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Five a.m. Gunshots to the north of me. You hear them and you fall into the rhythm. So you can count them when they’re done. Six or...
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Scott Carter Cooper
- Mar 11
- 2 min
The Long-Awaited Sweeney Review
I was never the pretty one, the one who turned heads when he walked into a room. All that changed in New York when I saw a preview of...
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Scott Carter Cooper
- Mar 6
- 3 min
Kimberly Akimbo
Home | Kimberly Akimbo the Musical My New York trips are a sweet consolation prize. As a kid in a hostile corn-fed Iowa town, there were...
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Scott Carter Cooper
- Jan 24
- 2 min
Social Media Sucks
Social media is evil. All of the sites do two things. Steal time from you and destroy your will to live. I deactivated, or at least...
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Scott Carter Cooper
- Jan 10
- 4 min
Babylon
Like most people, I haven’t gotten to a movie theatre much in the past few years. Covid, of course. But also, because I’ve invested in...
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Scott Carter Cooper
- Dec 31, 2022
- 3 min
Numbers
2022 For me, as a playwright it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. In my day-to-day life I work with salespeople. With...
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Scott Carter Cooper
- Oct 7, 2022
- 3 min
Eclipse Theatre Company
Sometimes it feels like I’ve lived many lives. Between 2007 and 2012, I was more or less at loose ends. I’d just finished my masters...
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Scott Carter Cooper
- Aug 29, 2022
- 3 min
Giant
The pandemic has drastically altered my movie habits, as it has everyone’s. The last movie I felt worthy of risking my health for was...
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Scott Carter Cooper
- Jul 29, 2022
- 3 min
Dad
I was naked. I had just flown back to Chicago after visiting my father and sister, gone directly to work and from there to an acting...
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Scott Carter Cooper
- May 17, 2022
- 3 min
A Response to The New York Times
Opinion | Let Actors Act - The New York Times (nytimes.com) So, I saw this production. As an aside, what this writer doesn't mention is...
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Scott Carter Cooper
- Apr 30, 2022
- 4 min
Space
I have always been a theatre geek. I don’t just mean scripts and performance. I mean I’ve always been a geek for theatre spaces. Like...
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Scott Carter Cooper
- Apr 17, 2022
- 1 min
Greatness
You know greatness when you see it. It crackles. It tickles. It warms. It replenishes. If you’re very lucky, you can be present when...
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Scott Carter Cooper
- Mar 28, 2022
- 2 min
Liza, Gaga, and Will. Oh, my.
Years ago, I saw Liza Minelli perform live. She’s never had the best voice, but she delivered in spades. The second half of the show...
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Scott Carter Cooper
- Mar 26, 2022
- 3 min
The Power of the Oscar
In many ways I’m a walking cliché. What gay boy of a certain age didn’t love the Oscars on TV? Maybe they still do. The glamor of it...
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Scott Carter Cooper
- Feb 11, 2022
- 2 min
Shaun White
I understand and appreciate the appeal of the Olympics. At its best, athletic competition is the purest form of drama. Long ago,...
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Scott Carter Cooper
- Jan 20, 2022
- 2 min
March First
I’ve developed a rather annoying sleep pattern that is aggravated in the winter. No matter what time I go to bed, I find myself wide...
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Scott Carter Cooper
- Jan 12, 2022
- 1 min
An Egg
A chicken lays an egg. She nurtures the egg. Her life’s purpose is that egg. An egg must never be scrambled lightly. Respect must be...
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Scott Carter Cooper
- Jan 10, 2022
- 3 min
The Maltese Falcon
One of my biggest quibbles about queer representation in modern culture is that if the queer character is centered in any way, it’s the...
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Scott Carter Cooper
- Dec 31, 2021
- 3 min
Aaron Sorkin's Lucille Ball
I’ve always had a closer connection to actresses than actors, and that is in large part due to Lucile Ball. In the era of broadcast...
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Scott Carter Cooper
- Dec 18, 2021
- 3 min
Morning Sun
I remember the exact moment I fell in love with Edie Falco. The Sopranos was at the zenith of the zeitgeist, but as is typical for me I...
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