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Monday, January 16, 2012

Conflict of Interest / Theater Getting Back to My Standing-Around-Talking Roots

Posted by on Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 12:36 PM

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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.

 

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1
Break a leg.
Posted by Chicago Fan on January 16, 2012 at 1:05 PM
2
Personally, I've never been put off by the propensity for self-promotion often exibated by the staff of The Stranger. A few months ago I was disappointed when Lindy West checked in with Slog but failed to include a shameless plug for her latest project.
Posted by Ken Mehlman on January 16, 2012 at 1:05 PM
gloomy gus 3
@2, go exibate yerself. Often.
Posted by gloomy gus on January 16, 2012 at 1:11 PM
4
@3 I'm not sure, but I think I've just been insaulted.
Posted by Ken Mehlman on January 16, 2012 at 1:19 PM
emma's bee 5
What @1 said. Wish I were there to see it! And does any video evidence exist of your previous plays?
Posted by emma's bee on January 16, 2012 at 2:59 PM
6
Can you post links to older pieces? Will we be able to buy the script to read if we're not in Seattle for the play?
Posted by Someone in Europe who reads the website a lot on January 17, 2012 at 2:18 AM

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