Promoting your work and yourself!

I found this recent blog rant VERY interesting.  It's an NYU professor's assessment of possible reasons why his male students are getting ahead more than his equally talented and hard-working female students.

You can tell this subject is a bit of a lightning rod by looking at the comments.  The hundreds of comments.  Some of them angry, some of them offensive, some of them offended.  You may be offended yourself already, just thinking about what he *might* have said.

I think he has a good point -- that promoting yourself, and being brave enough to try things when you know you will fail at least some of the time (fail badly and fail publicly) is required for getting ahead.

His article reminded me, actually, of that odd little book called "The Seven Habits of Highly Successful People."  It's not my usual sort of reading -- but I did read it, ten or twelve years ago, and I was glad I did.  It framed the world for me in a different way than I'd seen the world before.  Now, I don't wear that pair of glasses all the time.  I don't need to.  But it's helpful to have them in my drawer, at those moments when I'm trying to figure out what I can do to get where I want to get.

Coming up next: HEADS in Denver!

HEADS, my four-character hostage drama, set during the early days of the Iraq War, is being produced by And Toto Too Theater Company in Denver, Colorado. I'm flying in next week to attend opening night, and do a talk-back after the second performance. Looking forward to visiting Denver for the first time!

Check out the promotional video for the production on YouTube!


HEADS
written by EM LEWIS
directed by Susan Lyles

Featuring: Sam Gilstrap, Paige L. Larson, Lorenzo Sarinana and Wade P. Wood

September 30 – October 29, 2009
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 7:30

The Regional Premiere of the Francesca Primus Prize-winning play for 2008. HEADS is the story of a British Embassy worker, an American engineer, a network journalist and a freelance photographer who are being held captive in Iraq; as death draws close, each hostage must decide what he’ll do to survive.











And Toto too Theatre Company is a nonprofit, 501 (c) (3) theatre company whose focus is on promoting women in the arts, with an emphasis on producing plays by women playwrights.

Performances will be held at the Denver Victorian Playhouse at 4201 Hooker Street. The Victorian is an intimate 75-seat space in the basement of an old Victorian home with a rich history of theatrical productions.

To order tickets by phone, call 212-352-3101 or 1-866-811-4111. To order online, visit www.TheaterMania.com.