the close of one chapter calls for the opening of another.
may 1 /09 marks the day that my new novel DREAMING IN DAYLIGHT from [blocpress] will be published. It hopefully will hit Amazon soon after. i hope that it will be linked to my other book YOUR NAME HERE; AN ACTOR WRITERS GUIDE TO SOLO PERFORMANCE.
it has been a year of change and chapters.
leaving the years of marriage and full time motherhood behind now and trying on the shifty jackets of new identity.. or maybe picking up where i left off so many years ago. i spent the last year finding my balance, finding my new voice and honoring my marriage with the writing and workshopping of my new play STALKING YESTERDAY. it was read at EST/LA as part of WINTERFEST, and will be read April 19 in a “green” reading at Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga , CA. Then, again, 21 April, 7:30 PM at EST NY on the 6th floor.
BOUNTY OF LACE has been honored with the 2008 Religion and Theatre Award thru ATHE this year and the HALCYON THEATRE (www.halcyontheatre.org) in Chicago will include it in their Alcyone Festival with some wonderful playwrights. I met Betty Shamieh, a strong young Palestinian American Playwright, at this past weekends STAGING THE MIDDLE EAST conference at UC Riverside. The group convened to talk about the issues of communication in this red hot part of the world. Particularly exciting was a reading of a collaborative work developed by Motti Lerner and a diverse group of theatre professionals including colleagues Roberta Levitow (Theatre Without Borders) and Torange Yeghezarian (Golden Thread Productions).
Oh, and a short piece on Miss Burns, my beautiful second grade teacher, is being included in THE ULTIMATE TEACHER collection from HCI Publications coming out soon. You can find it on Amazon as well.
In this blog, I hope to keep you up to date about my work and also ruminate a bit about living on in joy and grace.
I hope we can share this adventure together.
Blessings.