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Friday, April 21, 2006

Always Miranda To Me

Once upon a time there was a weird little theater company in a wretched little city. Despite the fact that the city was a Republican hell-hole filled with gun-toting crazies, this theater company enjoyed fairly generous public funding and had a certain reputation for putting on top-notch children's theater in the summertime.

During one of those summers, I had the good fortune of being in that theater company (which I would go on to direct, briefly) with some incredible people. It was one of those moments in time when the right people were in the right place at the right time, and I'm not ashamed to say it was one of the most remarkable summers of my life.

Not only were the plays pretty goddamn hilarious, if I do say so myself (we all co-wrote them), but 4 of the 6 of us became inseparable, spending all day together at the theater and then all night together raising various flavors of hell around the aforementioned city. Everybody had crushes on each other, and everyone could crack everyone else up at any given moment, including, it should be said, while we were being detained by police for trespassing on a very chi-chi golf course (ostensibly, we were there for stargazing, but frankly, I thought there might be making out - note: there was no making out).

Long story short, it's been a long time since that summer, and I've only seen the other people intermittently since then, crashing in Chicago or LA or touching base via late night email, but they're all still remarkable. Matthew is directing movies out in Hollywood, and Leigh is busy making the world a better place.

And Amanda, whose email prompted me to write this post, is writing badass screenplays out in the La-La. She's having her latest script, Stray, read as part of the Slamdance OnStage series, which is what we in the business like to call a Big Damn Deal. It's on April 24 at the Open Fist Theatre, and I strongly urge all my friends in LA to go. Amanda is one of the most astounding people I've ever met, and you should go meet her so you can brag that you did.

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