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TV writer (creator/EP Julia on Max, @MaiselTV...), Playwright (http://audible.com/menshealth), Associate Arts Prof. at NYU DDW, husband, dad, foodie, yogi...
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He was amazing. The revival of Democracy was my favorite line of the night, and it was set up perfectly.
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...and then later with Malcolm Gets in Party Come Here and Liz Larsen in Radio Girl, not to mention the Party Come Here demo Chip Zien did for me and David Kirshenbaum. RIP. END
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But over the years I got to say hello to him here and there and he was always curious and gracious and funny and happy to see that I was carving out some kind of life. And from A New Brain, I got to work with James Lapine when he directed my play Modern Orthodox ...
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But what a great lesson for an aspiring dramatist. My last day with Bill was the first day of rehearsal for A New Brain at LCT - I was still a student and couldn't assist him full time. ...
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Taking notes at Graciela Daniele's apartment when he played Anytime (I Am There) for the first time for her and for James. That song wowed me and I was stunned when it didn't make it into the show (it ultimately ended up in his beautiful Elegies). ...
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He was hilarious, and his music moved me so much. There are so many great songs in A New Brain, but I became particularly obsessed with And They'reOff. I loved getting to be on the inside for the first time with that show. ...
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this is my all time favorite scene in television.
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yeah, there's something about wry stealth anti-Semitism that gets me every time.
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it's fantastic.
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Amazing
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Awful.
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And we see smallish movies like Thelma and they love it. They are so much more connected.
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Grrrrrr
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Me too!
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#jeffdaniels #berlanti #danabrown #vanityfair #dilettante (I still don't fully understanding hash-tagging but doing my best!)
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If that were to happen, there’d never be a republican house, senate, or president again.
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You should get it soon. It's a very you word.
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Afterwards, Linda found me, was very generous and kind about the play, and then asked if I added that line because she was there that night. I told her no, that it was always there. She liked that. (END)
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The main characters are discussing their new born son's bris - with a female mohel - and Neil, played by Eric Bogosian says 'it was like Linda Lavin with a knife.' It always got a really great laugh.
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I decided to introduce myself and tell her how amazing she was and she took my hands and looked me in the eye and couldn't have been kinder. There's a Linda Lavin joke in the last scene of the play and I didn't have the guts to tell her about it.
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I only got to speak with her once. She came to the first preview(!) of my play Legacy at Williamstown Theatre Festival. I was already a nervous wreck but that put me over the edge.
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I'll never forget seeing her in Diary of Anne Frank, and Tale of the Allergists Wife, to name a few. And I feel incredibly lucky that I got to see her kill this past spring in a benefit reading of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, with most of the original cast. She was on fire that night.
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That always stayed with me, because, like the one time I saw Judi Dench on stage (in Amy's View), she always had the audience in the palm of her hand - both aware of us and not - in comedy for which she was unparalleled, but also in the well and depth of emotion she was able to convey.
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#juliaonmax #streamonmax #juliachild #juliahbomax #sarahlancashire #davidhydepierce #bebeneuwirth #brittanybradford #frankranz #fionaglascott #robertjoy #judithlight #rachelbloom #chriskeyser #erwinstoff #scottellis #melaniemayron #jeffersonmays #adrianelenox #donnabloom #toomanyamazingpeopletolist
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Season two dropped one year ago today. Thanks for reminding me!
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Exactly. I went last Wednesday
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As playwrights, we were just there to observe. But she was amazing. And yes, also amazing in Fish Called Wanda.
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and it still ranks as one of the most incredible performances I've ever seen. To be that funny and that stylish/stylized and that real simultaneously puts her in a league of her own. One of the all time greats.
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(Years later, Maria Aitken came to Juilliard to teach a masterclass in Restoration Comedy and she talked about that legendary performance. And I got to tell her that I had seen it.) The second time was Lettice and Lovage on Broadway--
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Then, when I started teaching at NYU, they were my inspirations-- nobody has done it better than them. Such a towering figure in my life. I am heartbroken. But feel so incredibly grateful for all the time I got to share with him.
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There is probably no greater feeling than getting a laugh from Chris. And he was generous with them. After I graduated, I worked at Juilliard as Literary Manager for two years and got to call him a colleague. And even a friend. ...
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That the author of these ferocious plays was so gentle just blew my mind. Marsha and Chris are both such huge influences of mine. The combined feedback from both of them in class, the combined energy of both of them – infuses all my work, even now. ...
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They were just so funny, funnier than anything I had ever read, laugh out loud, on the page, funny. Getting to study with Chris at Juilliard, I was in awe. I was so intimidated by him, but he couldn't have been humbler, kinder, or more approachable and accessible. ...