I’ve just spent the last couple weeks writing my upcoming Christmas production that is slated to begin rehearsals in September with a cast of 11.    After spending much time contemplating what I should write about, the ideas started flowing and the characters took shape.  And because I know already who will be in this production, I heard the voices of those specifically cast in the play.   The title of the play is Hero.

Lately I’ve been feeling a bit of cabin fever.    Writing these last 4 months has been non-stop: 

• May, re-wrote my screenplay Twig
• June/July, wrote Struck, a new spec screenplay for the Kairo Competition in Screenwriting
•  July, competed in the 24 hour Fringe Playwriting Competition with my short play Walls
•  July/August, completed the Christmas Production, Hero, to be performed Dec 10 & 11

The rest of August and September will be used to refine Hero and do another draft of Struck.

It is time to hopefully reap what I have sown.  Hero will soon begin rehearsals (which helps big time with the cabin fever as I get out and direct actors).  Struck will be sent to the Kairo Prizes.  Walls will be submitted to the Alumnae Theatre for their New Ideas Festival.  Twig needs another tweak before I plan to submit it to several screenwriting competitions throughout the fall and winter.

Cabin Fever?  Yes indeed, but I’m hoping all this fever leads to harvest time as I send my babies out to the world….and wait.