tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363667772024-03-10T11:32:57.530-04:00The YoungblogThe official group blog of Youngblood, the company of young playwrights at Ensemble Studio Theatre in NYC.Patrick Linkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13704171211589054157noreply@blogger.comBlogger454125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36366777.post-56777191726960621212015-05-17T14:57:00.001-04:002015-05-17T15:22:53.934-04:00Call for "Aliens of Extraordinary Ability" - share your photo!
Youngblood member Zhu Yi recently
published a book named “Alien of Extraordinary Ability”, edited by another Youngblood Kim Davies. The book is a
collection of Zhu Yi's short plays that have been performed between 2008-2015, but WHAT A STRANGE TITLE, isn't it?
“Alien of extraordinary ability”
is an alien classification used by the United States Citizenship and
Immigration Services. The Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01969752766984306988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36366777.post-78992121804923169192015-03-09T11:08:00.000-04:002015-03-09T11:08:34.259-04:00Unfiltered '15 *SISTERS IN BLIZZARD* by Emily Chadick Weiss
BUY TIX
March 5-14, 2015
It is New England's biggest blizzard yet and two grown sisters are snowed in alone together when the house is frozen shut. This is their chance to finally get closer or finally kill each other.
Directed by Liz Carlson
Featuring Diana Ruppe*, Mike Smith Rivera*, and Molly Ward
Artwork by Youngblood's own Patrick Link
First Reading in Emily Chadick Weisshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13907506610862135432noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36366777.post-66548937587284339682015-02-20T12:59:00.003-05:002015-02-20T12:59:49.535-05:00"THE SULLY'S" Top 20 Films of 2014There's a little award show on TV this weekend, but here you'll find the most esteemed awards in the biz, THE SULLY'S!
Below are my top 20 films of the year.
20. Inherent Vice
19. The Skeleton Twins
18. Obvious Child
17. The Babadook
16. Top Five
15. Gone Girl
14. Selma
13. Last Days in Vietnam
12. Whiplash
11. The One I Love
Christopher Sullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05845899113051035434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36366777.post-74917124124799417032014-12-23T14:55:00.000-05:002014-12-23T14:55:41.100-05:00Top Albums of 2014: 10-110. Hamilton Leithauser - Black Hours
9. Clark - Clark
8. Kevin Morby - Still Life
7. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2
6. White Lung - Deep Fantasy
5. United Nations - The Next Four Years
4. Protomartyr - Under Color of Official Right
3. Joyce Manor - Never Hungover Again/Joyce Manor
2. FKA twigs - LP1
1. Cloud Nothings - Christopher Sullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05845899113051035434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36366777.post-19773531294915668832014-12-22T11:51:00.002-05:002014-12-22T11:57:37.936-05:00Top Albums of 2014: Honorable MentionsHere's a few records that didn't make it into my top 30 but thought should get a mention. Some of these lean more towards the electronic, experimental, metal, or lesser mentioned rock. Here's ten, in no specific order.
Arca - Xen
Ben Frost - A U R O R A
Ricky Eat Acid - Three Love Songs
Aphex Twin - Syro
Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues
YOB -Christopher Sullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05845899113051035434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36366777.post-69331638958192548072014-12-19T15:57:00.001-05:002014-12-19T15:57:11.689-05:00Top 30 Albums of 2014: 30-11It was a weird year for music. There weren't a lot of GREAT albums, but going through what I listened to this year there was still quite a bit to like. Here's 30 I found in frequent rotation.
30. Whirr - Sway
29. Old Man Gloom - The Ape of God
28. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness
27. Cymbals Eat Guitars - LOSE
26. Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden
Christopher Sullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05845899113051035434noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36366777.post-58411469128915030572014-10-27T10:36:00.004-04:002014-10-27T11:09:40.380-04:00Halloween Plays and Bands at Silent Barn
Ghosts scare the shit out of me. Always have. I'm from supposedly one of the most haunted towns in America, and grew up hearing first hand ghost stories from sane friends and parents. I frequently slept over one friend's house where a family had burned alive during the 1800's, and another who's home was supposedly haunted by a widow waiting for her husband to come home from the War of 1812.
IChristopher Sullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05845899113051035434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36366777.post-91960015959010841092014-09-10T11:20:00.000-04:002014-09-10T17:52:57.524-04:00No Jazzin' Before the Rumble: 1960's Gangs and a Park Slope Plane Crash
"Hey Ponyboy, you know there's no jazzin' before the rumble!"
My friends and I repeated this line all day after watching The Outsiders film adaptation in 8th grade English class. I'm still not entirely sure what it means, I guess our hero, Ponyboy, was dissing somebody or fooling around before the epic brawl that was about to go down between the Greasers and the Soc's. More so than the Christopher Sullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05845899113051035434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36366777.post-84456985505972485862014-05-29T15:52:00.000-04:002014-05-29T15:52:43.758-04:00YOUNGBLOOD BENEFIT - LIVE FROM THE LOFT! Fri May 30It's springtime. The birds are singing. Kids are on their damn tricycles. Everyone's fallin' in love and stuff. This could all only mean one thing...Live From the Loft III is upon us!!!!! WHAT?!?!
Ticket link HERE: http://liveloftthethird.brownpapertickets.com/
Even if you can't come, you can still buy raffle tickets and support YOUNGBLOOD!
*Live From the Loft is a celebration of community Emily Chadick Weisshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13907506610862135432noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36366777.post-56477565288075700842014-02-10T19:02:00.000-05:002014-02-11T14:32:51.007-05:00In Memory of Philip Seymour Hoffman
When I think of him, this is the image that comes to mind. It's from the play Jack Goes Boating, and it hangs like a championship banner in the Labyrinth Theater Company offices, where I worked for the better part of five years. I met him on my first day. He was rehearsing that misunderstood Peter Sellars production of Othello at the company's old offices on 38th Street, Willie Orbisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18193278565167630227noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36366777.post-12363952243827650792014-01-29T00:04:00.004-05:002014-01-29T00:04:41.827-05:00Simple TruthsSometimes it's important to come back to the truths that matter.
YOU CAN BE HAPPY IF YOU'VE A MIND TO, DAMMIT.Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09852625035186174968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36366777.post-31181404469310024602014-01-16T08:50:00.002-05:002014-01-16T08:50:50.109-05:00
Tony’s last minute Oscar predictions!
Best Picture
12 Years a Slave
Gravity
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Nebraska
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Dallas Buyers Club
The Wolf of Wall Street
I would swoon if-
Fruitvale Station, Before Midnight, or Short Term 12 got nominated
Best Actor
Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave
Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club
Bruce Dern,Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36366777.post-8234384202110412632014-01-07T09:58:00.000-05:002014-01-07T09:58:04.442-05:00Roundoff Back Handspring into Youngblood's Sloan-Commissions with SILVER
First performed in June 2013 at Youngblood's Bloodworks reading series, now advancing to the National level:
SILVER
Tonight! January 7 at 7pm
Emily Chadick Weisshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13907506610862135432noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36366777.post-55269360407209113282013-12-19T14:19:00.001-05:002013-12-19T17:31:23.408-05:00Top 50 Albums of 2013: 10-110. Blood Orange - Cupid Deluxe
This record took a little while to grow on me, but once it did I couldn't stop listening. It's a smooth, passionate and sexy R&B record that feels quintessentially New York. I recently was listening to it crossing the Queensboro bridge and it felt very fitting watching the lights of Manhattan fade into the warehouses of Queens.
9. Superchunk Christopher Sullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05845899113051035434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36366777.post-226334525992991492013-12-17T18:08:00.000-05:002013-12-18T14:43:26.929-05:00Top 50 Albums of 2013: 30-11
Oops, I did it again. I miscounted and you get two number 30's this year.
(See what I did there, with the 'Oops, I did it again?' It's a song.)
30.5 Woe - Withdrawal
30. Action Bronson/Party Supplies - Blue Chips 2
29. The So So Glo's - Blowout
28. Heaven's Gate - Transmuting
27. Andrew Cedermark - Home Life
26. Mouth of the Architect - Dawning
Christopher Sullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05845899113051035434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36366777.post-3049990619256639162013-12-16T14:24:00.000-05:002013-12-16T14:38:52.747-05:00Top 50 Albums of 2013: 50-31I don't know why I do this. It feels crazy, all year long it feels crazy. I'm not a music critic, I just enjoy music, so why for the third year in a row am I agonizing over quantifying the thing I enjoy most in life? I guess because, although making this list takes up way more head space than it should (that could be used for, you know, writing) it's something fun. And it's nice to go back Christopher Sullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05845899113051035434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36366777.post-27334401599236202112013-10-16T15:39:00.002-04:002013-10-16T15:40:46.668-04:00Year of the Rooster
Alex Borinsky sometimes talks about writing a play for an audience of one.
When I was young, I walked to school with Mitch Howell (not his real name) and my brother David for probably ten or so years. And each day, we’d play this game.
Seven or so houses from me, there was a family with seven kids and an old broken down powder blue VW Bug sitting in their lawn. And on the way to and from Eric Dufaulthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638783701963998365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36366777.post-50216015388879012302013-08-26T11:58:00.000-04:002013-08-26T12:03:31.565-04:00Summer Reading 2013
Fair enough, it's a little late for a summer reading list. On the other hand, it's never too late to read. Here is a quick list of ten reads (plays and non-plays) that will expand the garden of your mind. Read all ten and it will be like installing a skylight in your living room--impressive and illuminating.
1. THE PARIS REVIEW INTERVIEWS - These are absolute gems and you can begin Patrick Linkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13704171211589054157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36366777.post-24275638971913713892013-06-24T14:35:00.000-04:002013-06-24T14:38:19.022-04:00Blogging Bloodworks: Dufault
I think I’m trying to be more honest about where things come from.
Anyway.
I really, legitimately loved newspaper comic strips when I was younger. Garfield. Fox Trot. For Better or for Worse.
But there was one comic (not in the newspaper) that when I was young I found really unsettling.
Richie Rich, you are such a fucking asshole.
And I really do find the comic Eric Dufaulthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638783701963998365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36366777.post-11939181023045535332013-06-20T16:02:00.000-04:002013-06-20T16:02:05.734-04:00BLOGGING BLOODWORKS: HillSince everything is a remix, here is an incomplete list of things I am biting from:
THE QUIET EARTH
directed by Geoff Murphy
I watched this in high school (stoned) and then just rewatched it a few weeks ago (not stoned) and it holds up. It is about the last man on the planet and how one would pass the time if there were no post-apocalyptic zombies to fight. It has smart (though sometimes Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36366777.post-69728197160570331602013-06-14T10:41:00.001-04:002013-06-14T10:41:12.924-04:00SILVER The Olympic DreamIn 2008 I knew I needed to be at the Beijing Olympics to watch the competition between the American and Chinese gymnasts. I got there, learned some Chinese, and saw it go down. I knew I wanted to write about it but I wasn't sure what to write. And then, everyone thought the Chinese gymnasts were too young.
A few months later I got a Sloan grant to write a ten-minute play for the Youngblood Emily Chadick Weisshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13907506610862135432noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36366777.post-361314752513031662013-06-12T08:30:00.000-04:002013-06-12T08:30:26.919-04:00Blogging Bloodworks: March / Link
As I get older, I find myself needing many reminders.
Today I had my phone remind me to pay my credit car. Later it will remind me what I'm doing this weekend of if I need to bring something with me. None of this is new information. I simply need to start reminding myself of things I already know.
Christmas in Queens is such a reminder.
For example, before I started working with Eric, I hadPatrick Linkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13704171211589054157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36366777.post-86634875412913943252013-06-11T11:48:00.000-04:002013-06-11T11:48:16.559-04:00Blogging Bloodworks: Blaisdell
Sometimes folks ask me where the impulse for a script originates. Most of the time, I shrug and mumble because I don’t really have an answer. But for once, with this play, I do. Ready gang? Specific catalysts include: a weekend trip to Sonoma that I took this past fall with my best bud; a Contemporary Civilization's essay I wrote on MacKinnon, Williams, and Woolf; a half-memory of Lydiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12853914777425052356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36366777.post-29886410475647240442013-06-04T13:32:00.001-04:002013-06-04T13:36:14.617-04:00Blogging Bloodworks: Borinsky
As my friend Eamon points out, it's easy to up your compensation if you're both CEO and chairman of the board.
Similarly, it's easy to up the glamour of your life if you're both living it and authoring your autobiography.
I guess the tricky question is, what happens when someone sets out to write your autobiography for you?
What's the analogy for that?
This play is for Ryan. Really.
It'sAlexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09852625035186174968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36366777.post-67865083435896297972013-05-22T13:44:00.001-04:002013-10-03T16:36:05.941-04:00Blogging Bloodworks: Snider
My Bloodworks is tonight! The actors and director are solid. Please come if you're able. At 7pm we have the fantastic "SCHOOL PLAY" by Tony Meneses. I've heard portions and highly recommend. We follow them at 9. Join us both for a crazy night of Bloodworks followed by the usual Youngblood fun.
HOW TO USE A KNIFE by Will Snider Directed by Jessie Mills Featuring Tim Cain, Hanna Cheek, Ethan Will Sniderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06084726708363733617noreply@blogger.com1