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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.
Monday, June 14, 2004
The Monday After the Festival
The Playwrights' Platform Summer Festival is finally over. <sigh of relief/> I have been deeply involved in producing this festival, while also working to salvage my own play's production (as part of the festival), which had stalled with the loss of the director and two out of three actors. Between these two commitments, not to mention keeping my day job, the last couple of weeks leading up to the production have been extremely stressful. Fortunately, it all worked out in the end. We had a really good turnout, it was a very good set of performances, and the audience enjoyed themselves tremendously. On a more personal note, my play Hack the Vote was successfully staffed and rehearsed (in about four days!!), and it tied with Geralyn Horton's play Speed Dating With a Divorce Lawyer for the Playwrights' Choice Award... and I didn't even vote (honest).
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The Playwrights' Platform Summer Festival is finally over. <sigh of relief/> I have been deeply involved in producing this festival, while also working to salvage my own play's production (as part of the festival), which had stalled with the loss of the director and two out of three actors. Between these two commitments, not to mention keeping my day job, the last couple of weeks leading up to the production have been extremely stressful. Fortunately, it all worked out in the end. We had a really good turnout, it was a very good set of performances, and the audience enjoyed themselves tremendously. On a more personal note, my play Hack the Vote was successfully staffed and rehearsed (in about four days!!), and it tied with Geralyn Horton's play Speed Dating With a Divorce Lawyer for the Playwrights' Choice Award... and I didn't even vote (honest).