Club Chicxulub recording of The Dweeb Goes Home now online

Club Chicxulub hosts readings of stories read with live musical accompaniment! 

The September show was held at Deco Dance Bar in San Francisco.

I read my story The Dweeb Goes Home, from The Dweeb Chronicles, which relate the misadventures of an alien exo-musicologist marooned on a hostile planet called Earth. 

My bit starts 18:30 minutes in   :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMzXG4c9J3M

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Club Chicxulub performance coming up in September

 I'll be reading the final installment of The Dweeb Chronicles (The Dweeb Goes Home) at Club Chicxulub in September, with musical accompaniment! The Dweeb Chronicles tell the adventures of a soft-hearted and soft-bellied marooned alien exomusicologist trying to survive on the cruel Earth.

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Interview: Women in Horror Month

Women in Horror Month rises from the crypt with another round of interviews! Yours truly considers Emilie Black's deep questions...

 

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Interview: Creative Writing Life

 Justin Sloan and Paul Zeidman run the excellent podcast series Creative Writing Life. 

What fun to be interview number 37!

Hear Eve yak with Justin and Paul 

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Nevermore

I tell myself the 'stay in' COVID guidelines are not so bad - a writer mostly stays in, anyway.

But then I took a stab at embryonic animation, and now I wonder if staying in is affecting my brain...

Anyway, Poe should have just lobbed a paperweight at the bird, is my feeling.

https://vimeo.com/453493462

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Quirinus, God of Lawyers!

Sophia Mia Dipaola directed an excellent staged reading of my short play, "The interrogation of Orpheus by Quirinus, god of lawyers".

With lovely performances by:
Bruce Reif as Orpheus and The Cyclops Bartender
Dillon Siedentopf as Quirinus and Eurydice

October 18, 2018 at the EXIT Theatre, San Francisco (Olympians Festival)

https://vimeo.com/eveedelson/olympians

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Audition for Olympians Festival! (Aug. 19-20)

This year's Olympians Theater Festival is scheduling auditions - bring your talented self!

Auditions are Sunday, August 19, 2 PM to 8:30 PM, and Monday, August 20, 7-9:30 PM, at the EXIT Theater in San Francisco.

http://sfolympiansfestival.com/2018/07/audition-for-the-2018-festival/

My short play "The Interrogation of Orpheus by Quirinus, God of Lawyers" is part of this yearly event.




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Etheria 2018

Another great Etheria film festival has come and gone, celebrating women in genre film.

Lori Petty presented this year's Inspiration award, appropriately, to Rachel Talalay, with moving speeches from both. It was a perfect moment and got standing ovations.

Etheria offers networking for women involved in any aspect of genre film, above or below the line.  I've attended ever since my film "Shelter" was on the Etheria tour.

It was preceded by an excellent panel discussion and dinner with Women In Media, raising money for the Stephanie Rothman Fellowship, which was awarded at the Etheria screening. Women in Media's goal is to get women hired into below-the-line jobs in film.

As an extra treat, I met Lloyd (Long live the Toxic Avenger) AND Patricia Kaufman (formerly of the New York film commission). Such lovely people!
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Weird Film Fest April 2 a success

The spring screening of the Weird Film Fest went smoothly and well at its new,  comfy quarters - PianoFight theater in downtown San Francisco.

This spring's program included films from Canada, France, Spain, Australia and the US of A, and a Q&A with filmmaker Devlin Clark, whose film "Heartless" - about a robot whose only friends in a hostile world are a trio of musical spheres - was full of heart.

Weird Film will return at Halloween time!


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"Start The Invasion Without Me" on Bluestocking Tour - Philadelphia April 12

My film "Start the Invasion Without Me",  a sci-fi short about a really Bay Day in the life of an extra-terrestrial invader, is going on the Bluestocking Tour, hitting Philadelphia Thursday April 12:

Fergie's Pub
1214 Sansom Street
6 PM - 8:30 PM

... part of an evening of short films that pass the Bechdel test, hosted by Philadelphia Women in Film & Television.

Come for the beer, stay for the films - plus a Q&A with Bluestocking founder Kate Kaminski, whose festival originally screened "Start the Invasion Without Me" at the Portland mothership festival.
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James Udom, a gift to playwrights

If there's any justice in the world (and occasionally there is), James Udom will have a long and fulfilling acting career.
Recently I've been reminded of my good fortune in meeting him.
Four years on from his stunning portrayal (really, creation of) Freddy in a first outing of my play Scamoramaland (boy, was I lucky), James has gone on to work off-Broadway and then to Yale Drama School, from which he will graduate in 2018.
Film and theater world, take note of a very fine actor!

2018 update: James is in his third and final year at Yale Drama School and has received the Princess Grace Award!

2018 update deux: James was in town to play the lead role in the A.C.T. production of Suzan-Lori Parks's "Father Comes Home From the Wars". He's graduated from Yale and is making his mark!


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Interview with Horror Happens Radio

Recently I had the pleasure of being interviewed once again by Jay Kay of Horror Happens Radio, which he and The Beast produce out of their bunker.
Jay Kay is a real scholar and supporter of genre media of all kinds. An interview with him feels like an effortless magic carpet ride, a conversation in a bar, something you don't want to end.
Check out his link on Sound Cloud (above) to get a sense of the sheer volume and breadth of his coverage (it ain't a plug for me, that will go up on his site eventually but not yet).
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Weird Film Fest returns

Writing, writing, writing.... and meanwhile putting together another
WEIRD FILM FEST
An evening of short horror, sci-fi, fantasy and otherwise Weird films from around the world
October 24, 7:30pm
PianoFight
144 Taylor Street, San Francisco, CA

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SF Olympians 2018

I've been commissioned to write a short play for the 2018 SF Olympians Festival.
My subject is Quirinus, protector of the Roman state and god of lawyers.
He wields a mighty suitcase and has a secret grudge against Orpheus.
A first draft feels coherent - there's something there - looking forward to joining the ranks of the Olympians in 2018!

http://sfolympiansfestival.com/2017/06/announcing-the-writers-for-the-2018-olympians-festival/
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"DONE" plays at Piano Fight

Just finished a run of my short piece "DONE" as part of May's Pint-Size Plays at Piano Fight, San Francisco's gem of theater.

The wonderful people who made it happen were:
Sophie Nelson -- The Customer
Ayelet Firstenberg - The "Security" Consultant
LeeAnn Dowd - The Director (actually!)

The read-throughs at the Berkeley Rep back office space (and fantastic costume shop!) were a pleasure, and the performances were each different and excellent. 




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First screenings in Sweden!

"Start The Invasion Without Me" screened at Lady Bug Festival and the Swedish Film Institute's Short Film Day!
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Bunny Man at Another Hole in the Head

The Bunny Man will be shown at Another Hole in the Head, part of the SF Indie fest, Oct. 27-Nov 6.



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eXpelled at Ax Wound festival

My trailer for eXpelled (a film which exists only in the fevered imagination of an imaginary child at an imaginary Reform School) will screen at the Ax Wound Film Festival in Vermont on November 6.



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Sick Chick Flicks!

Two of my films, The Bunny Man and Start The Invasion Without Me, are Sick Chick Flicks!
This is the first year for the Sick Chick festival, screening at the Cary Theater in downtown Cary, North Carolina, on November 5.

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"Start The Invasion Without Me" at Bluestocking 2016

"Start The Invasion Without Me" will premiere at the Bluestocking Film Series 2016  July 14-16 in South Portland, Maine, as part of the Road Trip Cell Phone challenge:

- Road Trip theme
- shot on a smartphone
- no more than 7 minutes long
- passes the Bechdel test*

*not like the SATs! 

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