Year Zero Alternate Cover
Looks great! Thanks Jarrett Quon!
Year Zero Comes to Los Angeles — June 1st thru July 3rd [Updated with Reviews!]
[A] fresh, moving take on conflicted cultural identity… Golamco writes with insight and compassion.
Subtle and engrossing… Director David Rose meticulously charts its shifting shades of feeling. [Critic's Pick!]
Extraordinarily perceptive… Humor packed with electric direction and a remarkable cast.
Brilliantly directed… A tender story filled with beautifully calibrated, incendiary performances. [GO!]
Superb… Every bit as entertaining as it is dramatic and thought-provoking.
Simply great theatre… Full of endearing, likeable characters and a sweet story, Year Zero is a simply marvelous play.
Please spread the word, and I’ll see you all there.
Opens June 4th, runs through July 3rd
(Info Sheet)The Writing Process Explained by a Youtube Video
Wherein a high quality piece of writing is represented by a baby, and the writer is represented by a small dog.
Louis Theroux
I really rather like this BBC documentarian called Louis Theroux; he’s best known in America for his documentary about the Westboro Baptist Church. He recently did a followup on the church in which he questions them about recent defections in their ranks: (Part 1 below, the rest here.)
(My favorite part of this documentary is when he questions a 10 year old member of the WBC here. The boy tells him to shut up and Louis gets ornery, and the boy apologizes in an adorable manner.)
Polly Carl on Generosity and Giving
I loved this article about theater makers and generosity, so I wanted to share it with you: Notes on Generosity in the Theater by Polly Carl:
Regardless of where you are in your career as a theater maker, seek to mentor. Recognize that you have a responsibility to foster the passions and dreams and aspirations of others and there is almost always someone who has less experience in this business than you. As Hyde says, it’s only when we release our own gifts do they become ours—it’s in the giving that potential is actualized. Generosity transforms us into artists. To be an artist is a becoming not a being.
I think these thoughts apply to every field, every community, and every human being. The cost of things — the quantitative measure of what things are worth — are emphasized too much. We need to refocus on the qualitative: Human experiences, stories, and things that we share.
Good stuff.
My Work in Print
Year Zero
Available from Samuel French and Amazon.com
Cowboy Versus Samurai
Available from Samuel French and Amazon.comFor a complete list of books containing my work, please click here.
