late spring reads

This past month I have been rehearsing and opening my first play in NYC, "Friend Art". It has been a much more emotional process than I ever could have predicted. But I am out the other side and even though there were some low points throughout, I am happy and proud of the result.

Also this month, in the midst of "Friend Art", I workshopped my children's musical, "Amos and Boris" at the Kennedy Center and completed a new play that I heard read at Primary Stages.

Before going into rehearsal for all of the above, I wanted nothing more than to lounge on my couch or in a coffee shop reading. But once in the whirlwind of May I had no room in my head for anyone's words but my own. That's why this list is so short. But trust, these were both great books to read for breaks in a time when you feel a little nuts.

Nora Ephrom: The Last Interview (selected interviews with the writer).

Pétronille by Amélie Nothomb - a darkly comic ode to champagne and the people we choose to drink it with.