We’re in New Haven.  Liz and I spent most of the day dealing with logistics. But they’re all here: (in no particular order) Tory Stewart, Ken Weitzman, Mia Rovegno, Jack McDowell, Drew Barr, Krista Knight, Dan LeFranc and Nancy McDoniel. The playwrights spent the afternoon getting settled in. Ken Weitzman (who flew in from Atlanta) and our fellow Krista met with Jen Kiger of the Yale School of Drama to discuss their plays. Mia Rovegno and Dan LeFranc unloaded the props (They have puppets!) from their car and arranged them very neatly in their rehearsal studio. Tory locked herself in her apartment to work on Leitmotif for tomorrow’s meet-and-greet and read-through with the actors. New Haven parking is expensive. In fact, New Haven is expensive. A slice at Naples Pizza is $1.75 – I pay $1.50 at Sal & Carmine’s on the Upper Westside. Maybe the guys at Naples could tell that I was coming in from New York and jacked up the price. But the Doodle (which, after Louis’ Lunch, has the best burgers in the world) still serves hamburgers for $2.75. There’s no better deal. Liz and I had two hamburgers each before heading over to a coffee shop to catch up on e-mail. We met up at 6:30 to head over for dinner at Bangkok Gardens, my favorite Thai restaurant. I can’t really think of any Thai restaurant in New York City that compares to Bangkok Gardens. No Manhattan restaurant offers tastier massaman curry. At dinner, Tory explained that she decided to become a playwright after working for a number of years as a stage manager. Apparently, she wrote a play while she was stage managing some Peter Sellars’ piece and then, on a whim, applied to grad school. I’m not doing the story justice. I’m always interested to find out what draws people from one career to another. I love those types of stories.

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