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I can’t wait to see what else Celine Song has up her sleeves. Celine sent us a delightfully twisted monologue called THE FEAST, which not only scored super high with her peers, but with basically everyone else who has read it or heard it along the way. I don’t want to give too much away, but I will say that the play might leave you a little… hungry. THE FEAST stars Elaine Woods and is directed by Mary Timpany.
LBDI: Why did you decide to submit your work to this year’s ONSTAGE Project?
CELINE: Tiffany told us about the opportunity at Great Plains Theatre Conference.
LBDI: Describe your writing space…
CELINE: I don’t have any specific writing space, because I don’t like to get superstitious about where I write. But it’s just on my laptop, with a thousand other tabs open on Safari, usually with a TV show running in the background next to my document and my sister playing video games next to me on the couch.
LBDI: If you could be any literary character, who would you be?
CELINE: I want a happy and peaceful ending for myself, so I think I want to be Larry Darrell in Somerset Maugham’s The Razor’s Edge.
LBDI: What was your first play titled/about?
CELINE: A one act called Sound Utterly Serious! It was a very serious play about technology and mortality, where I used the found text from one of the first iPhone tutorials ever made by Apple.
LBDI: Which theatricians do you admire and what about them inspires you?
CELINE: Bertolt Brecht’s epicness, Kuro Tanino’s sick sense of humor, Caryl Churchill’s discipline, Wallace Shawn’s militant sense of purpose, Chuck Mee’s joie de vivre.
LBDI: Why do you write for theatre? (as opposed to other written mediums…)
CELINE: Honestly, because I love doing it.
LBDI: What message would you put in a fortune cookie?
CELINE: “Capitalism Works For Me! True/False”
LBDI: Morning, Noon, or Night?
CELINE: Night
More About Celine:
Celine Song is a 2014-2015 Ars Nova Play Group member, a 2012 Edward F. Albee Foundation Writing Fellow, a 2014 Great Plains Theatre Conference Playlab Playwright, a 2014 resident at Yaddo, and a IATI Theater’s 2015 Cimientos Playwright. Her plays include The Feast, Family, and Tom & Eliza. MFA: Columbia
