The Dramatic Possibilities of the NFL
Of late, I’ve been toying with the idea of non-narrative drama. I’m sure that in some MFA program somewhere the term has been defined,...
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Scott Carter Cooper
- Sep 3
- 4 min
Meretricious
Meretricious 1 ) of decorations, literary style, etc.) showily but falsely attractive 2) of or befitting a prostitute. -- Oxford...
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Scott Carter Cooper
- Jul 22
- 5 min
Good Times
Gay men of my generation are veterans of watching people die. AIDS. COVID. Scattered throughout all of that are the random cases of...
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Scott Carter Cooper
- Jun 25
- 6 min
Entering the Hospice Industrial Complex
“The time has come to discuss hospice.” That phone call catapulted me into the middle of a raging turf war. No matter how bucolic a small...
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Scott Carter Cooper
- May 31
- 4 min
Fifty Playwrights + 1
Every year I have a personal goal to finish a full-length piece by Labor Day. And by “finish,” I mean to have a play ready for a...
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Scott Carter Cooper
- Apr 25
- 4 min
Elia Kazan and Tennesee Williams Gave Me Life
For the past few years, I’ve been interested in the artists of the mid-twentieth century. They are the bedrock of today’s American...
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Scott Carter Cooper
- Mar 26
- 2 min
Gun Shots
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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