Two happy announcements – first, I’ve been offered membership in the Orange County Playwrights Alliance and have gladly accepted. OCPA supports the development of new work from O.C.-affiliated playwrights through readings, workshops, and productions. To celebrate, I finished a 10-minute play I had been stuck on for, like, a year. Can’t wait to get started with the group…
Although I will miss my first meeting because of my OTHER announcement: I’ve been cast in a production of Marcia Kash & Douglas E. Hughes’s A Party to Murder at the legendary Glendale Centre Theatre. I’ll be playing Charles Prince, a successful English mystery novelist obsessed with Agatha Christie, who invites five friends to a remote island cottage for a fun little game…
The geography buffs among you will note that the Glendale Centre Theatre is in Glendale, which is not in Orange County. Yes, I am once again dividing my time between O.C. and L.A., with the emphasis on L.A. for the time being but with one foot still across the county line. This involves some luggage and a lot of driving, which I am used to, and it involves accepting that I’ve spent far too much of my life in Orange County to pretend that it’s not a presence in my life and work. Goodness knows I would proudly and happily spend every summer I have left on-stage with Shakespeare Orange County.
Writing and acting. L.A. and O.C. I don’t seem happy without two poles to run between.