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  • play progress

    By some miracle, I opened up a script in progress I haven’t worked on since Dec. 2020 and turned out a couple of pages after my meditation/yoga today. FadeUp says I’m at 26 pages.…

  • Just a four-letter word

    At least this year he doesn’t have to spend hours looking for a Valentine’s Day card that doesn’t say “I love you.” Where you saw a red flag, I found a cushion.The words had…

  • My relationship status is:

    (first draft – may play with this one some more because it made me laugh – ag) My relationship status is: Haunted.Signing up for self-defense classes.Terrified of being alone for the rest of my…

  • excerpt: The Red Parts (Maggie Nelson)

    from Chapter 11“Simply put … I had become a broken heart. As winter moved into spring, then spring into summer, I found myself losing the man I loved. I was falling or had fallen…

  • the sudden intimacy of handwriting

    It threw me for a moment. Maybe longer. It was hard to tell with all the commotion the IT crew was making in the background of that first on-campus, in-person class, what exactly was…

  • Dear Mr. President and Madam Vice President

    On January 10, 2021, I wrote this letter as part of a nationwide letter-writing campaign, organized by Be An #ArtsHero in partnership with The Dramatists Guild of America, imploring the incoming administration to prioritize…

  • giving blood

    After seeing him today in the parking lot, eight months later …It’s clear I will never be “okay” again. Why should eyes be allowed to tear without our permission?What kind of genetic flaw is…

  • We Should All Be Arts Heroes

    As part of a Dramatists Guild campaign, I composed a letter to our incoming President and Vice President about the particular challenges facing theatre artists and the arts in general and how we must,…

  • AIE #teachingtips

    No one publishes their first draft. If you aren’t making “mistakes,” you aren’t writing enough. -ag