Fun story! Back in 2020, before the world shut down, before even Coronavirus had made much of a news splash, I got an amazing call from Theatre Bay Area informing me that Ripped was the recipient of the 2020 Will Glickman Award! Weeks after I got the news, the world flipped upside down, as you probably remember and more important things were on everyone's minds. The conference, where I would have been awarded the prize, was canceled. I didn't pick out a pretty dress or hop on a plane or get to schmooze with all the fancy Bay Area theater artists.
Life went on, five years actually, and I noticed that this year's recipient of the Will Glickman Award, Leah Nanako Winkler, got a nice little trophy…. And that got me interested because I had not received any type of trophy. After a quick internet search I discovered all the winners of the Will Glickman Award had a nice little trophy… Except for me. Which really, is very understandable considering the aforementioned global disaster.
… Now, do I need a nice little trophy? No. Do I want a nice little trophy? Listen, I'm human and I have flaws, and maybe this is one of them, because I did want a nice little trophy. So I sent a note to Theatre Bay Area, laying out all of these facts and you know what happened? They immediately had a nice little trophy made for me! And I, remember, essentially flawed human, absolutely love it. I like it so much I may put up a little shelf up in my office to properly show it off to my dogs.
The award winning World Premiere of Ripped was produced by Z Space in San Francisco of 2019. Ripped has been published with Original Works Publishing, where you can purchase and/or license the script.
What color shelf should I get? Green? Blue? Aquamarine?
Happy Thursday!