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• December. Zak and I have a song in Our Time, produced by Musically Human and not yet sued by Stephen Sondheim.  Check it out on December 5 at 9:30 pm at the Duplex.
• November. Say your prayers; it's the first reading of The God Show.
• November. He can sing, too? Zak Sandler performs some of our songs at the D-Lounge.

2011

• September. Zak Sandler and I let the horse out of the New York Theatre Barn.  Check us out at the D-Lounge on Monday, September 26 at 7:30 pm.
• September. Another Blogologues, another song!  This time Amanda and I write about  religion.  Fatwas may ensue.
• September. Amanda and I wrote a song for Lively Productions' Blogologues: I Need a Vocation. So blogoattend on Saturday, September 10 at 10:30 pm and midnight.
• August. A new essay, courtesy of Cirque du Soleil: Publicists? Where We're Going, We Don't Need Publicists.
• July. Exeunt Magazine calls Taking the Plunge "completely saturated with joy and delight." Read their rave-and-therefore-accurate review!
• July. 1930s hookers ahoy! The Temptation of Lady Amsterdam is tempting the Prospect Musical Theatre Lab from July 27 to 31. Get your tickets!
• July. Courtesy of Uptime Studios, Ron and I now have fancypants recordings of "Evermore" and "Another Day in Rome." Check them out!
• July. Leaping Londoners! Taking the Plunge is in the finals at the Samuel French OOB Festival on Saturday, July 24 at 2:30 pm. Get your tickets!
• July. Suicide tourists ahoy! Taking the Plunge is crash landing at the Samuel French OOB Festival on Saturday, July 23 at 4:30 pm. Get your tickets!
• June. Amanda and I are interviewed on the Samuel French website.  Never have I been this excited about anything French.
• June. Jonathan and I are part of the Prospect Theater's musical theater lab.  Stay tuned as we write a ten-minute show in three weeks or, more realistically, the weekend before the deadline.
• May. My Trip (at) Home is a part of Lively Productions' Blogologues: Sex, Drugs, and Interwebs. Check it out the weekend of May 13-14!
• May. Taking the Plunge was accepted into the Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival, proving that suicide is a viable solution to one's problems.
• April. April showers bring May flowers and a new essay: Physics Prom.
• April. More tracks from The Rivals are posted. Check out  "Out of Your Sight" and "Love Me for Me".
• March. The Rivals was a finalist for the Yale Institute for Music Theatre. To think, someday it may have a second act!
• January. Denmark, Part 2: A Capital Pursuit is posted. Read it quick, before the Swedish attack you.
• January. The recording of Taking the Plunge is now available. Never has suicide been so toe-tapping.

2010

• December. I've been commissioned to write a full length play, Old Lady Fun, for Lively Productions. Being commissioned is like being drafted, with a higher likelihood of death.
• December. A song I wrote with the lovely Julia Meinwald was part of Eric and Julia's Free Dessert Show at Park Lounge. The venue was far cooler than I.
• December. "A Survey of World History," by Zak Sandler and me, was featured in Sing Out Loud!, performed at Temple University by hyperkinetic theatre majors.
• November. Lively Productions produced a reading of the first act of The Rivals. The second act is still hiding somewhere in my amygdala.
• November. I ran the ING New York City Marathon.  I didn't die, but I did write an essay.
• November. A Crowded House was produced by the State Theatre of Chicago. Virginia Woolf plus Chicago in winter: how could this not be cheery?
• October. Ron Barnett and I won second place in the Fred Ebb Award for Musical Theatre Songwriting for our songs from The Princess Bride. This is almost as touching as William Goldman's cease-and-desist letter.
• October. I'm a finalist for the Fred Ebb Award for Musical Theatre Songwriting. Upon learning this, I sobbed into a poster of Elaine Stritch.
• September. Taking the Plunge was produced by 8Minute Musicals for the New York Musical Theatre Festival. It's a tale of two people, one Big Ben, and mass suicide.
• September. Part one of the Denmark travelogue is complete! For the love of jumbosnegl, read it now.
• August. Diplomatic Relations is a semifinalist in the Riant Theatre's Strawberry One Act Festival.
• July. The Discontented Grasshopper was featured in the Center Theatre's First 3^rd Annual U.S.-ification of America Conference. Take that, pacifist cicadas!

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