Playwright in NY

Learned from director Jim Glossman that Norma in Value of Names will be played by Liz Larsen.  I've admired her work a lot, so this is swell news.  She's a bit older than any Norma I've ever seen, but I gather that Jack Klugman wanted someone playing the part who looked like she could conceivably be his daughter rather than his grand-daughter.  I'm kicking around adding some lines to account for why Norma's in the circumstance she's in at the age she is.  Maybe she had a marriage go wrong and has returned to attempt an acting career.

A lot of traveling this summer.  First taught at Theatermakers for the the O'Neill, then a couple of weeks at the Summer Improv Retreat outside Woodstock, then taught at Chicago Dramatists and participated in the casting and first read-through of Court-Martial at Fort Devens at Victory Gardens, then to Pennsylvania for a wedding and a baptism (yes, the same family), and then to Stratford to see seven plays in four days.

Wow, I'm glad to be home.  (Was also glad to see Meryl Streep and Austin Pendleton in Mother Courage and my friends Jay O. Sanders and Reed Birney in Stuff Happens within days of each other in Central Park.  Both exciting evenings.)

I'll try to be a bit more timely in posting stuff here in the future.  I don't mind being prompted by readers ...

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