New Play "Doug & Ava Say 'I Love You'" On Stage In Brooklyn

July 10, 2017 in Playwriting

My short play, "Doug and Ava Say 'I Love You'" featured in the 20th Annual Black Box New Play Festival 2017 hosted by The Gallery Players. The festival premiered 18 new plays over the course of four weekends. Doug Ava

"Doug and Ava Say 'I Love You'" was directed by Abigail Grubb and featured Nick Normal and Courtney Silber.

All photos by Abigail Grubb.

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A million years ago (well, a decade or two in the past) I often felt compelled to commit Poetry. Just for me, see? Very little to share here, except, perhaps, for a few forays into Occasional Poems—poems for someone’s birthday or some such. Whichever, wherever, those and other private poems came from a place of listening, which evolved into the urgent need to share what I had heard through words written and tangible. The need to commit Poetry, for me, dictates a crunching up of words, a need to ask myself what I am listening to, or just have listened to, or have listened to enough that the thoughts demand attention. A while ago I shared my poetic thoughts on the Seven Virtues and the Seven Deadly Sins. Today it’s … Overhead:

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