Cleveland Centennial!

“Art is never finished, only abandoned.” - probably not Leonardo da Vinci George Bernard Shaw born July 26, 1856 (112 years before me, to th...

Happy 200th Birthday, America. For many years I would include a post this time of year in which I would look forward to the year to come. Th...

Preparing for "Death Knocks" Bay High School, 1984 The first time I ever stepped onto a stage was my freshman year in high scho...

I applied to two schools. One accepted me. And so I matriculated into the Ohio University School of Theatre. I had no idea the school was in...

Pengo's 2025 Summer Book Club TL;DR: Write more. Read more. I brought a couple of books with me for the trip, but when we visited the ...

Bradley Hughes & Kayce Kvacek as Leif & Lucille Larsen Last night an invited audience witnessed the final dress rehearsal for The Ri...

Self w/Katherine Nash (Jan 2024) So, the thing is, right … I’m kind of between writer’s groups right now? It’s not that I’m afraid of commit...

One year (it was 2008) we were conducting a summer camp for CMSD middle school aged kids, and each member of our team chose one discipline t...

"The Secret to Superhuman Strength" (2021) Art & text: Alison Bechdel Pengo's 2023 Summer Book Club Reading Alison Bechdel...

Isaiah Betts, Amaya Kiyomi Photo: Rob Wachala What if you stage a terrifying and absurd fever dream and no one cares? Well, that would be a...

The week before Thanksgiving, always brief and yet fully-lacked, consisted of playing Emcee for the annual writing contest (our first writin...

Actor-Teachers at Theodore Roosevelt High School Suddenly, pages! I wrote ten pages of a new script in time for workshop on Monday. When I a...

This time two months ago, I was entirely at sea. Overwhelmed by my schedule, my assignments and suffering a bout of Covid. Now I am a writin...

So, I was feeling like I was getting seriously behind in my work and spent all of Sunday and Monday editing the new script for Oatman’s play...

We voted. OKAY? I was telling someone the other day that my stress level had dropped considerably since we had last communicated a few weeks...

Before/After Good news! The screening was a success, and Playhouse Square and University Hospitals also have made streaming  I Hate This: A ...

Read all the way to the bottom for a special video announcement. Is transcribing an interview writing? Is editing a transcribed interview cr...

Read all the way to the bottom for a special video announcement. This past week has been pretty incredible, actually. I am stressed by the w...

Read all the way to the bottom for a special video announcement. So, we’re reading. We’re reading a lot. The playwriting workshop is freewhe...

“I feel stupid and contagious.” Why didn’t anyone tell me Covid was difficult to live with? I am currently reading several books at once, w...