Yeah I love
@SchittsCreek
and I am looking forward to The Minutes but what I really love is
@olreid
’s music. His albums are on my writing playlist and inspire me in my own projects. This was an amazing day. I’m so incredibly honored.
@anaismitchell
There was more mystery in the world. And more feeling of miniature adventure. If you didn’t know something, the answers were not at your fingertips. Finding answers, finding people like you, finding connection was work, a quest, and led to feeling accomplished.
So
@dramabookshop
received an honorary Tony Award in 2011. Then the store closed in 2019 and reopened in 2021 with a mostly new cast in a new location. Are we elegible for best revival?
So at work, a playwright I know was working to finish her play and we talked for a moment and I offered advice- mainly keep going and cut later- but talked show and craft. Later, another guest, who had be sitting nearby, came up and thanked me for the advice she overheard. (more)
I geeked out over a show and wrote to the writers. For a moment before hitting send, I felt embarrassed and nerdy. Then I remembered how I feel when someone geeks out over my work. I hit send. WE SHOULD ALL BE GEEKING OUT OVER EACH OTHER’S ART. ALL OF THE TIME.
#theatre
#art
All my life I’ve wanted to take a photo like this, signing my work at a store. Thanks
@TRWShows
and
@dramabookshop
for this magic. There’s more copies of
@8TalesofPedro
at dbs.
There are some wonderful people that entered my life once I started at DBS. The
#twitterico
community are joined together by a love of Lin Manuel’s work, but also by a similarity in heart and spirit radiating kindness wherever they go. I’m so happy I met them. Thank you all!
And just like that, I’m a published playwright. I share this joy with the amazing Luis D’elias and
@RodrigoEBolanos
and the actors from our superb casts.
@8TalesofPedro
is about community and it took that community to create this show. Muchas gracias to all. Thank you
@TRWShows
NINETEEN YEARS?!?! This guy has made me the happiest I have ever been. 2 Home States. 4 cats. 8 Tales. Multiple Collaborations. 1 Animal Crossing Island. So many shows, choir concerts, parties, and laughs. Thanks for creating a life with me. I love you!
#teamgarlanos
It's a complete dream come true to say that I was recently accepted into the BMI Lehman Engle Workshop as a lyricist. This is something I've wanted since I was a kid.
There’s a face that kids make when they see Santa. It’s a mix of awe, surprise, hope, and joy. I see adults making that face every day when they walk into the
@dramabookshop
. It’s so beautiful and inspiring.
She said that she needed to hear that advice and encouragment as well. This is why I love my job. This is why I DO my job. The theatre community has the power to empower and encourage each other. I love being a part of that. There is a place for us all to make art.
We got SHUCKED!!! 🌽
Get ready to be corn-fused and corn-pletely entertained by this sleeper Broadway hit! This hilarious comedy is all about… corn and will leave you feeling like you've been stalked by the funniest show on Broadway!!
#Broadway
#Shucked
#CornComedy
#corny
Guest: Do you have “Ghosts of Bogotá?”
Me: I love that play! No we’re sold out.
Guest: Oh. The author is here.
Me: What?!? That’s one of my favorite plays do you think she will sign my personal copy that’s on my desk right now?!?!
(Grabs play from office. Fanboys the f out! )
I did a tour of the
@dramabookshop
for a traveling school group and they surprised me by sending a thank you card and present!!! I’m so grateful. Also I’m not opening it yet to keep up the suspense.
Earlier today I told my coworker at
@dramabookshop
about
@theater_lovers
and then they walked in. Then I mentioned a specific upcoming drag queen from
@RuPaulsDragRace
and she walked in. So while I have this power- I’d like to take a moment to talk about Laura Linney.
Sooooo today I got the final edit of my soon to be published play from the publisher. The layout and text from
@8TalesofPedro
at
@TRWPlays
looks astounding and I may have started crying when I saw it. Can’t wait to see it at
@dramabookshop
and then the world!
#WritingCommunity
“Hold Tight” with music by
@jaimelozano
and lyrics by me had its debut at
@LCTheater
tonight. So technically I just had my Lincoln Center debut. Javier Ignacio was astounding and the night was amazing. Also seeing my boss
@Lin_Manuel
in the audience was such an honor.
When I was a kid, my dad would put on music (piano or orchestral- no lyrics) and would ask me "What's HAPPENING in this song?" and "How does it make you FEEL?" I created stories and told them back to him. Thanks to him, I've been writing stories to music my entire life.
🎵 Everyone who's anyone knows everyone who's anyone will be there...
You asked for it. Now hear the "Sextet Montage" from Jonathan Larson's "Superbia" as imagined by director Lin-Manuel Miranda in TICK, TICK...BOOM!
New Staff Pick! You want to write right, right? The Art of Dramatic Writing is everything! It has all you need to know about structure, character, drama, and theme. I filter all of my work through this book! Check it out on the back wall of
@dramabookshop
My new staff pic!! I love Native Gardens, by
@karenzacarias6
. An argument over the placement of a fence becomes a border dispute over privilage, race, and land entitlement. Fantastic (in case you can't read my chicken scratch writing.) Get your copy at
@dramabookshop
I am NOT happy crying at work!!!!!
@Chaim_DS
!!!!! OMG! You are amazing!!! This is the coolest.
#llive
#llove
#llama
you just made my day! What a surprise!!!!!
As a writer,
I will always have moments of debilitating imposter syndrome.
But I also will always have moments where I get excited because I’m really fucking good at what I do.
I’m very glad there’s so many more of those good moments.
New
@dramabookshop
staff pic- Is Solito about the theatre? No. Is it the most beautiful book I ever read? Yes. This is a book about humanity at its best. It made me smile. It made me sob. It made me feel. I’m still feeling so many feels.
@jzsalvipoet
So I ran to the store and it started storming once I got there. I picked up the groceries and waited in line. When I looked up I saw my husband standing at the door with an umbrella. He'd seen it start raining after I left and came to pick me up.
#love
@RodrigoEBolanos
is perfect
Our Lyft driver going on and on that the southern borders should be shut to not let all those people in.
And my husband calmly saying “but then we wouldn’t here paying your Lyft fare.”
I’m so fucking proud. I love
@RodrigoEBolanos
There’s always drama at the
@dramabookshop
but the most dramatic question asked that always leads to the most dramatic pause- and possible life evaluating inner monologues- from our guests is “do you need a bag?”
Ghosts of Bogotá made me feel so many things. Dealing with finding where we belong, facing past scars, and facing each other - this play hits hard. But also the laughs! Thank you
@loladiana
for this show. Truly loved it.
So I’ve been writing a mystery novel about a “haunted” theatre. My editor told me to beef up the “show within a show” plot. Characters- Ari, Agnes, Megan, and Calvin - perform an original new musical comedy- so I made a song list and pitch…and now I kinda wanna write IT too.
There is a wonderful book on theatre called “The Empty Space.” We’re unfortunately sold out at
@dramabookshop
. So if you go to the shelf, you will find the empty space. But also, you won’t.
My coworker are the best. Intelligent. Passionate. Artists. I am lucky and honored to be part of that group. Our guests are the best.I want them all to succeed. To be inspired. To find the right monologue, or advice, and their place.
It’s not the store’s anniversary (we re-opened June 10th) but it’s mine. 🎭📕A year later and I still feel the same sense of pride and gratitude. Yeah yeah the OG post is a long read but it was a journey and a story and I’m a dramatist.
#tomanymore
#happy
#thankful
#fullofdrama
So my husband put up the tree and put orange peels on the bottom branches. I thought- is this a tradition from El Salvador- and googled it. Nothing. Finally I asked and he said that cats dont like citrus and it should keep them from attacking the tree. (It actually doesn't work.)
“With each of the 12 moments in Songs By An Immigrant, Jaime adjusts the aperture and sheds a different light on the immigrant experience in America, his incredible musical versatility fully on display.”
-Lin-Manuel Miranda
September 2020”
#fyc
#grammy
#songsbyanimmigrant
OMIGOSH! Thank you ALL for the Birthday wishes. I spent the whole day making art with
@SidekickProd
and
@Nakia
. Then
@RodrigoEBolanos
surprised me with a LLAMA BIRTHDAY CAKE. It was such an amazing day and I am so grateful for you all.
#llama
#bday
And just like that, my new play is here at
@dramabookshop
Come get your signed copies of With Bated Breath! It’s an honor to be represented on these shelves and I’m grateful and happy and excited - very much like the characters in this show. You’ll know when you read it. 😉
I will be drama (bookshop) free for a week. Last day before vacation!!! Hope you enjoy my upcoming week of tweets about cats, Christmas decorating, and cucarachas. *
Definitely no on cucarachas but I was trying for alliteration and I only know so many C words. Do you know any?
The guy next to me on the subway jolted awake after sleeping on my shoulder for two stops. He apologized. “It’s gotchu.” I said. “Rest. What’s your stop? I’ll let you when it’s time.”