1

    Here I am in Pasadena, already off to a racing start at Directors Lab West. This whole setup is just how I like it: 12 hour days of intense discussion, critical thinking, and passionate affirmation of the joy of theater.  And of course, we’re seeing 7 plays in our 8 days here. I haven’t even Read more

  • Ready to be a Radical

    The theme of this year’s Theatre Bay Area conference was “Activate Your World.” After a full, fast-paced day of impassioned debate, exciting connections and joyful reconnections, you bet I’m feeling “activated.” I’ve been buzzing all week, new ideas and old puzzles bouncing around in my brain. I spent most of Tuesday and Wednesday feeling like Read more

  • In Which Megan and I are Unabashedly Brilliant

    There’s something charmed about this Helen of Troy collaboration between me and Megan Cohen. We get together, we write, we talk, we drink tea, we try to figure out what to do next, we bring up issues we want to address in the text, the things we want to edit or write more about, we Read more

  • A Map of Helen’s Mind

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  • Disco Ball

    Halfway through our second month of writing workshops with Helen, I thought I’d share a little excerpt. I can’t give you much context for it, like what happens before or after; we just don’t know. Megan and I are writing this thing like a disco ball, collecting little bits that reflect something interesting, and sooner Read more

  • Gorgeous Actor Brains

    Very special thanks to Kirsten Broadbear and Sarah Moser for spending an inspiring afternoon with Helen of Troy and the things that Megan and I wrote down for her to say. It is so much fun to challenge the assumptions of the way I’m used to working. In many new play development processes, the playwright Read more