Huntington Library

Some of you know that my work is archived at the Huntington Library, but I often go there for the gardens as well.  There's inspiration and splendor everywhere.  My friend Jeff wanted to see the renovated Japanese garden.  We asked someone in the herb garden if they'd take a photo of us, and luckily she took a good one.

Bridge in the Japanese Garden

Jeff loves bamboo even though it's invasive.

We saw a mother and her duckling.  We tried to get closer, but didn't want mother to think we were endangering (corrupting!) the young.

I love succulents.  It's also one of my favorite words.  With water such a scarce resource in CA, most of my front yard is drought resistant and succulents.

I'd love to have cactus, but worry about the thorns tearing into my skin, or friendly neighbors.   So I have to get my cactus fix at the Desert Garden.

More Kindle to the Fire!

Happy to report more of my plays are available on Kindle!

Just in time for your Summer Reading!

And it's true, you don't even have to own a Kindle to read my plays.  You can download the Kindle App, and read it on your iPad, iPhone, BlackBerry, and so on.

Isn't technology great fun?  Horizon-expanding?

Titles Available on Kindle:

BIG RED & LITTLE TIGER, JAC Publishing
BIRD'S NEST SOUP, JAC Publishing
CONCERTO FOR ORGAN IN B-SHARP, JAC Publishing
GOOD MOURNING, AMERICA, Original Works Publishing
JUNK BONDS, Original Works Publishing

Double Feature -- Broadway Stars & LTPW

Had miserable weather in Chicago.  Hail, the size of golf balls, forced O'Hare to shut down.  We were stuck in Rockford, IL for hours.  Got into Chicago 1:30 AM.  


Even Bill Clinton was delayed, his flight diverted to Gary, IN.


But one bright spot, a double feature in Broadway Stars and League of Professional Theater Women!


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Save the Date! The Tao of Fruit

Hooray!  

Happy to report Pam Forrest is on board to direct.

THE TAO OF FRUIT.  You may have notice how often food is a metaphor.  Food and me, we're enablers.

THE TAO OF FRUIT is inspired by a full-length play of mine, NUMBER ONE SON, that placed as a finalist for the L. Arnold Weissberger competition.  My first play, really.  Received a lot of traction, but then was "upstaged" by Ang Lee's WEDDING BANQUET.  It's not quite the same, but Hollywood execs said the market cannot bear TWO Asian American gay male leads.  TWO!  That's "two" many!  

So I moved on.  I tried to sell a pilot about three unrelated unconventional couples.  In NUMBER ONE SON, Lyndon and his lover KEVIN adopt a girl MIRANDA from China.  Lyndon has only a father, CHARLIE -- his mother and sister died in a skiing accident.  This relationship, to me, represented the mandatory "Bachelor Society," enforced by immigrations laws.  Now we have MODERN FAMILY, so it took a while for me to find my way back to NUMBER ONE SON.

My recent research in how language affects/determines culture, attitudes to say, hey, I've been interested in this for quite a while.  I still find this interesting.  Therefore, I'm going to take another look at NUMBER ONE SON, and see what I can come up with.

THE TAO OF FRUIT.

You'll laugh.  And never look at a piece of fruit quite the same way.

The Judges have turned in their scores, and we're happy to announce the plays chosen for the 4th ALAP/ City of West Hollywood Gay Play Reading Festival!

The short plays, to receive rehearsed readings on Monday, June 18, at 7:30 PM, are:

The Skanky Ho and Her Half-Wit Brother by Dan Berkowitz

Flight by Joe Godfrey

Significant Others by Susan C. Hunter

Coffee and Paul by B. V. Marshall

Date’N’Switch by Felix Racelis

Moon Dancers by Mary Steelsmith

The Tao of Fruit by Lucy Wang

The full-length play, to be read on Saturday, June 23, at 11:00 AM is In the Name of the Son by Brian Raine.

Both programs will be held at the Celebration Theatre, and are free and open to the public. ALAP thanks the City of West Hollywood's Arts and Cultural Affairs Commission and Lesbian and Gay Advisory Board for their generosity in making the Festival possible.

Thanks and congratulations to all the playwrights who submitted to the Festival!

LA Magazine Debut! And a round of applause

Thank all of you for attending my final reading/public performance at the Annenberg Community Beach House last night.

It's very scary to read work-in-progress.  It can feel like indecent exposure.  Like you're being judged.  All sorts of butterflies jumping in your stomach.

Pulitzer prize winner Jennifer Egan said she writes as many as 50-60 drafts per novel.  Ethan Canin once shared he wrote so many drafts he couldn't remember if his character was still epileptic, or not.  Philip Roth said he often has to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.

It takes a special community to go on this journey with you.  Thank you, Beach Culture.  Annnenberg Beach House & Marion Davies Guest House Supporters.  Thank you, Dear Husband.  Thank you, Santa Monica.

A friend who hasn't seen me in a long time found the LA Magazine article, and sent me an email.  "Is this you?"

"It is."

Enjoy.

xoxo

A Chapter at the Annenberg Beach House

Extra, Extra, Read All About It!  Then join me at the Marion Davies Guest House Monday March 19th!


It'll be a perfect day for bananafishing!


David Colgan, Staff Assistant to L.A. County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, writes:


://zev.lacounty.gov/communities/westside/writing-a-new-chapter-at-the-beach.

Press Release! Online Version!

For those of you who asked when the feature was going to appear....
the online version is here....
March April 2012 issue
Career change | The University of Chicago Magazine