I’m the Pollyanna and it kills me. In 2004, I was in my third year of grad school, studying theatre directing. My thesis production was of an Irish play about two warring brothers and the priest who tries to reconcile them. In a certain way, it amounted to a very expensive diary entry. I watched [...]
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My screenplay was selected as a finalist in the Oaxaca Film Festival this November. I couldn’t be more thrilled. Oaxaca has meant a lot to people I love for years. I knew one day I’d go and now I have the best reason in the world! As part of the application, I needed to submit [...]
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Having been invited to San Francisco by good friend Michael Hoch, now the Executive Director of Killing My Lobster, a brilliant sketch comedy concern founded by many of my brother’s friends from Brown University, I endeavored to condense a couple of my monologues from Low Tide last summer into tight five minute routines. I had [...]
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Marion Friedman is one of my favorite people. She and I were roommates at Yale in my final year, and on Saturdays — when it was time to clean the apartment — she would announce the “gettin’ it done montage,” put on music, and we would scrub like we were on page 62 of a [...]
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This is a little presentation I created for my brother’s wedding in 2007. I came across the video file last night and thought I’d present an encore showing.
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I’m at the gate. I won a contest put on by the IFP Script to Screen Conference in which I had to submit a 25 word pitch. 5 were selected, including mine, to be presented to a panel of acquisition executives on Saturday morning in New York City. I have 3 minutes to give them [...]
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Episode five is here!!!!
Low Tide is the gonzo variety show hosted by Brendan Hughes at the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater on Cape Cod. Each week, musicians, actors, directors and writers join Brendan on a quest to understand various angles on life itself, from science, to art, to the strangest of arcana.
Episode [...]
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