Between Two Palms
Monday, January 12, 2025 5:00PM – Danny Rubin
Tuesday, February 10, 2025 5:00PM – Carter Bray
Monday, February 23, 2025 5:00PM – Roxana Saberi
The continuation of our series of intimate conversations between award-winning art-makers journalists, artists, and writers. Our Winter, 2026 series will feature Danny Rubin, storyteller, playwright and screenwriter of the popular film and stage musical Groundhog Day, Carter Bray, Principal Cellist for the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and Roxana Saberi, American journalist and former correspondent for CBS News & Al-Jazeera America, who was arrested and imprisoned in Tehran’s Ervin prison under a charge of espionage.
The Short Story and the Broadway Musical
Mondays, January 19, 26, February 2 from 5:00-6:30PM. Class limited to 16 participants.
I will be teaching a three-week course on the creation of works for the musical theater that were inspired by short stories. We will be taking a deep dive into three classic musicals that found their roots in the “short story,” a unique form of prose: “South Pacific” (1949), “Guys & Dolls” (1950), and “The Apple Tree” (1966).
Through a combination of close reading and analysis of these stories, classroom lecture and discussion, we will explore the unique qualities of these tales that sparked the development and creation of these shows, regularly performed today on stages all over the world.
Key West Noir
An exciting book project with my friend and colleague, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan.
Expected publication date March, 2027.