That's right! During the last two weekends in October, you can venture to the waterfront of Newtown Creek in Greenpoint for River Watchers, a new play on a boat that I co-created with director Dina Vovsi and adventurer/actor Jens Rasmussen. It also features the wonderful Amanda Bruton, with stage management and other roles from Emma Sonricker.
Set in a 29-foot Langley canoe, River Watchers sends 14 audience members on a mission to rehabilitate the creek after more than a century of constant pollution. Keep a lookout for marine life, and be ready to paddle and persevere. River Watchers is produced by The Motor Company, with additional support from the Brooklyn Arts Council, North Brooklyn Community Boathouse, and The Puffin Foundation. Our run is currently sold out, but you can reserve a spot on our waitlist. I'm so grateful to be part of this unique project and can't wait for everyone to see what we've come up with. Check out the evocative and ethereal poster design below from Lauren Matrka. See you on the water!
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It's October, which means it's officially the start of Spooky Season (though to be fair, I start celebrating in September). And what better way to kick things off than with some book/film/TV coverage on a handful of the best horror podcasts around?
You can of course find me over at the Bloody Disgusting network for my main gigs--The Losers' Club: A Stephen King Podcast and Halloweenies: A Horror Franchise Podcast. Some of my colleagues at the former are wrapping up coverage on King's 2010 novella collection, Full Dark, No Stars. And at Halloweenies, we're finishing our season on Child's Play with our upcoming episode on the Chucky TV series and the 2019 remake. But I often guest on other podcasts as well, including Horror 101 with Dr. AC. About a week ago, I sat down with the doctor himself, my good friend and collaborator Darren Callahan, and an esteemed panel featuring horror experts Jon Kitley (or Kitley's Krypt) and fiction writer Eli LaChance. We discussed The Fly (the 1958 original) and its curious sequels Return of the Fly and Curse of the Fly. Check out our discussion at the link below and check out the other pods throughout the month for more exciting episodes! My short play "Duckass" is getting its fifth production, this time at George Washington University down in Washington, D.C.! 'Tis the season for a spooky little playlet, and I really wish I could see what director Conor Doremus and his team are doing with it.
"Duckass" runs as part of the university's Welcome Back One Acts festival, September 28th–30th. Click here for tickets via the school's student theatre program, 14th Grade Players. Big thanks to Conor and GWU for producing my work!
Joel Brown recently had me on his most excellent Halloween podcast Talking Shape, where we had an in-depth discussion about one of my favorite entries in the series, Halloween Ends.
Talking Shape is proving to be one of my favorite horror pods around, with recent guests including Sandy Johnson (the original Judith Myers), Chris Durand (Michael Myers in Halloween H20: 20 Years Later), and Daniel Farrands (screenwriter of Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers). Big thanks to Joel for a great conversation. Click here to listen or stream below! My short play "A Seed" is going up in Lexington, Kentucky, as part of Cypress Productions' Second Harvest Festival! This is the first time my work has gone up in KY, so I'm excited and grateful to be a part of the fest.
The show runs August 31st through September 2nd at the Pam Miller Downtown Arts Center, with both evening and matinee performances available. Click here for tickets, and in the meantime, check out the killer poster design from Claire Thompson, which may or may not include an image from the script. Big thanks to Cypress Productions for having me! In just a few short weeks, my play The Amphibians is having a workshop with Think Tank Theatre's YA Playwrights Festival down in Tampa!
This is a big deal for me for a couple reasons: – Even though I've been fortunate enough to have several virtual workshops/readings of the script with other theatre companies, all of them have been virtual due to COVID. So this will be the first time I'm formally hearing the play out loud in-person since I first wrote it. – I (mostly) grew up about 30 minutes north of Tampa in a town called New Port Richey, which is also the setting of the play. So I'll be getting to see The Amphibians and further develop it right in the community where it takes place. We go up Sunday, August 27th, at 4:30 p.m. Tickets are available here. You can also check out the other wonderful festival plays by Kimberlee Stone and Cris Eli Blak all weekend long. Big thanks to Think Tank, and can't wait to get back to the Sunshine State. See you soon, Florida! I had a blast on Horror 101 with Aaron "Dr. AC" Christensen a couple of months ago, and was thrilled to be invited back to talk Creepshow. We were joined by several other horror experts, including my old pal Darren Callahan, S.A. Bradley, Aaron AuBuchon, and Jon Kitley. Link below. Click on it to open the crate! My short play "Glamour" is going up next week at the Atlantic Theater Company's acting school! It's part of their Evening Conservatory's One-Act Festival. I don't want to say too much about the plot, but let's just say it involves space and Springsteen.
You can get free tickets here and read more about Atlantic's acting program here. Big thanks to the company for producing my script, and can't wait to see the students' work!
For almost seven years now, I've been one of the co-hosts of The Losers' Club: A Stephen King Podcast, where my colleagues and I break down all of King's work in chronological order through in-depth discussion. But this past week, I got to participate in the Master of Horror's fictional universe with a new audio drama inspired by the film adaptation of his short story "The Boogeyman" (first published in his 1978 short story collection Night Shift).
Created in partnership with 20th Century Studios, my tale centers on an ambitious ER doctor who has an unexpected run-in with the monster of the title. It features the voice talents of my co-host Ashley Cassaday and Lauren J. Ogle (both of the Keep It Weird podcast), and Guinevere Govea. Sound/music/editing was handled by my old friend and bandmate Mae Shults, who records music as Everson Poe. Losers' Club leaders Michael Roffman and Randall Colburn produced, with story feedback provided by co-host Jenn Adams. You can listen to the whole thing below or over at Bloody FM (the podcast arm of our network Bloody Disgusting) and read more about the project here. Big thanks to 20th Century Studios for inviting us to play in the King sandbox. Give the episode a listen, and be sure to check out The Boogeyman, in theaters now!
I had an absolute blast as a guest on the Horror 101 podcast, hosted by none other than Aaron "Dr. AC" Christensen. I've been a fan of his for a while, especially his genre tomes Horror 101: The A-List of Horror Films and Monster Movies and Hidden Horror: A Celebration of 101 Underrated and Overlooked Fright Flicks. So it was a real honor to talk horror with him.
Our conversation related to—what else?—Stephen King; specifically the year 1983, which saw the release of the films Cujo, The Dead Zone, and Christine. Also joining us was my old friend and writer/director/musician extraordinaire Darren Callahan. Check out our "Three-Ring King Spring Fling" below, exclusively on YouTube. Thanks again to the doctor for having me! |
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