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My play Andrew Jackson ate my Homework: A Racial Farce will receive two readings as a part of Springboard at Cleveland Public Theatre

Springboard runs October 6 – October 23 in the James Levin Theatre and there are several great shows; my show is a double billing with Art and Werewolves by Cat Kenney and directed by Lynna Metrisin, who was in my play Patterns.

This play started out as an exercise I was doing from the book [amazon_link id=”0415491487″ target=”_blank” ]New Playwriting Strategies[/amazon_link] and used a combination of recorded or found dialog, historical characters, created character interactions, and pop music. It’s still taking shape, which is the point of Springboard, and I look forward to seeing it and hearing it and continuing the development process on this piece.

I haven’t posted in a while so I thought I better get on the stick, as painful as that sounds, and do something about it. 

I have been busy, nevertheless, as hopefully my list of activities will indicate.  I felt that just blowing out a list of activities will suffice and then I can enhance the description of each as necessary.

June

Attended the Dramatist Guild conference, Playwrights in Mind, at George Mason in Fairfax, Virginia.

Applied for, and was accepted to, the Devised Theatre class at CPT.

Applied for, and was accepted to, Springboard at CPT.

• Andrew Jackson ate my homework: a racial farce

July

Met with Peter Roth every Wednesday to discuss our proposed new theater and the notion of bringing live TV to theater… ha ha ha.  No, seriously.  Have been developing the story bible almost continuously this summer.

Attended the first meeting of the newly-born Bessemer Project: consisting of theatre artists, Rachel Baird, Michael Parsons, Peter Roth, Jaclyn Villano, Michael Geither, Michael Oatman, Michael Williams, Jarod Witkowski, Dan Riordan, Claire Robinson May, and myself.

August

Got a bite from Athena Theatre with a request for the full script for Lord of the Burgeoning Lumber (sent the synopsis two years ago!)

Applied for the Creative Workforce Grant through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture (hope the trend from June continues!)

Applied for an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist grant (hope the trend from June continues!)

September

Might be working with Jared Bendis on a written piece to supplement his work at Ingenuity.

I think that about covers it for now…