nomination.

I got it. I was nominated for URTA.

My monologues were well received and there was very little harsh criticism as some of the other folks had heard. They told me to go get a haircut. And to read Two Gentlemen of Verona and see what I think. I mentioned that in front of someone who'd recieved really harsh criticism from the judges and that didn't make feel very great. Which sucks because I worked really hard for this to work out and now I feel like I can't even enjoy it. And no one acknowledges it. Especially my roommate. So I'm going to Vegas. With Katherine. She made it too, and to celebrate she got us tickets to see Against Me! on Tuesday. That's the long and the short of it.

My new play, See You at the Storm Drain, Don Juan, got read aloud to my playwriting class today. Badly. I get asked a lot to read for other people's stuff. Glad I didn't persist on reading it myself, not one of those people. Though it was pretty bad. It ended up at about twenty pages so I only had the readers do the first five pages. Out of context. Out of character.

Needless to say, I don't think it's finished yet. Makes me think twice about posting it and publishing it to Google Documents. <--(not an ad)

But maybe I shouldn't really give a fuck if people don't get it.

A new play.

Today are the URTA auditions at CSUN. Can't say that I'm not prepared, I just want to get it over with. I've prepared two monologues as required, one contemporary and one Shakespeare.

"Hello, my name is Matthew Callahan from Cal State University Northridge.

My first piece is Wesely from Sam Shepard's Curse of the Starving Class and my second is Laertes from William Shakespeare's Hamlet."

Pray I don't choke.

I've just finished what I believe to be my first one act of any merit. Some merit. It's okay, I guess.

It's obvious that I'm too close to it. But I'm submitting it to the Kennedy Center One Act Play Festival this year.

It belongs to a set of one acts that if ever published, I suppose I'd refer to them as the "Reputation plays". There's another that I'll post later that belongs to this collection.

This play is titled See You at the Storm Drain, Don Juan.