After the last performance of this version of “Last Day At Maple View” – we did five staged readings this week, Maria took this photo of four people critically involved in the creative process. Ed and Carol Gulley, they are both dairy farmers who run a small farm called Bejosh in White Creek, N.Y., helped me with the script and the language and feeling of a small farm. David Snider, the executive director of Hubbard Hall, saw the possibilities in the play and told me to go ahead with it, he is a brilliant director and editor and it was a joy to work together with him.

We all want to go to the next level, I am excited and somewhat anxious,  this is a big new challenge for me. I’ve written parts of plays before that have been performed, but this one has a strong shot of going somewhere. I want to do it right.  The next chapter starts this week, David will commission music and I will bring some pizza to the Gulley’s and we’ll think about some kitchen scenes.