Information about the Writers Working reading series at the Drama Book Shop in Manhattan.
posted by ds at 12:54 PM
The fall has collapsed upon us and as our intrepid fellow city dwellers no longer find succor in sand dunes or blueberry flavored shards of ice because the chill of our poorly tilted hemisphere forces them (without too much reluctance, let's be honest) out of their toe-crevice-destroying flip-flops and into their regulation black leather jackets and jack boots, so too do we, writers working, return to the early dark of Sunday nights and extremely unwiedly sentence structure. Oh summer, where have you gone with my pithiness?
Rob Lathan is a comedy writer and performer who has appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Best Week Ever, and oddly (or amazingly) enough, The Today Show. He is also the proud owner of his very own website, www.roblathan.com. Pretty cool, right?
Robert J. Hughes is the author of the novel, "Late and Soon," published last year, and is a reporter at The Wall Street Journal, where he covers culture and the arts. He is at work on his next novel, "Seven Sisters," a play about Dorothy Kilgallen's final days, and a story for the forthcoming collection, "Bronx Noir."
Deanna Fleysher writes, performs, teaches, goes to movies by herself, and feels very tenderly about eggplant sandwiches which have been left out in the rain, as was the one in this photograph. She has created improvisational theater shows which blend comedy with sex and interpretative dance, at the PIT and the Magnet theaters. She teaches English and Theater to and runs a book club for businesswomen. She no longer goes to Burning Man. Her first novel, Guns for Girls was rejected by more than one publisher for "too much bad language."
DC Pierson is a senior at New York University, where he studies writing for television. He makes comedy videos for the Internet with a group called DERRICK (www.derrickcomedy.com). DERRICK's show "Outtakes" happens the last Monday of every month at the UCB Theater. The group is currently developing a show for Comedy Central. DC publishes poems, stories, and un-asked-for opinions at his website, dcpierson.com.
Jen Nails (the much beloved) is originally from Las Vegas, NV. She teaches writing and performance classes at the Peoples Improv Theater (www.thepit-nyc.com) and has written for the Oxygen Network and SELF Magazine. She will be reading from her young adult book in progress, Beside Mexico, which is based on her award winning solo play, Lylice, which she's performed at theater festivals around the world.
David Silverman is the author of the forthcoming book from Softskull PressTypo: The Last American Typesetter or How I Made and Lost $4 Million (An Entrepreneur's Education). The photo at the top of this post is my mother's art. She was a survivor of the holocaust, but never told me what had happened to her. I just thought she was my annoying mom for never letting me join the boy scouts. I never really knew her. What I do know is that she made a lot of art, like these children on horses that would go onto carousels that she made out of clay. For more of her amazing art go here, and yes, she made all the stuff you see at this link.
posted by ds at 2:51 PM
My father liked to go to the hardware store and ogle the latest torque wrenches, I like to go to J&R and eye the most recent external hard drives. We are both geeks in our times. But what about cavemen? What did they do? "Ooog, look, cave down hill has new inclined plane. Very inclined." Eh?
Carolyn MacCullough has lived in New York City for several years now. Besides writing angst-filled young adult novels, she also teaches creative writing at various places around the city. In her spare time she loves to cook, garden (okay, that really means water her plants on the fire escape) and pose in front of stained glass windows (preferably belonging to churches in Europe). She is the author of Falling Through Darkness and Stealing Henry. Her third novel, Drawing the Ocean, is due out this October.
Joe Fiorillo is a recluse who has not been outside in over four years. Due to various ailments, he has been clinically determined "unemployable" in any conventional sense of the word. Among his leisure activities are talking to telemarketers and sitting in a corner weeping quietly. He will be reading from a short play about seduction on a train. He's originally from South Jersey.Jen Nails (the much beloved) is originally from Las Vegas, NV. She teaches writing and performance classes at the Peoples Improv Theater (www.thepit-nyc.com) and has written for the Oxygen Network and SELF Magazine. She will be reading from her young adult book in progress, Beside Mexico, which is based on her award winning solo play, Lylice, which she's performed at theater festivals around the world.
David Silverman as the author of the forthcoming book from Softskull PressTypo: The Last American Typesetter or How I Made and Lost $4 Million (An Entrepreneur's Education) is most proud of the fact that he has learned how to spell entrepreneur, or at least throw down enough letters to make it look that way.
posted by ds at 3:10 PM
Tina Lee is a writer and actress living in New York. Her comic one-person shows have been featured at the NuYorican Poets Café, HERE Theater, BBC Radio, WNET-PBS, the Kitchen Theatre, and The Korea Society, and her fiction in the River City Journal. She got her BA from Yale and her MFA in Fiction Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. With any luck, she will finish her screenplay so Fluid Motion Theater & Film Company can get started producing. She is currently obsessed with Grey's Anatomy, 24, and tiny fake food.
Hall Powell is a screenwriter who has written for film and TV, including Law & Order and Criminal Intent. He studied philosophy with utopian Marxist Ernst Bloch at the University of Tubingen in Germany, and began his career in theater and film as an assistant director, working for Alan Schneider and Roman Polanski. His most screenplay Rocco was written and produced in Italy.
Micaela BleiMicaela Blei has been a teacher of smaller kids for 6 years. She lives in Brooklyn, in a small apartment with a really cool Murphy bed, just like a private detective. She wrote and performed a solo show for kids, "City of Islands," directed by Jen Nails, at the PIT and Tank theaters. Micaela will be reading something that she wrote and it will feature either librarians or the Caribbean. She hasn't decided yet.Jen Nails (the much beloved) is originally from Las Vegas, NV. She teaches writing and performance classes at the Peoples Improv Theater (www.thepit-nyc.com) and has written for the Oxygen Network and SELF Magazine. She will be reading from her young adult book in progress, Beside Mexico, which is based on her award winning solo play, Lylice, which she's performed at theater festivals around the world.David Silverman as the author of the forthcoming book from Softskull PressTypo: How I Made and Lost Millions is busy trying to hire a PR firm. He hasn't had this much trouble getting someone to take his money since he tried to get a tire changed in Iowa. (Real men, you see, don't need to pay someone else to do something they should know how to do. As for New York PR firms, they just don't find David's cash green enough. Now if he were Paris Hilton--with 6 minute ABs--and a reality TV show contestant who didn't get voted off--well then...)
posted by ds at 11:50 AM
My girlfriend once had an acting teacher who told her to "smell the smells," "hear the sounds," and, yes, "feel the feelings." I'm sorry, but that just isn't right. If you can't use parallel construction correctly, you shouldn't be speaking at all. Just bite your tongue hard and mouth the sharp pain of grammatical correctness.
Jane Borden is an editor at Time Out New York. Her work has appeared on Saturday Night Live, in the New York Times Magazine and in one of those ubiquitous talking-heads shows on VH1. Jane will read a story about the limits of shame, which may or may not involve Steven Tyler.
Saara arrived in New York a few years ago with the dream of becoming a glamorous yet respected author: a weird hybrid of Jackie Collins and Philip Roth, graciously accepting Pulitzers while wearing leopard print heels. However, although her work has appeared in Salon, Bust and The New York Times, Saara spends no time accepting Pulitzers and far too much time watching Columbo reruns while wondering if it's safe to eat cheese in the fridge that is two days past the sell-by date. She plans on reading a story about being "certified" as an exotic dancer at the Penthouse Executive Club.
Laura Buchholz is a writer and editor, and one of those people whomysteriously "works from home." Which just means that she pays for her own health insurance. Laura contributes to the enduring radio show A Prairie Home Companion, and is working on some other things. She's from Wisconsin, and now lives in Park Slope.Jen Nails (the much beloved) is originally from Las Vegas, NV. She teaches writing and performance classes at the Peoples Improv Theater (www.thepit-nyc.com) and has written for the Oxygen Network and SELF Magazine. She will be reading from her young adult book in progress, Beside Mexico, which is based on her award winning solo play, Lylice, which she's performed at theater festivals around the world.
David Silverman as the author of the forthcoming book from Softskull PressTypo: How I Made and Lost Millions has been accused of smelling too much.
posted by ds at 10:46 AM
May is national apostrophe month. We celebrate this event's occurance with a show made entirely of powdered corned beef hash and eggs. Or, should the hash be past its sell by date, an entire show of awesome writers. You'll have to show up to see which one wins out. (I'm rooting for the authors so as to keep all the hash for myself.)
Micaela Blei has been a teacher of smaller kids for 6 years. She lives in Brooklyn, in a small apartment with a really cool Murphy bed, just like a private detective. She wrote and performed a solo show for kids, "City of Islands," directed by Jen Nails, at the PIT and Tank theaters. Micaela will be doing a staged reading of her new radio show for kids, "Gerald Small: Ombudsman." She would like to thank her real family and her urban family for patience and assistance in roasting all those chickens.
Carrie Gross is a staff writer for UpperEast.com, the webzine dedicated to New York's Upper East Sise. She is the proprietess of the Sex and the Upper East Side column/blog where she writes about dating, relationships and New York life a la Carrie Bradshaw with less expensive shoes. Previously, Carrie was the Events Director for Playboy Magazine where she produced parties across the country and gathered great stories to use in her writing. She is currently working on her first novel, which she expects to be finished any day now. Maybe.Robert J. Hughes is the author of the novel, "Late and Soon," published last year, and is a reporter at The Wall Street Journal, where he covers culture and the arts. He is at work on his next novel, "Seven Sisters," a play about Dorothy Kilgallen's final days, and a story for the forthcoming collection, "Bronx Noir."Jen Nails (the much beloved) is originally from Las Vegas, NV. She teaches writing and performance classes at the Peoples Improv Theater (www.thepit-nyc.com) and has written for the Oxygen Network and SELF Magazine. She will be reading from her young adult book in progress, Beside Mexico, which is based on her award winning solo play, Lylice, which she's performed at theater festivals around the world.David Silverman as the author of the forthcoming book Typo: An Entrepreneur's Education truly enjoys a good apostrophe.
posted by ds at 8:54 AM
posted by ds at 8:04 AM
David Silverman is author of the book Typo, the Last American Typesetter or How I Made and Lost $4 Million.
A reading series of works in progress where the audience gets to comment.