February 2022

Inspiration for my newsletter and blog can come from a variety of sources. This week it was an episode of The Crown! Even a monarch is not immune from the fact that speeches influence audience perception, and consequently, any relationship that may (or may not) follow!

Read all about it here.

in other news. . .

Join me on February 28th at 7:30 p.m. as Pipeline Playwrights celebrates its fifth anniversary! We're launching our 2022 season by reading excepts of the new, original plays we're working on this year. This virtual celebration is FREE!

Register here in advance. After registering, you'll receive a confirmation email containing information about attending the Zoom launch on the 28th.

January 2022

Happy New Year! And congrats for making it through 2021 in one piece.

We’ve all been through a lot— and some of the weirdness of our current situation is showing up in our speech. People have lost a sense of flow; there are lots of choppy, disjointed sentences being uttered out there. Read my blog this month to find a creative way to smooth out your delivery.

In other news...

Pipeline Playwrights was born five years ago next month. And on February 28th at 7:15 p.m. my fellow co-founders and I are celebrating! Join us as we launch our 2022 season of virtual and in-person readings and productions of new, original works. FREE!

Register here in advance. After registering, you'll receive a confirmation email containing information about attending the Zoom launch on the 28th.

October 2021

Comic confusion

"Abbott & Costello Doing Who's On First" by slgckgc is licensed under CC BY 2.0

This month’s blog examines the traps we can fall into when we think we’re using words to mean the same thing.

In other news...

Photo courtesy Echo Theatre, photo credit: Zoë Kerr

It’s My Party! just ended its month-long run at Dallas’ Echo Theatre. The cast and creative team made my play about the struggle to pass the 19th Amendment come alive onstage. Echo is streaming it as video-on-demand till October 17th. Click here for more info and tickets.

"With its strong production values and casting, It’s My Party! should foster talk well after the curtain call. The show should inspire audiences to explore this history and then perhaps fight for equal rights today as they had to do a century ago."
--Rich Lopez, The Dallas Voice