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I’m always asked what my inspiration is for a given play.

Posted by francesca_sanders
April 2, 2008

At every talkback, reading or performance I’ve ever been to I get asked what my inspiration for a given play is. It’s always a challenge because who can describe what the genesis of a thought is… or dream for that matter. And in my case I often wonder if the two are interchangeable.
Unlike some dramatists, […]

I'm an award winning playwright from Portland, Oregon.
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Why I tell the stories I tell…

Posted by Barile
February 26, 2008

There a lot of people in my world who keep expecting my next piece to be an edgy – hip play that pushes the boundaries and has lots of cool swear words and images. That isn’t going to happen. I just ain’t edgy.
People figure since I’m a blue collar dude from Chicago, I should be […]

I am a writer. My primary focus is writing plays, but I also write lyrics/poetry and essays and fiction - both long form and short form. My latest play to be published is "The Bound Trilogy" which was published by Original Works Publishing.
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Something old, Something new

Posted by M. J. Feely
February 18, 2008

I thought, for my first post, I’d put for comment a scene from my newest, yet oldest play. It’s called NIGHT AND FOG and I first wrote it almost twenty years ago. Recently, mostly because of the encouragement of a dear friend, I’ve returned to it and reworked it considerably. It concerns a journalist named […]

M. J. Feely Michael Feely was born and grew up in Dayton, Ohio. He received his Bachelor of Arts in theatre from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska and an MFA in Playwriting from UCLA. His plays have been produced in both university and professional theatre and his work has been recognized by the American College Theatre Festival (the David Library Award for Best Play on American History) and UCLA (Donald Davis Award for Best Play). Most recently, his play BOOKENDS was a finalist in Dayton Playhouse’s FutureFest competition and was produced by the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphi . . .
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Sneak peek of “Italian Lights; Not Stars”

Posted by Barile
February 16, 2008

Act One Scene Eight
TOMMY enters. HE looks around to see that there is no one in the yard and no […]

I am a writer. My primary focus is writing plays, but I also write lyrics/poetry and essays and fiction - both long form and short form. My latest play to be published is "The Bound Trilogy" which was published by Original Works Publishing.
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an excerpt from a play-in-development, FOR SOME REASON COMMA SHE LAUGHED

Posted by jay_boyer
February 15, 2008

Four sisters come to the Jersey shore for a girls weekend; they mean to celebrate the 30th birthday of the youngest among them, Ruth. Ruth is recently divorced and feeling bad about herself and her sisters decide that suprising her with a beautfiul young man might be just the thing to lift her spirits. […]

Jay Boyer, Ph.D is a Professor of English at the State University of New York, Buffalo. Please visit http://www.asu.edu/clas/english/who/boyer/ for more information.