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Playwriting

Like most children who grew up with imaginary friends, I enjoy composing dialogues with myself. A lot of these dialogues get turned into plays. Some of them have even gotten produced. Because you might not have been able to see them, here are the highlights in reverse chronological order:

Vicious Virtue was produced by Barestage Productions and ran in March of 2008. The play is an inheritance comedy about two sisters, their language tutor, and an aunt who comes to visit on the eve of a will-reading. I now realize that this is a very morbid-sounding plot summary, but I promise it was (sort of) a comedy.

Arts critic Louis Peitzman reviewed Vicious Virtue quite favorably. You can read his review online here.

The Irreparables was also produced by Barestage Productions and ran in March of 2006. This play is another comedy, mostly about a young woman who comes home after some time abroad and realizes nothing is as she remembers.

I ended up winning the 2006-2007 Eisner Prize in Prose, a UC Berkeley campus prize, for The Irreparables. This was a huge honor and can be independently verified here.

A Marriage of Convenience, my first effort, was produced by the Theatre Charity Group in May of 2005. It went alright. The play is a one-act involving a ghost, a gardener, and a Pulitzer-prize-winning author – you know, the usual suspects.