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I moved to Seattle in the summer of 1991, after getting a BFA in theater from the North Carolina School of the Arts (which seemed like a good idea at the time). In 1993, I wrote and performed my first solo play, Letter to Axl, which The Stranger’s then-theater critic was very kind to, and which The Stranger’s then-editor Emily White liked enough to run an excerpt of as a feature story.

Thus began my unholy alliance with The Stranger, with my next two shows (1998’s Exploring Whoring and 1999’s Straight) adapted from stories originally written for The Stranger and directed for the stage by Dan Savage.

In 1999, I was offered a job on the Stranger staff and I took it, and I never wrote a full-length solo play ever again.

Until now. My new show A Short-Term Solution to a Long-Term Problem opens this Friday at Richard Hugo House (whose program director Brian McGuigan commissioned it). Cienna Madrid wrote some words about it here, Hanna Brooks Olsen wrote some words about it at Seattlest, and you can find full info here.

Thus ends Slog’s most conflict-of-interest-ridden post since….some time last week, probably.