DANIEL JOHN KELLEY

Before the turn of 2010, myself and fellow playwright Maya Macdonald assembled a rag tag group of playwrights to meet weekly and share and talk about the kind of work we’re all doing. We’re currently one month in, and going strong!

One of the many things I’m enjoying (besides the fact that everyone is hilarious) is the different kinds of work folks are bringing in. For instance, this past week:

1. Maya brought in a part of her play about young girls in NYC trying to find a Sex and the City kind of life, but only finding heartbreak, anguish and terrible friends.

2. My buddy Ross Wade brought in a children’s play he’s writing for a class he’s teaching. The play is called Butterflies Forever (best title ever, yes?) and is about a pirate ship full of little girls learning about the true meaning of the friendship. Plus there’s a zombie ninja. Can’t go wrong there.

3. My new favorite person Meghan Deans brought in a selection from her new play about fan fiction, and we all leaped headlong into a brand new world (and vocabulary). Meghan is doing some awesome theatrical things with these characters, and the realities they create in their head versus the realities they are faced with in life, and I’m excited to see where this goes.

4. And little old me brought in the climactic end of Act I scene in my play Furniture Living- where the jilted wife confronts the mistress- the dryer, Spin Drying Marvel Master Model 866, and all hell/lint breaks loose.

I’m very excited to keep meeting with this super-talented bunch of theatre-making-folk, and hoping there’s some sort of showcase for us all on the horizon. But for now- we will keep meeting and bring in random things we made up in our minds. Onwards!