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• George W Bush and Paris Hilton: An Affair?!?!? A Short Play by Sabina England

  Published: July 2, 2007, 11:03 am

  Tags: Art, Bizarre, Conversations, George Bush, Paris Hilton, Playwriting, Politics, Sabina England, Taqwacores, Theatre, Weird

  WARNING: THIS IS AN EXPLICIT, SLIGHTLY OFFENSIVE, SATIRICAL SHORT PLAY! DO NOT PROCEED TO READ IF YOU'RE EASILY OFFENDED OR YOU HATE THEATRICAL PLAYS!!!..... George W. Bush and socialite Whore, Paris Hilton, are engaged in an extra-marital affair?!?!?!  READ ALL ABOUT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MAN OF THE YEAR (The Untold True Story of the

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• Ladies and Gentlemen... here is SABINA ENGLAND! (CHEERS AND JEERS)

  Published: June 15, 2007, 1:37 pm

  Tags: Art, Beer, Bizarre, Broadway, Conversations, Deaf, Disabilities, Feminism, Glared At, Hated, Horror, Misfits, Muslims, Outcasts, Playwriting, Psychos, Punk Rock, Queer, Riot Grrrrrrls, Scary, Sexy, Strange, Taqwacores, Theatre, Unpopular, Violence, Wackos, Weirdos

  (WARNING!!!!  If you get easily offended by profane usage or foul abuse of the lovely fragile English language, then do NOT proceed!!!!) My name  is Sabina England. I'm a very rude playwright, I come from an Indian Muslim family, born in Great Britain, raised in the UK, USA and India. I have been Deaf as a baby. This means, my dear

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• Most People Don't Know How to Give Feedback to Writers

  Published: August 23, 2007, 11:30 am

  Tags: Writing, Prince Gomolvilas, Playwriting, Screenwriting

  ass.In my occasional playwriting workshops, where students develop new full-length plays over a three-month period (sometimes less) and finish them, I encourage them to stop thinking. In the early stages of a script's development, we tend to over-intellectualize the process and try to analyze things that essentially do not matter in the

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• Kick Me While I'm Down...Please

  Published: September 2, 2007, 11:56 am

  Tags: Writing, Ponderings, Playwriting, Screenwriting

  agents, I lost a national playwriting competition (to a theater critic, no less!), and I was denied a prestigious grant all of which (or even one of which!) would have assured me that my recent decision to quit my day job was the right thing to do.It's not often I tell people about my so-called failures. Most people hear about and are

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• Wheat Only, Please

  Published: September 5, 2007, 11:09 am

  Tags: Writing, Playwriting, Screenwriting, East West Players

  Last night was the launch of Writing Is Rewriting, a new workshop facilitated by me through East West Players' David Henry Hwang Writers Institute. In order to cut the wheat from the chaff*, Jeff (EWP's literary manager) and I devised a complicated application process, complete with short essay questions; asked for a writing sample; scheduled the

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• How Cultural Elitists Are Destroying Art and Creativity; Or: Why Guilty Pleasures Aren't Guilty of Anything

  Published: September 9, 2007, 12:55 pm

  Tags: Theater, Horror, Writing, Current Events Politics, Ponderings, Movies, Books, Playwriting, Screenwriting

  The words "a Rob Zombie film" and the fact that I'm not particularly fond of John Carpenter's original Halloween did not deter me from going to see Zombie's remake of the 1978 slasher film. It's two hours of innocent people getting gruesomely hacked to death (as well as slaughtered in other horrifying ways) by a masked psychopath with no emotion

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• Citing Shakespeare Makes You Seem Smart

  Published: September 12, 2007, 2:15 pm

  Tags: Music, Writing, Movies, Playwriting, Screenwriting, Video Clips

  Last night was the second week of the Writing Is Rewriting workshop, and I found myself once again referencing Hamlet, which makes me seem smarter than I actually am. That's the power of Shakespeare. Cite him every once in a while, and whatever you say has the air of authority and the ring of gospel truth.We've been talking a lot about the idea of

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• How a Playwright Got His Groove Back

  Published: September 19, 2007, 3:54 pm

  Tags: Theater, Writing, Ponderings, Playwriting, Screenwriting

  crazed coworker, because my playwriting career in fact, my entire life depended on it. Help! In the early '90s, I lived with a profound sense of spiritual discomfort, an existential malaise whose source was unknown to me. I wrote it off as something that afflicted all writers and, in fact, all artists. We're supposed to feel this deep,

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• Still Joey McIntyre After All These Years

  Published: September 20, 2007, 1:53 pm

  Tags: Theater, Writing, Musicals, Celebrity Sightings, Ponderings, Playwriting, Screenwriting, Joey Mcintyre, Video Clips

  In reading over "How a Playwright Got His Groove Back," which I originally wrote eight years ago, I am most struck by how much I've changed. (I'm way sluttier nowadays.) Sure, as I pointed out, most of the ideas and principles that I wrote about are still valid today, but it's amusing to notice how different I am (or am I?) and it's also fun to

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• Meme Madness

  Published: September 20, 2007, 1:09 pm

  Tags: Writing, Playwriting, Screenwriting

  my BA in Film and MFA in Playwriting, but I hold such a grudge against those bastards that I've practically disowned them. Okay, well, not really, because I still have SFSU friends and such, but, c'mon, they still owe me prize money from a 1995 playwriting contest I won! And when it comes to playwrights and monies not paid, we never ever

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• Creative Inspiration in the Northwest

  Published: September 27, 2007, 5:12 am

  Tags: Digital Content, Fundraising, Big Hearts, Writing, Playwrights, Festival, Playwriting, Events, Crea8ivity Com

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• 2007 Dublin Theatre Festival

  Published: September 28, 2007, 11:16 am

  Tags: Playwrights, Playwriting, Zefram Cochrane, Television, Rte, Writing, Art Culture, Festival, Galway, Theatre, Star Trek, Druid, James Cromwell, Eugene O Neill

  playwrights, playwriting, zefram cochrane, television, RTE, Writing, Art/Culture, festival, Galway, theatre, star trek, druid, james cromwell,

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• Newsletter October 2007

  Published: September 29, 2007, 8:16 pm

  Tags: Playwriting, Zebbies, Newsletter, Books, News, Business, Blogging, Publishing People, Future Of Publishing, Companies Amp Organisations, Bloomsbury, Macmillan, Richard Charkin, Radio

  ritzCategories: playwriting, ZeBBies, Newsletter, Books, News, Business, Blogging, Publishing People, Future of Publishing, Companies & Organisations, Bloomsbury, MacMillan, Richard Charkin,

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• Frequently Asked Questions, Part I: "How Do You Spend Your Day?" and "What Are You Working on?"

  Published: October 26, 2007, 3:06 pm

  Tags: Writing, Raunchy Comedy Movie, Faqs, Kafka Inspired Comedy Movie, Playwriting, Screenwriting, Video Clips

  I'm launching a new occasional feature today that aims to answer questions that I am most frequently asked. Although the question I receive most by far is, "What hole is your favorite?," we'll save that one for a later date and tackle these two: "How do you spend your day?" and "What are you working on?"When it comes to how people perceive me,

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• Not So Confidential

  Published: November 14, 2007, 1:50 pm

  Tags: Theater, Movies, Playwriting, Video Clips

  I'm in a weird place with playwriting, and I'm sort of reevaluating my relationship to the theater right now.WOMAN: How so?PRINCE: I feel like I don't want to write anything right now until I know I'm ready. I feel like my next play needs to be the best play ever written in the history of humankind. Otherwise, what's the point?Dear readers,

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