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Touch Me Now: York Plays 2025

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How I Learned What I Learned (featuring Wali Jamal)

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Talkback session after the matinee and my brother and faculty colleagues after the evening performance. Audiences were gasping, laughing nervously, exclaiming sotto voce about “fingerprints!” and “the key!“

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What Deathbed Visions Teach Us About Living

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Long Live the LARPers — My daughter plays the antagonist in this award-winning 48 Hour Film Project. (It’s a musical!)

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