curtains on fire – live!

For the first time ever – it’s Curtains on Fire – LIVE! Join members of the COF writers workshop for a staged reading of some of their favorite pieces developed in the workshop over the past two years. As featured in the Curtains on Fire Podcast, this is a completely FREE event that will run via ZOOM for approx one hour! Featuring newly premiering works by Jay Strong, Jake Daehler, Dave Doster, Hank Fandel and myself, and possibly some surprise guests – this live event will become episode five of the COF podcast!

Curtains on Fire – Live!
Saturday, October 23 – 7p EST
For Zoom info, please contact us here.

Hope you can join us!

 

my history with heiwa sushi

I mentioned, yesterday, the great efforts being done by the Curtains on Fire workshop. One of the most interesting pieces is this new comic by Adam Wachtel illustrating a short play I wrote for the workshop, entitled, “My History with Heiwa Sushi.”

Adam is an up-and-coming young illustrator who has been breaking tremendous ground with his artwork. You’ll be hearing his name frequently in the years to come and you can see some other recent pieces at his Instagram page. The entire sushi comic is included below. And at the very bottom, is a video showing how Adam produced this work.

Great stuff.

curtains on fire

Extremely excited to announce – somewhat late, actually – CURTAINS ON FIRE – a new theatrical podcast produced by the Rising Curtain Theatre Company in NJ. This is a project that was started by me and the Director of RC, Ted Wrigley, in April of last year. The company had just come off of three sold-out performances of Miserable Love Stories – an evening of pieces from my then newly released book.  The show was successful – and Ted and I were looking for new projects that we could do while everyone was still sheltering at home during COVID.

With Curtains on Fire we invited several NJ and New York writers and performers to join us in a weekly workshop creating mini-plays based on assignments.  The workshops have been running almost weekly for about eight months now and the group has grown to 14+ writers, including some in NY, NJ, Cincinnati, and even Albuquerque, New Mexico! The group has generated hundred of mini-plays at this point, many of which have also been picked up by other outlets, including our friends at Gone In 60 Seconds.

We’ve released two podcasts so far and are working on our third.  You can find them on all your favorite podcast players.  Below is all of podcast #2, featuring new works by Jay Strong, Tarek Salib, and Nat Gennace.

Give it a listen!  We think there’s some very compelling stuff here.

Curtains on Fire · Episode 2 – PattyRoller, Maybe Next Week, Of the Mill