I finally took my work into my own hands and started my YouTube Channel, consplayspace. Why? How? Why…?
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A Pivot While Still Loving Theatre
During these uncertain times, I’ve finally taken an screenwriting class! It’s a neat tool to add to my writer’s bag as I can now write for stage AND screen!
Artist vs. Entertainer. Which one do I want to be considered as?
So I posted on my Twitter account (@consplayspace) that last weekend I thought a lot about where I fell, or wanted to fall, in the Artist/Entertainer spectrum. First, I have to consider myself as an artist cuz the very nature of creating something out of nothing, the blank page/screen, constitutes and defines myself as an…
WELGA: Lessons from a Full-Length
Honestly, there’s so much to say about this play and the process it took to get this from page to stage that I don’t know where to begin. But this is my post-mort to myself so I better make this count! Lessons Okay, these are some of the general lessons that I’ve learned on my…
Underneath the Bodhi Tree
Well, semester numero 3 is over at sfsu and I’m glad to say that I survived it. I wound up taking 15 units and after promising myself that is the last time I try taking that many units (along with having a part-time job w/ an internship), it’s looking like I’ll be signing up for…
All in the Subtext
A play is a poem standing up. -Lorca The first assignment for my Short Plays class was to write 3 one-minute plays. I’ve tried to do this before, but I don’t think it clicked for me until the quote above from Lorca resonated with me. The point of a one-minute is to create a story…
Taking Your Play for a Test Spin: The Un/Staged Reading
Stories High 12 Reading Cast of Thicker Than Wine (l:r-Patrick Silvestre, Rob Trinidad, Alan Quismorio, Aaron Niles, Gemma Calderon, and Aura San Miguel) Ooooos Ahssss And Hahahas are what hooked me into the Theater game in the first place, but those audience reactions were always a by-product of seeing a story brought to life on…
Launching a career as a Playwright
One of the things I learned from the Anthem Salgado’s workshop on Blogging was to have a “search-friendly” Blog Post title. Hopefully this will be the first of many posts that will bring more insight on what’s the goings on as I really do launch into this career that I’ve always felt was my calling…
Standing… Blind writing
What I mean about blind writing is that I began writing this script, Standing Above Pajaro, about two years ago and while I have my notes a out the play on my home computer, which I’m currently away from, I’m rewriting what I have of the script from memory. It’s going pretty well but now…
Trickier Than Wine
I finished the latest draft of Thicker Than Wine in October and I’m going to revisit it since there’s finally another deadline of Dec. 14. I’m a little apprehensive about revising it again for fear of overediting. then again all playwrights have the right to edit their plays when they wish. just don’t want to…