This is the busiest week

Today marks the beginning of one of the busiest weeks I've had in ages. All good things, I'm happy to say, but still, it's going to run me ragged.

Today I drove to the Berkshires to have the rehearsal for my staged reading of The Triumph of Law, my ten-minute play. Tomorrow I will go back in the evening to film the reading itself for presentation on a local public access TV show called PlayCafe. The lady who runs the show was really good to me and found me a great cast, and the rehearsal went really well. I'm looking forward to the recording tomorrow night. The only downside is the driving, which I hate. Williamstown, MA is three hours away by car, and I had to go there and back today, and will have to do it again tomorrow.

Wednesday is our last rehearsal for our staged reading of Mrs. Hawking with Bare Bones. Then on Thursday the 11th we have our real performance, which begins at 8PM at 6 William Street, Unity Church in Somerville, MA. I really hope you can make it, because this is a cool piece that I'm very proud of, and I'm really honored to have this cast and crew representing it. There will be a talkback afterward, for discussion and feedback! Way cool!

Then this weekend is Festival of the Larps, one of my favorite weekends of the year. For the first time ever, I am not playing anything, but I am running lots. Friday night I will be there for The Prince Comes of Age, a wonderful game I loved when I was in the first run. Saturday morning is Agent Bobo of the Resistance, our award-winning Iron GM game, probably unlike anything you've ever played before. Saturday afternoon I'll be assisting natbudin to run A Garden of Forking Paths, another game I had a fantastic time in. And finally, on Sunday I'll be running Break a Leg, my funny short game about the dysfunctional theater troupe.

All good things. Here's hoping I don't collapse. 

GETTING PAID FOR A PLAY!

This is a good week for my pieces, apparently! I just got the news that my monologue "The Old House" is going to be produced at a festival called Queer Shorts in Madison, Wisconsin! When I originally wrote this piece as part of 31 Plays in 31 Days, it was about a lady talking to her late husband-- really, to herself --about her need to move out of their marital home in order to move on with her life without him. But when I saw a lot of calls for specifically queer-themed plays, I changed it so that the lady was actually talking to her late wife so I would be able to submit it. With the addition of a few extra details, I found I liked how it worked, maybe even better than originally.

Coolest of all, however-- I AM GETTING PAID FOR THIS ONE. Yes, for the first time ever, I am getting remuneration for the right to use my play for performance! It isn't much, only fifty dollars, but for a five-minute monologue from a completely unknown baby playwright who has never been paid for a play before, I am bowled over with delight. The only other time I've made money off of my writing was the one time I got paid to run my larp Alice in Chicago, and the peanuts I got for those fashion articles I was writing. And I guess with the theater reviews I'll be doing now. But I like this one best of all! One step closer to the pipe dream of making a living as a playwright...