#hartley wright

[adriyanibelikov]

“Seriously, though, I know who my family is. Gid, Reed, and the twins are my brothers. Ella’s my sister. Callum’s my dad. Maria’s my mom. And you, you’re my heart.”

—Easton Royal to Hartley Wright | Cracked Kingdom

[achilleius]

fallen heir by erin watt.

I want Hartley in my life and if being friends is the way that happens, then friendship is what we’ll have. It’s different, but maybe that’s not a bad thing.

[air2civ]

“ I feel like I’m cracking open my chest and letting her see inside. It’s not pretty there, but I don’t want to let her go. “ - Fallen Heir (The Royals 4) by Erin Watt

[adriyanibelikov]

"Me dating Easton Royal is about as likely as me hooking up with one of the members of BTS—in other words, not likely at all."

— Hartley Wright | Cracked Kingdom (The Royals, #5) by Erin Watt

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So. Erin Watt is a fan of BTS, huh? Haha 😆

[adriyanibelikov]

At Bayview General Hospital, while the Royal brothers Sawyer and Easton are watching over Sawyer's comatosed twin Sebastian...

EASTON: Go shower and then eat. You look like you’re two steps away from trading places with Seb.

SAWYER: *Ignores Easton*

EASTON: *Snaps his fingers in front of Sawyer*

SAWYER: What?

EASTON: You smell like ass.

SAWYER: So?

EASTON: So go use the shower. Seb’s probably in his coma because every time he wakes up it smells like a garbage can and he figures he’d rather be in his perfect dream world where everything is sunshine and f*cking roses.

SAWYER: F*ck you.

😂😂😂

[dramatistsguild]

DG National Report: Missouri by Hartley Wright

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Playwrights in this region gathered last fall to learn from Chicago-based playwright and Dramatists Guild member Jim Henry. As part of the Show-Me Writers Masterclass in Columbia, Jim provided support, education and encouragement by facilitating a reading workshop, leading tutorials on playwriting and story structure, and sharing what he’s learned about the business side of writing for the stage and screen. Playwrights who are in the Mid-Missouri region have an opportunity to attend similar hands-on, practical collaboration through a scriptwriting seminar occurring next month. There will also be more opportunities provided at the Masterclass event later this year.

Dramatists Guild members in Kansas City were recently seen “Crowding the Crossroads” with local playwright Ron Simonian. This event, highlighting Simonian’s newest play entitled Trigger Happy, was the first of many providing our Guild members the opportunity to have a conversation with and attend the play of one of our members being produced in Kansas City’s Crossroads Art District. With this mention of conversations with special guests, you need to know we are only a few weeks away from a major event planned to highlight Kansas City’s first ever production of Assassins. Those responsible for this event were still plotting and conspiring the details when this issue of The Dramatist went to print. Continue reading to discover how you can find out more about the scheming and become part of the hit.

The recently adopted DG’s Best Practices: Contests and Festivals [available soon] will serve this region well. Certainly, this will support Guild members desiring to use standard DG definitions in relation to productions of their work in the Kansas City and St Louis Fringe Festivals. I have made certain the Best Practices statement has been given to the artistic directors of our state festivals, but feel this information will also help to educate and communicate with specific organizations who currently operate in less than acceptable practices when soliciting new work for future performance seasons. Let’s work together in identifying such challenges, and please let me know if you have any concerns or problems along the way.  

There is a pressing need to give attention to those who are unable to attend events due to the distance of their location in relation to Kansas City or St. Louis. Three events this summer have been planned with consideration for dramatists living in the theatre-driven settings centrally located and close to Missouri’s borders. In July, we’ll host a Town Hall meeting in Ozark, Missouri. The meeting will conclude with a staged reading of 5th of July by Missouri born playwright Lanford Wilson. This will offer an opportunity for Dramatists Guild members in the greater Branson area, as well as several new DG members living in Northern Arkansas, to meet and support fellow artists who are part of our community. Later in the month, we’ll have a playwright’s picnic in mid-Missouri, and host an online meet and greet for dramatists in the north and northeastern portions of this region.

One of the best things I can report about is the new website of our Dramatists Guild. If you haven’t visited our online presence in a while, you ought to take some time to see for yourself how drama friendly and vitally resourceful it has become. I invite you to update your member profile, review the many ways we advocate for you, and discover the opportunities within our community. If you would like to find out more information about the events I’ve described here, and keep connected to our regional news events and updates, and other members of our region through social media, simply access the social network links provided within our regional page and my member profile on www.dramatistsguild.com. I hope to hear from all of you and see you soon in our newest online community page.

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DG National Report: Missouri by Hartley Wright

@dramatistsguild @hartplaywright

It is amazing how well our regional Guild members shone in the fringe of summer. It might not seem too noteworthy, considering more than twenty fringe festivals take place in seventeen states in America every year. What seems remarkable, however—after realizing Missouri is one of only three states producing multiple fringes—is taking note of how much national success has resulted for many of our local dramatists. With fringe festivals held in both St. Louis (StLou Fringe, in June) and Kansas City (KC Fringe, in July), and each venue welcoming acclaimed writers from both coasts, I believe our Guild’s local talent of playwrights and composers seem to garner more than a measurable amount of praise.

Established playwright Vicki Vodrey must love the KC Fringe Festival and the success this festival has birthed in her career. Her dark comedy, Hanky Panky, one of the top-rated and most popular plays here in 2010, was later performed at the Midtown International Theatre Festival (MITF), receiving nominations for three MITF awards in the process. Vodrey’s Thank You Notes: Headed to Heaven with Flat Jimmy Fallon became a KC Fringe standout in 2012, encored at the 2012 MITF, and was a finalist for inclusion in this year’s MITF lineup. This year Vodrey, one of five inaugural playwrights at the new Midwest Dramatists Center, debuted her newest play entitled, A Hard Day’s Night. It just might be her next ticket to ride.

Girl on Girl was a creative and zesty performance at this year’s KC Fringe, a trio of plays that included the newest work by playwright Michelle T. Johnson. During the 2012 Fringe campaign, her one act play, As the Guiding Light Turns, was a noteworthy, standout. In 2013, another one act play, Wiccans in the ‘Hood was not only popular at the KC Fringe, but performed also at New York’s Midwinter Madness Short Play Festival. Earlier this year Philadelphia’s BrainSpunk Theater produced an evening of Johnson’s work, presenting the playful and uplifting Wiccans with her much more existential and dreamlike one-act, Trading Races: From Rodney King to Paula Deen—a play nominated for three separate New York’s Connections Theatre Festivity Awards. Johnson, who is also an inaugural playwright of the Midwest Dramatists Center, is bound to become a KC Fringe favorite. My guess is Ms. Johnson is simply pleased they love her in Philly: she’s just been named BrainSpunk’s new Playwright in Residence, with includes their commitment to produce a new play by Johnson in its upcoming 2015 season.

This year’s KC Fringe also featured the new work of five additional regional Guild members who are becoming established as playwrights in their own right. The proficient and talented Bill Rogers—whose work has been featured at the Guild’s Friday Night Footlights—had his newest work, a musical entitled, Dangerous to Dance With, presented. Rogers, a playwright, lyricist and librettist, has had much of his work produced in this region, including four previous plays that debuted in the KC Fringes of 2009, 2010, and 2011. Catherine Browder, Glendora Davis, Lezlie Revelle and Nancy Parks had their own group of short plays produced in Turning Points, a striking consideration of how people face life-altering situations. These women have also collaborated for KC Potluck Productions. Potluck showcases scripts by emerging women playwrights from all over the United States through professional readings and staged productions.

The St Lou Fringe was privileged this year to feature the work of St. Louis Guild member Christopher Limber. Riffs in a set of 10 was a stylish and spicy fusion of jazz and poetic interludes. Joined by an ensemble of musicians and St. Louis club performers, Limber arranged a wonderful cabaret tribute reflecting and celebrating 1940’s jazz greats. This overwhelmingly talented playwright and composer is the Education Director for Shakespeare Festival St. Louis, where his contributions as a playwright earned local awards for Outstanding Productions in 2010 and 2011.

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