This coming week I will be in Greenville, SC as the playwright-in-residence at Centre Stage's annual new play festival. I have been looking forward to this week for a very long time and am both excited and scared to death because I will be presenting a new play on the last night of the festival. Why is that scary? I literally just finished writing the play moments prior to rehearsal. I am sure what I'm writing is a complete mess. People will hate it. They will question my sanity. They will wonder if I am actually a playwright or con artist pretending to be one for the free trip to SC. All of this is normal. If you have a playwright in your life they are likely feeling all these things at some point. We all have our processes for writing new work and sharing it with folks. My process usually includes a great deal of time which I don't have in this case so I am trusting collaborators I have never met to tap into the weird, dark thing I'm creating and helping translate it for an audience. That's the exciting part. It's an incredible leap of faith to have my play arrive before me to be read and rehearsed as I cross all the fingers and toes that what I am trying to say about human connection lands with people. That is, in essence, what I am trying to do with every play I write.

This is all a very long way of saying if you're in the Greenville, SC area on November 9th, I would love to see you at Centre Stage.