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About Me :
I'm a grownup nerd living in the Boston burbs. I write computer programs for a living and plays for fun.
I'm married to a wonderful woman, and we share a nice little house with our daughter and our cats.
I'm a humanist, a technologist, an artist, and an idealist. I believe in reason, freedom, love, equality,
and democracy. (Did I mention that I'm
an idealist? I did, OK.)
I'm also a pragmatist and an empiricist. I reject ideology and dogma, especially when they conflict with
practical facts (i.e., pretty much always). I particularly hate willful ignorance, which tends to go hand-in-hand
with ideology and dogma.
Like the alignment of the planets, this blog gets updated as I have the time, inspiration, and inclination to do so.
Like the alignment of the planets, this blog gets updated as I have the time, inspiration, and inclination to do so.
Wednesday, April 28, 2004
A Busy Time
I haven't had much time left for blogging lately, but I have had lots of good news on the writing front:
Baker's Plays has finally gathered the plays from the 4th Boston Theater Marathon (back in 2002!), so my play Get Out Of My American Way will be published sometime later this year in their anthology.
Copland College in Australia is putting up a production of First Person Shooter this summer (I'm not yet sure of the exact dates).
Yellow Taxi Productions is filming my screenplay adaptation of Hack the Vote in June. It should prove to be a very interesting short film.
Hack the Vote will also be performed at the Playwrights' Platform Summer Festival in June, and at the Pregnant Chad 2004 Festival, sponsored by the Stormy Weather Players of New Windsor, NY, in August.
I just completed a new ten-minute play called Bits, which I like quite a lot, and I will be submitting it all around.
But what's really been taking my spare time recently has been my new full-length play, American Rex. We just read a rough first act of the play at Playwrights' Platform last Sunday, with a bunch of really great actors I was fortunate enough to get. I'm happy that a lot of it worked. Naturally, a lot of it didn't work, but that's what a reading is all about. I'll be spending at least the balance of the year rewriting the script and finishing it. (At which time it will hopefully be a tiny bit less relevant.)
I haven't had much time left for blogging lately, but I have had lots of good news on the writing front:
Baker's Plays has finally gathered the plays from the 4th Boston Theater Marathon (back in 2002!), so my play Get Out Of My American Way will be published sometime later this year in their anthology.
Copland College in Australia is putting up a production of First Person Shooter this summer (I'm not yet sure of the exact dates).
Yellow Taxi Productions is filming my screenplay adaptation of Hack the Vote in June. It should prove to be a very interesting short film.
Hack the Vote will also be performed at the Playwrights' Platform Summer Festival in June, and at the Pregnant Chad 2004 Festival, sponsored by the Stormy Weather Players of New Windsor, NY, in August.
I just completed a new ten-minute play called Bits, which I like quite a lot, and I will be submitting it all around.
But what's really been taking my spare time recently has been my new full-length play, American Rex. We just read a rough first act of the play at Playwrights' Platform last Sunday, with a bunch of really great actors I was fortunate enough to get. I'm happy that a lot of it worked. Naturally, a lot of it didn't work, but that's what a reading is all about. I'll be spending at least the balance of the year rewriting the script and finishing it. (At which time it will hopefully be a tiny bit less relevant.)