My Story @ Tarragon

Brendan Gall

In the late nineties while I was still in theatre school, Tarragon playwright-in-resident Daniel Brooks was kind enough to read and give notes on a play I’d written with a friend. Sitting there in his office as he smoked out the window (late nineties) and very patiently went through the script with us, I remember feeling two very acute and distinct things: 1) I wished our play was better. And 2) I was extremely lucky to be sitting there.

It is over a decade later now as I write this at my desk in that same office, an office I now share with fellow playwright-in-resident Hannah Moscovitch — once again wishing that my play was better (in fact I should really stop writing this and get back to it), but also feeling extremely lucky to be sitting here.

Thanks, Tarragon.

Wide Awake Hearts, featuring Maev Beaty, Lesley Faulkner, Raoul Bhaneja and Gord Rand

Alias Godot - featuring David Ferry, Alon Nashman, Paul Braunstein, Tony Nappo, Geoffrey Pounsett