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1 year

Playwright here to say the most I have ever made on a production of my work that wasn’t self-produced, in royalties was $750 for ten performances. That’s $75 per performance. Compare that to the Jane the Virgin writer who makes 3 cents per episode in residuals streaming.

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Some of ya'll theatre folks have absolutely no respect for playwrights it is insane. They don't even have a Tony for Best Writing of a New Play. Playwrights hardly ever get to accept the Best Play award, producers do. Ya'll are SCABS.

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theatre school is like a miniature hunger games for the most annoying competitive rich kids to claim they’re underrepresented while taking up the most space they can inhabit as possible

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I didn’t find it fun for the record when she harassed me, my agent, my partner, and the box office of the theatre my play premiered in, and came back the next day demanding the script of my play when I’d told her no, and kept calling. She’s a stalker. Stop platforming her.

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A fixture of New York theatre audiences in her bucket hat, 86-year-old Nick Cochrane sees 500 shows a year, by any means necessary. Some theatres aren't happy with her seat-filling tricks, but, as @wjmcentee writes, others find her enthusiasm infectious.

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I’ll care about the Tonys when we start rewarding writers and let the playwright be the sole person to speak when Best Play is won.

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Twitter hating on Isaac Powell’s casting as the gay gatsby don’t understand his rizz game because they didn’t see his performance as Tony in the short-lived iconic powerpoint party production of Ivo Van Hove’s West Side Shitpost, and it shows.

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getting my master's in musical theatre writing (lol plot twist) and I am sorry to say I am a My Fair Lady AND Carousel apologist who only likes golden age musicals

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2 years

Six years ago a traumatic accident left me permanently disabled. I fought for my life to get back on stage. My college asked me to drop my acting major. I fought to stay in the program while I battled recovery. I finally got on the stage this weekend. I hope younger me is proud.

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playwright whose opinion you don’t need: all those people who write your favorite plays write your favorite tv shows too. The WGA strike affects your beloved theatre, don’t cross the damn picket fence you scabs.

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6 months

Can theatre be more transparent about runtimes? If you're claiming your play is 90 minutes no intermission and it runs almost two hours can you just say you want the play to be two hours no intermission? Lol

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The state of pay for writers is fucking atrocious. The WGA strike sets a precedent for fair pay that will benefit ALL storytellers in their craft and careers.

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ya’ll sound like bootlickers: “why couldn’t the starving writers just make an agreement with the millionaire tv execs so that my fiftieth movie musical of the past decade can perform a silly little song on TV that the writers won’t really be awarded for 😣”

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I received a $10,000 arts grant to develop the play my ex told me was utter garbage. xoxo

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6 months

I miss when we had like Side by Side with Susan Blackwell and other like genuinely fun theatre interviews. Where's the indie theatre scrappy MTV house tour knockoffs of how all of us silly little theatre people are making day to day happen with no arts funding though?

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And get this, what I made is BEYOND typical for playwrights. That’s all I made for that one production. What bills could I have possibly paid with that?

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2 years

I am so thrilled to announce that I will be pursuing my master’s in playwriting at Rutgers this fall.

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6 months

Do people still like two act plays? Because I’m tired of being discouraged from writing plays that are 90 mins long with no break. I kind of really enjoy the break, the craft of two halves of a while.

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playwrights ya'll have a favorite actor in your circle that you will move mountains to work with as many times as they'll work with you? because I do. a handful of 'em.

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no theatremakers gas each other up as much as other playwrights. get in a room of playwrights and they're just screaming in each other's faces about nuances they love in each other's work, picking out details and gushing about writing.

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Playwrights/TV writers are crying themselves to sleep and starving in writers rooms living off of the low residuals and royalties they get for creating the masterpieces you clamor for. Your movie musical showcase can hold off until artists get a living wage.

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Playwrights who may be in need of birth control or abortion care; Dramatists Guild is offering emergency grants to help you access the health care you need if you are at risk. I'm not ashamed to say Dramatists Guild granted me COVID emergency grants last year that saved my life.

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Omg

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OPENING OFF-BROADWAY JUNE 2023... THE LESBIAN PLAY AT THE TRIAD THEATER!!!

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Jordan Cooper = 27 year old playwright, broadway debut!!! Me = 23 year old playwright, off broadway debut!!! Young playwrights are worth investing in, in case you were wondering.

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I’m speaking up because as funny as it is to be like “oh this kooky old lady gets banned for her persistence”— no, she gets banned because she’s a bully. She berates FOH and box office staff and verbally accosts artists. Stop giving her attention.

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6 months

i wanna be on the side of theatre influencer twitter that like idolizes playwrights and encourages audiences to go see straight plays instead of musical theatre. where's that side

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2 years

Dear @marcshaiman and Scott Wittman, an open letter from a trans playwright regarding your "interview". Dear Broadway, a plea to stop profiting off my community without centering our storytellers who are more than capable of telling our stories ourselves.

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1 year

broadway always awards transphobia. Come see the lesbian play off broadway in june. There’s actual trans people telling trans stories in that.

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2 years

I think as theatre artists we're trained to "make connections" by working with our peers but in a competitive way rather than a constructive way, which takes a lot of joy out of the process of creation.

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I officially committed to Rutgers for my MFA in Playwriting. <3

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Me: “what do you write” Playwright: “I write what sam shepard couldn’t: weird surrealist heightened reality plays about subcultures in America” Me: “…is that not what Sam Shepard… wrote?”

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being told you would never get onstage again because you're too sick --> beating tumors and having a hit off bway debut as as a trans actor/playwright/director --> transferring to edinburgh fringe in three days. It's been a marvelously rewarding journey. It gets better.

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what even is a theatre influencer? Lol?

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I was getting dinner with producers to celebrate my first big off-broadway contract when I got the email that my agent dropped me citing “lack of marketability”

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3 months

anyone else alarmed that like every institution developing new work has closed or isn't really operating like it was pre-covid no just me?

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On opening night, an audience member interrupted my conversation with a friend to tell me how much she hated my play and then asked to get a copy of the play to read; I told her to go through my agent. She showed up the next day to demand the program. Lol don’t do this.

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NYC Theatre is nothing without accessible rehearsal and performance spaces for emerging artists. They keep shuttering, it has to stop.

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1 year

I make my off broadway debut today.

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9 months

Playwrights: how do you know your director is right for you and your work? What is your barometer for that?

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1 year

Really sad to see so many pillars of experimental and emerging artists' work in NYC receiving blow after blow. Really scary for the future of theatre if all we can turn to is commercialized theatre that does not represent the heart and voice of our artists at large.

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1 year

Did anyone else notice the buried news here that the UNDER THE RADAR festival is done?

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6 months

I can't believe I'm saying this, but, The Lesbian Play is being published and will be available for licensing this fall. Available September 2024, exclusively from NextStagePress.

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And my director, and the entire cast, and all my friends trying to congratulate me, and told me how much she hated my writing in front of them, interrupted us resetting the set for the next day, and wouldn’t leave, and then made my agent have to ask me “who is Nicki Cochrane”?

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2 years

ya'lls acting teachers ever make you play nothing but characters described as being deeply ugly/undesirable? because my entire acting training was playing "physically ugly/undesirable women" and boy has it fucked with my acting process

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Theatre is a team effort and I don’t think enough is said about that.

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5 months

Every Tank artist just collectively shuddered at the release of this article

She Loves Theatre, But Does Theatre Love Her Back?

86-year-old Nicki Cochrane, a tireless fixture of New York theatre audiences, sees 500 shows a year, by any means necessary.

www.americantheatre.org

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2 years

I just passed the apartment building I wrote The Lesbian Play in as a sophomore in college. Five years later it’s premiering off-broadway at The Triad Theater. Time is a funny thing. I was 19 years old then. I’ll be 24 off broadway. I am so grateful.

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1 year

AHHH IM ON THE SHELVES AT @dramabookshop

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We’ve all fucked a redhead musical theatre boy. We’ve all lusted for a quirked up white boy triple threat. I get it Ariana.

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2 years

the urge grows every day to get a bunch of playwrights together and rent out a cabin out in the middle of the woods and write witchy plays together

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1 year

Theme park performers are not union and SAG is for screen actors, ya’ll, stop attacking this poor minimum wage employee and redirect your frustration

Variety

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1 year

The fictional character Cruella de Vil has arrived at the #HauntedMansion premiere in Disneyland.

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I want to work with more trans theatremakers.

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IVORIES GOT ITS FIRST GLOWING REVIEW IN THE SCOTSMAN! THREE OUT OF FIVE STARS! I SPENT ALL DAY STRESSING ABOUT HOW THIS WOULD GO AND I'M SO OVERWHELMED WITH LOVE FOR THIS LITTLE QUEER HORROR PLAY.

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sarah ruhl eurydice girls we won

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watching theater camp and feeling personally attacked in the conversation about using tear sticks as a stage actor, because I used one every night for like a month and a half for Ivories.

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1 year

fun home is a musical that can be SO personal

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1 year

I am pleased to share IVORIES has been longlisted as one of twenty shows nominated for the Brighton Fringe Award for Excellence.

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2 years

Can I say it yet? Can I say it yet? Okay I'll say it. Ivories is being published in July. Thank you @NextStagePress :)

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2 years

Guys I wrote my submission for the conservative theatre festival do we think I stand a chance

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1 year

NYC friends who want to see live theatre but are nervous about the next week or so, The Lesbian Play is livestreaming its off broadway closing performance on June 16th.

The Lesbian Play

About the playwright: Riley McCarthy is an internationally produced and published playwright, director, and performer. They were a featured artist and resident playwright with International World...

furshmedia.stellartickets.com

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5 months

Thinking of offering my horror playwriting class on zoom if anyone is interested in taking that this summer could you let me know?

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3 months

This is the play that got me into grad school and then the play I got belittled over in grad school btw! Trust your gut if the play is good the play is good! :)

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I received a $10,000 arts grant to develop the play my ex told me was utter garbage. xoxo

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I want a queer love is blind so bad. And not a cis gay male love is blind. Give me all the bisexuals and trans people. I wanna see smth

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2 years

new project

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6 months

Really thrilled to see Jim Parsons be a real multi-hyphenate and stage manage a Broadway show. Way to be a team player!

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2 years

Happy trans day of visibility. I'm a transgender playwright & director working to make the canon more accessible for my people. I see you, trans theatremakers. I love you.

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1 year

Hey that's MY new queer horror play at #edfringe that opens TOMORROW and has free tickets at box with code TEETH :)

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2 years

Ya’ll there’s multiple reasons Broadway is dying as an entertainment and artistic industry, I’m only pointing out one major factor it’s not that deep 🫣

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1 year

Less a Tom Stoppard thing here as a general “Why the fuck do the producers accept the award for something they didn’t write?” thing

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1 year

angels in america: millennium approaches angels in america: perestroika

WhatsOnStage

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Tell us your #Barbenheimer two-show stage day...

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young theatre fans who write fanfiction and wonder if you have a future in theatre that isn’t just being a fan, you already have the bones to be a good playwright.

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trans, queer positive horror with absolutely 0 cishet characters is on the shelves of the drama book shop and it means everything to me I’m just gonna go cry now

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1 year

AHHH IM ON THE SHELVES AT @dramabookshop

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2 years

I work at a coffee shop in the mornings and don't talk about my playwriting work ever. I found out my 17 year old high schooler coworker FOUND MY INSTAGRAM AND HAS QUIETLY FOLLOWED ME FOR MONTHS. (She is my favorite coworker.)

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I keep getting asked as we're in the season of graduate school applications for playwriting and I'm on track to get my masters, I applied 3 times. Here were my results. YEAR ONE - Applied to 10 schools. submitted THE LESBIAN PLAY. Waitlisted 2. Interviewed 4. 6 flat rejections.

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It’s the opening night of my off broadway premiere of The Lesbian Play at The Triad, and I’m on my way… to rehearse for my next off broadway show, Ivories, at 59E59.

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1 year

back on my bullshit*** writing absolutely "unstageable" insane stage directions

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My most daring, disgusting, and bloody fun, queer horror play was offered its first sit-down run ever in NYC, and I can't even say much more than that, but it's a huge milestone for me and fellow horror theatre writers to get to do this. (No, it's not Ivories.)

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3 months

Hey @TERFplay , genuine ask: why are there no trans people involved with a play about a transphobe? Why is a story being told about protecting trans rights without a trans person involved with it? Please correct if wrong, it's just exhausting.

TERF, A New Play Interrogating J.K. Rowling's Incendiary Legacy, Will Play Edinburgh Fringe

Written by American playwright and screenwriter Joshua Kaplan, he has openly explained that the show is not a hit piece, and has asked Rowling to attend.

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1 year

I love writing my notes for the program

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Mr Burns A Post Electric Play revival!?

Playwrights Horizons

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Real fans know...

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My first year of grad school is done! In this year I wrote four new full lengths, saw ten productions of my work around the globe, and signed five new production deals. For reference: I am the Spiders Georg of MFA Playwrights. I am not the model.

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2 years

Actually we need to address that the root of the issue with making Broadway the centerpiece of the American Theatre is that on all scales it is only accessible to a select few and is inaccessible on all fronts; Broadway should be an institution of accessibility + education.

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We ran into an audience member at the airport in NJ when we landed from Fringe, and she says, "Oh, you're the Ivories people! Saw your show! Loved the acting. TERRIBLE script though! HORRIBLE writing!" You'd never guess what I said next.

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2 years

Two years ago I wrote the first draft of this play in all its 136 pages in 24 hours. Today we open our second production of it, and this time I’m taking my first bow on a stage in five years in it. I could not be more proud of Ivories.

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1 year

Maybe I’m the only one but I’m putting it out there that I really enjoy Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies and I hope it’s renewed.

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I have never seen The Lesbian Play live in my five years of working on it. In 20 minutes that changes. I’m incredibly emotionally overwhelmed. I was ready to bury the play. That changed because one director loved it so much she fought to have it.

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@xenovx1 I am in agreement here on the horrible adaptions and jukeboxes; but I want new work, new ideas, new voices, and that's what Sondheim would want too.

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2 years

"how do you write a full play in a day" have you ever heard of bulk bags of sweet & sour hi-chews my friend

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1 year

Last month, Ivories was published and went on sale at the Drama Book Shop, and thus far I've signed three physical copies of Ivories at Fringe; it is immensely humbling as a published and agented transgender playwright to see my work impact my community even if it's small.

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1 year

I lighting designed another show at The Tank, completing my infinity gauntlet of “I’ve done every possible job at The Tank”

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there are 54 instances of the word "fuck" in the lesbian play's current draft, which i counted because someone told me to "leave the language to mamet" and I think I'm gonna add 20 more fucks for that

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10 months

I was a semi-finalist this year for the Dramatists Guild virtual fellowship. :)

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2 years

Any trans playwrights want to chat with me about their work and their feelings on commercial theatre/trans playwright representation in the industry?

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2 years

two plays going up off broadway next year ✅

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1 year

Guys this was Nicki Cochrane who has a whole DOCUMENTARY about her being like this I found out!!!

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On opening night, an audience member interrupted my conversation with a friend to tell me how much she hated my play and then asked to get a copy of the play to read; I told her to go through my agent. She showed up the next day to demand the program. Lol don’t do this.

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I’m 25 negotiating an off-broadway transfer of one of my plays with extremely successful publications, people stop me at work to namedrop me, and college freshmen fans who follow me try to tell my friends of a decade they know me for jobs.

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JD Vance is the most successful American under the age of 40. Veteran, college in two years, Yale Law, hedge fund, memoir that has sold more than 2 million copies, senator, now prospective VP. He should have overwhelming gratitude for this country. Let's see if he shows it.

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all your favorite playwrights make their living writing on TV. that's a goddamn fact. this WGA strike is connected to theatre too in that way and we deserve to be paid for creating the worlds you immerse yourself in.

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2 years

I’m gonna take my first bow on a stage as a nonbinary character in six days.

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