My last post in April was about the Wet Ink play reading of my play The Good Bride. THANK YOU to everyone who showed up for that!!! It was so awesome of you to be there.
The reading was lovely - Lynna Goldhar-Smith directed handily and Marisa Emma Smith (no relation) was a very sweet, innocent, goofy 15-year old Maranatha - and there will hopefully be a Vancouver production popping up sometime in the next year or so! Further bulletins as events warrant.
In the meantime, this June, The Good Bride won a Sterling Award for Outstanding New Play, thanks to the awesome Northern Light Theatre production last October! That's right, a Sterling - the TONYS OF EDMONTON YOU GUYS.
I was super super jazzed and also thrilled that amazing Arielle Rombough was nominated for playing Maranatha and Syd Gross was nominated for her fantastic set design. Sadly, I couldn't make it out to the actual Sterling ceremony, but about a month later, NLT artistic director and beautiful genius Trevor Schmidt took a day off from his Victoria vacation to ferry over to Vancouver and present me with my award over what turned out to be really disgusting mango jalapeno cocktails.
First, he re-enacted the reading of the nominations:
Then, the REVEAL!
Then it was time to hand over the award, but first, Trevor had to buff it. It's...pretty filthy.
Obviously, I had to recreate my reaction to winning. Just FYI, winning things gives you extra chins.
So does eating things.
As my dad used to say, awards are like hemorrhoids - in the end, every asshole gets one. Still, I must say, success tastes DELICIOUS.
The Good Bride got a remount in Calgary in September, in a Handsome Alice Theatre/Glitterverse Productions co-pro, once again directed by the lovely Trevor and starring the luminous Arielle. It went well and really, how could it not, LOOK AT THE POSTER OMG I LOVED IT.
I feel like a bragged A LOT about all of these events when they happened, all over Facebook and the Twitter, but when you've got 30 days to blog and a hawt video of Trevor Schmidt, you post that motherfucker.
