Hello Beautiful People, Happy. {V-Day}! Today is the official day of ONE BILLION RISING, the largest day of action in the history of V-Day, the global activist movement to end violence against women and girls. “When we started V-Day 14 years ago, we had the outrageous idea that we could end violence against women,” said…
Hello Beautiful People, I first stumbled upon the writings & musings of Roo Ciambriello when I was on the website of another Mover & Shaker, the phenomeal photographer Ms. Tiffany Farley. You see, not only is Tiffany a Mover & Shaker, but she’ll making The Write Teacher(s) a little bit more…lovely, and taking some pictures…
Hello Friends, Zero Dark Thirty is yet another film I was against seeing, upon the premise that I lived through 9/11, and I didn’t want to relive the experience on the big screen. I was angry that the film was being made, feeling like somehow we were all being exploited, and I certainly wasn’t going…
Hello Beautiful People, If there ever was a book that made you want to climb into the pages & jump into the story and give the characters a hug….well, it’s this book. If there ever was a book that made you want to climb into the pages & jump into the story and laugh with…
Hello Friends, Tonight, I sat in the audience and watched a masterpiece unfold on the stage in front of me. Edward Albee’s work, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is, in fact, a masterpiece. The work originally opened on Broadway on October 13, 1962, and it won the Tony Award for Best Play that year. It…
Hello Beautiful People, I’m so pleased to introduce you to the next actress in the Actors & Actresses Q&A Series, Amy Justman. Amy is a beautifully talented singer, actress, an instructor at Yale, and an absolute delight to talk to! We sat at Green Symphony and chatted over tea about Broadway, theater, music, life, and…
Hello Beautiful People, Really, Really, the newest play at the MCC Theater, is going into its second weekend of performances. If you haven’t gotten to see the show yet, well, you should. Some of our Write Teacher(s) readers & team members had the good fortune to see this show last weekend, and they had nothing…
Hello Beautiful People, Last night, The Write Teacher(s), along with many of our friends & fans, watched the two hour season premier of SMASH. And you know what? Ratings and numbers be damned…it. Was. A. Smash. It warms our heart & lifts our spirit when we see…I don’t know, a show on a network with…
Hello Beautiful People, I’m happy to introduce you all to our next Mover & Shaker, Andrea Bertola. Andrea and I are working on an upcoming production of The Vagina Monologues at HERE together, and she is, without a doubt a Mover & Shaker. Her wit, her passion, her dedication to the arts for social change…well,…
Hello Beautiful People, I had the pleasure of attending graduate school with the ever passionate, ever gracious, ever inquisitive, Ms. Erin Rachel Kaplan. She is a dynamo of sorts, a visionary, a crusader of justice, and a dear, dear, dear friend. I’ve been privileged to play Rajeey and The Woman in White in Collateral Bodies,…