Occupied

Thanks to everyone – especially the cast, crew, director and theater – who made the
Skylight Theatre’s workshop production of “Occupied” such a wonderful experience.

(I reveal the shocking secrets behind my theatrical creative process here.)

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A romantic comedy-drama about students in 1970 who take over the college president’s office to protest the Vietnam War, “Occupied” is based very very loosely on some of my experiences at Pomona College. Except at the building we took over, it was a cold morning and the faculty brought us coffee. Oh, and I didn’t get the girl.

How was I able to capture the spirit, language and cultural references of the time so brilliantly?, I hear no one asking. By collaborating with someone who was there – the 26-year-old me, who wrote a version of it after college.

Read the opening here; read the whole damn thing here.

Back: Andrew Adams, Joey Millin, Joe Fillipone, Will Munroe, Kristen Descombes
Middle: Tess Vidal, Jeremy Guskin, A.J. Helfet, Patrick Dillon Curry
Front: Casey Sullivan, Whitney Nielsen