I was reading over Aurora’s GAP submission requirements, and I realized that I had nothing that fit the bill! How could this be? Well, naturally my solution is to write a brand new full length before the deadline of July 15th. I just added it to my calendar, so it has to happen now. It’s on.

This isn’t a play that came from nowhere, I’ve been thinking of three technology based full-length plays for a while now, and now I have a reason to start them. I’ve thrown caution to the wind and started writing. In order to turn it in before the deadline, I’m also trying to get a reading of the play done so I can make some fixes. Crazy, sure, probably, but why not, right? I don’t think I’m going to get anywhere if I’m not crazy (in this way, anyway), so here we go. And really, it might not even be that crazy. I’ve been reading about “Bake Offs”, where you get ingredients and a week or two to write something brand new. So this will be my own personal Bake Off.

Mostly I’m trying to tell you that if you don’t see me this month, don’t worry, I’m writing.

May was a good month, I was only 1 shy of my goal on submitting a script per day. Adding on the 130 submissions I’d made before May, my new total is 160! As of June 1st, there’s been 151 days come and gone, so I still have a little wiggle room on my total, but I’m hoping to hit 200 submission before the 200th day of the year (July 19th).

Will I make it all the way to 365 submissions this year? Only one way to find out, and that’s to check back for my next submission tally!

Ariel Craft, Executive Director for Bigger Than A Bread Box Theatre Co., and all around badass, is directing my one-act play, The Red House Monster, for the 2014 San Francisco Olympians Festival’s Monster’s Ball! I’m thrilled. I’m ecstatic. I’m jazzed.

My monster is Geryon, and if you want more info about him or the direction my play will take, here’s the description from the San Francisco Olympians site:

“Geryon, a three-bodied giant, was the son of Chrysaor and Callirrhoe. Geryon was made famous because Hercules’ tenth labor involved stealing his large red cattle. When Hercules arrived on Erytheia, the island Geryon lived, he stole Geryon’s cattle, killed Geryon’s two headed dog Orthus, then killed Geryon’s herdsman Eurytion, and finally killed Geryon with a poisoned arrow. There are many descriptions of what exactly “three bodied” means, some say that he had one body with three heads, others say that he had three bodies connected at the stomach. Geryon is also characterized as being red and also winged, at times. Regardless of his features, he proved to be a worthy adversary giving Hercules one of his toughest battles.”

“Rachel Bublitz’s one-act play, THE RED HOUSE MONSTER, chronicles the story of Hannah Gold, a young lady living on an island off the coast of Massachusetts in the late 1800s, and the night that changed her life. Filled with small town lore, haunted houses, spirits, monsters, pistols, pie, and mysteries, it is a play that will keep you guessing just what is in the Red House, and who, in fact, you should be afraid of.”

Here’s the link: http://www.sfolympians.com/, feel free to click on through and see all the other great plays that are being brewed in preparation for the Monster’s Ball coming this November.

And get ready! Saturday, November 15th (at the Exit Theatre) check out HERO MAKERS: GERYON vs. MINOTAUR.

My ten-minute play Baby Shower Games is being produced with Love Creek Productions‘ one-act showcase, The Other Side Of Summer. See the show May 30th, 31st, or June 1st!

Here are some shots from the show:

Baby Shower Games by Rachel Bublitz, directed by Tanya Fazal with Natalia Ivana Escobar and Fiamma Piacentini.

Buy tickets here: http://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/935850

Oh! And if you’re seeing this on facebook, click through for the pictures!

Earlier I posted on my Facebook page about exciting news, and here it is folks: I will be joining the Young Ambassador Program with the Dramatist Guild!

What is the Young Ambassador Program, you ask? Great question! Well, it’s a new program aiming to get younger playwrights involved in the Dramatist Guild. It’s in the beginning stages so a lot of details are still to be worked out, but it seems that I will assist our Regional Rep, Suze Allen with creating events and programs aimed at helping young playwrights! My brain is already going 90 mph, thinking up events aimed to attract young artists, but if you can think of ways that you’d like to be supported, email me!

Be sure to check back and find out, as I do, what this ambassador business is all about!

Do I have a title? No! But that doesn’t stop me from having a date for the reading! Yes, you heard right, mark your calendars, Tuesday, July 29th, my new full-length based loosely on the the myth of Pegasus will be getting a staged reading at Custom Made Theatre Co.! Mark them up, and be prepared, because it is going down!

I don’t have much more info now about the reading, as we get closer I’ll let you know who my director is, and who my actors are, and hopefully even what the play is called!

So stay tuned!

My one-minute play Peeper will have it’s debut production next month with Playsmiths‘ Flashfest in New York! Are you excited? I’m excited!

The performance is June 15th at 7pm at Manhattan Theatre Club. Peeper is the creepiest play I’ve ever written, if you’re in the area, don’t miss your chance to see it come to life!

Tickets are $15, and you can buy your tickets here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/684168

And for more info on the show, visit the facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/events/644741568937966/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming

This semester is still a blur, so it’s hard for me to wrap my head around the fact that today is my last class in my first year of grad school. But it’s true, so my head is just going to have to deal with it.

I am in the midst of planning for the fall, and also preparing myself for a sumer school class (an online course on writing screenplays!). So I won’t have a ton of time off before it’s back to the grindstone, but that’s okay with me… I kind of like the grindstone.

There’s a lot of talk about MFA’s and if they’re necessary/helpful in the theater world, and I think I’ve realized now that my first year is under my belt that for me, at least, it creates an organized/regulated aspect to the development of my craft, and so it’s absolutely worth it. It might have something to do with having kids, because I don’t just automatically have all this carved out time that I am able to write and think about writing, that’s always been something I have to create for myself. I have always had to make the time happen, and I think school helps to define that time and make it more sacred. It doesn’t allow me to put things on hold if I’m tired because I was up late with a sick kid, and I think that is what I need at this point, and so I’m on the worth it side of the debate. We’ll see if I’m singing a different song when I graduate though.

Okay, time to get back to work for me! But don’t forget about Much Ado About Mathletes, it was hilarious last night and has two more performances (Thursday at 7 and Saturday at 2).

Buy your tickets here: http://creativestate.sfsu.edu/events/2014/05/13/8131

And RSVP here: http://www.facebook.com/events/1418174748440449/

Tonight! 7pm! At the Little Theater at SFSU! Much Ado About Mathletes, my 30-minute one-act is going up! I like exclamation marks!!!!

Please join me for the fun, my play will close an evening of four one-act plays. Here’s a bit about the play, in case you have forgotten:

“An all-girls mathletes team (that ponders in iambic pentameter) is shaken to it’s core when it’s asked to do the unthinkable… Let a boy join their team.”

With Shannon Sullivan, Jackie Orozco, Gina Terrell, Bella Connick, Ghena Euodia, Joceyln McMahon, Geoffrey Malveaux, and Andrew Morris.

Directed by Kathleen Lee!

Buy your tickets here: http://creativestate.sfsu.edu/events/2014/05/13/8131

And RSVP here: http://www.facebook.com/events/1418174748440449/

See you tonight!!!

April was a slow month for submitting. I got 20 scripts out, instead of the 30 I was hoping for… But that just means I’ll have to bring it extra hard this month. This year’s total so far is 130 though, and since we’re only on day 120, I’m still a little ahead.

May’s going to be big though, I can feel it. There are a lot of great competitions with deadlines at the end of this month, so watch out folks… I’m sending plays your way.