#15. The Critics – Should You Care? By Anna Nicholas Save a playwright, shoot a critic? Unwise; though many a playwright has thought about it. According to Bernardo Cubria, who helms a NY Theatre podcast called Off and On, “At some point in their lives, theatremakers develop hostility towards theatre critics.” To Bernardo I’d say, … Continue reading The Self Production Series with Anna Nicholas: #15 The Critics…
Writer Park Ji-Eun has turned plot conventions upside down in her hit series “Crash Landing on You.” What can playwrights learn from her technique?
by Chelsea Sutton I love a good monologue. My first full length play, 99 Impossible Things, was FULL of them. Too many, in fact. Far too many. I directed and produced that play in January and February of 2011, and at the time I was working at Garry Marshall’s theatre in the Valley. He read … Continue reading On Sea-Monkeys, Monologues + Producing Your Own Work
by E.M. Lewis I started writing Apple Season [Moving Arts‘ production opens July 13] about ten years ago, when I was living in Los Angeles. I was invited to write a ten-minute play on, as I recall, the theme of “backyard fruit.” As sometimes happens with a writing prompt, something unlocked inside of me when … Continue reading “Apple Season” Comes Home to LA
Meet LAFPI’s Persons of Interest – voices at the forefront of the movement, and artists working behind the scenes: Tiffany Antone, Jennifer Bobiwash, Debbie Bolsky, Robin Byrd, Elena Campbell-Martínez, Chris Farah, Kitty Felde, Diane Grant, Leelee Jackson, Janice Kennedy, Kristen Lazarian, Hannah Marie Lloyd, Elana Luo, Rasika Mathur, Alison Minami, Katherine Murphy, AR Nicholas, Nakasha … Continue reading FPI Profiles
Three Queens visiting Northeast LA. A good reason to head to Bootleg Theater. (As if you needed one!) Solo Queens Fest brings together three acclaimed solo shows playing in rep – Kristina Wong’s Wong Street Journal, Elizabeth Liang’s Alien Citizen: An Earth Odyssey and Valerie Hager’s Naked in Alaska: The Behind The Scenes True Story of Stripping … Continue reading The FPI Files: Solo Queens Fest @ Bootleg
#16. The Wrap—Lessons Learned, Settling Accounts and Moving On By Anna Nicholas Eventually, closing night will arrive. Your actors will take their final bows and the people who worked so closely with you to bring your play to life, will go their different ways. All the work, all those sleepless nights, the worry, the bleeding … Continue reading The Self Production Series with Anna Nicholas: #16 The Wrap…
#14. Getting to Opening Night or overcoming obstacles so you can have one by Guest Blogger Anna Nicholas Getting a play ready for an audience can be exciting, hard work, torturous, expensive and maybe even fun. But I don’t think it’s the producers who experience much of that last one. Understanding ticketing (the subject of … Continue reading The Self Production Series with Anna Nicholas: #14 Getting to Opening Night…
I’m finding I’m learning more about the writing from the other side of the footlights.
#12. Rehearsals – Or… Making it to Opening Night by Guest Blogger Anna Nicholas In the theater, things don’t always happen in a nice, sequential and unstressful order. And in Equity-waiver theatre—read low-budget—things not going as planned is the order of the day. Meaning a playwright doesn’t often have the luxury of a wonderful theatre … Continue reading The Self Production Series with Anna Nicholas: #12 Rehearsal…
