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Director of dramaturgy & new works @actsanfrancisco . cofounder . follow me on Bluesky! @capnjoy .bsky.social

Oakland, CA
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@danpfeiffer @jonfavs @jonlovett @TVietor08 someone added him to the invertebrates page on Wikipedia. Thought you guys would like that.
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@hellolanemoore @darth This is corny, but when my dog had cancer and had to take a million pills, one thing that worked for a while is if jon acted like he was about to eat the pill and I acted really jealous and grabbed for it and then we “dropped” it “on accident”. Our dog would gobble it right up.
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So, approximately one out of every hundred Americans. That's incredible.
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UPDATE: Women's marches turn out 3 million protesters across country
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I feel such a sad stab of longing whenever I see Barack Obama quietly being a thoughtful leader.
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Obama met with @GretaThunberg today in DC:
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Thank you, @BarackObama , for fighting so hard to give Americans health care.
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@darth I’m fostering a sweet little pup! She was rescued from an animal hoarding situation and was scared of everything but is slowly but surely gaining confidence. Her name is Serena and she’s available for adoption from Wonder Dog Rescue.
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This just happened.
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@maggieNYT I think the outrage is over your outraged reaction to someone speaking truth to power.
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The good news: All but two GOP senators just proved they'll choose a big donor over basically all of their constituents. Vote accordingly.
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Showing up matters.
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BREAKING: After alt-right organizers saw huge counter-protests in Boston, they've canceled 67 "America First Rallies" scheduled in 36 states
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This is why he's so obsessed with Obama. He can't handle a black man out-performing him in every way possible.
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My commute buddy today.
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@SomewhereotRain Go see some theater sometime. It’s gonna blow your mind!
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a woman genius writing in praise of another woman genius might be my favorite literary genre.
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I want to give the opposite of a shout out to Michael Ritchie, artistic director of CTG, who chose not to produce our commissioned play STEREOPHONIC. 😁
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@Delavegalaw but the stutter is a lifelong condition. he sounds dramatically different than he did just a few years ago.
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. @SenatorCollins @SenJohnMcCain @lisamurkowski the difference between this bill and skinny repeal is this one hurts more Americans but gives a massive windfall to the idle rich. Thanks for showing so clearly us who you’re actually working for. #shame
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@OmalleyUnltd @halbritz The other DeVos story I read today is that Ms. 40-million-dollar-boat is curtailing a program that provides relief for people with onerous student debt from for profit colleges.
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I will never truly understand how this election could be competitive in any state
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@heidicullinan @GennHutchison Omg. Remember this photo of her Halloween costume as a kid?
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@bshallenberger @PublicTheaterNY @POTUS Listen, I'm not the one misinterpreting a play that four centuries of viewers and readers know condemns political violence.
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See, you know sexism is a real force in this country because how else can you explain people thinking this person is not likable.
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Elizabeth Warren tells the story of her first time meeting Obama back in 2002 when he was preparing to run for Senate. Wait for the punchline. 😍
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This is probably a medical situation but I would also accept a Macbeth-at-the-banquet style haunting
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Odd moment: McConnell freezes at start of Senate GOP leadership press conference and is escorted to the side by his colleagues
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@VP Do you support conversion therapy?
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I truly hate this man.
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15 out of 23 monkeys implanted with Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain chips have reportedly died:
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@ABCNetwork please don't cancel #downwarddog . This is a very stressful time to be alive and we really need this show.
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@KingGage_ This queen walks behind no one.
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@joshtpm @irin @thegarance It matters that so many fathers in this country value gender privilege to hurt women without consequence above their own daughters’ safety and well being.
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@racheleklein @studentactivism We are like one presidential election cycle away from this.
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NO. NO @SenatorCollins . THIS IS A BETRAYAL OF ALL WOMEN. You will not use the struggle for women’s equality to dodge reasonable questions about your hypocrisy.
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Quite a moment just now. We asked Susan Collins about House Republicans vowing not to pass the provisions McConnell promised her to win her tax vote. She stared for several seconds and said she thought the press's coverage of the tax bill has been extremely sexist.
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@_Xas_ How about Protest Auntie flipping off Trump at his inauguration?
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I went to go see DANA H, a brilliant moving and upsetting play that I’ve been part of the journey of since its beginning. I had (quiet, appropriate) human reactions to what I was seeing. A lady *followed me to the garage* to tell me I need to learn how to behave at the theater.
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@CHSommers Maybe you shouldn’t brag about how the world was awesome for you and then you ruined it for your kids?
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@davidpom2000 @rheeqsquared This list is a good place to start:
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@oliverbutler @WSJ my fully vaccinated friend is currently sick with COVID. Delta variant. feels like the worst flu he's had in his life. this Delta variant is scary. I don't think he'll be hospitalized or worse, which is good, but I'm nervous about further mutations.
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@JamieMcKeeMJS @richardgrant88 @mattocko A parent who is raising their kids to be socially engaged citizens? A good person?
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I'd like to offer this: if artists are not paid a living wage to rehearse and develop their work, opportunities are more accessible to those who have the capacity to develop work for free: those with family money, a supportive partner, without family obligations.
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@KenTremendous Even further back! The ACORN non scandal, which was maliciously used by the right to dismantle an incredibly effective voter registration program because it increased the participation of voters of color.
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@rachsyme Now I feel like answering honestly to that question at the dog park has been a mistake. Stealing this.
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You glanced at the plan over dinner with your son in law and sent him to his death because someone told you Obama didn't have the guts 4 it
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@pattonoswalt This is lame and intellectually dishonest. It is a big deal that the DNC surrendered party infrastructure to a candidate a year b4 primary
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A humble opinion: if a work of art makes some people feel fully seen in a way that is rare for them and they share their enthusiasm and love for that work of art And even if you think the work of art was lame Maybe, just maybe, the world doesn’t need your snark.
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@PFTompkins Hello! I was on that flight and it was totally upsetting! Also I did not say anything then out of respect for your privacy but you make me laugh a lot! Thank you!
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@AprilDRyan You've got a whole nation behind you, grateful for your service.
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Nice try GOP but it's gonna take more than a smiling lady talking about family for us to forget all those forced trans vaginal ultrasounds
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@DLoesch @jeffersonsheir @rachccouch @DennisPerkins5 Hahahahaha. You can't say shit about the substance so you go hog wild on a typo.
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I don’t want to see an all female GLENGARRY. I’d love to see a new play written for a big cast of middle aged women.
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@VP @POTUS he didn't target Asian-owned businesses by accident.
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@oliverbutler @WSJ I wish people would remained masked in crowded indoor spaces. I don't think we need to pretend like the vaccine doesn't exist, but I also don't think we should act like the pandemic is over.
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@RealPaulWinters @JoshuaConkel @AP He was born and raised in Turlock and at the age of 32 has spent more years in the county than the incumbent has his entire life. He’s fighting for the people of the Central Valley. Denham knuckled under to special interests and voted to send water our farmers need down to LA.
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@pez1963 @donwinslow @TonyRenner @DLoIndustries @realDonaldTrump Toddlers wailing on the floor. Guards observing them from a watchtower. That’s what those journalists reported.
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@jeffersonsheir @rachccouch @DLoesch @DennisPerkins5 I notice she's gone silent. Hard to argue this.
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Fire Island joins Clueless in the pantheon of completely successful contemporary film adaptations of Austen. (The pantheon consists of those two films and only those two films.)
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I know this is about rhetoric/posturing and not reality. But you still gotta sit back and marvel at the absurdity of using Shakespeare to put forward an argument about a supposedly stable gender binary.
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@bshallenberger @PublicTheaterNY @POTUS But I guess you'd have to read something to know that. Muting you.
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Fucking Feinstein. Jesus.
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein says Trump can be a “good president” if he can “learn and change”
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@goldengateblond @janemarielynch i remember when i was young, everyone made fun of the way young women spoke because of upspeak. then young women started speaking lower in order to sound sophisticated, avoid mockery. all of a sudden, vocal fry became the reason women's voices were annoying. we can't win.
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if a couple of billionaires can spend hundreds of millions of dollars on onanistic presidential campaigns, they and other billionaires can afford to make sure their employees have income and health care throughout the course of this pandemic.
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@DEADLINE @jeremyoharris Yeah they’re great but I’d rather have writers making a living wage, thanks.
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@TimPendry @FlorenceKeen @EliotHiggins @ICSR_Centre How many women need to be killed by violent misogynists before you believe this is an issue?
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@pattonoswalt And then every single DNC official lied about it to everyday voters. Hundreds of times, for years. They swore they were neutral.
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@rickviola @clowtilda @MattWalshBlog well not in senior positions, if he can't be alone with them without molesting them.
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Was contacted by a college student with an assignment to interview a "well-known dramaturg", which I think is a contradiction in terms? Regardless, god bless whatever nut is teaching her class :)
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i wish i never had to go in search of playwrights' names in a season announcement.
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@ambertamblyn That’s objectively a big deal. It doesn’t help anyone at all to minimize that.
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I truly hope that @nytimestheater knows that in 2020 they cannot once again announce a big inclusive nationwide open application process for their next critic, before offering the gig to a white man who did not apply.
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i want to go back in time and make the world safer for María Irene Fornés.
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@darth Happy Halloween from Eleanor the Walrus.
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@michaelianblack After Mira Sorvino, Isabella Rosalini, Ashley Judd, and all the other victims have their careers back, then we can talk about the harassers. It’s a little early, dude. All this does is say “that moment where we pretended like we cared? It’s over.”
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I just paid $122 for a standing room ticket to a play. The economics of theater are just getting harder and harder. We need more government and foundation support.
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These lies are a pretext for hate and violence and they are terrifying.
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IMMIGRANTS ARE LESS LIKELY TO COMMIT CRIME THAN NATIVE BORN CITIZENS.
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Anyone who says we shouldn’t count mail in ballots that arrive after 11/3 wants to deny the troops their right to vote. Pass it on.
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@nosylaeel @clairevenom @linzlovesyou @LaurieMMarshall @MattWalshBlog how can he hire women in senior positions if he can't be alone w/them
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It’s illegal to campaign from the White House. It bothers me that it doesn’t matter when he openly does things that are clearly illegal.
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@jacobdharen Sinking feeling about this one
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Man you guys what if we could have theater again one day?
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@nealkane @janemarielynch 1. take a look at lebron james, shaquille o'neal, michael jordan. 2. see how tall they are? 3. do likewise
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If you’re a woman who has not cut off ties with every guy who’s said an arguably sexist thing to you, raise your hand.
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Exchange btw Warren & Sanders on 'can a woman be president' is deeply troubling. #DemDebate If Bernie said it why isn't Warren deeply offended? He said something sexist but he's still her friend & she doesn't want to talk about it? This feminist finds this disturbing and dubious.
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this is probably very good news. bless you, Stacey Abrams.
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So far, 22.4% of early voters in Georgia did not vote in the 2016 election 👀👀👀👀
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Anyone who works for that man is a moral degenerate
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Trump's astonishing presser today stunned staffers because he publicly expressed opinions he'd long shared privately
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I love theater because I love the inventive and generous hearted weirdos who are drawn to it. When everyone in the field is suffering, most of my favorite people on earth are stressed out and in danger. I love you theater ppl. Be tender with yourselves and each other.
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@AdamSerwer @TheTattooedProf I assumed it was just run of the mill racism, and didn't think I could be more disgusted by Cornyn. I was wrong. This is even more vile than I assumed.
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@Sterling_Day @SportsTVRatings @DonaldJTrumpJr Maybe you should look at whatever impulse led you to reflexively believe this was fake without even bothering to check?
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@JoyAnnReid @SusanSarandon you have some power, and you contributed to this outcome. You should take responsibility for your actions.
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@swingleft Walked forty miles knocking doors for this guy!!
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@keirafromm @Reclaimer_9 @RexChapman Yeah. I know disabilities can be invisible, but given the way she’s freely yelling, the fact that people have been coached to claim physical disability in order to be mask non-compliant, and the way she’s clearly invoking a political frame, I’m betting her lungs are fine.
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I don’t get it from artists, ever. The opposite. It’s about perception of class and I hate it so much. Still hurts.
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@nosylaeel @clairevenom @linzlovesyou @LaurieMMarshall @MattWalshBlog b/c his job entails hiring some of the most coveted positions in USA
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Watch this and think about the decade and a half @SenatorDurbin has spent fighting tirelessly for Dreamers. Warms the heart to see quiet heroism honored.
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. @SenatorDurbin holds impromptu meeting with Dreamers, explaining to them details of plan. He’s met with song
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@alissakmclean @darth That’s my dog Eleanor with my human Jon! She loves her bag.
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@hanmaxmar @kevinone @PaulWDrake @SenBlumenthal Couldnt serve b/c he was injured in one of his feet. Don't ask him which, tho. Who could remember such a detail about a debilitating injury?
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@PePetheCDR @cheapbutnotfree @maggieNYT That’s excessive. But a good social media dragging is warranted.
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Imagine getting a reminder to vote from Mandy Patinkin!
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I was allowed to see my dad today, thank god. He did not recognize me but I read him some Mary Oliver poetry and held his hand and it was nice.
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Hey everyone out there who is clamoring for theater leaders to publicly announce every detail of what will happen in the next few weeks: give people a space to work, please.
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@mschlapp Hahaha. Listen, I know you don't have a lot to work with & you're trying, but it doesn't reflect well on your boy that he's like this sober
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