Meet the Winner!

I recently had the pleasure to e-meet the winner of my Christmas Superpowers and Believing in Blitzen Monologue Contest, and this is one talented young actor! Ryan Henzi is from Ankeny, Iowa; he's 10 years old and he's been acting for years already!  Now you can get to know this budding young actor too, and take a look at his great video performance of "Shepherd Superheroes."...

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Video Games and Theater--Happily Co-Existing: Interview with video game company founder, Matt Udvari

The first time I met the very talented Matt Udvari, he was sitting in my graduate level Playwriting Class at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU).  But Matt wasn't a Playwriting student; he was a graduate student in the Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) at CMU. So what was he doing in this very selective MFA program course (which consisted of a whopping 4 playwrights for my year, and 2 screenwriters)?  Well...

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Interview with TV writer, playwright and songwriter, Matt Schatz

Okay, so Matt Schatz is a super talented writer. And I can use that term "writer" in a general way, because he's nailed down so many different facets of the craft. He's not translating a new version of the Iliad just yet, but other than that, he's covered a lot of bases. So what does he do? Well...

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