The play's the thing...

One of my proudest accomplishments was the publication of In Their Company: Portraits of American Playwrights, a "long-awaited compendium of the foremost writers of the American stage, captured through photographs and in their own words," that I completed a few years ago with my friend, the fantastically talented photographer Ken Collins. (And it wouldn't be a properly shameless plug without this link to where you can buy the book, which is here. The link, I mean. The link where you can buy it.)

Having the opportunity to sit down one-on-one with playwrights like Edward Albee, Wendy Wasserstein, August Wilson, and dozens of others, some of the creative people I have admired most in this world, and ask them why and how they do what they do was an honor and an incredible education. It was also a great compensation: if I wasn't going to be them, I would join as many of them as I could.

So I am particularly proud now to be able to announce that I soon will be a produced playwright myself. I found out this weekend that a short play I wrote was selected to be part of the 5th Annual Six-by-Ten Festival at the Barn Players Theatre. The dates are December 7-9, and I'll pass on more information when I know it.

In the meantime, for anyone out there who's ever actually said, "...but what I really want to do is direct," here's your chance. It would be an honor to work with you...