Could This Be True...?

recently i have come into contact with a friend of a friend.

my friend is infinitely supportive of my playwriting goals. her friend happens to run a theatre production company in new york city.

i have been emailing back and forth with said producer for a few months now. actually, without any knowledge of this by most of my friends.

i had hoped to keep it secret... and suppose i still could if i deleted this post right now.

but interest has been expressed in my playwriting so it seems a good time to talk about it.

i have learned a couple of really important lessons from talking with this producer. the biggest of which is that the vast majority of off-off broadway production companies will not stage any play with less than six characters.

the majority of the paying audience, it turns out, is made up of the company's friends and family.

this is a bit of problem because i tend to favor smaller casts... in fact, the two act play i sent her has only three characters.

however, with an eye towards wanting to make it to new york ASAP... i've decided to focus on a script that has more characters than some of the others.

i currently have several play ideas circulating my increasingly overcrowded brain at the moment so i just need to focus on one.

and i did get a bit of good news the other week.... the friend of the friend is interested in sponsoring one of my short pieces in the 33rd annual samuel french, inc. off-off broadway short play festival.

i've signed the form giving her permission to submit my piece and if it is chosen for competition.... it will receive a production in the festival with the ultimate prize of six plays being published and receiving a licensing contract through samuel french, inc.

i don't really know how many plays are usually submitted but they choose only 50 for competition and only six will be published.

i'd say it's all a long shot.... but if my piece is chosen....

could this be true? yes... i'd receive a production of one of my pieces in new york city.

it's pretty fucking exciting, really.....

anyway, if nothing else...the friend of the friend has expressed interest in collaborating at some point.

so i guess i gotta get to work on the next big piece.

oy... i need to take some time off from work and pull this thing together.

in the meantime... keep your fingers crossed.

e.