The Script: Romero and Julie A homeless man, ROMERO, and his foil, a city worker named JULIE, battle over the possession of a home, aka a bench, in Golden Gate park. Okay, this was a rough morning and play to get through. All I had was a basic premise that I thought about for like…
Category: Lessons
These entries will show the tips that I’ve picked up along the road to superstardom!
Day 2: Chicken Sandos, Tiaras, and the War In Between
The Script: Chicken Sandos, Tiaras, and the War In Between A daughter’s betrayal causes a father to question what she loves more: her two dads or a Chicken Sandwich? UPDATE: Yay, I found the link I was refering to below: Chick-fil-A Anti-Gay Controversy: Gay Employees Speak Out Welps, honestly, this was scary because I had…
Letting in the Light (or Making Nightingale Adobo)
So I’ve been marinating over the controversy regarding THE NIGHTINGALE playing at The La Jolla Playhouse. Setting the ground: I am American of Filipino descent and I am in the process of building a career in Theatre as a playwright. If you don’t know what the fuss is with this production, search “La Jolla Nightingale”…
Taste Better Wit – The Ad Nauseam Show
Happy to have 3 of my sketches be a part of Taste Better Wit’s Ad Nauseam show which ran from June 14 to June 23 at Bindlestiff Studio, SF. Each writer’s work is so good, I know I’m just lucky to have my stuff share the same stage. I’m still learning, but since it’s in…
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…
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…
Never give up
Too long for a tweet – Waking up from a nap, I’m watching Louisville vs. Kentucky in the Final Four and I’m struck to see that Louisville is still in this game. Moreso, I’m struck upside the head in seeing how Patino’s team isn’t giving up on anything – rebounds, missed shots, on defense. They’ll…
Titus Andronicus – Review kinda
Okay, just to get things straight, the “reviews” on this site about plays I’ve seen aren’t really reviews, because that’s what Google is for. I totally don’t mean that in a dick way, though. I just didn’t want you to read this post and think, “well, that was a crappy review.” My definition of review…
Midnight in Paris
Where to begin. Well, being that this blog is to chronicle my development as a writer, I would think that critical lessons should apply, rather than a gushy review that I Loved It! One of the writing lessons I’ve learned was that it’s always better to have the protagonist discover what they really really want…