Next Meeting: Oct. 3rd reading of Playwright Chris Shaw Swanson

Internationally produced playwright Chris Shaw Swanson will be having three of her new short plays read on Oct. 3rd.

Actors Jane Mowder, Theresa Nolan, Rick Napoli, and (hopefully) Amy Talbott will be reading for Chris.

Where: Upper Arlington Library
             28oo Tremont Blvd
             Upper Arlington, Ohio
              Conference Room B

When: 1:45pm to 4:45pm

Refreshments, finger foods, and feedback will be served. After the readings and feedback sessions we will be having a group conscience (time permitting).

Pictures: Sept. 12th meeting - Oh and, Thank You.

I wanted to thank the actors Rick Napoli, Kristina Kopf, Dan Welsh, Ellen Knolls, Angela Cutrell, Isaac Gephart, and last but not least, our playwright Rose Ann Kalister for a great reading. Thank you.

Sean Christopher Lewis: KILLALDELPHIA

We had the honor of having an out-of-town award winning playwright come to our meeting on Saturday (Sept. 12). Sean's appearance was a little last minute. However, everyone at the meeting enjoyed his talk. I wish he could have talked longer. (We had a 90 page play to get through before the UA Library closed...)

Sean shared his experiences from his graduate school at Iowa State and getting to participate in the O'Neil Playwright Conference. He also touched upon what he would expect out of a group like ours if he were going to have one of his pieces read.

Sean will be having his play KILLADELPHIA performed at Junctionview Studios September 24-27. Matt Slaybaugh, the Artistic Director, from Available Light Theater will be directing the play. I will be organizing a group of us to go see the play on opening night (Sept. 24). Some of Sean's other work includes The Aperture and Militant Language. I look forward to him participating with our group in the future.

If you are interested in joining us on September 24, let me know.

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Congratulations

The Echo Productions Team from the Columbus 48 hour film project which included Amy Talbott and Scott Summit from Pale Imitations won Best Picture (among other awards) for their submission, Imagine This. These guys hit it out of the park and their hard work paid off. Congratulations. You can see it here. I wish them success during the next round.

If This Blog Was My Child...

I would have been arrested for child neglect. The blog would have been found locked in a basement closet, high on cough syrup, and malnourished consuming the only sustenance available, cockroaches. I also have read that your not supposed to post "Where have I been" posts but what am I supposed to do with all this guilt and shame I feel for neglesting my blog... my audience. Oh, the horror!

Well, the short answer is I have been busy. Is that good enough? Probably not. The long answer entails me going into the details of being a caregiver for elderly parents, a parent, unemployed, and organizing this group all on my lonesome. Not to mention, if I am going to write, I would rather work on my own scripts than to write on this blog. So there.

I'd be curious to know what obstacles get in the way of you working on your blog? How do you deal with your creative guilt or lack of productivity? Or, more precisely, How do you deal with it constructively?