“Unfortunately, there’s no distinction of how their Asian mom is any different from my black mom, or anyone else’s mom. If this skit were set in the ’70s, Asian mom would have been Jewish mom.” via A-Squared Theatre Workshop's My Asian Mom – Gapers Block A/C | Chicago. I’m beyond ecstatic to have my play,…
Author: Conrad
Conrad's a San Francisco Bay Area Playwright. He loves long walks upon the concrete and rainy days. Aside from writing words for actors to regurgitate into an audience's ears and eyes, he loves sports, 90's R&B, and learning.
Riding a Tidal Wave in a Bottle
So I read this at an open mic earlier tonight. Was nervous as hell, but got through it okay. I mentioned that I wrote this on my blog. What I didn’t mention was that I wrote this a couple of years ago on another blog. But since I said it was on a blog: Riding…
Learning, learning, learning! My path to being a Playwright.
#SecondCity Writing I: Weak premise. Weak sketch (Week Five) « Tic, Tac, Travel, Tech… Learning, learning, learning. That has been the motto for the last year in my relatively young career. The above links to a blog written by a person taking classes at Second City. The blog basically accomplishes what I’m trying to do…
Esperanza Means Hope – UC Davis, UNITY Clap Production
UNITY CLAP THEATRE is a multi-ethnic student-run theatre company that seeks to give a voice to underrepresented communities on campus through performance. This quarter, UCT is producing a production of ESPERANZA MEANS HOPE, an Asian American play set in the Davis/Sacramento area about domestic violence and silence in the API community. Sponsored By: My Sister’s…
The Avengers – Review
I started this blog to be focused on Theatre and my exploration into this new frontier as a playwright. But, this being a journey, I have pleasantly found that at the core of why I want to be a writer, is because I LOVE STORIES and I want to learn how to tell stories the…
A Complete Guide to ‘Hipster Racism’
A Complete Guide to ‘Hipster Racism’. Interesting article about racism told from a different point of view. In my goal to reach some kind of definition as to what type of writer I am, I’m finding that deeper questions about how I fit into American society lies. And I think it’s time for me to…
Word for word…
It’d be interesting to do a “word for word” play. But that would be from a producer/director POV instead of a writer. I’ll just put this in for now.
To Be or to be…
Love to write a play that’s done in verse. And not really going by way of Shakespeare’s prose, but using modern English and changing some of the words around. And it’s not my intention to “pose” like a poet or anything. I don’t care about that as much as I’d care if this made sense…
The Sleeping Pirate – An exercise into Language
Earlier today, I went to a quick workshop with playwright, A. Rey Pamatmat. The exercise given was to randomly draw one of Aristotle’s Poetics (Plot, Character, Action, Language (Diction/Rhythm/Melody), Spectacle, and Music) and a written down subject/object/phrase etc, and combine them somehow. This is what I blindly drew: 1) Diction/Rhythm 2) Your surname spelled backwards…
My Purpose
The following is my Purpose Statement written in application to San Francisco State University, Creative Writing Department’s MFA Playwriting Program. ===== In 1995, my journey of writing stories for the stage began with ANG PALENGKE, meaning “The Marketplace” in Filipino. ANG PALENGKE is a play about the dreams of people living in a provincial town…