Next week! ashlandnewplays.org/play/better/

Hey, look!

Hey, it me!

For my fellow Jeopardy alumni, trivia nerds, and lovers of facts & truth everywhere. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/o...

I imagine the Supreme Court will be interested in this tweet.

Well, this is magnificent. www.vulture.com/article/bigg...

AIDS Walk New York 2025 is coming up, and my team The Salty Bitches and I will be walking, again and always. gmhc.aidswalkny.org/fundraiser/6... If among all the other crises, you can find the time, heart, and some dollars to help us out, I’d be forever grateful.

“Make Canada the 51st state” is “Annex the Sudetenland” but stupider.

I got my latest Covid shot because it’s time, plus a pneumonia shot because they’re recommending it for us olds, plus an MMR shot because of the stoopid running rampant throughout our land. Protect yourself & others. Ignorance is contagious.

There are those who refer to M as my Carl Dean. I know what it means to have a Carl Dean. No one should have to lose their Carl Dean. My heart breaks for Dolly. www.knoxnews.com/story/entert...

Workshop at CVRep down, so new version of Double Helix up (on @newplayexchange.bsky.social) #playwright #newplays #theater #theatre newplayexchange.org/script/27119...

Whoot! Director Allan Piper and and I have made it to the quarterfinals round of the @killershorts.bsky.social 2025 competition for our screenplay adaptation of my play CASSIE STRICKLAND IS NOT UNDER THE BED!

RFK Jr has been confirmed to run HHS — which is, quite literally, sickening.

I can’t believe we had a whole strike against unauthorized AI-generated uses of our likeness and yet all these #actors are out here sharing that deepfake video.

Y'all. AI deepfakes made without consent are bad, even when they're conveying an entirely righteous message.

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

Please enjoy this sight of me being sad in an audition, and know my Super Acting Secret: I was just letting out what’s been happening inside 24/7 for the last 10 days.

My copy of the Smith & Kraus Best Ten Minute Plays 2024 arrived, and I’m more honored than I can say that it includes GROUND ZERO, alongside some of my favorite heavy hitters. Thank you, Debbie Lamedman, for seeing something of value there. #theater #theatre #theatersky #theatresky #playwrights

A propos of nothing I'm sure, the featured play list on NPX today is "The Consequences of Authoritarianism", and includes the full-length version of BETTER, my dark redneck semi-comic drama set in a meat-packing plant. Dig in here, or DM me for a perusal copy: newplayexchange.org/script/20372...

Accurate.

Tips for throwing sand in the gears:

About 20% of children died before their 5th birthday in 1900. hashtag#RFKJr wants to bring this all back. He doesn't believe in germ theory--really, read his book--and hates vaccines. He's a menace to children everywhere. www.nber.org/system/files...

The entire implicit promise of the campaign was to put uppity libs, feminists, Black people, brown people, and queer people back in their place, and they’re delivering on that promise.

RIP Jules Pfeiffer. I have an awful, cringe-y, embarrassing story about meeting him when I was 12 years old, that I hoped one day to tell him. (In my adult life, we have some people in common.) I’m sad that I never got that chance.

My darkest, most dystopian play just became my most relevant. Yay me, I guess. newplayexchange.org/script/20372...

In these dark times, know this: Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl exists. It is a perfectly executed delight-delivery mechanism. It made me squeal with glee. No small feat these days.

I’m one of the ten people in the U.S. who saw the monkey Robbie Williams movie, and reader, I have no regrets.

Pal @craighouk.bsky.social has given my janky old website a long-overdue refresh. (It was a kindness on my part, really: that old one was about to give him an aneurism.) Check it out for my actor & playwright-y shenanigans, if only so that his efforts weren't all in vain. www.vincegatton.com

Oh, my Angelenos. I’m so sad and horrified and hoping you are safe.

Watching the way Threads is progressing right now is like watching someone make bad decisions in a horror movie and you have no way of stopping it

Since I’ll be making more of an effort to post here in light of Metazuck’s announcement today, I should share this here, too: happy to say that my play DOUBLE HELIX will be part of CVRep’s new works series. If you’re in the Palm Springs area in late February, come and see! #theater #playwrights

Uncling. I swear, this little gay dog cannot keep his tongue out of my face holes.

The silver lining of Santacon is threads like this:

I have to be in midtown for several hours today, right near Penn Station and Port Authority. Turns out today is SantaCon. Thoughts and prayers, please, I beg of you.

This is happening tonight. Excited, nervous, all those things, yes, but mostly grateful - for the time and talents of the magnificent Jordana Williams, Miranda Jonté, Matt Boston, Jack Utrata, and Constance Zaytoun, who bring so very much to every table.

The outpouring of righteous rage against America’s grotesque medical insurance/healthcare system has been bracing - the stories of lives lost or financially destroyed by claim denials are heartbreaking and enraging. ...

Oh and also too this special #WorldAIDSDay message: fuck RFK Jr. and the crackpot conspiracy theory he rode in on.

On #WorldAIDSDay I’m remembering David and Jason and Mark and Robb and Dominic, and saluting the friends diagnosed during that dark, death-ravaged time who are so wonderfully still here.

In NYC? Come and see. A reading of Double Helix by Vince Gatton Tuesday, December 10th, 7:00pm ART/NY Bruce Mitchell Room 520 8th Avenue, 3rd Floor With: Matthew Boston, Vince Gatton, Miranda Jonté, Jack Utrata-Claridad, and Constance Zaytoun Directed by Jordana Williams

Morning face and a newly finished sweater: the Beagle sweater by Norah Gaughan, made with Purl Soho’s Hedgerow in Cattail Brown. #knitting

In this coming age of fascism, it's going to be just as important to discover safe people as it is to discover unsafe people. Three simple principles I think may work. 1) When someone hurts you, tell them. See how they react. They'll tell you who they are. www.the-reframe.com/rules-of-eng...

It's really not complicated.

Looking to block Bari Weiss? If you were subscribed to this blocklist, you'd be done already bsky.app/profile/did:...

Hey, so, hi. Stepping back into here, where I’ve mostly lurked so far. I’m an NYC-based actor and playwright, so in addition to following news and Big Important Topics I’m up for your theater, acting, & playwriting craft talk, industry chatter, motivation, & occasional gossip.

For #NationalComingOutDay , a gentle word of encouragement from the incomparable @kdlang.bsky.social : youtu.be/B-7bLnXQEvs?...

I will never stop being angry about this. What the Republican ticket has done to these people is beyond cruel, and what makes it so much worse is they knew they were lying when they lit the torches and handed out the pitchforks. And they’re still doing it. It’s evil. #Springfield

Via Vincent Proce on Twitter (@vproceart) some hope vs the Ai glut (repost to add alt text)

Isabella Rossellini is the best. (Gift article, no paywall)

Look I made a hat…

I just gave my dental hygienist a quick tutorial on The Ship of Theseus, in case you were unclear on exactly what level of tedious nerd I am.