Re: RAT wow!what a conference!

[LeeWochner@movingarts.org (Lee Wochner)]

The L.A. Times' Don Shirley attended the conference and wrote a column
about it. (He was actually on deadline with it when I spoke with him
earlier in the week.) It ran today (Sunday), and extensively quoted Han
Ong, formerly of L.A. and formerly a playwright. He's pissy because he
isn't getting produced -- in fact, everybody I know was STUNNED when this
guy won the "genius" grant because he's barely known and barely produced;
usually these go to someone whose name is at least bubbling under the
surface. You can probably find the column at www.latimes.com .



At 12:36 AM 7/5/99, KRWoolly@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 7/4/99 6:11:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>LeeWochner@movingarts.org writes:
>
><< I gather you're emailing in reaction to the column in today's Times. Which
> hacked me off, too. Sure glad he got a $235,000 Macarthur "genius" grant as
> a playwright so he could take the money, abandon the theatre, and turn to
> writing TV. Fuck him. (That's not TCG's doing, though.) >>
>
>
>Havent' seen the TImes article but from Mitchell's e-mail I thought he had
>heard about a plenary session at the TCG conference where those exact words
>were said by a playwright.  So what's going on?
>Kerri

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