"transparency goes a long way toward rebuilding trust when it has been eroded or frayed."

Sunday Prompt:

Why You Should Call Yourself a Writer It's the essential first step on the path to becoming a published author

When do you start calling yourself a writer?
It's a rite of passage.
Lovely post here by @debbieyoung.bsky.social authordebbieyoung.substack.com/p/why-you-sh... #publishing #creativewriting #writinglife #authorlife

Okay, you got me, I wrote this four months ago. I thought about sitting on it another eight months so it would be timely again but...it's not so much about the date as it is the art.

April 10-May 24, 2026:
my play 12 OPHELIAS in Chicago.
Strawdog Theatre Company at The Factory Theater.

#TheatreSky

A yellow backdrop of a map of the USA, with pink/red spots on it to indicate active #MMIW cases. Green, red and purple curtains are on each side of it. The cast, listed left to right in the post above, wears traditional red ribbon skirts and shawls as they face the audience/house. (Rehearsal photo)

Congrats to this cast! So excited that the extraordinary, brilliant cast of FOUR WOMEN IN RED has just been nominated for Best Ensemble for the 31st NAACP Theater Awards in June! Congrats to (left to right): Harriette Feliz, Carolyn Dunn, Jehnean Washington, and Zoey Reyes! ❤️

when you see actors do that thing where they say a line very quickly bc they know that it doesnt work

here in Livestream theatre: The Pelicot Trial. by Milo Rau and Servane Decle. on Howlround. @howlround.bsky.social

mourning the passing of actor Mary Beth Hurt. so brilliant and incisive in so much of her work on stage and screen. fond memories of Crimes of the Heart, A Delicate Balance, Interiors, The World According to Garp, Chilly Scenes of Winter

Planner or a Pantser?

Sunday Propt:

Raymond Wintz - The Blue Door, 1927

Happy Spring Equinox from Inwood Hill Park! Photo is of purple crocus coming up between dead leaves.

Happy Spring Equinox from Inwood Hill Park!

Photo is of purple crocus coming up between dead leaves.

dear theatre, remember why we do this

when the prices of admission to see a play in a downtown basement in NYC are between $70 to $100...

theatre keeps making plans as if the climate crisis doesnt or wont ever affect them, their artists and audiences.

Acting Is Embarrassing Podcast Episode · Songs for the Struggling Artist · March 24 · 16m

Continuing #clown training discourse, mixed with feminist layers. This #podcast episode features a cover of a Sabrina Carpenter song called "Looking at Me" podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Hey, hey, so you know how writing blurbs isn't my favourite part of the writing process? I'm going to draft FOUR today 🙌

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#writingcommunity

Twentynine Palms: LAT "best of year", praised by Hunter Thompson, turns 25. Here's launch on BookTV. I talk about why I wrote it ("felt like I was struck by lightning") & why it took 10 years ("I move slow, like the desert, where it takes place"). @booksky.bsky.social
www.c-span.org/program/book...

dear theatre, an abridged version of my play THE NEXT 100 YEARS is in rehearsal at Lafayette College

Join Us! Women, Theatre and the Holocaust presented by Remember the Women Institute for Holocaust Remembrance Day. Four short plays, talkback,reception! April 14, 2026, 7 pm. JCC Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam, NYC, 7th Floor
LINK: www.mmjccm.org/event/women-..., TX: $10 in advance.

'PLAN C' Play Explores Covert Networks Across Time ReproFreedomArts.org, Cindy Cooper, Reproductive Freedom, Words of Choice, Abortion, Arts, Film, Theater, Activism, Arts Activism

'PLAN C' Play Explores Covert Networks Across Time
in NY now by Hook&Eye Theater. More on our blog ...

wordsofchoice.blogspot.com/2026/03/plan...

Celebrating young women in history.

my students today: "will we see art that tries to respond to or answer the crises of misinformation, climate change and wealth inequality?"

They want to ban books because books allow us to live many different lives in so many different ways, and the more we do that, the less susceptible we become to their lies and propaganda. Read so that you become ungovernable. Read so that you keep hold of your humanity.

Amy Madigan! first actor win ever for horror?

If we have learned nothing else this decade,
I think we can safely now say yes indeed you Can be too rich or too thin.