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Just got home from participating in the Black Swan Lab at Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Got to meet lots of wonderful people and jump into a new, new play. Did I mention it’s new? It’s very new. Hope that all the playwrights who are still there are having a ball and, just as a word to [...]
Several pieces of good news. Feeling thankful. I’m one of five winners of the 2011 Helen Merrill Award. My play Large as Life and Twice as Natural: A Status Update with Songs was a Finalist for the 2011 O’Neill Playwrights Conference I’m a Semi-Finalist for the P73 Fellowship. Keep chugging, Fortenberry.
Two readings this week of my play Species Native to California. On Sunday, a “GreenRead” at Theatricum Botanicum in their gorgeous tree house of a theater, and on Tuesday, a Beach=Culture presentation at the Annenberg Beach House, on the ocean during sunset. Both will be directed by Becca Wolff and feature: Ned Van Zandt, Monica [...]
It’s not a play, but an essay I wrote won the Real Simple Life Lessons Contest! Here’s the essay — it’s about learning to ride a bicycle (and some other stuff like grief). I’m excited about having the essay published and also pretty stoked for Real Simple to send me (I hope, I hope) to [...]
Many thanks to the Odyssey Theatre and everyone who was part of the Status Update team for a wonderful workshop this past weekend. Here’s the writeup in LAist. If I could, I would provide marshmallows to eat while reading it.
An interview I did with Theaterspeak for Good Egg. Includes bonus play recommendations and grad school advice!
And for those of you on the other coast, the world premiere of my play Good Egg will be this October at the Red Fern Theatre. All the information is here, including our lovely director, wonderful cast, and brilliant design team. This production has been a long time coming, and I am thrilled that it [...]
This weekend, the fabulous Chalk Rep opens its Flash Fest, a site-specific festival of short, brand-new plays, all taking place at the Mt. Hollywood Congregational Church in Los Feliz. There are 20 playwrights participating, including many Playwrights Union folk, and I am lucky to be one of them. My play, Jesus Loves You, Make A [...]
Just returned to LA from 2 glorious weeks at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference where, along with these amazing folks, I got to be a Fellow. Which, essentially meant, having a workshop with Beth Henley and Dan O’Brien, eating my monthly allotments of fried chicken and pulled pork, and learning what I need to do next [...]
For those attending the Playwrights Union reading on Friday, here is your packet.