What it looks like to start rehearsals for the third new play in six weeks:
But also, this:
Our sound designer/ composer Mikhail Fiksel, and director Marti Lyons
Witch // Writers Theatre, Chicago
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Collective Rage // Tech & Previews
The past three weeks feels like one long day, in which a variety of things occurred:
Donahue confers with my replacement.
Some of the brilliant lady designers of Collective Rage
Right before Chaunté Wayans (Betty 5) texts me: “What’re you thinking about?”
Every queer play needs a butch truck consultant, and Lea DeLaria is ours.
Dangerous House // up & running
Saheem gives notes from inside the safehouse.
Samira and Alfie find their light… or rather, lighting designer Lap Chi Chu helps them find it in tech.
Samira Wiley as Pretty Mbane
Atandwa Kani (Sicelo), Michael Braun (Gregory), Alfie Fuller (Noxolo) and Phillip James Brannon (Marcel)
Dangerous House // WTF
The Boston Globe comes to talk to us … and also manages to document Samira rocking the leather trucker hat of my dreams.
![[Photo by Matthew Cavanaugh for the Boston Globe]](http://www.jensilverman.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/cavanaugh_05Dangerous14_life.jpg)
[Photo by Matthew Cavanaugh for the Boston Globe]
Lady Mountain Climbers
To celebrate the end of pub week, we hiked up to the Wisdom Tree. This is not a metaphor.
GAY POTTERY
When your queer TV writers’ room does pottery painting as a group bonding activity… and, upon seeing your finished piece, your friends say: “This job really seems to make sense for you.”
BEFORE
AFTER
W is For…
In honor of International Women’s Day, I’m apparently only writing plays that start with W.
WITCH, a commission for Writers Theatre in Chicago, and a chance to get fresh with Jacobean drama.
WINK at Marin Theatre Company, a chance to get fresh in general.
W is also for Wandering, which is what you sometimes do when the Writer’s room ends for the day… 
Friday/ Saturday/ Swan-Day
How many denizens of the East side does it take to test a mattress? #weekendquestions
Embracing Those 1950s Tropes
When you get home from a day at the office, and dinner is on the table… 
A Lesson In Focus, And What Happens When You Lose It
How quickly a photo of two people by the harbor… 
…becomes a photo of a cannibal by the harbor. 