| We Can't Reach You, Hartford |
 An investigative history of the Hartford Circus Fire of July 6th, 1944. Nominated for a Fringe First at the 2006 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. |
| Daguerreotype |
| In the twilight of his life, famed photographer Matthew Brady must choose between the life he has built and the legacy he wants to leave behind. |
| Tone Clusters |
| Renowned prose author Joyce Carol Oates explores honesty, perspective, and denial through one couple's harrowing attempt to save the person they love |
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| Tuesday, June 26, 2007 |
| Dramaturgical Remainders |
In the course of any dramaturgical investigation, you're going to have to do "a ton of research." And much of what a dramatug researches, much of the books they read, much of the information they retain, is never actually used in any production. It normally just sits in the dramaturg's brain, where it ocassionally comes in handy during triva night at the local bar. But today, looking through my notes for Daguerreotype, I thought it would be a shame to let so much knowledge go to waste. And so, some dramaturgical remainders from the writing of Daguerreotype:
- Abraham Lincoln's mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, died when the family dairy cow ate poisonous mushrooms and she drank the milk.
- Gennaro Lombardi opened the first New York City pizzaria in 1895
- An undamaged daguerreotype camera today is worth upwards of $800,000
- Walt Whitman reviewed Leaves of Grass under a psuedonym. Needless to say, he liked it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson was banned from Harvard College for 30 years for denying the divinity of Jesus. There is now a chair in the Harvard Divinity School named after him.
- In 1863, Abraham Lincoln's son, Robert, fell off a train platform in Jersey City and would have been crushed to death by an oncoming train if he was not saved at the last minute by Edwin Booth, John Wilkes Booth's older brother.
- Lt. Gen Richard S. Ewell, Stonewall Jackson's sucessor, was nicknamed "Baldy Dick"
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