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My final senior thesis project/creative portfolio of the plays and screenplays I’ve written over the past year at Rice. This project really started when I got the idea for my first full-length play at the end of my junior year of high school. I couldn’t have predicted it then, but I can now say that I am a playwright. I also finished the last paper of my undergraduate career last night. Once I turn it in, I’ll be finished with all my coursework. These are small thresholds, leading up to the big one on May 11th when I walk back out of the Sallyport and officially graduate from Rice. I’m going to have plenty of time to miss Rice, to be sad about leaving my friends and mentors for the next phase. For now, I’m proud of what I created here and how everything I’ve learned at Rice is going to continue to inspire and motivate me. Thanks. Rice Owl for life. View high resolution

My final senior thesis project/creative portfolio of the plays and screenplays I’ve written over the past year at Rice. This project really started when I got the idea for my first full-length play at the end of my junior year of high school. I couldn’t have predicted it then, but I can now say that I am a playwright.

I also finished the last paper of my undergraduate career last night. Once I turn it in, I’ll be finished with all my coursework. These are small thresholds, leading up to the big one on May 11th when I walk back out of the Sallyport and officially graduate from Rice.

I’m going to have plenty of time to miss Rice, to be sad about leaving my friends and mentors for the next phase. For now, I’m proud of what I created here and how everything I’ve learned at Rice is going to continue to inspire and motivate me. Thanks. Rice Owl for life.

Still shot from the cartoon I wrote, Balloons (voiced, animated, and brought to life by Dr. Judith Roof, my advisor and the current Chair of the English Department at Rice University). It’s premiering tomorrow at the Senior Thesis Presentation from 4-5:30 p.m. in the English Lounge in Herring Hall. The full cartoon will be ready later this summer, but I’d love to share it with everyone as I celebrate the work I’ve done this year and my previous three years at Rice.  View high resolution

Still shot from the cartoon I wrote, Balloons (voiced, animated, and brought to life by Dr. Judith Roof, my advisor and the current Chair of the English Department at Rice University).

It’s premiering tomorrow at the Senior Thesis Presentation from 4-5:30 p.m. in the English Lounge in Herring Hall. The full cartoon will be ready later this summer, but I’d love to share it with everyone as I celebrate the work I’ve done this year and my previous three years at Rice. 

Comparing

Four years ago I was one of those lost little prospective students. And something went right because my visit convinced me to attend Rice.

Last year I wrote a nostalgic post for that decision and wished the best to the prospective students.

This year, they are all over the place, they walk slow, they are staying on campus for an extra day and night in the busiest point in the semester and most importantly, I’m in the midst of making my next BIG LIFE DECISION and I don’t have time to care about the rest. It’s definitely a sign that while I love Rice, it’s time to move on.

It also makes me jealous of the prospies because they still have their parents here checking in with them, trying to help them gather all the information and decide which school is best, if Rice is the best fit. I’m past that; I’m an adult and all the big decisions are mine to make alone.

But seriously: best of luck to the prospective students. I suggest Rice because it has helped me grow and learn in so many intangible, priceless ways, but I know that everyone has their own fit. I’m praying right now that that’s still true for all of us, no matter what stage of life we’re in.

When the actors backstage still have their mics on and you can hear them talking during the show

whatshouldtheatrecallme:

You’re just like

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(Submission: steadydreaming)

TJ and Company friends: remember how “quiet” we were on Smack an Ass day? And that one time we made paper airplanes backstage during a dress rehearsal?

Remember how well that went over with our director …

(Reblogged from whatshouldtheatrecallme)

Art submissions end Friday!

r2thericereview:

Send your art to r2ricereview@gmail.com, and it could be in the magazine!

Hey guys, SEND US YOUR ART! You are all talented folk and I’d love to see some of your art, in color, in this year’s issue.

(Reblogged from r2thericereview)

End of the Semester Writing Excitement

I haven’t posted anything real on my tumblr in the long time, because I thought that not posting on here would force me to write more of my own creative work instead of cataloging my entire life and then just staring at other people’s creative work.

It did work. This semester I read over 30 new plays, saw the production of my second play through from my final revisions to the closing night (and I’m still hanging out with the cast—can’t let go!), filled 2 1/2 notebooks with creative material, wrote a short play, wrote new short stories and fiction for the first time in four years, and applied for a fellowship and graduate schools for theater. And I still found time every once and a while to log on to Tumblr and keep up with some fun re-blogs.

But today, as editor of my university’s undergraduate creative writing magazine I am super excited. Why?

Today submissions are pouring in. I haven’t had caffeine recently and my heart is pounding because I am so excited to read through all of them. I seriously want to hug everyone who has submitted. That might change in the future once I read some of them but for now, I cannot wait.

To those of you who haven’t submitted yet … please please please do! I’m a nice person, but even more importantly, a very fair editor. I do not let personal connections affect my decision-making. I’d tell stories, but that in itself would break the privacy of the writers who submitted to past issues.

(If you are a Rice undergraduate who wants to submit their poetry, fiction, and/or creative nonfiction to R2: The Rice Review, please go to r2mag.rice.edu for information or just send it to r2ricereview@gmail.com ASAP.)

r2thericereview:

derpunicornmermaid:

tastysynapse:

Zen Pencils Comic: 50. NEIL GAIMAN: Make good art

This is fucking beautiful!

Just a reminder. (Submissions are open!)

Yes, please make good art and then submit it to R2 at r2ricereview@gmail.com. (only Rice undergrads for now, sorry!)

(Reblogged from r2thericereview)

My second play is about to open for its second weekend! It took me two years to perfect The Failures. I was so happy to see packed audiences last week—even for a Thursday night opening.

I have heard from friends and unrelated third-party sources that my writing is actually funny and very entertaining. The show is only 50 minutes long and it’s pay-what-you-can for ticket prices. Please come out and support this new work and student theatre at Rice University. This is what makes Rice so special; it allows students the chance to write their own work and see it performed and entirely produced by their peers. It’s a miracle.

I hope to see you all there. No one is exempt from Failure.

For Our 100th Post….

ricequidditch:

We’d love to say HAPPY 100 YEARS, RICE! Rice University was founded on October 12th, 1912. Tomorrow Rice turns 100 years old.

And we Owls have a four day weekend in celebration of our centennial.

Have a great weekend, Owls.

Only bad thing about the Centennial= no quidditch practice this week. Love and miss you guys!

(Reblogged from ricequidditch)
ricequidditch: Rice University Quidditch Team Picture at the 2nd Annual Breakfast Taco Chicken and Waffles Tournament Team photo! View high resolution

ricequidditch:

Rice University Quidditch Team Picture at the 2nd Annual Breakfast Taco Chicken and Waffles Tournament

Team photo!

(Reblogged from ricequidditch)