A play is a poem standing up. -Lorca The first assignment for my Short Plays class was to write 3 one-minute plays. I’ve tried to do this before, but I don’t think it clicked for me until the quote above from Lorca resonated with me. The point of a one-minute is to create a story…
Author: Conrad
Conrad's a San Francisco Bay Area Playwright. He loves long walks upon the concrete and rainy days. Aside from writing words for actors to regurgitate into an audience's ears and eyes, he loves sports, 90's R&B, and learning.
Odd duck – Becoming a Fil-Am Playwright
So school started and a couple of things have made me start to feel like an Odd Duck in my field. Let me preface this by saying that I am so proud and giddy with all of the works that my playwriting friends have been doing! I love seeing their announcements for their upcoming productions,…
31 Plays in 31 Days & a reading AURORA
So, I’m back to blogging, albeit for only a day. Actually, I should be saying that I’m back to writing again, but alas, not so the case and it’s really bumming me out. Now it’s one thing to say it (“I haven’t been writing lately.”) and another thing to do something about it. So, I…
Swift kick in the ass
Not really in a funk, but a lot of things have been happening around me that has put more of a focus on what I want, and will, be doing for the rest of my life. I just have this, I won’t call it drive… I have this passion to pursue a purpose–the purpose of…
Why We Love Flawed Characters…
When we sympathize with a character’s motivations for committing a heinous act, we’re likely to excuse that character’s actions. via Why We Love TV's Most Deeply Flawed Characters | Co.Create: Creativity Culture Commerce. I wish that this article was longer and told from a writer’s point of view, but I could see the pulling point…
By(e)line
Preface: My Dear Diary section is written in a stream, so what’s fished out below is still kinda stinky and slimy. I over-edit everything I write: scripts, procedure manuals, tweets… But that’s not the intent of what follows. I’m just trying to get some shit straight in my head. (And if I was editing, I’d…
Monologue Workshop Notes
My class had our Monologue Midterms yesterday. Besides being nervous as heck, I thought I did okay ONCE I was on stage and got past the first 15 seconds of my piece. What was cool was that there’s maybe 30-35 students in the class and one-by-one, we bared our page-written souls. It was a good…
Mister Rogers is my Dad… a monologue
Just wanted to share this piece I needed to write for my Monologues Class. Oh, and not only is it a writing class, we have to perform it too! I’m glad it didn’t have to be off-book because I got so nervous that I had blanked out a couple of times when we workshopped this…
The Living Room Play. Oh, that’s how one’s done.
So my class was invited to a friend’s house to watch Glen Berger’s UNDERNEATH THE LINTEL in his living room! There are only 6 people in my class so it was actually a perfect setting to experience my first Living Room Play. I’ve been reading about this unique theatre experience on a couple of other blogs…
GSP-Diaz UFC 158 Media Call Highlights
GSP-Diaz UFC 158 Media Call Highlights And Audio *Must Read* | UFC NEWS MMA News | Mixed Martial Arts | UFC News | BJPenn | MMA Fight | UFC Fights. If anything, this is a pretty good example of agression/power in dialog. I don’t need to listen to the presser to see the ebbs and…