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Oct 31, 2022

The Free Ride Mystery

The Free Ride Mystery October 30, 2022, 10:51 pm Filed under: community, Healthcare | Tags: cops, healthcare workers, Mystery, police officer, quirky artists, scrubs, Subway, turnstiles When I ran my Metrocard through the turnstile, it came up Insufficient Funds and I frowned and looked around for the machines to fill…

Mystery

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The Free Ride Mystery
The Free Ride Mystery
Mystery

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Oct 25, 2022

Making Shakespeare Accessible

Making Shakespeare Accessible October 24, 2022, 10:08 pm Filed under: art institutions, education, Shakespeare, theatre | Tags: access, accessibility, Arts Education, arts institutions, education, fiction, hip-hop, literature, Marvel movies, Shakespeare, theatre In an interview about my work in Shakespeare education, I was asked what we did to make Shakespeare accessible…

Shakespeare

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Making Shakespeare Accessible
Making Shakespeare Accessible
Shakespeare

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Oct 18, 2022

A Visit from the TikTok Fairy Godfather

A Visit from the TikTok Fairy Godfather The video made me cry. It was clearly meant to — and it succeeded. It’s the one where the young man asks the stranger — an old man with his walker — if he’ll go to Disneyland with him and they go to…

Generosity

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A Visit from the TikTok Fairy Godfather
A Visit from the TikTok Fairy Godfather
Generosity

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Oct 10, 2022

Playwright in a Novel, Playwright in a Film

Playwright in a Novel, Playwright in a Film This book I’m reading is not the first book to do this, but it is the latest and it is enough of a trend that, when it happened in this book, I may have said, out loud, “Oh no, not this again.” …

Playwrights

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Playwright in a Novel, Playwright in a Film
Playwright in a Novel, Playwright in a Film
Playwrights

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Oct 3, 2022

Your Work Isn’t Trash

Your Work Isn’t Trash October 3, 2022, 1:39 am Filed under: art, Creative Process, theatre, Visual Art | Tags: art, Artist, garbage, research and development, storage unit, theatre, trash My storage unit was filled with show shit. That is, it was full of props, set pieces, costumes, puppets, mask molds…

Creative Process

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Your Work Isn’t Trash
Your Work Isn’t Trash
Creative Process

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Sep 22, 2022

In Which I Read that Dragon Book, Part Two

In Which I Read that Dragon Book, Part Two September 21, 2022, 11:09 pm Filed under: anger, writing | Tags: Barnhill, children’s book, copyright, dragons, librarian, When Women Were Dragons, women, writing, writing for children, YA This is part two of my journey of reading When Women Were Dragons. If…

Dragon

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In Which I Read that Dragon Book, Part Two
In Which I Read that Dragon Book, Part Two
Dragon

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Sep 15, 2022

In Which I Read That Dragon Book

In Which I Read That Dragon Book September 15, 2022, 6:09 pm Filed under: Creative Process, feminism, writing | Tags: book, copyright, dragon, Dramatists Guild, ideas, Kelly Barnhill, stealing, The Dragoning, When Women Were Dragons August 30th 2022 In a wave of curiosity, I put myself on the waiting list…

Dragon

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In Which I Read That Dragon Book
In Which I Read That Dragon Book
Dragon

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Sep 7, 2022

I Also Know Victoria’s Secret

I Also Know Victoria’s Secret There’s a song by a young woman, that has emerged via Tik Tok, that is extremely popular, called “ Victoria’s Secret.” In it, she (she goes by Jax) reveals that the secret of Victoria is that she was made up by a dude. It’s a…

Victorias Secret

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I Also Know Victoria’s Secret
I Also Know Victoria’s Secret
Victorias Secret

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Aug 28, 2022

Thinking About Respectability in Law and Theatre

Thinking About Respectability in Law and Theatre Mostly I don’t worry about respectability. I’m aware that I work in fields that lack a certain respectability and that by operating at the margins, I do not rank high on a lot of people’s respectability scales. I notice it particularly in the…

Acting

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Thinking About Respectability in Law and Theatre
Thinking About Respectability in Law and Theatre
Acting

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Aug 21, 2022

Gluttons for Our Doom

Gluttons for Our Doom You will likely not be surprised to learn I was crazy for the Indigo Girls in my youth. When I learned to play guitar, it was Indigo Girls’ songs that I particularly focused on. I didn’t learn the entire Nomads, Indians and Saints songbook but I…

Generation X

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Gluttons for Our Doom
Gluttons for Our Doom
Generation X

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Emily Davis

Emily Davis

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Theatre Artist, writer, blogger, podcaster, singer, dreamer, hoper

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