Hi Friends, I wrote a book about playwriting that will be coming out in late August from Applause/Rowman.  Here is their description-- preorder here Letters to a Young Playwright Practical and Impractical Advice on the Art of Playwriting ADAM SZYMKOWICZ Adam Szymkowicz is that rarest of things: a working playwright. At a time when the entire business model of American theatre seems on the verge of implosion—and most dramatists survive only through soul-sucking day jobs, the largesse of patrons or their own families, or writing for television—Szymkowicz has carved out a distinctive ..read more

 Hi folks! Clown Bar 2 (Don't worry if you didn't see the original) will go up at the Parkside Lounge as part of fringe starting April 14.  Just a few performances but I hope we will be able to  add some more.  (This is the same venue where the original Clown Bar was done by Pipeline 11 years ago.) https://www.tdf.org/shows/21540/clown-bar-2 Produced by SparkPlug Productions, Directed by Andrew Block, starring Sean Leigh Phillips, Rebekkah Ross Lee, Christopher Le Crenn, Christopher Lee, Kelley Rae O'Donnell, Chris Cornwell, Kim Bollard, Nadel Henville, Catie Marron ..read more

Did a podcast with Erin Mallon, My Job Is To Play It was a lot of fun.  Here's a clip. Link below to the full conversation. https://www.buzzsprout.com/2244660/14066528  https://tinyurl.com/42xzy2nr --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Enter Your Email To Have New Blog Posts Sent To You ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Support The Blog ..read more

Hi All, If you're in NY or NJ, come see my play, The Christmas Tree Farm.  Directed by Rachel Dart.  Amazing very funny cast.  It's less than 10 min bus ride from NYC. https://milesquaretheatre.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/events/a0S6T00000tCfZDUA0 Nov 30-Dec 23.  Nov 30 is Pay What You Can. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Enter Your Email To Have New Blog Posts Sent To You ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Support ..read more

Paola Alexandra Soto Hometown: I was born in and grew up in an impoverished community in Santo Domingo the capital of the Dominican Republic. Although at the time I did not realize how poverty stricken the community I lived in was because my family gave me all that I needed. Though I must admit that recently I have become preoccupied with how I was potty trained when the shack I lived in had no indoor plumbing and only had access to one dilapidated wooden outhouse that we shared with another dozen or so families. This was in the 80s and 90s when the internet existed. Current Town: Wh ..read more

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Hi everyone!  Happy New Year or soon to be New Year!  Here is the photo we take in front of my parents' tree every year. This year we went camping twice, visited VA and Cape Cod both twice.  I was in Los Angeles for a week for meetings.  I was in Vegas for a week for the premiere of Clown Bar 2. I was also in the Bay Area for a silent writing retreat with Erik Ehn for a week.  During that week, I wrote about half of my output for the year.  Those retreats really work for me.  Every day was like half a month of normal writing time.   Writingwise ..read more

Photo Credit:Seina Shirakura Photography Julia B. Rosenblatt Hometown: Hartford, CT Current Town: Back in Hartford! Q: Tell me about Can't Make This Sh*t Up A: About two months ago Tjasa Ferme introduced me to Transforma Theatre and The Science in Theater Festival. While I believe in science thoroughly, (which is actually something one has to make explicit these days), I am terrifyingly intimidated by the subject. My freeze response kicks in and I assume I am incapable of understanding any of it. So when Tjasa said she needed a play about an eco-toilet connected to a laboratory that ..read more

TyLie Shider Hometown: Plainfield, New Jersey Current Town: Minneapolis, Minnesota Q:  Tell me about The Gospel Woman. A: The Gospel Woman is a traditional American family drama set in a 1970’s Baptist church. It’s a kind of tribute play that I built around a gospel record my mother recorded when she was a teenager. Lastly, it’s the 2nd installment in my “Mom & Pop plays,” which are a set of companion plays that I wrote based on the original music my parents recorded growing up. I wanted to concretize and honor their ambition, because their ambition led to my professional amb ..read more

photo by Melinda Hall @snappynyc Emma Goldman-Sherman Hometown: Philadelphia, PA Current Town: New York City Q:  Tell me about FUKT. A:  FUKT was written in a few days from a prompt from Aaron Sawyer when he was the AD at Red Theater Chicago and ran the Write a Play a Day for the month of November back in 2017. For anyone who has forgotten what happened in October of 2017, a lot of women came forward in the news with histories of sexual abuse, and the world questioned their veracity. I like to write fast, especially hard material, and then revise slowly. I think it's imp ..read more