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If a joke doesn't get a laugh during the first preview and then fails to get a laugh on the second preview, but then on the third previ...

September 19, 2011 Willie : oh hey unfiltered!   me : ah    yes 3:58 PM  Willie : that's awesome!   me : thanks!   Willie ...

Once upon a time, Eric "Dufoxy" Dufault, Ryan “The Disembowler” Dowler and Jen Silverman were sitting over a manly feast...

F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said ‘There are no second acts in American lives.’ As a playwright, I wish this were true.   Not only be...

--> There are many, many reasons to love Youngblood’s ASKING FOR TROUBLE, which opens tonight at EST at 7pm, but for me it co...

Part Seven: On Saying Goodbye The Final Chapter - a short story - in which the 13-year-old me imagines what it will be like to be the ...

I have been to playwriting utopia and it is The Kennedy Center! The things I was given include train rides (a business class seat), a hotel ...

Summer is Youngblood's off-season, the time where we prepare mentally and physically for the season ahead. As a dedicated athlete wil...

Last night Nora Ephron passed away. I don't know about other  female comedic writers out there, but I have felt really sad about this. I...

Can you hear that? It's not the sound of thunder. It's the clamoring sound of the regret you will feel if you miss the FINAL NIGHT O...

Five years ago, two guys I went to high school with and another guy kidnapped a fourth guy and drove him to a pizza place, where he escap...

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13 7pm  2nd Fl of The Ensemble Studio Theatre My Bloodworks Reading: GOOD DANCER is the story of a wealthy disabled ...

I’ve only taken out one personal ad in my life. It happened before I was old enough to drink. “SWM (19) seeking Anne Frank t...

When I was 12 Pete Jenesen power bombed me through a table. It was terrifying and exhilarating. That's not as gay as it sounds. Couc...