It's been a minute...

I know it’s been a while since I wrote a post. No excuses but lots of reasons. Fortunately, no emergencies. Just lots of… reasons. My creative mojo has been in the wind. The bit I did have has gone to producing the final two plays from the full-length work, Choices: A play in six chapters and it has been one of the most delightful experiences of my life.

Although I’d never produced anything until last year, I had the skills necessary from my checkerboard resume (thanks undiagnosed neurodivergence). It required both the hard skills I’d developed - PR and publicity, contract creation, negotiation, event planning, writing, and the soft skills - relationship building, a willingness to ask for what I need, and the ability to let go of the need to control.

I have been blessed with incredibly talented actors, an intuitive, insightful and amazing director, a fabulous logistics coordinator and everything else I’ve needed. It’s been super smooth and rewarding. Of course there were a few hiccups here and there, but my ability to trust that the right people would show up proved to be true.

The plays coming up are the climax and denouement of the entire piece, but were written to stand on their on as one-acts. Endgame asks what happens when you put the widow, the mistress and the illegitimate daughter in one room? The answer turns out to be head games, ugly truths and, even laughs! Freedom returns to the coffee shop patio where it all began with five characters from earlier chapters gathered after an AA meeting to debate whether love is really just science. Throughout the conversation, a long-kept secret begins to unfold, leaving some of them to navigate what is still unspoken.

From the beginning, I’ve committed to paying the actors with something besides food. For the first one, I had the balance of a small grant to use, but I had to get creative for the second two plays. It took a lot of negotiation with my ego, who didn’t think I had the right to ask people to pay money to see something I’d written, but I sold tickets and was able to pay everyone a small stipend. I’m doing the same thing for this show.

If you’re in town, you can see the performance by getting a tickets HERE. And if you’re in other parts of the world, you can get a ticket for the recorded version, which will be up on YouTube the following day HERE. All proceeds go to the cast and crew.

I hope you’ll consider supporting these talented people and theater in general. We need the arts to guide us now more than ever and I believe what I’ve written is a small piece that can help us evolve, no matter how ugly the process may look.

I promise to write about what’s been happening - trust me, you won’t believe a lot of it. Or maybe you will. I hope to have the ability after the show.

Thanks for reading!