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I am a critically acclaimed, award winning young typist.
My typing has been published and produced across America and internationally.
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- I am honored to have been selected to become a new member of New Dramatists.
- Year Zero opens Victory Gardens' 2009-2010 season this fall.
- I have a new feature film project at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival's On Track film development program.
I Am Dog Sitting a Small, Mischievous Horse
Jul 2, 2009

Our friend Rick called. I was away from my phone and got the voice mail. He wanted to ask for a favor, and from the tone of his voice it sounded like he needed a kidney.

I called him back. "You don't have to do this, and I totally understand if you don't want to," Rick said, "But... Would you mind dog sitting Pepe this weekend?"

Pepe is less than a year old -- thus probably five years old in dog years. He behaves just like a five year old boy that has just eaten a pound of Skittles. He is mid-sized and muscular like a small horse or like Verne Troyer if he worked out a lot. He knows how to open doors. He is very friendly, and likes to hug people a lot. But for him, hugging consists of jumping onto someone and trying to give them a handshake with his mouth.

"Yeah, I'll take him," I said.




Very Short Stories About New York City
Jul 1, 2009

My favorite thing about this 'burg is that there are a lot of parks in which one can sit and just write for a while. Whenever I'm in New York City I'm always rushing around from appointment to appointment, but often I have an hour or two to take a breather. That's when I roll up to Union Square, Bryant Park, or Washington Square Park, take a seat with a Diet Coke and my notebook, and just work for a while.

Just working with an open notebook brings me a lot of peace. I feel like I'm working things through. Solving problems, figuring things out. And it's kinda great to do that surrounded by trees and traffic and people that are also trying to do figure out similar things.

New York fatigue kicks in easily for me -- running from meeting to meeting, getting irritated at people for walking so goddamned slow. Pausing in doorways and at the tops of escalators, conspiring as a system to make me late.

Coming from driving-centric LA you feel like you're giving up a lot of control. You're suddenly waiting for trains, you're being held up by other people. You're constantly moving and feel like you're forced to constantly be moving.

But one of the things you can control is to choose when to stop. Take a break, rest, write.

I finally got a chance to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I had been trying to go for years but I kept bouncing off of the massive crowds.

This time I went on a Wednesday morning. Still busy, but far fewer people than usual.

I spent the majority of my visit walking through the Egyptian wing of the museum, and this was easily one of the most amazing museum visits I've ever enjoyed.

The ancient Egyptian Temple of Dendur. Transported to NYC block-by-block, a gift from the Egyptian government. What's neat/sad is that 19th century European hooligans carved their own graffiti into the temple walls in 1820. Tagging has been around for centuries.

There was a very attractive lady docent giving a tour of the Egyptian wing to about a hundred young children. It was really charming how she kept wrangling their attention: "Can you help me find the Monster in this gallery?" She had a thick Japanese accent that was simultaneously working for and against her.

There was a small boy with dinosaurs on his yarmulke. I looked around online and apparently you can get yarmulkes with all sorts of things: Fire engines, robots, etc.. This is incredibly cool to me.

Some ladies came up to me with a map, apparently needing directions.

"Do you speak English?" they asked.

"No," I said, "I'm sorry, I wish I did. Maybe you should try that guy over there."

I barely scratched the surface before I had to leave the museum to make it to another meeting. I'm coming back to NYC in September and will continue my tour then.

New York City: I like you a lot. I even [heart] you sometimes. I will see you again this fall. RESPECT!




God Has an Epic and Unruly Imagination
Jun 30, 2009

I just got back from a fun wedding where there were little kids running around doing goofy things. They had Kevin-from-the-movie-UP dolls, and were having lots of fun and being little kids.

In juxtaposition, here is an LA Times story (with video) about a a six year old kid with schizophrenia. This is easily one of the most interesting and sinister stories I've ever read.

She sees imaginary animals and names them after numbers. One is a cat named 400. She is loving and sweet one moment, then will suddenly start biting and kicking people. She has an IQ of 146. She needs 300 milligrams of Thorazine to manage her psychoses. She lives in an imaginary place called Calalini. "Calalini is on the border between this world and my other world," she says.

This is a really creepy, heartbreaking, and weird existence. The parents and doctors are at wit's end. It makes you wonder how people can live like this -- the little girl and her parents, I mean -- and illustrates the inner strength that human beings are capable of.

I have no real analysis of this story. I don't know what to make of it, other than I think it should be shared with others. Hug your kids and tell them that you love them. And if you don't have kids, be glad that your connection to reality is solid and stable.




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Year Zero World Premieres at Victory Gardens This Fall

So it’s on its way — the world premiere of Year Zero at Chicago’s venerable and wonderful Victory Gardens Theater.

It’s not every day that a Tony Award winning theater puts on a show about a sixteen year old Cambodian American kid that writes rap lyrics and plays Dungeons and Dragons. This is something different.

More information as it arrives, but until then I will see you in the Windy City this fall.


Opens September 2009


More information to follow soon!





Please Stand By at Tribeca Film Festival, as part of Tribeca All Access On Track Presentations

Wendy Walcott is 28 years old. She loves dancing to music on her iPod, knitting sweaters for animals, and watching Star Trek. She works at Cinnabon. She has Autism Spectrum Disorder.

And to prove to her sister that she can take care of herself, Wendy escapes from her assisted living home — goes on the road to Los Angeles to deliver her 500 page entry for a Star Trek scriptwriting contest.

Wendy was lost in her own world, and now she’s lost in ours.

So please stand by — Wendy Walcott is coming home.

Please Stand By is a new feature film project selected for the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival’s All Access: On Track program.

Please join writer Michael Golamco as he tells the story of an unlikely heroine on the road, trying to make her way back home.

Monday, April 27th • 4:30 – 6:30 PM

For industry information, inquiries, and reservations, click here or email allaccess@tribecafilminstitute.org.





Year Zero Reading at East West Players

Hey folks, I’d like to invite you all to the third and final Southern California area staged reading of Year Zero, taking place at the David Henry Hwang Theater at East West Players.

This will likely be the last public reading before the play world premieres at Chicago’s Tony Award-winning Victory Gardens Theater next season.

What is this play about? Reincarnation. Redemption. Dungeons and Dragons. It contains what my good friend Lloyd Suh described as “the nerdiest stage direction ever written:” He rolls a D20.

I’ll see you there!

Sunday, April 5th, 2009 • 6 PM

David Henry Hwang Theater • East West Players
120 Judge John Aiso Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012

FREE as in BEER
(Please arrive early to allow for parking)

Directed by Oanh Nguyen

Featuring Kari Lee Cartwright, Tim Chiou, David J. Lee, and Rodney To





Year Zero Reading at UCSD

Hey folks, I’d like to invite you all to the second Southern California area staged reading of Year Zero, taking place at the VisArts Theatre at the University of California at San Diego. This reading is directed by Seema Sueko, Artist-in-Residence at UCSD’s Thurgood Marshall College and Artistic Director of Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company.

What is this play about? Reincarnation. Redemption. Dungeons and Dragons. It contains what my good friend Lloyd Suh described as “the nerdiest stage direction ever written:” He rolls a D20.

I’ve been working on the play in Chicago, and it’ll be nice to share it with the UCSD community. GO TRITONS!

March 9, 2009 • 7 PM

Directed by Seema Sueko

Featuring Brian Huynh, Jyl Kaneshiro, Thomas Kouo and Andy Lowe

Free, but you must reserve your seat! There are only 30 seats available for the public at this reading.
Email jmorris@ucsd.edu to make your reservation.

University of California, San Diego
Click here for directions





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