Well now preproduction has begun and it’s an onslaught.  We had a table read for a group of friends with our main cast and other actors we know reading the parts.  It was so illuminating to hear it out loud.  (This was actually our third table read.  The other two were at different phases of our writing process over the last three years and with none of the same actors.)

We got mountains of helpful feedback from writer friends of ours plus from the producers, actors and others.  Now Ken and I are hard at work filtering through it all and picking out what’s most useful while still keeping our eyes on the prize:  staying true to the germinal idea of what made us want to tell this story in the first place.  Challenging stuff!

We spent the rest of that week in L.A. doing more casting, writing, and early rehearsals with the main cast.

Rob Corddry, Jonathan Stern and Erinn Hayes in Chicago

Last week I was back in New York doing casting here, while writing on Skype with Ken (which is how we do it most of the time, living on different coasts.  Wednesday and Thursday nights I was in Chicago promoting Childrens Hospital.  Here’s a report from one of the events.

Spent this weekend in the country with family and catching up on a thousand emails I didn’t get to over the past two weeks.

Now bracing myself for an intense week of 12+ hour work days with Ken, getting this next draft in shape, so our growing team in Georgia can be preparing something resembling what we actually are gonna shoot.

So there you go.

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