In it he says that he’s disappointed that I am not respecting his time and that he expected better from me. On the Strip, celebrating, I discovered that I had several missed phone calls from a number I didn’t recognize and a voicemail from Michael. I remember the production was well-performed and beautifully designed, but mostly I remember that the writing was expert, delicately weaving stories I was only partially familiar with but then wholly interested in, invested, moved. It was a telling of three Greek myths all tied together with a string motif. I was thrilled since $1,000 was a lot of money to me but also because I’d seen Michael Barakiva’s work when he came to Vassar, his alma mater, my sophomore year to direct his play String Theory. The prize was $1,000 and a staged reading directed by Michael Barakiva, a professional director from New York City. In Las Vegas for spring break my senior year of college, I learned that I had won my school’s playwriting competition.
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