‘Hot Dog of Destiny’
Alison Lines and Tony Quinñones in "The Hot Dog of Destiny." Sally Riordan is a humble mill worker in 1840s Ireland who, like everyone else, is planning for the future in spite of a bleak present. When her distant descendant, Mark, visits from the year 2028, Sally gets a…
FACING FEBRUARY - 28 plays in 28 days 2026 Edition The Birthday Banquet - 2 Minute Play Schrodinger's First Mistake - 1-5 Minute Monologue Name Changes - 10 minute Play Glory - 1 Minute Play Paula's Last Drink - 10 Minute Play Asphalt - 1 Minute Play His Own Fault, Really - 1 Minute Monologue The Ballad of Timmy - 10 Minute Play Tested - 2 Minute Monologue Christmas Ribbons - 1 Minute Play Memory Care - 10 Minute Play Lil Frankie, MA, CSSM, GTFO - 5 Minute Play Tara's Blind Date - 1 Minute Play Drop-off Day - 3 Minute Monologue Sisters of the Revolution - 5 Minute Play An Understanding - 1 Minute Play The Faerie Child - 3 Minute Monologue Dinner For Two - 2 Minute Play Overstep - 1 Minute Play Home Before Dinner - 1 Minute Play Sorry Not Socrates - 10 Minute Play Service with a Smile - 1 Minute Play One Last Goodbye - 5 Minute Verse Monologue Room Seven, Somewhere in Oregon - 10 Minute Play The Tree That Hears - 1 Minute Play Pot Head - 1 Minute Play The Defenestration of Frogs - 1 Minute Play The Room Where it Happens - 1 Minute Play
I still don't know how I did it, but between work, paying attention to my wife and child, and grad school, I somehow wrote 28 plays in February.
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Aragorn, son of Arathorn was born on this day, March 1st in the year 2931 of the Third Age. Happy birthday King Elessar!
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Art is never finished, but deadlines still matter. in my blog, I write about how my full-length play "Banshee" goes through more changes before rehearsals start.
#theater #playwriting #revisions #WritingLife
‘Rebel Chocolates’
CAST: 3M 2W During Easter Week 1916, rebels in the fight for Irish freedom meet a kid who just wanted to get some free sweets. New Play Exchange members can read the play here.
Black and white photo of Woody Guthrie with his iconic guitar.
86 years ago today, Woody Guthrie penned “This Land Is Your Land” in response to Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America.”
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There are some bangers on that list!
(If you're interested, here's a recent one I wrote.) newplayexchange.org/script/32940...
Send me a link to read!
Full-Length Plays
'Banshee' (APPROXIMATE RUNNING TIME: 2 HOURS) CAST: 4M, 4F. All of the roles, excepting Nancy and Marcia, may be doubled. LATEST PRODUCTION: "Banshee" will have its world premiere May 1-10 at the WCR Center for the Arts in Reading, Pa. High above the River Bandon in…
I hate hate hate bullshit crystal-ball punditry that passes as political journalism.
22.02.2026 15:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Woo-hoo! Let's go Tribe!
20.02.2026 22:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0HA!
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Upheaval is a tale as old as time
Why I set "Banshee" in the tumultuous era of the late 1700s.
It should spook FUCKING EVERYBODY.
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Broadly speaking: reality tv is bad for democracy, influencers are bad for democracy, streamers are bad for democracy, YouTubers are bad for democracy.
Exceptions to all categories exist, but it’s astonishing how absolutely clogged our political and media ecosystems are with low-info narcissists
I wrote a little something about how we should approach artificial intelligence.
13.02.2026 14:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hot take: He lied.
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Super Bowl 2026: Is Seattle Seahawks' Sam Darnold greatest NFL redemption story?
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What Yeats taught me about the banshee
The Irish mythological creature has a deep and rich history.
Green and blue Homer Laughlin bowls with flower prints on the bottom, set on a floral tablecloth.
Happy #SuperBowlSunday!
08.02.2026 18:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I hope this doesn't have much impact on mcsweeneys.net.
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The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!
This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
I said it in 2019 and I'll say it again: The "benevolent billionaire" business model for news does not work.
05.02.2026 00:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Every time I see "Doctor" Oz I can't help but think of the insidious people in the talk-show and self-help industries who gave him a career.
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Happy Groundhog Day! "Twenty Days Later" is a play about the distinctly Pennsylvania holiday, exploring what happens when the prognostications of rodents go horribly wrong.
Read it here: newplayexchange.org/script/20383...
SRSLY. I may not even use it but just park the username.
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Happy St. Brigid's Day! If you wanted to celebrate by reading a one-act play about the holiday, are you in luck:
newplayexchange.org/script/32137...
I rejoined Instagram in an attempt to market my plays more. I'm already creeped out by it and may not last the week.
01.02.2026 12:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Yes, please.
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Today in Irish History, Bloody Sunday in Derry, 30 January 1972
The fatal shooting of 13 unarmed demonstrators by the British Army in Derry in 1972. www.theirishstory.com/2012/01/29/t...
As someone who writes with both laptop AND a pen and notebook, I love this approach.
www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...
