#Christopher Shinn

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Emma D’Arcy Biography, Net Worth, Career, Boyfriend and Family

Emma D’Arcy Biography, Net Worth, Age, Boyfriend and Family discover the life of Emma D'Arcy, including details explore the journey of this talented actress. Full NameEmma Zia D’ArcyNet Worth$1.2 MillionDate Of Birth27 June 1992Age32 YearsGenderNon-BinaryHeight5 Feet 7 Inches All things considered, Round of High positions fans are truly eager to see D'Arcy in the job of grown-up Rhaenyra Targaryen in Place of the Mythical serpent. All in all, could you get a little look at what d'arcy's identity is? Or more all, we should not neglect to utilize the pronouns they and them.

Emma D’Arcy Biography

Emma D’Arcy Biography bron on 27 June 1992, age is 32 Years of age starting around 2024. She was brought into the world in a very much settled family from London, Britain. She holds an English identity and has her confidence in Christian religion. Her zodiac sign is Malignant growth. She completed her early graduation at Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, England. They procured basic recognition and a Brilliant Globe Grant selection for playing the lead job of Rhaenyra Targaryen in Place of the Winged serpent. They have additionally showed up in the show films Misconduct (2020) and Mothering Sunday (2021). Full NameEmma Zia D’ArcyNicknameEmma PorfessionActors and ModelPhysical Height Eye Colour Hair Colour 5 Feet 7 Inches Green Eye  BlondeWeight53 KGDate Of Birth27 June 1992Age32 YearsNet Worth$1.2 MillionNationalityBritishHometownLondonBirthplaceLondon, EnglandReligionChristianSchoolLocal High School in London, EnglandCollege/UniversityRuskin School of Art, University of Oxford, EnglandEducation QualificationGraduatCurrently Live InLondon, EnglandZodiac SignCancerFamous ForPlaying in television drama series such as House of the DragonMarital StatusUnmarriedParents Name: Father Mother Richard John D’Arcy Sally Elizabeth D’ArcyBrother SisterLeo D’Arcy

Emma D’Arcy Net Worth

Emma Zia D'Arcy expertly known as Emma D'Arcy is an English entertainer and theater craftsman. Starting around 2024, Emma D'Arcy's total assets is $1.2 million. She aggregated her total assets through acting vocation in TV series, show and movies. She rose to popularity as Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen in dream show TV series Place of the Mythical serpent and appearance in the BBC show miniseries A strong desire for new adventures of 2015.

Emma D’Arcy Career

Emma D'Arcy has showed up in a few theater creations their earliest appearances were in Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman at the Oxford Playhouse, Romeo and Juliet at London's Southwark Playhouse, and Misleading content at In 2016, D'Arcy played Tammy Frazier in Callisto. A Strange Epic, coordinated by Thomas Bailey, at the Arcola Theatre.They featured as Ringer in the April 2017 creation A Young lady in School Uniform at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. In August 2017, D'Arcy showed up close by Ben Whishaw in writer Christopher Shinn's Against, at the Almeida Theater. Composing for Artistic expressions Work area, Aleks Sierz applauded D'Arcy's presentation as well as the creation's "glorious snapshots of wry humor and intense close to home understanding.

Emma D’Arcy Parents & Family

Emma D'Arcy's folks are Richard John and Sally Elizabeth D'Arcy. Emma D'Arcy's father name is Richard John D'Arcy who is a finance manager by calling. Emma D'Arcy's mom's name is Sally Elizabeth D'Arcy who is a housewife. She has one kin; her brother name is Leo D'Arcy. Very much like other celeb, Emma is additionally keeping her family member’s profession and different subtleties inside herself. Now and again, she posts their photos on her web-based entertainment stages. You might also like:- - Jennifer Lawrence Biography, Net Worth, Early Life, Career, Boyfriend - Arnold Schwarzenegger Biography, Net Worth, Early Life, Career, Girlfriend Read the full article

[the-book-wyrm-reviews]

Welcome to the Wyrm Den

Thank you for coming to my blog! Here I plan on leaving reviews on different books I've read and hopefully to have Links on where to find them. I do want to put emphasis on the fact that these are my personal reviews and to be taken with that in mind. Each book should have an image of the front cover, word/page count, author, title, a 1-5 star rating, its genre, and any spice ratings that may or may not be needed. If you have any suggestions or comments on the books I've already posted about, feel free to send me an ask under: 'Book Suggestions' or 'Special Submissions'

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My Current TBR

Starling House by Alix E. Harrow (Current Read)

The Black Gryphon by Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon

Demon Stone by Cat Adams

Be Dazzled by Ryan La Sala

Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Burning by Susan Squires

A Touch of Darkness by Scarlett St. Clair

Mystic and Rider by Sharon Shinn

Eragon by Christopher Paolini

Texting Titan by Kaci Rose

Elusive Dom by Kaci Rose

[fredvanvlecksuperintendent]

Fred Van Vleck Superintendent | EHS Students Receive Seal of Biliteracy Awards

Shared by Fred Van Vleck Superintendent of Eureka City Schools. Eureka High School Students Earn 43 California State Seals of Biliteracy in 7 World Languages Honored Among 113 Students by the Humboldt County Office of Education May 19, 2023 – Eureka, CA – The Humboldt County Office of Education held its 11th Annual Seal of Biliteracy Awards Ceremony on Tuesday, May 16, 2023 at the Sequoia Conference Center in Eureka. This year HCOE celebrated 113 students that earned the California Department of Education’s Seal of Biliteracy in one or more of 11 languages representing nine different high schools in Humboldt County. Eureka City Schools is proud to announce that Eureka High School made quite the statement this year with its students earning 43 Seals of Biliteracy in seven World Languages. These remarkable students were honored with an official certificate and a medal for achieving Biliteracy. Four students (below in bold) achieved multiliteracy and received their Seal in three languages including English. The students were accompanied by their families and dedicated staff from the EHS World Languages Department and EHS Counselors.  Every school year Eureka High School offers its students the opportunity to be assessed to receive their California Seal of Biliteracy. The State Seal of Biliteracy (SSB), marked by a gold seal on the diploma or transcript, recognizes high school graduates who have attained a high level of proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing one or more languages in addition to English. Eureka High School Counselor Sarah Cruz says, “The process allows for students to have their language skills verified to colleges and future employers. Many of these students have taken four years of a world language at Eureka High or speak their own heritage language in addition to English.” Eureka High currently offers Spanish, German and Yurok. This year EHS students received Seals of Biliteracy in Spanish, German, Hmong, Vietnamese, Czech, Gujarati and Chinese Mandarin. Join us in congratulating them! Their names and Seals of Biliteracy are listed below. Bien Hou  – German/Mandarin Kazhia Lee – Spanish/Hmong Kishan Patel – Gujarati/Spanish Amelia Staiano – Czech/Spanish German Spectre Hailey Amber Olson Gaige Shinn Vietnamese Bui Khanh Linh Nguyen Spanish Faith Abercrombie  Aleyah Angel Lopez Christopher Barroso Olivia Biesecker Wolfgang Bise Davis Boone Ava Colosi-Bennett Marco Cruz Hernandez Spanish continued Alma Cruz-Mojica      Puletele Fonoti  Joseph GonzalezFletes  Anna Grimmett Rebeka Hang     Diego Hernandez-Gonzalez         Jesus Hernandez Stasha Leonard  Ashly Lopez         Samantha Munguia-Gastelum    Margaret Odell  Sasha Ortiz Bazan            Kimberli Pacheco Pretty Perez Finn           Nelsy Ramirez Pacheco Keenan Riggs Turpin    Brian Rodriguez Barroso           Destiny Rodriguez         Valeria Ruiz         Ean Savage Jordan Urban     Juan Valdavinos Isaac Young —– Press Contact: Sierra Speer Dillon Communications and Marketing Coordinator Eureka City Schools Speerdillons@eurekacityschools.org Tel: 707-441-3373 To find out more about the California Department of Education’s State Seal of Biliteracy visit: www.cde.ca.gov/sp/el/er/sealofbiliteracy.asp Originally published here: https://askfredvanvleck.com/ehs-students-receive-seal-of-biliteracy-awards/

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[moonwest]

Against - my thoughts

Do you think I came to bring peace on earth?  No, I tell you, but division.

Luke 12:51

I hadn’t realized Christopher Shinn quoted this before the play, but it works perfectly in terms of how Luke impacts people as he starts his project.

I would argue though that division, and violence (whether physical, emotional, manipulative or even just implicit) are a part of most of the interactions between the characters, despite their best intentions to bridge those gaps of understanding, support or intimacy.  Oftentimes, despite their best efforts, they hurt the very people they are trying to help. So while it’s not all on Luke, his “calling” sets in motion a train of events and interactions that seem inevitable.

Luke points out that we avoid thinking about violence – about its potential within ourselves and why it happens in the first place.  There are no easy answers and in most cases it is, as he says, frightening, confusing and painful.

Tom’s shooting of his classmate and suicide are unfathomable; his father can only make sense of it all by dismissing his son as being “born bad” and one of the “losers of the world”. This sentiment is echoed to some extent by Tom’s friend Tim.  Neither can imagine their role or admit possible culpability in Tom’s anger and subsequent acts of aggression, and while Dan is willing to talk to Luke, and later to Tom’s mother, his father refuses to engage or even ascribe any good intentions to Luke, and this inability to talk about it results in his leaving Tom’s mother in an attempt to start over.  She, on the other hand, wants to understand and reaches out to Luke and her community but in the end she is unable to offer Tim any forgiveness for rejecting her son and likely setting in motion his terrible actions..

The play shows this over and over again; despite anyone’s best efforts, no one can be all things to all people; someone will always be left out, hurt, misunderstood, manipulated.

Melvyn and Tracey move haltingly into a relationship but her past (while unsaid, we can assume she was a victim of abuse and finds it difficult to believe anyone would ever want her outside of sex) make it seemingly impossible.  Chris wants Dan to overcome his addiction and sees his potential, but at the same time he supplies Dan with the very drugs that are ruining his life.  

Anna’s professor wants to help her – he’s clearly keen to support her talent as a writer and encourage her growth as a human being and member of a diverse society, but his own agenda, personal priorities and inner pain prevent him from really understanding what she’s trying to say.  His counselling eventually (certainly as their scenes are played) causes her great distress and to doubt herself.  And this is repeated in his debate with Luke; he has some very valid points to make, and is passionately sincere in condemning how society treats sex workers, but his zeal and desire to confront Luke results in  misunderstanding, aggression and finally an inability to continue the conversation.

 Luke genuinely wants to help people, but in an effort to be fair hurts a mother and son dealing with cancer and a father unable to understand how Luke can sympathize with criminals when his son has been so grievously hurt.  He cannot (until much later) allow himself to feel and offer Sheila the intimacy she craves and even his relationship with his mother is strained.

As the play progresses we witness more characters increasingly unable to accept or even deal with violence.   While Luke confronts the shooter, Jon escapes, Sheila remains but is unable to watch the livestream,   Anna accepts Chris’s offer of drugs so she can forget, and even Tom’s mother turns off the news.  Even the shooter’s targeting of Luke comes from his refusal to accept his changing world and his need to find someone to blame who must be punished.

Only Luke, it seems, has the courage to confront violence (though he is increasingly dismayed as he realizes his best efforts only seem to make everything worse), as he tries to change the world, ending in his meeting with the shooter to save him from hurting others, but also, one senses, to save him from himself.  

Throughout the play, Luke speaks of the guilt and sense of responsibility we carry within ourselves for the violence we influence, enact or just witness and says that “the more we accept such feelings, the greater the chances that we can transform them into something good – into forgiveness and love.”

Kate’s forgiveness of Luke gives him the impetus to finally connect with Sheila and create a plan to address violence that might actually work.  Luke is flawed and despite his intentions not always sympathetic, but the very act of forgiveness and sacrifice he extends to the shooter prevents another suicide, and opens the door for Melvyn and Tracey to hope they can build a meaningful relationship.

The play itself presents these ideas and situations to the audience, and much like the characters provides no real resolution or easy answers.  And so it’s understandable why reactions have been mixed.  Many of the scenes are uncomfortable to witness.  Why have some acts of violence (repeated daily on our society) been addressed, but not others?  Has the playwright lost the script when he stresses the need for diversity and acceptance while at the same time seeming to criticize “political correctness” gone too far?  Does some of the dialogue seem more like a teaching moment than realistic? I’m not sure it works as a narrative journey so much as an exploration of ideas.  But I do know that two weeks after seeing it, I’m still thinking about what it all means.  And I can understand why Ben Whishaw was drawn to the challenge, much like Luke was.

[wonderfulwhishaw]

Mark Rylance and Hayley Atwell attend first night of Against

[themuller13]

AGAINST

Christopher Shinn: Discussion and Signing

The Drama Book Shop is pleased to welcome back acclaimed playwright Christopher Shinn (Picked, Teddy Ferrara) to celebrate the release of his new play Against, and his latest collection Plays: 2 from Methuen Books on Tuesday, October 10th at 5:00pm. Shinn will sit down with playwright and Drama Book Shop Events Manager Steven Carl McCasland for a discussion about his plays and read from his latest work. Copies of both books will be available for purchase, and the discussion will be followed by a signing. Admission is free and open to the public.

Event date:

Tuesday, October 10, 2017 - 5:00pm

Event address:

The Drama Book Shop, Inc250 West 40th StreetNew York, NY 10018-1511

The event is live tweeted:

https://twitter.com/MethuenDrama/status/915247178129518592

@a-forger-and-a-point-man

[willstafford]

For

AGAINST

Almeida Theatre, London, Saturday 16th September, 2017

  Luke is a billionaire whose companies are at the forefront of technological development: IT, space travel, you name it.  When he receives a ‘message from God’ he decides to change his ways and become more pro-active in changing the world for the better.  There are shades of Bill Gates’s philanthropy here, along with touches of Elon…

[thefrogsennaneverfound]

So no one’s really talking about “Against”...

After “Hamlet” opened at the Almeida the Andrew Scott tag was full to bursting with enthusiastic talk about it; tomorrow’s the last night and everyone’s still talking about it and marvelling over how amazing it is. 

I’ve been keeping an eye on the Ben Whishaw tag to see what people have to say about “Against” and there’s been hardly anything. Most of what I’ve seen has either conveyed disappointment or just talked about having met Ben when going to see the play. 

Does anyone have anything good to say about it? I certainly don’t. In fact, I’m angry. I went to see this play with my sister, who’s written several plays. I’m not be biased - they’re good. They’re well written, entertaining, full of drama and humour and well-round characters. But she knows no one in the business so can only submit blindly, along with thousands of others, to the small handful of companies that accept scripts from unstaged/unpublished writers. This pile of utterly abysmal excrement got an incredibly prestigious platform with a very highly regarded lead actor yet she can’t get further than the huge pile of anonymous scripts that get read by someone who’s already ploughed through a dozen other plays that day and it probably pretty jaded by it all. I’m not saying hers are the most amazing plays in the world but they’re infinitely better than the pointless tosh that Christopher Shinn spewed out and the Almeida chose to stage and Ben Whishaw chose to star in. 

I don’t often put my head above the parapet on Tumblr but I’m so frustrated that such unbelievably bad writing got such a high profile staging when there’s so much out there that’s so much better. It just really really pisses me off and I had to say something. 

[frontmezzjunkies]

Second Stage's Dying City Needs Some Resuscitation

#frontmezzjunkies reviews: #DyingCity written and directed by #ChristopherShinn @chirs_shinn with #MaryElizabethWinstead and #ColinWoodell @ColinWoodell @2STNYC #TonyKiserTheater

The Review: Second Stage’s Dying City

By Ross

The creative juices of playwright constructs are molded together in the dynamic and thought-provoking play Dying City by Christopher Shinn (Where Do We Live) at Second Stage’s Tony Kiser Theater. The fascinating human fallout of global attacks and wars find their way in to this exploration, inventively tearing apart relationships, politics, and…

[thestageyshelf]

Against @ Almeida Theatre 2017 (#178)

Title: Against

Venue: Almeida Theatre

Year: 2017

Condition: Wear to edges

Author: Christopher Shinn

Director: Ian Rickson

Choreographer: Movement Director: Imogen Knight

Cast: Fehinti Balogun, Elliot Barnes-Worrell, Nancy Crane, Emma D'Arcy, Amanda Hale, Kevin Harvey, Adelle Leonce, Martin McDougall, Philippe Spall, Gavin Spokes, Ben Whishaw, Naomi Wirthner

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[tamorapierce]

Tammy's Spring 2020 Reading Recommendations For the Bored

Sooner or later the bookhounds among us are going to start joining my relentless song, from age five on up, of “I don’t have anything to read!!!!”

 I am here to help.  In this space, as I get to it (knowing, as my readers do, that I have no sense of deadline), I will be posting a constant set of collections of book titles by authors my team and I have read and will recommend in a wild variety of genres and for a wild variety of ages.  (And I’ll give a short hint as to the subject of the first book/series—if I did them all I’d never finish this.)  This last is for the many of you who are reading teen and adult books in grade and middle school, and those adult readers who are reading teen and kidlit. These people are for those who love books and don’t care who is supposed to be reading them.  

 Also, you may have to look far and wee, since we will be drawing upon not only recently published books but older ones that we have either read recently or that we read long ago and have re-read or have never forgotten.  Don’t say I didn’t warn you when the writing is archaic.  If you’re a true nutsy reader like the rest of us, you won’t care.

 -Tammy Pierce

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Assume the book came out within the last 2 years unless I put LO next to the title, which means you have to check libraries and bookstores online and paper for copies.

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 Diana Wynne Jones  LO

A generation or two of fantasy writers, particularly those who love humor, bow to this woman as our goddess.  Not only was she out of her mind in a very British and manic way, but with her TOUGH GUIDE TO FANTASYLAND she taught a number of us to ditch some ill-considered tropes of our genre.  If you write historic fantasy in particular, move heaven and earth to track this book down.  There’s a bonus: some of the entries will make you laugh till you cry.

           She is best known for her books for middle grade and teens, but they are enjoyable for all readers.  I cannot list them all here because my fingers will break (curse you, arthritis!), but these titles will give you a jumping-off point.  And remember, authors change with each book, so you won’t encounter the same author with each title as the author you read in the previous one!

           The Chrestomanci books, all in the same universe, in order of story,

                       not publication

Charmed Life  (1977) An innocent lad follows his plotting egotistical sister to live with England’s chief wizard

The Lives of Christopher Chant (1988)

Conrad’s Fate (2005)

Witch Week (1982)

The Magicians of Caprona (1980)

Short stories

 The Dalemark Quartet begins with

The Spellcoats (1979)

3 sequels

 The Derkholm books are

Dark Lord of  (1998)

Year of the Griffin (2000)

  The Tough Guide to Fantasyland is standalone, but is a kind of offshoot of the Derkholm books.  You don’t have to have read the Derkholm books to get Tough Guide!

 There are other books and stories by Jones—I’ll let you find them on your own.

  Philip Pullman

To this day I am unable to call him anything but Mr. Pullman—that’s how much in awe of the man I am.  We’ve had dinner together, talked on the phone, talked at an event or two, done a conversation on audio with Christopher Paolini—it’s still Mr. Pullman to me.  (I was an assistant in a literary agency when I discovered his work, and I never recovered.) He is, in a word, brilliant, and his interests range through all kinds of areas, particularly history and religion.  I could have talked with him forever that night we had dinner, but the poor man had jet lag and I let him go to collapse.  It was one of the best exchanges of ideals, values, and books I’ve ever had.  

Read his work carefully, because what he discusses is never just the story on top.  No matter what he writes, he is making strong points about social justice, human nature, religion, and history without preaching.  He is one of the few male writers out there who can write female characters as people, not Something Different.  And you never know, with his work, where he will go next.

 The Ruby in the Smoke,

book 1,  the Sally Lockheart mysteries

Victorian mysteries with a female hero and male assistants,

           The Book of Dust and sequel,

first 2 books of The Secret Commonwealth

           His Dark Materials trilogy

                       The Golden Compass

                       2 other titles                

           THE COLLECTORS

           LYRA’S OXFORD

           THE WHITE MERCEDES

           FAIRY TALES FROM THE BROTHERS GRIMM

           I WAS A RAT!

           TWO CRAFTY CRIMINALS

           COUNT KARLSTEIN

           (I will stop here and let you find the rest. Most are available as Nook books.)

  Sharon Shinn

I discovered Sharon Shinn with JOVAH’S ANGEL, but a shortage of funds left me unable to pursue my interest (I am an economic disaster with libraries, so I buy rather than borrow) until, with a job and money to spend, I spotted THE SAFE-KEEPER’S SECRET.  It is the story of a medieval-ish world and a small village where a baby was left with a childless couple.  She is raised as their daughter and discovers, as she grows, that her mother is an important, a Safekeeper, the person to whom a secret can be told, relieving the person who told it of the weight of guilt from it, to be carried by the Safekeeper until the owner either decides to tell or dies.  (And if they die without giving permission, the Safekeeper never reveal the secret.)  The baby who is adopted by this town’s safekeeper becomes the safekeeper in her turn.

           The next book is THE TRUTHTELLER’S TALE, about a girl who acquires the gift (??) of telling the truth, whether the person she tells it to wants to hear it or not. The third book is The Dream-maker’s Magic.  The three main characters now learn why they have been brought together over the course of the two earlier books, in what I thought was a satisfying, if unusual, conclusion.

           And there’s more!  I just did the two I love best!

             THE SAFEKEEPER’S SECRET (book 1, two sequels)

           ARCHANGEL (4 books)

           TWELVE HOUSES (5 books)

           ELEMENTAL BLESSINGS (4 books)        

SHIFTING CIRCLE (2 books)

           UNCOMMON ECHOES

           GENERAL WINSTON’S DAUGHTER

           GATEWAY

 Daniel Jose Older

 I was a Daniel Jose Older fan before I was sent DACTYL HILL SQUAD for a blurb (preodactyls in flight!  Of all sizes!  Confederate spies!  Thuggish bigot northerners!  The backlash of Gettysburg and the forced recruitment of blacks for the war effort! And strong, smart, fierce kids of various ages, sizes, colors, national heritage, and skills doing their best to help the war against the slaves, keep escaped slaves safe, duck the cruel managers of the homes and jails where they are being kept, find a half-decent meal, free other kids in trouble, learn who’s killing their friends, and help the dactyls!  That’s part of it, anyway!

Yeah, I loved it.  And there’s at least one new book, and once I’ve mowed though that, there are his older teen books, and his grownup mysteries, with their half-dead taxi driver who doubles as a part-time troubleshooter for the undead powers in his Bone Street Rhumba series.  {happy sigh}

  Edgar Allen Poe

Yes, some of these are reminders of why we ended up to be the readers we are and to nudge us to corrupt—I mean, “introduce”—­new readers to the glories that are our legacies.

­

THE COMPLETE TALES AND POEMS OF EDGAR ALLEN POE

           Here are the greats:

poems like “The Raven,” and “Annabelle Lee”

stories like “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Telltale Heart,” and  ::shudder:: “The Pit and the Pendulum” (yes, a deep pit and a swinging pendulum topped with a razor-edged blade will be featured in this story).  

My dad would read these to us on dark and stormy nights when we lived near the Pacific ocean, when the fog came rolling in, softening every sound, when there were no cars driving by and no other sounds in our house but his deep voice and the crackle of the fire in the fireplace.  We would listen, soundless, as he wove the stories and poems around us and the foghorn sounded offshore.

           That’s the power of Poe.

  N. K. Jemisin

I think I began with Jemisin’s THE HUNDRED THOUSAND KINGDOMS, soon followed by its sequel THE BROKEN KINGDOMS.  The series ended with a third book, THE KINGDOM OF THE GODS.  She presented a rich and varied world from the aspects of people of different classes, showing the growth of societies and their formation.  I have a secret passion for society-building and social interaction, and whether or not a book is difficult to read (as Jemisin’s books are in spots because she refuses to insult a reader by talking down to them) is immaterial.  I want the world and I want the characters, and with her far-reaching mind and her respect for her characters she delivers each and every time.  I have read almost everything she’s written since that first trilogy: if I’ve missed something, it’s because I was in the middle of a deadline and on the road and somehow didn’t see it.  I’ll catch up!  This is just a sample:

           For readers of all sexes and adult reading skills

 The City They Became (pub’d April 2020)

 The Inheritance Trilogy:

           The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, 2010

           2 book sequels

Novella: The Awakened Kingdom, 2014

                       Triptych: Shades in Shadow, 2015 (3 short stories) 

             The Dreamblood Duology:

           For readers of all sexes and adult reading skills

           The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, 2010

                       Two sequels

 The Broken Earth series:

         The Fifth Season (August 2015)

                       Two book sequels

And there are plenty of short stories out there.  I may even have missed a book or twelve!

For those who prefer to hear my ramble in person, a video!

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The Drama League has announced the 2020 Drama League Awards Nominees for Outstanding Production of a Play, Outstanding Revival of a Play, Outstanding Production of a Musical, Outstanding Revival of a Musical, and the much- coveted Distinguished Performance Award.

The nominations were announced this evening during The Gratitude Awards by Beetlejuice's Alex Brightman and Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer. Voting is open for Drama League members from May 1 - May 22. Award winners will be announced by Gabriel Stelian-Shanks & Bevin Ross via livestream in June. The Drama League Awards Event Chair is Bonnie Comley.

The Drama League announced that the spirit of The Gratitude Awards will live on via a new honorary category for the 87th Annual Drama League Awards starting in 2021 with The Gratitude Award, for a person or organization who has shown fearless support and kindness to the theater community.

[...]

OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A PLAY

Betrayal Directed by Jamie Lloyd Written by Harold Pinter Jacobs Theatre

for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf Directed by Leah C. Gardiner Written by Ntozake Shange Public Theater

Fires in the Mirror Directed by Saheem Ali Written by Anna Deavere Smith Signature Theatre Company

Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune Directed by Arin Arbus Written by Terrence McNally Broadhurst Theatre

Judgment Day Directed by Richard Jones Written by Ödön von Horváth, Adapted by Christopher Shinn Park Avenue Armory

Medea Directed by Simon Stone Written by Simon Stone after Euripides Brooklyn Academy of Music

Native Son Directed by Seret Scott Written by Nambi E. Kelley, based on the novel by Richard Wright The Acting Company

The Rose Tattoo Directed by Trip Cullman Written by Tennessee Williams Roundabout Theatre Company

A Soldier's Play Directed by Kenny Leon Written by Charles Fuller Roundabout Theatre Company

The Woman in Black Directed by Robin Herford Written by Stephen Mallatratt, based on the novel by Susan Hill The McKittrick Hotel

DISTINGUISHED PERFORMANCE AWARD

David Acton, The Woman in Black Jeffrey Bean, Dublin Carol Ato Blankson-Wood, The Rolling Stone and Slave Play Christian Borle, Little Shop of Horrors Danielle Brooks, Much Ado About Nothing Danny Burstein, Moulin Rouge! Rose Byrne, Medea Len Cariou, Harry Townsend's Last Stand Patrice Johnson Chevannes, runboyrun & In Old Age Liza Colón-Zayas, Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven Kate del Castillo, the way she spoke Edmund Donovan, Greater Clements Raúl Esparza, Seared Francesca Faridany, The Half-Life of Marie Curie Halley Feiffer, The Pain of My Belligerence Danyel Fulton, Broadbend, Arkansas Annie Golden, Broadway Bounty Hunter Donnetta Lavinia Grays, Where We Stand David Alan Grier, A Soldier's Play Jonathan Groff, Little Shop of Horrors Jake Gyllenhaal, Sea Wall/A Life Tom Hiddleston, Betrayal Paul Hilton, The Inheritance Kathryn Hunter, Timon of Athens Galen Ryan Kane, Native Son Brittney Mack, Six April Matthis, Toni Stone Susannah Millonzi, The Crucible Kate Mulgrew, The Half-Life of Marie Curie Joe Ngo, Cambodian Rock Band Deirdre O'Connell, Dana H. Brenock O'Connor, Sing Street Okwui Okpokwasili, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf Karen Olivo, Moulin Rouge! Larry Owens, A Strange Loop Lauren Patten, Jagged Little Pill Chris Perfetti, Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Ben Porter, The Woman in Black Isaac Powell, West Side Story Jonathan Pryce, The Height of the Storm Elizabeth Rodriguez, Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven Michael Shannon, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune Tom Sturridge, Sea Wall/A Life Marisa Tomei, The Rose Tattoo Blair Underwood, A Soldier's Play Michael Urie, Grand Horizons Adrienne Warren, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical Michael Benjamin Washington, Fires in the Mirror Portia, Stew

(Congratulations to all - and nice to see Tom and Jake’s names side-by-side... ☺️)

ETA: A quick note on the Distinguished Performance category - you can only win it once in your lifetime. It really is a case of the nomination being the reward for this one.

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[theredmaynefiles]

Will Eddie Return to Theatre?

Eddie’s career has included some incredible theatrical roles. In the Happy/Sad/Confused podcast, he also spoke very intriguingly about his desire to return to the stage:

JH: I feel like everybody you’ve ever worked with is currently onstage. 

Eddie: This is quite true. Which is probably a sign saying that I should go & do a play.

JH: Is theatre something realistic at this point, to get back to?

Eddie: Always realistic. But for me… I suppose there’s a certain sense with British actors that there’s this like canon of parts that you’re meant to play. A lot of them are Shakespeare & classics. When I started doing theatre, my first play in London was an Edward Albee play called ‘The Goat’, & then I did John Logan’s play, ‘Red’, & a Christopher Shinn play called ‘Now or Later.’ They were all new plays, & I loved having the writer in the room & getting to create characters sort of for the first time. The last play I did, which was an age ago, was ‘Richard II,’& so since then I’ve been sort of craving to do a new play, & finding what that is has been a challenge.

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Hands up, everyone who would love to see that happen! It would be amazing to see him perform onstage. Let’s all keep our fingers crossed that he finds that perfect play!

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Against @ Almeida Theatre

Against at the Almeida Theatre starring Ben Whishaw.

How do I explain what drew me to this world premiere production of Christopher Shinn’s new play Against? Well for starters, my favourite actor Ben Whishaw is leading the cast and that’s enough for me to buy a ticket. I also find myself intrigued by new plays, they must be good if a theatre with acclaim behind it like the Almeida wants to produce it. The play is set in Silicon Valley, California…