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A Round of Applause for The Writers’ Room at Geffen Playhouse for 2024-25

Edward Hong

Geffen Playhouse today announced its selection of LA-based writers to participate in the 2024/2025 cycle of The Writers’ Room, a forum for engagement and collaboration between Los Angeles playwrights. The participants are Sunny Drake, Keiko Green, Andrew Zepeda Klein, maatin, Samah Meghjee, and James Anthony Tyler. There are some serious global majority representation in this writers’ group so we can’t wait to see their work in the coming years! Read on to learn more about them.

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Please Give this Man Money: Adam WarRock’s Donation Drive

Keith Chow

It’s no secret that we’re big fans of Adam WarRock at the NOC. I mean, just look at the tag cloud at the right of this page. “Adam WarRock” is almost as big as “Batman.” Maybe that should be the title of his next album: Bigger Than Batman.

Anyway, today is the anniversary of the day he decided to quit his day job and be a rapper full-time. He’s marked this occasion every year by doing an annual Donation Drive to fund all of the awesome (and mostly free) music that he puts out on the internet all the time. So if you enjoy free Adam WarRock music, you should make a pledge. And like PBS, you’ll even get some swag just for doing so! (No tote bags, though. Just more music).

In conjunction with the kick-off to another donation drive, Eugene (that’s his not-so-secret identity) and I chatted about all the music he’s released and touring he’s done this past year and what you can expect from him in the next one and beyond. Plus, we talk about House of Cards and X-Men. But just a little.

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