Eastern Experiment 2017
Our 8th Non-Annual Eastern Experiment was happening again. This time on a monumental weekend, while members of our country were marching...
Sideways Mandate Experiment 2016
This was our first professional experiment and we pulled out all the stops, and decided to get the producers back in the room. What that...
Ass Hat instead of Fart Face
At my first 24 hour new play workshop, I was asked to write a 10 page play. I wrote 25 pages instead. I don't know how to cut things. My...
Favorite CTP Memory?
For the 24 hour experiment in Winter of 2013, I had the opportunity to work with Steve Norris as a writer. I was the Director, and Hanz...
Come.
Come, come, whoever you are, wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. This is not a caravan of despair. It doesn’t matter that you’ve...
Our Handshake
To me, CTP starts with a pair of scissors and clippers. For the past few years that I have done Chalkboard Theatre Project, I radically...
Goin' Rogue
I am what you would consider a veteran of the Chalkboard Theatre Project, participating in every Eastern University experiment from the...
Dr. Snorris' Thoughts
I groggily grab my phone to stop my alarm. It's 8 am, and the sun is pouring through the classroom windows. With 3 hours of sleep under...
Director's Thoughts
I’ve participated in two new play experiments, and I was a director both times. I also write and act—and am much more experienced with...
Dialogue is Difficult
I'd never written a play before. I'd barely written dialogue at all. When I write stories, I fill them with exposition and description —...
