New York Here I come! My show bags are packed! Really, I bought a new suitcase last week and packed it just in case a trip came my way.

CONGRATULATIONS! Your production has been ACCEPTED, and on behalf of The Present Company, and the other volunteer staff of The New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC), we want to welcome you to FringeNYC. We have chosen you to participate because we believe you will make an invaluable contribution to this year’s festival. It is our goal to make FringeNYC the most dynamic festival possible, and we invite you to help make this happen.

This will be the Fourteenth Annual New York International Fringe Festival, continuing the overwhelming success of the first thirteen. The festival will begin on Friday, August 13th and continue through Sunday, August 29th. The interest in the Festival grows every year and last year 75,000 people came to downtown Manhattan to support the performing arts. The response from the press was tremendous and the community rallied around FringeNYC in an extraordinary way. And we all had a great time!

Received the good news today, my show Stripes has been accepted into the New York Fringe Festival, providing my visa comes through.
I am totally thrilled.

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Vee and Sarah team up to make a double bill of our shows! Feb 9, 2010

Stripes The Mystery Circus and Under The Mango Tree…
Double Bill, April 2011.
Meeting in Coquitlam with Veenesh Dubois and David Mann at the Evergreen Cultural Centre to discuss producing our two show together next season at the Evergreen Arts Centre. The dates are for April 5-9…2011 both shows, in tandum for six performances! Hurray.

Both Vee and I are performing our shows this spring at the Moberley Arts Centre, 7646 Prince Albert St. One block east of Fraser at 59th.
Under The Mango Tree…April 16th-17, 8pm and Sunday 18th 2pm.
Stripes: The Mystery Circus, at the Moberley Arts Centre, May 28-29, 8pm and Sunday 30th, 2pm. 2010

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New York, New York Nov 09

On a recent trip to NY, I checked out some performing possibilities….Fringe, Blueberry Pond, Clubs. Visited friends, Mimi, Jo Bruno, Susan & Tillman and Martin.
Did a lot in two days. Found New York Finge office: 520 8th Ave 3rd fl, visited Galleries Frick, Gugenheim, Folk Art, and Moma. Went for dinner with Susan, Tillman and Martin at La Voce on Madison and 26th Ave and had traditional St Martins Day Goose dinner. Stayed with Mimi, in Dobbs Ferry 45 min train ride outside NY on the Hudson River.
Saw great show- verbatium monologues on US Health Care, “Let Me Down Easy”, Anna Devears Smith….very inspiring. My next show will be a Verbatium show…I’ve already started, with interviews from Cassandra Project and now playwrights workshop writing exercises with Marcus.

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Sept 1 / 09

Home again to my Oscar and Gizzyboy, hurray. Nothing like coming home.
Took a cab to Richmond and James’ Mum Judy was there to welcome me back with open arms and tea and rasberry crumble. A lovely warm reception. She also gave me carrots, beets and a piece of cheese bread for the road so I’d have some food when I got home.
London was a whirl wind of people and sights and then two days in the countryside- Surrey, Leatherhead and my visit with Betty Parsons. At 93 she is still the gracious hostess, looking after all her guests as they pass through London. She is full of wisdom and good advise, I took notes.

I left at 5:30 am and she had another guest from Austrilia
arriving at 3pm, then family arriving later that day.
So now to prepare for the Victoria show of Stripes: The Mystery Circus for Aug 12th.

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