Tell me about the play.
The concept churned for a num-
ber of years now, maybe as long
as six or seven (and quite possibly
even since 1987, for all I know).
Finally, about three years ago, I
found the “space” to write and to
workshop the first draft, all within a
crazy five week period. The char-
acters are all teens, and that initial
production featured thirteen of my
finest high-school aged acting stu-
dents, many of which I had worked
with for years - it was extremely
productive and very fast, and the
feedback was exciting. Yet it wasn’t
until over a year later that I took a
couple weeks to write a new draft
- and that was read with a combi-
nation of teen actors and young
adult pros to see how that would
sound/feel. I set it aside again until
late this past summer, when I finally
completed the play and held one
more public reading with perform-
ers all between 21 and 25ish. And
as soon as I learned that Crystal
Field, the Executive Artistic Direc-
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