more good news!!!

THANK YOU STEVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

splattworks has left a new comment on your post "WINTER PLAYWRITING INTENSIVE":

For lack of a better place to put this...

I hereby nominate Constant Creator for the Premios Dardo Award

http://splattworks.blogspot.com/2009/01/premios-dardo.html

It's my pleasure to share the recognition.

Best,

Steve

exciting news!!!!

HOW CISSY GREW has received two nominations from LA Weekly's 30th Annual Theater Awards:

SUPPORTING MALE PERFORMANCE

Stewart W. Calhoun, How Cissy Grew, El Portal Forum Theatre
Mark Doerr, Lady, Road Theatre Company
Matt Kirkwood, Lady, Road Theatre Company
Matt Lutz, 1776, Actors Co-op
David Nadeau, Assassins, West Coast Ensemble at the El Centro Theatre
Christopher Neiman, He Asked for It, Theatre of NOTE
Skip Pipo, Mrs. Warren's Profession, The Production Company at the Chandler Studio Theatre Center
Paul Witten, Crime and Punishment, Actors' Co-op

PLAY WRITING

Susan Johnston, How Cissy Grew, El Portal Forum Theatre
Richard Martin Hirsh, The Concept of Remainders, The Production Company at the Chandler Studio Theatre Center
Robert Riechel, Jr. A.K.A. Eat the Runt, Hudson Guild Theatre
Dan Rothenberg, Regretosexual: The Love Story, Hudson Guild Theatre
Nick Salamone, Sea Change, Gay and Lesbian Center

For a full list of nominees and more information at the awards:
http://blogs.laweekly.com/ladaily/stage-news/stage-raw-la-weekly-theater-aw/

congrats to steph!

Congrats to our girl Stephanie McWilliams who is featured in this month's SOUTH magazine. Click on this link to check out her article!

http://www.indysouthmag.com/main.asp?SectionID=16&SubSectionID=14&ArticleID=202&TM=62271.7

congrats to yuri

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

March 24

Meet Yuri Lowenthal - A New Geek Hero for a New GeekHollywood

The face behind the voice: a hero leaps from the small screen to the big one

HOLLYWOOD, March 24 -- In a Hollywood where the hottest properties are coming from comic books, cartoons andvideo games, it seems only right that Yuri Lowenthal should be the next breakout talent. After all, already at this stage in his career he's played some of our times' most-loved heroes and once even kicked an animated Samuel L. Jackson's butt.

Lowenthal has thousands of fans, yet most have never seen his face."Well, to be honest, Sam did kick mine back. And he kicks harder," saidYuri, in a recent interview in his Hollywood home. He's referring to his role in Spike TV's AFRO SAMURAI, which Jackson produced and starred in and to which a sequel and a video game is already in production. In it, Yuri plays Afro (Jackson)'s childhood friend turned mortal enemy. "Stuff like that's a dream come true," says Lowenthal, a self-avowed fanboy who has played no less than Superman on Kids' WB's hit show,LEGION OF SUPERHEROES. "Yeah, I pretty much should just retire after that. I mean, where do you go from there?"

Apparently the answer is: only up, up and away. He has been heard in hundreds of shows, videogames and television commercials. "It's a funny wayto be famous, though. I still get to keep my anonymity." Not for long. With roles on TV shows like ALIAS, THE GILMORE GIRLS and CLOSE TO HOME, and several upcoming feature films, he might have to breakout his sunglasses and baseball cap.

And perhaps the ultimate crossover? PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OFTIME, the seminal videogame that won him a legion offans for his work as the Prince, is set for a big-budget adaptation byDisney and JerryBruckheimer. Will there be a part for him in the new incarnation? "I hope so. I'm campaigning for it now. It would certainly be a love letter to the fans who've made the franchise so popular," says Lowenthal.

So what's next for Yuri? For the internationally raised actor, travel is nothing new. At the end of the month he's off to Japan (Lowenthal is fluent in Japanese, French and German) to shoot the lead in a feature forTokyopop. He's also prepping for a feature by first-time director Keith Arem scheduled to begin shooting at the end of the year.

"We're excited that our film, TUMBLING AFTER, is in its final stages of post-production," says Lowenthal. The feature film, produced by his production company, Monkey Kingdom Productions with wife and partner Tara Platt, already has interest among distributors. "We formed the company because we believe there's power in creating your own opportunities." And in this new geek Hollywood, everyone knows that "with great power comes great responsibility."

congrats to elizabeth!

The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) announced March 27 that Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder is the winner of its 2008 M. Elizabeth Osborn New Play Award for an emerging playwright. The award was presented March 29 at the Humana Festival of New American Plays in Louisville, KY.

Her play, Gee's Bend, was commissioned for the Alabama Shakespeare Festival's Southern Writers Project. It had a 2006 reading in the Project's Festival of New Plays and its fully-staged premiere in January 2007 at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. It has since toured the state and received productions elsewhere with more slated for 2008. A production of the play is currently being performed by Denver Center Theatre Company.

The Osborn award "is designed to recognize the work of an author who has not yet achieved national stature — e.g., has not had a significant New York production, been staged in more than a few regional theatres or received other major national awards." It carries a $1,000 prize, funded by the Foundation of the American Theatre Critics Association. Honorees are recognized in The Best Plays Theater Yearbook, the annual chronicle of United States edited by Jeffrey Eric Jenkins, now in its 89th year. Making the selection from plays nominated by ATCA members is the ATCA New Plays Committee, which also selects honorees for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award. The Osborn Award is usually presented at ATCA 's biannual winter conference in New York or (as this year) at the Humana Festival of New American Plays.

release by c. josephine hagerty

Check out C. Josephine Hagerty's new short film RELEASE starring one of my favorite people, Victor Williams.

Josephine - we are so proud of you for getting the work done!!!

http://blip.tv/file/760199/

congrats to daily creator KSE

Karen Siff Exkorn, author of The Autism Sourcebook, appeared on Good Morning America on
March 13th to discuss early signs of autism and regressive autism. You can access the 4 minute video "Detecting Autism" at:http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2946575
(you will hear a 10-second audio commercial before the video appears)

The Autism Sourcebook: Everything You Need to Know About Diagnosis, Treatment, Coping and Healing—From a Mother Whose Child Recovered (ReganBoooks/HarperCollins 2005).

The Autism Sourcebook at Amazon

The Autism Sourcebook at Barnes and Noble

http://www.theautismsourcebook.com/

CONGRATS!!! Daily Creator C.L. sends this news about her new movie:

Red Carpet, here we come....Announcing the Nationwide Theatrical Release of my comedic turn in:

"THE BOYS & GIRLS GUIDE TO GETTING DOWN"
MARCH 23rd @ MANN'S CHINESE THEATRE

Shot entirely in LA, with a kick ass score by Dirty Vegas. Simply, it's a sick party caught on film...

Go to the site to win tickets to our Hollywood premiere & other prizes. Register to win.
Go to: www.guidetogettingdown.com & click on "TELL EVERYONE"See the trailer, click on "CAST & CREW" to check me out, and click on "THE STORY" to see me with bong in hand & tattoos galore.

Here's the list of cities we're comin to near you. Come out to support so we can make another film. We have to fill the seats & it's friggin hilarious. See you there! Hollywood, CA,Las Vegas, Seattle, Boston, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Dallas, & Detroit.

autism sourcebook

Daily Creator and my dear friend, KSE has had an amazing and miraculous journey with her son who RECOVERED from autism. I strongly encourage you to program your TIVO to hear her speak.

Karen Siff Exkorn, author of The Autism Sourcebook, will appear with her family on ABC’s THE VIEW on Monday 1/29. Join them, meet other families and experts, and see clips from Autism Speaks’ film “Autism Every Day” in a compelling hour-long show on autism.

Tune in to:

The View
ABC
Monday January 29, 2007
11:00 AM EST

The Autism Sourcebook: Everything You Need to Know About Diagnosis, Treatment, Coping and Healing—From a Mother Whose Child Recovered (ReganBoooks/HarperCollins 2005).

The Autism Sourcebook at Amazon
The Autism Sourcebook at Barnes and Noble

http://www.theautismsourcebook.com/

lucy speaks her mind

Check out the new interview with Daily Creator L.W. at http://www.bibliobuffet.com/bb/content/view/288/198/

loveliest grotesque

Congrats to Daily Creator S.L. who just gave birth to her first book, Loveliest Grotesque! She says:

"I announce with joy, the birth of Loveliest Grotesque.

Now available for order at http://www.korepress.org or http://www.korepress.org/catalog.htm

[The book will be available at Amazon and SPD Books later, but going straight to Kore Press is best! Go, small presses, go!]

Readings and Book Party to come ."