CW: suicide ideation, self-harm Yesterday, my cat died. I wanted to write a blog post about first drafts and how I feel like people just aren’t as excited by them and I don’t know why…but then my cat died in a pretty traumatic way. (She was only five.) I very frankly told a close friend…

I’m going to get in trouble for this one. For as long as I can remember, I have always been very, very, very into awards and titles. I haven’t always been good at deciphering if I wanted something because I actually wanted it or I felt like I was supposed to want it. I was…

It’s funny to me that I had told myself I wouldn’t write a post in April and this is now my third. I feel like stories have been pouring out of me honestly. I went January through most of April without being able to write anything. Then suddenly, I was able to finish Baby, Goodbye…

While people are paying attention to me for my 15 minutes, I figured the best thing to do would be to write another list of 20 plays you should know about written by Black and/or queer playwrights 🙂 Why Are You Like This? by Sharai Bohannon A Medusa Thread by Candrice Jones As Is: Conversations…

I always wondered when I’d finally use the name of the blog as a blog post. My instinct was to wait until I knew it would be my last post. And maybe I should’ve held out but now feels like a good moment to return to the very tongue-in-cheek title of this blog. (Also, I’m…

I like to joke and say if you were my friend in 2014 – 2016 and you’re still my friend now, you’re a real one. Those two years were rough for me. For part of it, I was getting my MFA in playwriting, not sure I actually wanted to be a playwright. I was also…

Exactly a year ago today, I wrote Dancing On Our Own about it finally hitting me that the pandemic was 100% real and going to change absolutely everything. And it did. Depending on how you count it, up to four canceled productions. Had to leave my job. And move yet again across the country for…

CW: mentions suicide I’ve been thinking a lot about this idea of “hitting your prime.” Hannah Gadsby has a GREAT deconstruction of the idea of women in their “prime” in the special NANETTE. It’s definitely worth watching and I won’t try to summarize it here because I won’t do it justice. Frankly, it always felt…

Before I get into it, I want to say how surreal it is to even be in this situation. But since two playwrights recently accused me of “humble bragging” I want to say I’m honestly just trying to process where I’m at in my career and to do that, I have to talk about my…

It’s kind of incredible to have a day off. Between now and April 30, I am workshopping Black Mexican, As You Are, and Good Bad People. I am also working on directing Adored You right now, directing As You Are in March and April, prepping for the virtual world premiere of Black Mexican, and editing…