So it is Thanksgiving and we are now almost at the end of 2013.  I went to NYC last week and did my interview dialogue with team - Norman/Durang, they have been teaching a master class in playwriting at Julliard for the past 20 years. 

Chris Durang was the first playwright I did in my series.  Marsha Norman was further down the road in the first year that I started 'shooting playwrights'.

I asked them to sit and dialogue so we could make a beginning, a prelude to the portraits and interviews for the book.

They continue to be supporters and such fine playwrights.  Am I lucky?  Marsha looked so like one of the students,young, slender and casual in the hall that I almost didn't recognize her.

When you are doing what you love (and Marsha continues to do that) it keeps you young. She is working on a script for a Broadway musical of Bridges of Madison County with composer, Jason Robert Brown.  Chris has commissions for Lincoln Center and will be going to LA for the run of his play, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.

Marsha Norman, Chris Durang      ©2013 Susan Johann