dramaturg Judith Rudakoff

About a week ago I finished the rehearsal draft of The Silicone Diaries. I’ve been rehearsing with it all week, tweaking it, making smaller changes, and I think it is pretty much solidly in place.

I originally wrote and compiled the script in about three weeks for the original production in New Brunswick last August. I’ve spent a good part of the last nine months rewriting the script for the Buddies in Bad Times production this November.

A major shout out goes out to my dramaturg, Judith Rudakoff. She has been with me through the entire process of rewriting. She’s the person I’ve gone to when I need someone to look at the text with new eyes, and she reflects back to me what I can not see anymore. She supports me when I’m too afraid to express what I really want to say or when the truth seems to terrifying to reveal. I turned to her when I needed inspiration, when I was stuck and not sure how to write anymore. And, she helped me make sense of the whole structure of the piece.

It’s so appropriate that Judith would work with me on this project. She was my mentor when I did my postgraduate degree in playwrighting. I was at the beginning of my transition at the time, and she helped facilitate that with the other staff members.

She is also one few women who I considered a real role model for me. She’s smart, ambitious, intuitive, sexy, wildly creative, a great writer, tough and truly unlike anyone I’ve ever met.

Much love and respect goes out to Judith at this point in the work!