I have a question for anyone out there reading this… When you hear “warball” what comes to mind? You can email me your thoughts, or respond below.

Thank you!

I’m diving into my play about Achilles, and doing some major editing. This is the most fun part, by the way. I’m also filling in a lot of the blanks, particularly the cheers from the cheerleader chorus. I have a bunch of “classic” cheers that I’m altering with Iliad flavor. It’s slow going, but great fun. Want an example? Of course you do…

I found this cheer:

“Stronger than steel

Hotter than the sun;

(Player name) won’t stop,

‘til he gets the job done!”

And came up with this:

“Blacker than night,

Toxic and full of hate;

Achilles’ rage won’t end,

‘til his love is taken by fate.”

It’s all over the place, there are sections that say, write awesome speech here, and the end is awful, but the first draft is done. It’s clocking in at 101 pages (damn!), and I’m afraid of hitting that 2 hour mark when I finish some of those monologues. Writing this play, I realized why so many people don’t finish or don’t try to write… Things are really bad at first. Your ideas are a mess. First drafts are more like very detailed outlines then complete works, that’s at least how mine feel. But the thing about first drafts…. You can’t have a second draft without a first. That’s the honest truth. Let it be bad, let it be rotten. Worry about all of that other stuff later, just get it out. Okay, now to print and mark up all that is wrong with it!

Playwrights’ Foundation is hosting a reading of Chiori Miyagawa’s This Lingering Life as a part of their Rough Reading series. Guess who’s helping out? Me! The readings will take place this coming Monday and Tuesday evening (the 14th and 15th).

Monday, the reading begins at 7:30 and takes place at Roble Hall in Stanford.

Tuesday, the reading begins at 7 and takes place in San Francisco at NOHSpace in Potrero.

These readings are co-hosted by the Theatre of Yugen, and I am really excited to hear this new play. Hope you can come by and see some fresh theatre!

How Terry Gross Destroyed My Life was produced this past weekend with Love Creek Production’s fall show, Frost Bite; Winter One-Acts. And now I have proof! Here are two lovely ladies doing my play!

At The Producer’s Club in New York City, the talent of Celey Schumer (right) and Elizabeth Sher (left).

Very exciting news! Amy’s end monologue from Ghost Story will join the line up for La Petite Morgue’s Bloody Gore-geous Monologues: A Celebration of Women in Horror! The show is coming up on February 2nd at 8pm and will be at Joria Productions Main Stage in New York City.

Here’s the full line up:

MONOLOGUES BY:

Rachel Bublitz

Lisa Huberman

Shannon Lippert

Lee Masterson

Kellie Powell

Stephanie Swirsky

Chelsea Terris

Natalie Wilson

& More

PERFORMED BY:

Amanda Berry

Ashley Biel

Margaret Donohue

Dianna Jones

Meghan-Sara Karre

Shannon Lippert

Amanda White

& More

Suggested $10 donation.

My ten minute play Garbage Disposal (one of my 31 plays I wrote last August) will be produced by Thespian Productions this March! Garbage Disposal will join their line up for their spring “Theatre Madness” event at Joria Main Stage Theatre (the theatre is right next to Penn Station, how cool is that??).

The show will run March 7th-9th, and it will be preformed twice. Once I know the exact times and other details, I’ll let you know!

One of these days, I’m going to have to get out to New York.

No, this isn’t clever symbolism… It’s just what I’m working on this weekend. Trying to potty train my giant son and finish my first draft of Achilles. And name it. Oy, names are hard. I’m 75 pages in and (spoiler alert) Patroclus just died. Now I just need to make big choices and end it so I can fix all the mistakes.

My kids are watching The Care Bears Movie, it’s so terrible that I have to have headphones on in order to think. Oh, and now it’s time to change the laundry. This is an odd post. It’ll be better tomorrow, I promise.

Masquers Playhouse in Pt. Richmond will be presenting four of my one act plays for their Off The Page staged reading series! The dazzling (and terribly busy) Tracy Held Potter will be directing the evening, and we’re working out casting now! Rest assured, I will get you those names as soon as I have them! Want more details? Of course you do! Here’s everything that I know….

The Weirdness of Rachel Bublitz, Four Grim, Vile, Horrid, and Hilarious Plays

Photo courtesy of Robert Reeves.

SUNDAY! January 27th, at 7pm, doors open at 6:30pm

This series is free to all Masquers Members and Masquers Season Ticket Holders. General admission is $5. No reservations necessary.

Terrible People

Doris has returned to her estranged daughter, Lisa, in order to start training her grand-daughter, Nicole, in the art of killing.

Horny Like The Wolf

Officer delivers devastating news to Wife, and is puzzled (to say the least) by her response.

Nap Time

While trying to put Baby down for a nap, Mom is faced with all of her doubts and angst surrounding parenthood. There’s a good reason why babies don’t talk.

Baby Pie

Baby Pie is the result of a nightmare, it floats through different styles of theatre giving the audience a twisted, yet hilarious ride. Mother and Father have lost their darling girl. In her grief Mother goes to all lengths to get her daughter back and by doing so unleashes a terror upon the village.

Okay, mark your calendars! And be warned, if you’re not into the violent, grotesque, and strange this may not be a show for you to see!

RSVP on Facebook!

My new play about Achilles will be read on March 3rd, not February 3rd. Make a note! More info to come.

Also, I have something really fun to announce for later this month! Try and keep January 27th evening open, I’ll spill the beans once I get approval to do so.