On July 8, you can bear witness to The Barber and The Farmer, my new play for computer, at 3LD Art & Technology Center in the Financial District.  The play is about a desperate couple who gets pushed to the limits by the mortgage crisis.  It’s 45 minutes 10 seconds long and is performed by a one-year-old MacBook Pro Computer.

Here’s a link to the invite.

I don’t know if this is the most ridiculous idea I’ve ever had for a project, but it’s right up there.  I don’t understand why it keeps pleasing me.  I’m a hair nervous that it will seem dumb to other human beings, or that what opens up a world of exciting questions and possibility for me will strike others as a snore, but I am psyched to have the piece presented in the way I originally imagined it.  3LD is a super cool space too.

Big new gig coming up at Joe’s Pub June 2.  Check it outski!  Probably our one and only indoor show for the summer.
In August, the band will be welcoming you as you leave your midtown office with a set at Bryant Park.
And come September, we’re rocking out at a new outdoor fest on Roosevelt Island [...]

My Grandpa Nathan passed away on Saturday.  He was 97 years old.  I’m sorry that he had to go but I’m relieved for him — 97 years is a long time and he was pooped. He had been ready to move on for the past few years at least.  
I couldn’t be at the funeral, [...]

A reading of my new play LUTHER, which I worked on throughout my year in the Public Theater’s Emerging Writers Group, will be held Monday April 20 @ 3 pm and again at 7 pm.  Leigh Silverman directs.  Very excited about this project, and about working with Leigh.  Tix are free.  Call 212-967-7555 for reservations.

Sweet!  

Next week, the Public Theater will host an evening of play excerpts by its first ever Emerging Writers Group (class of ‘08). I had the great pleasure of being one of 12 playwrights selected to be in the group (out of 700 applicants).  We met regularly throughout the year under the guidance of the Public’s Mandy [...]

Thanks to everyone who came out to our gig with Balthrop Alabama for the APAP showcase at Joe’s Pub.  
That was an excellent evening.

i can’t say that i had many fantasies about our band playing a high school in upstate new york, but man, this was one of the best music experiences i’ve ever had. a great teacher at Dryden High named Bob McMahon had seen us play Celebrate Brooklyn, and through sheer hustle and will, got grant [...]

why blog? i don’t know, exactly. maybe this is a place where i can talk about things in a more expansive way. do i have things to expand upon?
maybe this will be a place for pictures and other media, and very few words. that would be some kind of accomplishment, to communicate [...]

See the video for our song Hit It, directed by Ishai Setton, with choreography by Gabriella Barnstone. The Boston Globe’s Brainiac called it the best video of 2007.