Category: Fiction & Creative

  • Geography (Potluck Magazine)

    Geography (Potluck Magazine)

    The summer thunderstorm rolled over Manhattan like an invading army. It had been sunny all day, the air thick with smog and heat. Then the high hammerhead clouds rose like tanks on the horizon, the wind picked up, fat drops of rain fell like bullets. I watched from my office window as the clouds calmed…

  • “Regrets” (The Open Bar at Tin House)

    “Regrets” (The Open Bar at Tin House)

    A story I wrote appeared in Tin House, or at least on their blog. Click through the quote to read: Twice, I have given fake phone numbers to men I met in bars. The first must have been fifty. He bought me a drink; and, offended by how little I talked to him, took it back half-drunk.…

  • Der Schauspieldirektor (Edit: New Photos!)

    Der Schauspieldirektor (Edit: New Photos!)

    Last night, I had the honor of working with awesome folks Matt Aucoin, Sharin Apostolou, Sharleen Joynt, and Ben Bliss to do a production of Mozart’s Der Schauspieldirektor in a warehouse in Red Hook, Brooklyn (all thanks to Groupmuse…) I directed and wrote new English dialogue, simplifying the plot and bringing the piece into the…

  • Dramaturg’s Note | The Walk Across America For Mother Earth (Circuit Theatre Company)

    Dramaturg’s Note | The Walk Across America For Mother Earth (Circuit Theatre Company)

    Prepared for the Circuit Theatre Company’s performance of The Walk Across America for Mother Earth by Taylor Mac, at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, MA. — The Radical Faeries are a decentralized group, one that defies easy description and categorization. Generally speaking, Radical Faeries are queers (many also identify as gay men) who view…