The genesis was in February 2018. I met Daniella Wheelock, a young theatre director warm from a stint at the Milwaukee Rep's Emerging Professional Residency program, at a play reading of my own for Joyland. At the time she was telling tales of assisting on a Steppenwolf production of You Got Older and musing about a new idea she was forming to keep young artists talking to each other and making connections. Wheelock entitled her idea 'The Playground,' a name that would eventu

Train to Buson, a 2016 South Korean zombie thriller by director Zeon Sang-ho, was unfamiliar to me as many of the titles my guy friend John Denny brings to my sap headed attention. At first mention of its contents, I was disinterested. I am not much of an Evil Dead fan nor do I spend my nights bingeing Netflix episodes of The Walking Dead. But, John insisted further that this movie was being pegged in the States as one of the scariest of the year, and thought hooked me. In th