Erika: Did some problems. After almost two weeks away, I un-master old skills just as fast as I master new ones; so even after a chunk of time working on problems, I am no closer to the next badge. Harumph. Everything Looks Like A Face: Worked with Elizabeth to refine/clarify the draft and sent it...
Category: The Project Diary
Six months of posting progress on plays in the hopper.
coalescing
Everything Looks Like A Face: Met with Elizabeth to further solidify what will be presented at Rough Cuts. Collated all the scenes and songs together. 60 pages! More than I thought.
whew!
Mother Antonia: the folks at St. Kate’s who commissioned the piece are ok with the direction I’m taking it. Next draft due 3/28.
impending
Everything Looks Like A Face: Responding to material from Elizabeth; working with her on a postcard blurb for the Rough Cuts performance.
all good
Infrastructure: Got a rejection. Submitted a play to an opportunity through the New Play Exchange. Remembered to docket it this time. (I have a database for tracking submissions. Developer-me and theater-me do cooperate sometimes.) Drafted a speech for the Theatre Unbound fundraising party later this week. It’s All Good: Theatre Unbound will be in the...
one down
Mother Antonia: Sent in the first, very rough draft.
playing by the rules (not)
Mother Antonia: Drafting. Reading the 1884 Constitutions of the Sisters of St. Joseph. How radical was S. Antonia being, sending Sisters off around the world to pursue advanced studies, without – evidently – so much as a by-your-leave? Very, it seems. Sisters weren’t supposed to leave the house without express permission from the Superior. S....
spew; surprise
Mother Antonia: writing what I refer to as a “spew” draft. Rereading and taking notes on Carroll et al. Infrastructure: Got a rejection letter from an organization to which I didn’t remember having submitted a script, then realized I must have sent it in through the New Play Exchange website, which automates the process to...
good hustle
Mother Antonia: read Mary Ellen Chase’s A Goodly Fellowship, a memoir of her (Chase’s) teaching career. Her chapter on St. Catherine’s includes a widely-quoted paragraph about Mother Antonia (“[She] went at the realization of St. Catherine’s College with everything she had in her, and she had literally everything….She prayed while she hustled, and she hustled...
nothin’
Day job.