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[Cross-posted from Blank Slate.] We had our closing performance of the show -- Lost and Found -- tonight. The house was more full than it had been for any of the other five performances, and the audience was great -- very receptive, they laughed a lot, and overall it ...

This'll be short because I don't have a lot of time. The show opens tonight! I was at the theater for nine hours last night for rehearsals and spent most of today working on designing and printing the scripts. The whole thing is exhausting and chaotic and ...

I'm tired. :) Life's pretty busy right now with the show and all (and we're going to try selling some scripts to see if there's any market for them, which means I've been typesetting them, which does take time -- although it's quite fun). Sorry to everyone whose ...

New Play Project's Lost & Found show opens this week, featuring seven short plays on religious themes, and it's going to be good. :) Yes, yes, I'm biased (I wrote one of the plays, Safe and Sound, and I'm assistant directing another, Prodigal Son), but it really will ...

[Cross-posted from Blank Slate.] Great post by Robert Starling (via Gideon Burton) on Mormon Renaissance yesterday, called High Expectations for Mormon Filmmakers. This part was particularly inspiring: In a “behind the scenes” portion Dr. Woodbury was recorded saying something that has guided my creative life. He had gathered ...

So, I'm doing Script Frenzy this month. I would blog about it on here, but I'm trying to move most of my writing/art/etc. posts over to Blank Slate, so you'll have to read about it there. :) (And cross-posting every other post feels lame. :P)

[Cross-posted from Blank Slate because I want to go to bed right now instead of writing a whole new post. :P] How do I write? Spurts (squeezed out by deadlines) have been most common for me, but I agree with David that a regular, set time each day is ...

[Cross-posted from Blank Slate because I'm lazy. :P] Earlier today Katherine posted "Toward a Mormon Renaissance" over at Mormon Renaissance (how fitting :)). It's an essay by James Goldberg, one he read at the beginning of New Play Project's "Thorns and Thistles" set of plays (which happened to ...

First, does anyone know if writing on your hand (in pen, of course) has any long-term side effects of the not-so-good variety? Second, it's really hard to get to bed on time -- so much to do (like all of these comments on here I need to respond to :)), so ...

A quickie: if any of you want to audition for Lost & Found (the festival in which my new play, Safe and Sound, is showing), here's when and where it'll be: Tuesday, March 11: 5:00–7:00 p.m. in D-341 HFAC Wednesday, March 12: 7:00–9:00 p.m. in F-430 HFAC Everyone's free to try out -- ...