Tickets for Sheherezade 2012 are on sale now! Go here for tickets! Tickets are $20, but if you purchase before April 21st you’ll receive a discount! Don’t delay, buy today!

Some weeks I get good news. Back in February, I found out I would be getting a staged reading of my full length through PCSF, getting a production of one of my shorts also through PCSF, and that I was a semi finalist in another short play festival. Most weeks I hear nothing. I get all aflutter whenever I get a new email. For the moment I see the (1) in my Inbox, to when I read the email my mind reals with possibilities. More often than not, it’s just a notification about a play, or a reading for someone else.

This week I got a lot of rejections. Sundance (a long shot) turned me down, the play festival that I was a semi finalist in informed me that I had not made it to the top 20, I was also turned down by Ashland New Plays Festival, New Perspectives Theatre Company, Play Club West, and The Public Theatre.

For some reason, a week of rejection was easier on me than the week I got so much good news. Go figure!

Guess it’s time to get back up and make more submissions!

I’ve been working on a new full length play for the past month and a half. I feel very confident in Act I, it’s another story for Act II and Act III. But that’s what rewriting is for, no?

It’s about a woman who wants a child but can’t physically have children. Her younger sister gets pregnant on accident and comes to her to take care of her. I don’t have a title just yet, but I’ve been mulling over “My Sister’s Baby.”

If anyone wants to take a look, I love to get notes! Shoot me an email.

Via Wily West Productions:

Wily West is very pleased to announce our dynamic and talented ensemble cast for Sheherezade XII: 2012

Abigail Edber, Ben Ortega, Diana Brown, Edward Kimak, Lila Tavelli, Linsay Rousseau Burnett, Melissa Keith, Philip Goleman, and Wesley Cayabyab

They will be featured in 8 new works by Patricia Milton, Gaetana Caldwell-Smith, Bridgette Portman, Candice Benge, Jordan Puckett, Kristin Anundsen, Rachel Bublitz, and Rod McFadden

Directed by Kat Kneisel and Ann Thomas

Performing May 11th through the 26th at Stage Werx (446 Valencia)

I just heard that tonights performance will sell out! Haven’t got your tickets yet? Click here for tickets.

Last night the wonderful women in this performance brought down the house! Don’t miss this performance! Make sure to come early to get good seats. Hope to see you tonight!

I’m preforming in The Vagina Monologues tonight and tomorrow night with some incredibly talented ladies! The production is at the Uptown in Oakland and the both performances are at 8pm, tickets are $15. Hope to see you there!

Click on the production link for more information.

Tonight was a table read for Sherezade XII 2012, which my short play “Her Special Day” will be a part of in May. I was blown away by the talent! The other seven plays are well crafted, and the actors were wonderful! I’m excited for the first production of one of my plays!

“The Anniversary” has made it to the next round in the Lakeshore Players’ competition! I just received this email:

Your play is one of only 20 out of over 350 entries to make it to the final round. On March 24, 2012, we will be announcing the winning plays. The winning plays will then be produced and performed from June 7th through 10th, at our 8th Annual Ten-Minute Play Festival.

My fingers are crossed!

My full length comedy “The Fantasy Club” will be a part of this reading series. Here’s the information for any of you interested in audition for it:

General auditions for the Playwrights’ Center of San Francisco’s (PCSF) spring season will be held on Sunday March 11, from 12 to 3 p.m. at the Ray of Light Studios, 965 Mission St. Suite 350 in San Francisco. Actors will be seen by producers, playwrights and directors for three staged readings and six developmental readings held in San Francisco this April and June. Staged readings require between six and twelve hours rehearsal. Developmental readings only require that you be present on the night of the reading. You’ll be working with all new material. This is a great way to build your résumé and network with other playwrights while supporting new Bay Area theater. Reading dates and venue info will be available at the auditions.

http://www.playwrightscentersf.org/

Auditions are by appointment only. We’d like to see a two minute contemporary monologue.

To schedule an audition appointment, please email your headshot and resume to ann@playwrightscentersf.org . Please respond no later than 3/10/2012 to ensure an audition spot.

The staged reading of “The Fantasy Club” has a date and a director! The reading will be June 4th in San Francisco, so SAVE THE DATE! I am also pleased to announce that the talented Tracy Potter will be directing my staged reading! I’m extremely excited, and I hope you are able to make it!