Michael C. O'Day. (@michaelcoday) Bsky

New blog post is up! (I was going to let everybody know yesterday, but got distracted by, y'know, Demogorgons and stuff.)

michael-c-oday.com/lifespan-of-...

4 months ago 1 0 0 0

Hey, I love pop scifi, crass commercialism, and shameless media plugs as much as anybody - but why the f%*k was there a Demogorgon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?
#MacysThanksgivingParade #ItsADemogorgonDammit

4 months ago 3 0 2 1

Up To Date in Kansas City - Michael C. O'Day A few weeks ago now, I was fortunate enough to have my work featured at the Midwest Dramatist Conference, and make my first trip to Kansas City. (If you weren’t able to travel out to Kansas City your...

New blog post is up!

michael-c-oday.com/up-to-date-i...

5 months ago 0 0 0 0

Halloween Night at the Movies - Michael C. O'Day Halloween fell upon a Friday this year, Constant Reader, and so, as I write this Sunday night, New York City is staggering towards the end of a three-day weekend of phantasms and debauchery. I’ve bee...

Haven't forgotten you guys! New blog post is up.

michael-c-oday.com/halloween-ni...

5 months ago 1 0 0 0

What I Have the Bandwidth For Right Now - Michael C. O'Day I was wracking my brain about how to address this week’s latest atrocities, the weaponization of the FCC to shut down Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night program on ABC for criticizing the current administratio...

Apparently it's a moot point (temporarily) as of tomorrow night (yay!), but anyway...new blog post is up! Next one of these will be sometime mid October.

michael-c-oday.com/what-i-have-...

7 months ago 1 0 0 0

In Which I Discover How to Add Umlauts to Posts - Michael C. O'Day I’ve been a bookworm since childhood, and I’m an academic by training. So research is always a critical part of the process for whatever creative project I’m working on – and indeed, my love of that ...

New blog post is up!

michael-c-oday.com/in-which-i-d...

7 months ago 0 0 0 0

Back to the Park - Michael C. O'Day It has been two years, since it was shuttered last year for renovations, but the Delacorte Theater in Central Park is open once again, and a new production of Twelfth Night has opened as part of the P...

New blog post is up!

michael-c-oday.com/back-to-the-...

7 months ago 1 0 0 0

In Which I Celebrate What I Can While I Can - Michael C. O'Day For the past month and a half or so, I’ve been wrestling with a particularly recalcitrant rough draft. It’s a two hour (I hope), four-act chonker roughly modeled after Chekhov (as transplanted to Gre...

New blog post is up!

michael-c-oday.com/in-which-i-c...

8 months ago 1 0 0 0

Take THAT, you stupid rough draft, do you hear me? That's what you get! THAT'S WHAT YOU GET!
#NoContextForYou
#ButImIWriterSoYouCanProbablyGuess

8 months ago 0 0 0 0

A Disjointed Blog Post For Disjointed Times - Michael C. O'Day It’s been another two weeks of chaos and heartbreak the world over – but a period of time in which, perhaps paradoxically, the power of the arts has been reaffirmed. The Late Show With Stephen Colber...

It's not much of a blog post, but it's up!

michael-c-oday.com/a-disjointed...

8 months ago 0 0 0 0

YOYOs 2 - Return of the Signal Boost - Michael C. O'Day Back in November, I blatantly avoided writing a blog post during a period when I was frantically trying to finish drafting a project by signal boosting a film project done by some friends of mine. Th...

New blog post is up!

michael-c-oday.com/yoyos-2-retu...

9 months ago 0 0 0 0

Public Service Announcement - Michael C. O'Day There’s a number of hard lessons you’ll need to learn if you’re serious about being a playwright, or actor, or any other creative artist, primarily dealing with the inevitability of rejection. One of...

New blog post is up!

michael-c-oday.com/public-servi...

9 months ago 0 0 0 0

All Over the Map - Michael C. O'Day It seems like we only just started (and indeed, I only posted a news item about it last week), but the run of Naya James’ 60/40 is now concluded. It was a terrific experience, working on a scarily re...

New blog post is up!

michael-c-oday.com/all-over-the...

10 months ago 1 0 0 0

60/40 - New York Theater Festival * by Naya James Sonnad * * * * MONDAY June 9, 2025 @ 6:30 PM WEDNESDAY June 11, 2025 @ 9:00 PM SATURDAY June 14, 2025 @ 6:45 PM * * * Blurb 60/40 is a 7-day race to save humanity, told in 7 scenes abo...

This is a show I'm in, and tonight's opening night! #OrMaybeOpeningAfterDinnerTheatricalExperience #630ShowTime

newyorktheaterfestival.com/60-40/

10 months ago 1 0 0 0

Broken Clocks, Etc. - Michael C. O'Day It’s been a busy few weeks, Constant Reader. I’m in rehearsals for a new show, and shortly about to start teching. I’ve been fortunate enough to collect a few lovely NPX recommendations. All of the...

New blog post is up!

michael-c-oday.com/broken-clock...

10 months ago 0 0 0 0

Smoke Gets In My Eyes - Michael C. O'Day I had it settled, more or less. Barring the complete destruction of everything (which is entirely possible these days – thanks a LOT, resurgent fascism), my creative projects for the foreseeable futu...

New blog post is up!

michael-c-oday.com/smoke-gets-i...

11 months ago 0 0 0 0

Well, Here We Go - Michael C. O'Day I took a trip on Saturday out to New Jersey, to the private residence of a friend of my classics reading series, to have a private soiree complete with readings. (My oh so glamorous life, Constant Re...

If you're following NYC actors on this app, you've probably seen dozens of these already. Here's mine - new blog post is up.

michael-c-oday.com/well-here-we...

11 months ago 0 0 0 0

Out of Order - Michael C. O'Day Well, we still seem hell-bent on rushing headlong into fascism and dystopia, economic and environmental calamities appear to be right around the corner, and (most galling of all, perhaps) the various ...

New blog post is up!

michael-c-oday.com/out-of-order/

1 year ago 1 0 0 0

New blog post is up!

michael-c-oday.com/i-mean-the-o...

1 year ago 0 0 0 0

I'm Back, Baby! - Michael C. O'Day At some point during the pandemic, Reproductions Studios in New York closed its doors. It was the go-to location for actors needing mass duplication of their headshots, a spacious office off of Bryan...

Sorry it's been a while, but I didn't forget about you all! New blog post is up:

michael-c-oday.com/im-back-baby/

1 year ago 1 0 0 0

World of Pure Imagination - Michael C. O'Day It’s been a month since I had a developmental reading of my play Mycorrhizae, through the auspices of Naked Angels’ First Mondays program, and I’ve had a lot to think about since then. That’s what th...

New blog post is up!

michael-c-oday.com/world-of-pur...

1 year ago 0 0 0 0

Posts by Michael C. O'Day.