Giving credit where it’s due
Oh, hi friends!
You are so much stronger (and wiser and more adaptable and more resilient) than you give yourself credit for.
Just something to remember.
From one of my long-haul Amtrak trips—this one was from CA to Portland!
For aspiring playwrights, people that are just entering into to this world, what advice do you have?
The most important thing is to continue to share your play and to let that teach you what to do next and how to do it. That can be as simple as just gathering people that you know around to read it out loud. Institutional support is obviously helpful and important and maybe even crucial at certain points, but I think that none of that comes without you—sort of against all logic—deciding that you are a playwright, which is a completely irrational thing to decide because you have no evidence of it at the beginning. You almost need to declare it to yourself and make that decision before forging ahead. For me, I surrounded myself with people that I felt understood this very particular kind of tonal conversion that I am hoping to find in my plays. I just kept those people close to me.
This interview with playwright Max Posner (The Treasurer) is like a tonic for people making stuff. And people, in general.
Danny Meyer is launching a new restaurant downtown on Liberty St and made a trailer to hype it. (I’m so there.)
He is also opening a taco stand in Williamsburg this summer—and Shake Shack just released its new beet-based veggie burger! (OK, clearly I’m hungry, time to eat some oats.)
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Thanks, as always, for reading.
Love, Kara