Return engagements
I was just asked to serve as a judge again this year for the PEN USA literary awards. This is my second time, and it’s again an honor. I’ll be toting around new plays through the summer and reading them and scribbling feedback. Last time I did this, I got to hang out with Larry Gelbart for a little while at the awards ceremony; that in itself made it worthwhile.
And I was just booked again into the Great Plains Theatre Conference this May-June in Omaha. This will be my fourth year serving as a judge or feedbackmeister or whatever they call it, as well as a workshop leader. GPTC is one of the very best playwriting retreats in the nation, one I’m proud to be associated with. I’ve made many good friends there, seen many good plays, and have even written a couple of them on the spot while I’ve been there. (One of which was produced last year.) Talk about environments — it’s a terrific environment to go to with a play.
January 31st, 2011 at 6:36 pm
Lee, didn’t you go to Omaha before, and if so, did you get a chance to swing by Warren Buffet’s house? I seem to think you did…
Isn’t it amazing how a person’s net worth, once beyond a certain point, actually shrinks his/her ego?
Oh yes, I forgot, Bill Gates wants to eradicate Polio, I think he may have decided over breakfast
this morning, and being on Pacific time, I didn’t hear about it until I was driving home from work.
I think Bill Gates is nice and thoughtful to have come up with that. Srsly.
January 31st, 2011 at 7:04 pm
As I said above, this is my fourth year at this festival. And yes, I visited Mr. Buffet’s house — the outside of it. It’s a modest split-level without armed guards, killer dogs, or semi-automatic-wielding thugs. Which means that, as a home for a billionaire, it would never fly in Los Angeles.