YOU are Awesome, YOU are awesome, YOU are... “The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.”—Maya Angelou SO think YOU are awesome!

“To love. To be loved...To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy ... To pursue beauty... To respect strength, never power...to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.” Arundhati Roy AND TO WRITE

This is gorgeous. So glad @helenshaw.bsky.social is at NYT to write beautiful articles like this one www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/t...

Reading my play tomorrow at 2:15 at the dramatists guild foundation with new actors… for my birthday 🎂♥️✨

in tech rehearsal with my play USHUAIA BLUE at Weber Uni, Utah. we open next week!

so sad to read this. She was a wonderful human and writer. Honored to have known her. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/b...

here in free on demand new play reading: Australian playwright Sunny Drake's fiery comedy of catastrophe APOCALYPSE: A LOVE STORY. online at @lorteltheatre.bsky.social . (runs through Feb 16)

nama.media/11th-annual-... Deadline: Feb. 16

Take a teensy break from the world and enjoy this music video I co-directed with the brilliant, funny composer @brianwoodbury.bsky.social: "Little Bitta This, Little Bitta That" featuring Kathi Funston & Tulasi Rain, with Moss Woodbury. ***Please like and share!*** www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJjU...

feminism is not a brand

today in pocket theatre, i write abt complicity. open.substack.com/pub/csvich/p...

My play THE NORWEGIANS opens Feb 12 in NYC with a sassy new production. The company is also raising funds for Minneapolis support orgs. Hope you will come see it. @honorrollwrites.bsky.social @newplayexchange.bsky.social www.tickettailor.com/events/lolas...

The sun is coming... Chloe Chlumecky - Orquevaux/Road to Hana, 2025.

“…Winter is a time of withdrawing from the world, maximising scant resources, carrying out acts of brutal efficiency and vanishing from sight; but that’s where the transformation occurs. Winter is not the death of the life cycle, but its crucible.” Katherine May - Wintering, 2020

Please help Valerie fight her meningioma brain tumor! www.gofundme.com/f/help-valer...

MUID: Native-led organizations in the Twin Cities. Thanks for the link, New Native Theatre. muidmn.org/membership

The Best 10-Minute Plays 2025 anthology from Smith & Kraus is out and available for purchase now! The book includes my short play Can I Go Now? 🎭 ✒️ Available at: www.amazon.com/dp/157525983...

today in pocket theatre, i write abt unsustainable practices. open.substack.com/pub/csvich/p...

🥺 Thank you for the Joy you brought to our lives! R.I.P. Catherine O’Hara. Her Sally was singular. As was her entire body of work. What an original laugh out loud talent she was…

I was going to try and publish a new blog today but best I can manage is get this one out on Medium and Substack. The #podcast version includes a cover of "Rule Number One" emilyrainbowdavis.medium.com/this-is-part...

BTS video for latest episode! Watch the voice actors do their thing while you listen. Full video on our channel! #audiodrama #audiofiction #podcast

Thinking about spring hehe Sunday Prompt: Félix Vallotton - Undergrowth in Spring, 1923.

“I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.” Emily Dickinson

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” Mary Oliver

Fair Play co-creative lead Caitriona Shoobridge on benefits system & the arts 'the choice is either to stay on the poverty line & do small amounts of work (harmful to career progression) or abandon benefits in the hope of success (harmful to survival).' www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/thea...

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: a glass mosaic face bead. 1st century AD. 📷️ Landesmuseum Württemberg

Join Us! Online! Tues Jan 27, 7 pm ET, Oral History interview of Alexis Greene about women in theatre. Guests: Kathleen Chalfant, Lynnie Godfrey, Emily Mann, Yvette Heyliger, Kiana Lum, Gwynn MacDonald, w. Ludovica Villar-Hauser, Cynthia Cooper. Free. RSVP. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Sunday Prompt:

“Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go—-love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.” —L.R.Knost AND WRITE

Haven't I said? So many times. This is pitched to visual artists but it applies to all of us. I worked out a system, thanks to a patron, where I supplement these fees by writing a rejection post that my patrons then pay for me for. (The Pay per Creation model on Patreon made this possible.)

Giving myself permission to be has been instrumental in my healing journey. In these difficult times, offering yourself kindness and noticing your nervous state and what you need is an act of resistance. And a prompt for silence… open.substack.com/pub/goldmans...

US Theatre Visa Issues: They believe it’s because two of the actors in the cast, who are British citizens, were born in Nigeria. The Olympics and World Cup are going to be great fun. 👇🏻

Nick Hern “cited the impact of…the compilers and editors of the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays... "Getting plays in print – that’s what we should do to ensure other generations understand our time,…I think they’re great time capsules."“ www.thestage.co.uk/news/publish...

Guess who is going to buy more books today? (It’s me)

Join here to stop AI from stealing our work. www.humanartistrycampaign.com

dear theatre, walk away from the distraction machine

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“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” Helen Keller

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maybe in 2026 my new plays will be read and seen

art forms evolve. but somehow a lot of US theatre behaves as if Beckett, Shange and Wooster Group never happened.