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he/they | ♍️ Theatre maker. Professor bae. Playwright of CROOKED PARTS ( @obsidianfest '24), RED RAINBOW (Tufts '23), MIRRORS (NoPassport '23) $azuredeezure

Unceded Lenape Territory | NYC

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"If you’re reading this, then you’re a theatre maker, a theatre goer, a theatre lover, or some combination of the three. Let me ask you this – when you think about the future of American theatre, are you sure that there will be room for you there?"

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If you’re reading this, then you’re a theatre maker, a theatre goer, a theatre lover, or some combination of the three. Let me ask you this, dear reader – when you think about the future of American...

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7 months

The most immediately effective radical thing you can do is put on a mask when you're in public.

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I believe I'm on track to have distributed 10,000 masks in a year.

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As of this weekend I have distributed about 1200 covid tests and 8000 respirators in under a year.

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2 years

@heyyitsjanea He is getting on my damn nerves

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7 months

Masking still matters this #SlaywrightSunday 😷🎭

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Funny how some folks have time and energy to be passionately outspoken about HIV/AIDS but won't wear a mask during a global health crisis.

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Co-taught a class of musicians and theatre makers today. Told them they were getting a 15-minute break and there was a brief pause, so I said, “Theatre makers, what do you say?” A chorus of, “Thank you, 15.” My musician co-teacher said, “Wow! Why don’t musicians do that?”

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Tonight I did something I’ve never done before. Sitting in the theatre I heard the person behind me begin to sob as quietly as they could during the show. When the show was over I asked how they were doing, saw they were not okay, and asked if they wanted a hug.

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@DannyVegito This is what defunding the arts gets you.

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3 years

I am so sick of people asking for playwright's or artist's statements. Could you please just read the play and make your decision based on that?

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@itsjacksonbbz Damn, we can't even go to bed? I hate it here!

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3 years

Wait wait you want to publish work from underrepresented playwrights, but instead of paying them you want royalties to go to charity?! Am I hearing that right?

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@filmscoffee23 @JoshuaPHilll It’s $3 and

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3 years

I've come a long way from being shut out of my high school's theatre program to teaching theatre at three institutions of higher learning. Don't count me out.

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3 years

I guess they said when in Doubtfire your staff. 🗑

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A new indication of how difficult it has become to sustain a Broadway show during the Omicron surge: “Mrs. Doubtfire” will close for nine weeks, laying off all employees, in the hopes that a short-term hiatus will make possible a long-term run.

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3 years

Big theatre accidentally asks me to review my own play.

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3 years

@rgay I just took a 4pm meeting like this. 8am meetings can burn in hell.

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Though we did not know each other we stood in the lobby and hugged for a long time as they cried. A nearby usher looked on. After a while we let go of one another and introduced ourselves. We thanked one another and I walked away. Theatre.

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Having a lay down while my wifi is installed in my new apartment. Here’s to being chronically ill and online!

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@Josackles @rgay Both queer icons really

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@hinadirah Is that what that is? I thought it was an afrocentric volleyball or sumn.

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3 years

Why the eff do you need an artist's statement from me? Please 👏🏿 just 👏🏿 read 👏🏿 the 👏🏿 play! 👏🏿

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Applying the Swiss cheese model of risk reduction in rehearsals

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@thecindynoir Why are they in these old timey prison outfits?

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2 years

The show

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2 years

My brother, who is currently incarcerated, wrote me and told me he watched the Tonys. He asked me about the winning shows, including A Strange Loop. I sent him the script. Can’t wait to see what he thinks of it.

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@theferocity "When Levee Broke"

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@rgay At first I put a winter wonderland filter on my pillows but then I decided I wasn’t fooling anybody and just took it off. 😂

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@itsjacksonbbz @KCMiller1225 Lol five years is a long time to continually make the same choice.

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@rgay I see you at Sun & Sea! This is me getting excited when I saw you in the balcony!

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3 years

Wow. I teach theatre for a living.

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4 years

@brb_manifesting @Yourss__Truuly Literally screaming

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7 months

Thank you, everybody! I have paid out of pocket for at least half the respirators I've distributed. If you want to help by donating, that would be much appreciated...because this economy is not it! Cashapp: $azuredeezure Venmo: @/azure-osborne-lee

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@absurdistwords Cut it all off then kill it with fire.

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@theferocity I'ma use the same gif I used to respond to the rinsing ground beef video I saw earlier today.

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7 months

*Almost* done moving but taking a break to see a show. Still doing a safety with the boyfriend this #SlaywrightSunday . Also! I just got my city disability ♿️ parking permit. Getting around just got easier (and more affordable) for me. Hooray!

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@heyjoydoe He just out here writing JASON WUZ HERE on these newborns.

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@NoEmmeG He can’t tell time but he can feel time. #teamvirgo

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@Imani_Barbarin Okay but I LOVE IT

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4 years

This week I had students find plays to read on @NewPlayX , and I am absolutely delighted to be reading their homework assignments.

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3 years

For reasons that I don't think I'm supposed to publicly announce, I will be seeing a lot of Off-Broadway shows this year. If you're interested in potentially being my +1 sometime, let me know!

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@theylaniii Like maybe put a mask on while you out here talmbout work out this and karate chop that?

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If anybody wants to chip, I would gladly accept donations. Free resources are getting more and more scarce. C: $azuredeezure V: @/azure-osborne-lee

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3 years

Is this new "opportunity" for playwrights a pyramid scheme? Discuss.

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It's Trans Day of Visibility! And Easter! What would Jesus do? Definitely support trans people. Wear a mask! Tithe to the trans community! V: @/azure-osborne-lee C: $azuredeezure

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I was ridiculously excited when I saw the 2nd "horse" doing its thing.

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Second horse is amazing. Moo

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I've taken to emailing my students to inquiry about their wellbeing when they don't meet my expectations. It's been really effective so far.

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2 years

I’m leading another workshop with Dramatists Guild Institute this year. Get into it!

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4 years

Behold! The @MethuenDrama Book of Trans Plays has a publication date and is now available for pre-order. You should absolutely get yourself (and your institution) a copy!

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@rgay I have had anxiety about Lizzie sabotaging her pencil by grinding down the eraser. Or chewing on it! 😱

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Oh my gosh, y’all! This post was just a silly quick snap I took while walking up to the theatre. Here’s me waiting for somebody to come let me in the accessible entrance. I used a nasal spray before putting on my mask and air purifier necklace today.

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Why did I just see my second show this season about Nazi teens in love? I really need American theatre to get a grip.

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Black (presumably) queer student at a PWI stayed after class to express her excitement at having a Black queer professor for the first time. Very endearing.

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@neexhclab @charlottor Noooo, the earth didn't do it!

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4 years

Educators, go ahead and add The @MethuenDrama Book of Trans Plays to your syllabi for summer and fall '21. The pub date is 5/20/21!

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@haziethompson Like literally where are the masks?

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@_Zeets You got your own room? Lucky!

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@blgtylr

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Not theatres sending out updates and sharing allllll the playwrights' email addresses by not bcc-ing! 😱

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4 years

Happy to announce that I am the recipient of @Waterwell 's 2021 New Works Lab Commission!

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@tressiemcphd I feel this way about people seeing plays as well. Please just sit down and experience the work. I assure you you will be reunited after the show.

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@lmTheReasonWhy @hoemindyours

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3 years

It’s! Finally! Here! 🥳

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@rgay It helps that NY passed a law to multiply the hours taught by college profs so that they get credit for working full-time.

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@It_Aint__ME Shiiiid, you can do a lot with a rinsed out spaghetti sauce jar.

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@mattlieb It was $20 this morning, but I bought breakfast. I'm fucked, aren't I?

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@mattlieb I have $15 in my work badge.

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@theferocity I have been so disappointed by people's behavior regarding this.

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#SlaywrightSunday

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5 months

Wishing a particularly nasty atomic wedgie on the person who dug up the single tulip I managed to grow in front of my building.

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@miiriya1 Uh shew! Uh shew!

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@Imani_Barbarin I swung my cane at a citibiker who rode too close to me last Halloween.

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@keatingssixth If you don't want your airplane to fall apart in transit, that's extra.

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Stopped by the picket line at work to give the students some masks. They were very appreciative.

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Waiting for the house to open for a mask required performance, doing my best to isolate from all the people waiting until we go in the theatre to actually put their masks on. Transmission starts when you enter the building, not when the curtain rises.

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@Winston_Duke @rgay So now we need to know if @rgay and @debbiemillman are open

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If you care about theatre, you should read this article.

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We Can’t Build an Equitable Theatre While Ignoring COVID

|Taylor Leigh LambTaylor Leigh Lamb argues that building the equitable theatre industry requires robust COVID precautions with steps like masking, air filtration, and advocacy within our theatrical...

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3 years

Just picked up my NYU faculty ID.

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4 years

WHO FUCKING THOUGHT THE FLEA WAS A GOOD THING TO NAME A THEATER ANYWAY? The only things fleas ever gave me were itchy scabs and butt worms for my cat.

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@dr_chairbreaker Them

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@Still_Bourgeois That’s quality hugging right there

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@freya_sum @aprettyPR She thought she knew better

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Not pictured — nasal spray and eye drops, covid test taken before rehearsal

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3 years

Applying for stuff counts as writing, right?

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@TallBart He said there aren’t enough books with the n-word.

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@theferocity LOL I studied abroad in Argentina in 2005 and I was stared at, honked at by motorists and bus drivers. Random men stopped their cars and told me to get in. A news crew ran up on me in the street. Nobody could understand why I spoke Spanish. But okay.

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3 years

I made and ate a salad. Please clap.

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7 months

@oxbits Hi! It’s a KN95 connected to an Airdog air purifier necklace

Fitair Personal Necklace Air Purifier

Your Personal Air Sanctuary - Introducing Airdog Air Purifier Necklace! 🌿Breathe easy with the superior filtration of our true H13 HEPA filter, removing 99.97% of particles as tiny as 0.3µm. Find...

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Teaching "For Colored Girls..." to a predominantly white class is a wild experience, but it's very gratifying to see my students of color, particularly the Black women, living for it.

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#SlaywrightSunday #LortelAwards edition #Lorties

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@dodaistewart Like, dang, they weren't looking for those other people at all!

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@Imani_Barbarin I literally flew there three days before school with no place to live and was like, “I’ll wing it.” Lol. The chaos.

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2 years

Please remember that there are non-binary people of color.

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@Imani_Barbarin I applied to grad school in London because I was left alone in my NYC apt on NYE. I am from Texas and had never been to Europe before moving to London to attend school.

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Gathered a handful of energy & brain cells and submitted 2 playwright apps, got unemployment on the phone, suggested some things to some people, and went to the post office and FedEx. The cat and I are now recuperating in the air conditioned darkness of my bedroom.

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@germfreegangsta She is

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@Karnythia @nkjemisin This honestly sounds like a guy who married a goddess and couldn't cope.

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If your article or show about being non-binary only has white folks, you are mistaken.

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Saw some people, including a queer artist I know, gathered on the steps of city hall, so I walked over and asked them if they needed masks. Not everybody did, but ended up giving away a box of 35 N95s.

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Just got my email notifying me it didn't advance further, so I am happy to share that "Red Rainbow" was a semifinalist for the National Playwrights Conference this year! Go weird queer epics! 🩸🌈

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