by Katherine Vondy I first got to know June and her writing as we were working on new plays together as part of The Vagrancy’s 2020-2021 Writers’ Group (though she had been involved with several Vagrancy productions before joining the Writers’ Group). Reading her pages that year, I was continually struck by her ability to … Continue reading The FPI Files: Talking a “Blue” Streak With June Carryl
by Jennifer Bobiwash So you just pitched an idea and now you have to write a play…Ahhh what do you do next??? First, find a copy of your submission so you can remember what brilliant idea you sent in. Next, find your notebook, notecards, and/or Google doc and re-read your pitch. Take a moment for … Continue reading Look up
by Jennifer Bobiwash I have many started drafts and a variety of folders organized with research of links on sites I need to visit, but it wasn’t until I started working on someone else’s project that it started making sense to me. My title is Cultural Dramaturg. What does that even mean? During the Pandemic, … Continue reading Asking questions
by Jennifer Bobiwash Re-writes. Where to start? A few years ago I wrote and performed a solo show. It took me a few different classes to finally figure out what all this writing was. Several notebooks and class 10-20 minute presentations saw me writing the same story several different ways, with different locations to start … Continue reading Looking back
ICYMI, the Academy Awards were last Sunday and all week I have been seeing post after post about Taika Waititi and quotes from his speech. “I dedicate this to all the indigenous kids in the world who want to do art and dance and write stories,” Waititi said in his acceptance speech. “We are the … Continue reading it’s storytime
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
First off, let me start by apologizing if you have “that” song stuck in your head. But it is something I have been thinking about lately. Letting go and just how you do it. After having some deep thoughts about what to write about next, I find old starts to plays that I never got … Continue reading Let it go!
by Jennifer Bobiwash I had forgotten the exhilarating feeling of enjoyment of writing. I have been working in a supervisory roll, meaning I sit back and wait for something to happen, and most days I literally just sat there. I could bring other work if I wanted, but I chose to sit there, glancing occasionally … Continue reading Done!
Ok, so you’ve finished a play. You feel super excite and ready to write more. You are wondering what the next project is and why you have not been doing this more. Then you get so excited that you start Googling and researching (which, let’s face it is your demise, because you get so into … Continue reading Let’s write! Right?
I like to call myself an accidental writer. I didn’t start out wanting to write plays, blog postsr essays, but I always wrote. I don’t know if I’ve told you this before, but I, up until recently, had a 3-inch binder full of hand written things on different sizes paper with different incarnations of my … Continue reading Where is the end?
