The Contract is Signed, It’s Official: Watchlist is coming to The Tank in February 2020!

Original poster design by Edith Amber for Hatchlings 2019

I’ve been bursting to share this information for over a month now, so I’m thrilled to finally share that Watchlist will receive its public premiere this February at The Tank. The project will be helmed by director Lizz Hudman, who directed the reading at Hatchlings/The Nest this summer as well as the productions of my short play Park Place last year. I’m very much looking forward to working with Lizz again, as well as sharing this play with the New York theatre community. I believe it’s an important and timely piece, especially now, despite starting writing it seven years ago.

More details will come soon about auditions, and we will also be looking for collaborators for design and stage management. Stay tuned.

Mark your calendars:

Tuesday, February 11 9:30pm

Wednesday, February 12 9:30pm

Saturday, February 15 3:00pm

Sunday, February 16 9:30pm

Saturday, February 22, 3:00pm

One of the half-dozen books I’m plowing through for research.

Fall is upon us here in NYC; the weather seems to have officially broken, dropping thirty degrees from yesterday’s surprise near-90 down to a chilly, gray day in the mid-50s. Perfect writing weather, in my opinion, time to wrap up in a sweater with a hot toddy (it’s past noon, okay) and dig deeper into the Cold War.

Currently I’m lost in Bulgaria, researching the “assimilation” and eventual expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Bulgarian Turks and other Muslim minorities from Bulgaria to Turkey in the mid- to late-eighties. It’s a dark story of cultural erasure, recognized in 1998 as an ethnic cleansing. I spent most of the last decade learning about the dark secrets of East Germany, but the Iron Curtain hides plenty of horrors worth uncovering, with continued parallels to current societies throughout the Americas. I seem to be a glutton for punishment, as I’m most fascinated by ideas that require a lot of research about heavy topics. The fall of fascist regimes in Europe in 1989, coupled with the rise of fascist regimes in the Americas in 2019 is the narrative I’m collaging for my upcoming project, 201989. (Scroll down to the previous post for more info.) Hopefully a work-in-progress reading will be coming to the public in December back at The Nest, where Watchlist received its debut in June.

Speaking of Watchlist, I can’t share concrete details yet, but things are looking good for a full production of the show in the near future, at a reputable Manhattan venue! I’m thrilled to have found an artistic home interested in producing the piece (and paying its artists!!!) and can’t wait to spread the news, once the deal is worked out.

Stay tuned for more news soon!