Tom Jacobson is one of Los Angeles’ most acclaimed and prolific playwrights. Two different theater companies—the venerable Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA and Circle X Theatre Company—will be opening two new plays by Jacobson this weekend, next door to one in another in the same complex. Jacobson has had more than 70 productions of his plays in [...]
VS Grenier, Babysitting SugarPaw, is an award-winning children’s author, founder and owner of Stories for Children Publishing, LLC., award-winning editor-in-chief of Stories for Children Magazine, and chief editor for Halo Publishing, Int. She also hosts the blog talk radio show: Stories for Children on the World of Ink Network. Grenier is a member of the [...]
National Poetry Month starts this Friday, April 1. Poet Veronica Golos is the author of Vocabulary of Silence (released in February by Red Hen Press), an exploration of war and its witnessing-from-afar. Her first book, A Bell Buried Deep, co-winner of the 16th Annual Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize (Story Line Press), was nominated for a [...]
David Pérez is a writer, editor, and actor. His memoir—Wow!: A South Bronx “Memoirito” about boyhood and Catholic school—was released last month by 11B Press. Pérez talks about his experience writing Wow!, memoir-writing, the origin of the title, and more in this Write On! Online Author Q&A. For information about David Pérez’s upcoming events in [...]
Israela Margalit is an award-winning playwright and television writer, concert pianist, and recording artist. In addition to “TRIO,” which is having its American premiere in Los Angeles on March 12, after a 5-year, sold-out run throughout Russia and Ukraine, her plays include “Night Blooming Jasmine,” “3 O’clock in Brooklyn,” and “First Prize,” which is set [...]
Poet Margaret Fieland has been around art and music all her life. Daughter of a painter, she is an accomplished flute and piccolo player, who makes her living as a computer software engineer. Fieland’s poems, articles, and stories have appeared in journals and anthologies, such as Main Channel Voices, Echolocation, and Twisted Tongue. Margaret Fieland [...]
Melanie Sumner is the author of the novels The Ghost of Milagro Creek and The School of Beauty and Charm, as well as Polite Society, a collection of short stories. Sumner is the 2010 recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Literary Fellowship, and 1995 recipient of the Whiting Award. She teaches creative writing [...]
Jennifer Grisanti is the author of Story Line: Finding Gold in Your Life Story. She is also a Writing Instructor for NBCs Writers on the Verge and a sought-after consultant and former studio executive who covered Medium, Girlfriends, The 4400, Numbers, Melrose Place, Beverly Hills 90210, Charmed, and many other hit series. Grisanti talks about [...]
Children’s author Jennifer Gladen is a teacher and mother of three, who lives and writes in Pennsylvania. Her children’s books—A Star in the Night and Teresa’s Shadow—were released by Guardian Angel Publishing last year. Gladen, who also writes stories and articles, launched her own Catholic e-zine: “My Light Magazine.” Gladen talks about her writing process, [...]
Nicholas Kazan’s latest play—Mlle. God, in which he reinvents Frank Wedekind’s famous Lulu, “creating an outrageous and muscular dark comedy, a paean to sex, art, and living in the millisecond”—premieres this week in Los Angeles. Kazan’s plays, including the Off Broadway hit Blood Moon with Dana Delaney, have been performed across the U.S. in New [...]
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