I see you, 2026. Let’s make some art.

“This is my third time.” — One of my favorite things I’ve overheard from an audience member. #playwrightlife

Happy Jane Austen Day! My 6-part audio adaptation of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE is available on dramafy.com for anyone who is interested. dramafy.com/shows/pride-...

I was SUPER pleased with this! I saw a performance of @mleilani.bsky.social's Persuasion script as an undergrad and it's informed my criteria for a Good Adaptation ever since

Some days the best way to get yourself to work is to have a really nice pen. #amwriting

Is adaptation my gig now? Two potential commissions are for adaptations — one of a living author’s work (this is new) and one is a classic. Yay! But also — my original stuff does not suck. Much. FWIW, I’m not complaining. Just musing.

Introverts aspiring to be social. Nothing more real than that.

30th anniversary #SenseAndSensibility cinema tickets acquired for the evening of December 16, Jane Austen’s 250th birthday. I can’t go to my adaptation of #PrideAndPrejudice that night because it sold out before opening. This is a good problem to have.

Apologies — Burns co-directed alongside Sarah Botstein and David P. Schmidt. My bad!

Identifying the voice actors in a Ken Burns documentary is one of my favorite games, and #AmericanRevolution has a fantastic cast. Fun fun fun!

I'm spending Saturday night scouring the interwebs for vintage stained glass Christmas cards as one does when one should be writing... #playwrightlife

What a stunning fall morning. Let’s all use it to vote.

Sometimes all you can do is eat pizza.

It's the kind of day when it takes all afternoon to draft an email. Probably insignificant to everyone else, I know. But it feels like my career is hanging in the balance. You know. Small potatoes. Woohoo! #playwrightlife

There are too many things in my brain. It’s easy to lose track. Get off track? Squirrel. #amwriting #newplay

A book club in another state, to which I have no connection, reached out to let me know they will be reading my little book of plays for an upcoming meeting. Is there a word for being simultaneously thrilled and terrified all at once? #playwrightlife

I hope whichever of my neighbors is playing that music is enjoying it, because all I can hear is the pulse of the bass and it's making me a little anxious.

Turning the fireplace on for the first time this season. Brr.

My play A FORM OF FLATTERY has been selected to receive a staged reading as part of InHouse Theatre Co.'s Celebration of New Plays happening later this month in Los Angeles. www.inhousetheatre.org #playwrightlife

Good news in the mails.

PSA: If you’re campaigning to get a Nobel Prize, you’re doing it wrong.

I would like to have more irony on stage than in real life, please and thank you.

I just visited a high school English class to talk about adaptation, and discussing art with those young people gave me the most hope I've felt in this broken world in a long while. Probably since the last time I got to sit in a room full of young people! Imagine that. #playwrightlife

Tonight I was able to lose myself for a few hours in revising a play and I'm so thankful. Bonus points: the play does not suck. #SnailMail #newplay #playwrightlife

I did not fall into a steaming volcano caldera just now, so I’m counting that as a win.

The OED definition of “vacation”: watching the newest episode of the Great British Baking Show from one’s hotel room in Kona.

Dear Iowa friends: Grinnell College is doing a staged reading of GIN MUMMY to kick off their theatre season! The reading is free and open to the public, and it's happening TONIGHT at 7 p.m. CT. #playwrightlife events.grinnell.edu/event/32592-...

I'm so excited for this film. I cannot fully express how much the novel moved me. #Hamnet youtu.be/E2xtmPkuksA?...

What kind of nerd am I? Well, I just ordered a heavy duty 3-hole punch—40 pages at a time, baby. Of course I got the green one. #playwrightlife

Just revising the whole show in a weekend. Nothing to see here… #newplay #playwrightlife

Great cities have great libraries. Great libraries build great cities. More of this, please, Mr. Mamdani. And to anyone else running for mayor of any other city, maybe think about doing the same.

Two table reads in as many weeks. It's good to be busy, but I need to work harder at putting space between projects. Having space to breathe between things is nice, especially when the two shows are so different. #playwrightlife

Is it a weird thing to pray for magic? #amwriting

The dryness never fails to creep in as soon as I land back in Salt Lake. I’m waiting at the baggage carousel and regretting packing my lotion in my suitcase.

If you are perimenopausal, one of the best gifts you can give yourself is a sturdy folding fan. Take it with you everywhere and life will be so much more pleasant.

Ooh, we might get a midwestern thunderstorm tonight! Perfect timing. 😍⛈️

Sometimes you meet an artist director when your mouth is full of goldfish. Significantly less of a crashing and burning situation today. #playwrightlife

OK. Time for a wee table read. I’m not nervous, you’re nervous. #playwrightlife #newplay

How many cherries is too many cherries?

So much work to do today. Looking at the news is such a mire.

Tonight I saw a solid production of Reginald Rose’s 12 ANGRY MEN and wow. Just wow. The issues, prejudices, and humanity in that show just—oof. It could so easily take place today. I’m torn between thrilling at the play’s timelessness and being heartbroken by our society sliding so far backward.

I made a salad for lunch and it didn’t suck. I don’t know who I am anymore.

New draft of the musical seems to be going in the right direction. It’s been a long time coming, but I might be excited about this story again. Whew. #newplay #playwrightlife

It seems I’m fated to spend a lot of my life making copies. And calling out my state reps. Sigh. #playwrightlife

The United States never has enough money to keep people alive at home but always has enough money to kill people overseas.

The wind in Utah is wild tonight. Gales non-stop for hours. It's almost like God is telling a certain senator to resign.

It was such fun to bring Chip and Salsa to see THE BOX-CAR CHILDREN — their first play, written by Auntie Mel. They enjoyed the show and were full of questions about our puppet Watch, and our child actors, and whether or not horses can pull box-cars out of the woods. #playwrightlife #AuntieLife

I'm working on materials for a submission and just got hit with a massive wave of nerves. Like, put down the pen and go for a walk and be sure to remember to breathe nerves. It's a pretty major submission, but still. Egads. #playwrightlife

My folded pen requires practice, but the sentiment remains the same. #NoKings #GodBlessAmerica

There are few things more fun than sitting in the back row of a play you wrote and chuckling at your own jokes. #playwrightlife #newplay #openingnight