ok, so I suck at this updating the blog thing.

perhaps if I didn’t get so many comments from porn sites and credit card solicitors -  playwright obsessives where are you?  Writing plays, perhaps?

Anyway -  a busy summer - fraught with tonsillectomies, adenoidectomies (Julia), sinus infections (me) and breakthrough articles in the LA Times and Entertainment Weekly (Mike), stolen computers and thoughts of moving (on and on).

But - back on the playwriting front - or rather the playwriting rewrite front.  Since the workshop of …And the Two Romeos at the Victory Theatre in Burbank in May I’ve been contemplating the next step of the rewriting process - how should this play should be reshaped?  It seems to be a shift of emphasis needed, how do I execute that?

Then spent a chunk of summer days (drifting away) rewriting Birds for the workshop Rorschach Theatre did before the Kennedy Center Page to the Stage Festival (ok - how exciting is it to have a reading at the KENNEDY CENTER!!!) (and how to celebrate the official end of summer, Labor Day weekend) where Wendy McClellan and I got to dig into it again.   Amazing Jessi Burgess kindly lent me her place and I got to stroll around Adams Morgan a bit between being playwright - the fun thing about going sans family was that I got to delve into rewriting and got so much more done that I would have thought possible.  The cast was really helpful and Jenny and Randy (artistic directors) are just so enthusiastic about making theatre.   From the moment I walked into their space - a theatre created out of an old church -  I knew it would such an amazing place for BIRDS.  But now, post reading, post a big old technological conference call with Randy and Jenny and Wendy, I am back in the rewrites again, making pass after pass, trying to find a way in to addressing all my thoughts, all the notes, everything that didn’t ring right, without losing anything that did….

And now, tomorrow, off to NYC so Wendy and I can receive the 2006 Women working Women Collaboration Award from the New York Coalition of Professional Women in the Arts and Media on September 18th.  Birds being our third collaboration together (first impenetrable, then Goody Fucking Two Shoes) this is just such a cool honor…and a big celebration at the Cherry Lane….

so why am I finally blogging at 12:33 in the morning?