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Michael C. O'Day.

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Actor, playwright, arts administrator, general nuisance. Website: https://michael-c-oday.com/ NPX profile: https://newplayexchange.org/users/29139/michael-c-oday

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Familiar Faces - Michael C. O'Day Every New York City story is ultimately a story about real estate.  That’s true about the fictional stories we tell about the place, and it’s true about our real life experiences.  And it’s especially...

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09.02.2026 21:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
I'm Not Exploiting a Crisis For My Own Self-Promotion, But I'm Not Not Doing That Either - Michael C. O'Day It’s 2026 everybody!  And outside of work and a few bits of basic artistic housekeeping – programming the Tuesday night reading series, sending out a submission or two, supporting some friends’ shows ...

New blog post is up! #FirstOf2026 #ThisYearAintMakingThisShitEasy. michael-c-oday.com/im-not-explo...

26.01.2026 19:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Existential Dilemma - Michael C. O'Day The holidays are upon us, Constant Reader, and with them a frenzy of activity as we try and take after our friends and loved ones.  We hunt for just the right Christmas present.  We fret over an end o...

New blog post is up. Happy Holidays!

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22.12.2025 20:13 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Lifespan of a Wild Duck - Michael C. O'Day Sometime in the early spring of 2023, I walked into a dilapidated old theater where I was working.  (I won’t mention the theater or the circumstances here; it’s one of those “if you know you know” sor...

New blog post is up! (I was going to let everybody know yesterday, but got distracted by, y'know, Demogorgons and stuff.)

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02.12.2025 19:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hey, I love pop scifi, crass commercialism, and shameless media plugs as much as anybody - but why the f%*k was there a Demogorgon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?
#MacysThanksgivingParade #ItsADemogorgonDammit

27.11.2025 15:30 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 1
Up To Date in Kansas City - Michael C. O'Day A few weeks ago now, I was fortunate enough to have my work featured at the Midwest Dramatist Conference, and make my first trip to Kansas City.  (If you weren’t able to travel out to Kansas City your...

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17.11.2025 21:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Halloween Night at the Movies - Michael C. O'Day Halloween fell upon a Friday this year, Constant Reader, and so, as I write this Sunday night, New York City is staggering towards the end of a three-day weekend of phantasms and debauchery.  I’ve bee...

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03.11.2025 17:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
What I Have the Bandwidth For Right Now - Michael C. O'Day I was wracking my brain about how to address this week’s latest atrocities, the weaponization of the FCC to shut down Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night program on ABC for criticizing the current administratio...

Apparently it's a moot point (temporarily) as of tomorrow night (yay!), but anyway...new blog post is up! Next one of these will be sometime mid October.

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22.09.2025 20:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
In Which I Discover How to Add Umlauts to Posts - Michael C. O'Day I’ve been a bookworm since childhood, and I’m an academic by training.  So research is always a critical part of the process for whatever creative project I’m working on – and indeed, my love of that ...

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08.09.2025 22:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Back to the Park - Michael C. O'Day It has been two years, since it was shuttered last year for renovations, but the Delacorte Theater in Central Park is open once again, and a new production of Twelfth Night has opened as part of the P...

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25.08.2025 11:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
In Which I Celebrate What I Can While I Can - Michael C. O'Day For the past month and a half or so, I’ve been wrestling with a particularly recalcitrant rough draft.  It’s a two hour (I hope), four-act chonker roughly modeled after Chekhov (as transplanted to Gre...

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11.08.2025 18:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Take THAT, you stupid rough draft, do you hear me? That's what you get! THAT'S WHAT YOU GET!
#NoContextForYou
#ButImIWriterSoYouCanProbablyGuess

10.08.2025 19:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A Disjointed Blog Post For Disjointed Times - Michael C. O'Day It’s been another two weeks of chaos and heartbreak the world over – but a period of time in which, perhaps paradoxically, the power of the arts has been reaffirmed.  The Late Show With Stephen Colber...

It's not much of a blog post, but it's up!

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28.07.2025 20:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
YOYOs 2 - Return of the Signal Boost - Michael C. O'Day Back in November, I blatantly avoided writing a blog post during a period when I was frantically trying to finish drafting a project by signal boosting a film project done by some friends of mine.  Th...

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14.07.2025 10:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Public Service Announcement - Michael C. O'Day There’s a number of hard lessons you’ll need to learn if you’re serious about being a playwright, or actor, or any other creative artist, primarily dealing with the inevitability of rejection.  One of...

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30.06.2025 12:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
All Over the Map - Michael C. O'Day It seems like we only just started (and indeed, I only posted a news item about it last week), but the run of Naya James’ 60/40 is now concluded.  It was a terrific experience, working on a scarily re...

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16.06.2025 22:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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60/40 - New York Theater Festival * by Naya James Sonnad * * * * MONDAY June 9, 2025 @ 6:30 PM WEDNESDAY June 11, 2025 @ 9:00 PM SATURDAY June 14, 2025 @ 6:45 PM * * * Blurb 60/40 is a 7-day race to save humanity, told in 7 scenes abo...

This is a show I'm in, and tonight's opening night! #OrMaybeOpeningAfterDinnerTheatricalExperience #630ShowTime

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09.06.2025 19:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Broken Clocks, Etc. - Michael C. O'Day It’s been a busy few weeks, Constant Reader.  I’m in rehearsals for a new show, and shortly about to start teching.  I’ve been fortunate enough to collect a few lovely NPX recommendations.  All of the...

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03.06.2025 02:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Smoke Gets In My Eyes - Michael C. O'Day I had it settled, more or less.  Barring the complete destruction of everything (which is entirely possible these days – thanks a LOT, resurgent fascism), my creative projects for the foreseeable futu...

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19.05.2025 10:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Well, Here We Go - Michael C. O'Day I took a trip on Saturday out to New Jersey, to the private residence of a friend of my classics reading series, to have a private soiree complete with readings.  (My oh so glamorous life, Constant Re...

If you're following NYC actors on this app, you've probably seen dozens of these already. Here's mine - new blog post is up.

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05.05.2025 20:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Out of Order - Michael C. O'Day Well, we still seem hell-bent on rushing headlong into fascism and dystopia, economic and environmental calamities appear to be right around the corner, and (most galling of all, perhaps) the various ...

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21.04.2025 14:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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07.04.2025 23:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
I'm Back, Baby! - Michael C. O'Day At some point during the pandemic, Reproductions Studios in New York closed its doors.  It was the go-to location for actors needing mass duplication of their headshots, a spacious office off of Bryan...

Sorry it's been a while, but I didn't forget about you all! New blog post is up:

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24.03.2025 20:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
World of Pure Imagination - Michael C. O'Day It’s been a month since I had a developmental reading of my play Mycorrhizae, through the auspices of Naked Angels’ First Mondays program, and I’ve had a lot to think about since then.  That’s what th...

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03.03.2025 23:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
We will not comply — Primary Stages

No blog post this week - instead, just wanted to signal boost this post from Primary Stages. #WeveGotOurMarchingOrdersPeople

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24.02.2025 17:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Yes It's Terrifying But I'm Going To Make an Extended Joke About It All Here Anyway. (With Random Facts) - Michael C. O'Day Well, it’s Presidents’ Day, 2025 – the first such holiday on which the duties of the President of the United States now include Chairperson of the Kennedy Center Board. Yes, as you’re probably aware (...

This was supposed to be my Presidents' Day blog post but it didn't go live until today for some reason - but here you go anyway!

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18.02.2025 14:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Solitude Sitting (In the Back Row) - Michael C. O'Day Last week, I was fortunate enough to have a debut public reading of a brand new full-length play of mine, Mycorrhizae.  It was part of Naked Angels’ First Mondays series, which presents scripts which ...

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11.02.2025 04:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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As a reminder - my new play MYCORRHIZAE is receiving a First Mondays reading tomorrow, which is free for one and all! It's a rousing story of wilderness survival - which may or may not include ghosts, or monsters, or small rodents, or ukuleles...

02.02.2025 20:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hey NYC friends - there's a free First Mondays reading of my new play this Monday February 3!

31.01.2025 17:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Producer's Club - Michael C. O'Day I took a break from all the extreme cold and fascism last week by going to see a friend’s one-act play on Saturday night.  The venue was one which has seen untold hundreds of such showcases – nay, tho...

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28.01.2025 00:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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