ROMERO sets more brains on fire than Tom Cruise

About Me

I took my professional bio off of this "About Me" section, because I felt like I was hiding behind it. And right now I'm really interested in just being me and accepting whatever it is that I am and however it lands on the world.
I'm a playwright/theatre artist, so if you're interested in that kinda thang, I'll be happy to talk all day with you about the kind of work I'm doing and what blows my mind. And then you tell me what blows yours. And maybe this time, you can go first. And I'll just listen. And then, over a beer, we can find the profound places of intersection in all of that. And it doesn't even have to be profound. It just has to taste like a beer.
And road trips. I fucking love road trips. Except I don't like driving through Houston (but I'll do it for the right person).
And I don't like driving through grammar. People who build prisons out of grammar should be locked in a room with Snoop Dizzle.
And breathing. I'm learning how to breathe more. And the oxygenated blood makes my body tingle.

My Interests

Eating and/or drinking with people.

I'd like to meet:

Edward Albee, Paul Baker, Steve Bartman, Samuel Beckett, Bertolt Brecht, Drew Brees, Jimmy Carter, Charlie Chaplin, the Dalai Lama, Lou Gehrig, Ghandi, Michel Gondry, Mark Grace, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Lorraine Hansberry, Langston Hughes, Mike Judge, Andy Kaufman, Charlie Kaufman, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Richard Linklater, Malcolm X, Arthur Miller, Marilyn Monroe, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Matt Murton, Sean Payton, Pablo Picasso, Harold Pinter, Tim Robbins, Tom Robbins, Sam Shepard, Regina Spektor, John Steinbeck, Tom Waits, Chris Walken, Naomi Wallace, Gillian Welch, Harriet Wheeler, Wesley Willis, Hack Wilson, Vince Young, and Your Mom

Music:

I like stuff like this:

Movies:

Adaptation; Amores Perros; Baraka; Being John Malkovich; Big Time; Bin-jip; Broken Flowers; Capturing the Friedmans; The Devil and Daniel Johnston; The Devil in Miss Jones; Donnie Darko; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Field of Dreams; Fish Fuckers; Flight from Death; Hair; Der Himmel uber Berlin; The Incredibles; An Inconvenient Truth; Leaving; Little Miss Sunshine; Lost in Translation; Mad Cowgirl; Napolean Dynamite; Office Space; Opening Night; The Prestige; Quiz Show; The Science of Sleep; South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut; Stranger Than Fiction; Super Size Me; Taxi Driver

Television:

College Football on other people's TVs. And I happened upon "Flight of the Conchords" recently and those dudes are SLICK.

Books:

Crime and Punishment, Everything is Illuminated, The Four Agreements, The Grapes of Wrath, The Holographic Universe, Jitterbug Perfume, Moneyball, Native Son, The Plague, Roots of the Blues, The Stranger

Heroes:

People who bust out the truth all the time.

My Blog

MARCO POLO will happen somewhere at Actor’s Theatre of Louisville

Dear Friends,Continuing my wonderful relationship with Specific Gravity Ensemble, we will be presenting my experiment, Marco Polo, at Actor's Theatre of Louisville as part of their late-night programm...
Posted by ROMERO sets more brains on fire than Tom Cruise on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 03:38:00 PST

RADIO GHOSTS

Dear Friends,I am STOKED to tell you that my collaborators and I WILL be presenting our project, RADIO GHOSTS in New York City and in Philadelphia. We will be showi...
Posted by ROMERO sets more brains on fire than Tom Cruise on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:11:00 PST

TWO BUBBLES Selected for Publication

Dear Friends,My ten-minute play, TWO BUBBLES, has recently been selected for publication by Playscripts, Inc.Originally written overnight (from midnight until 6 am) as part of Audacity Productions and...
Posted by ROMERO sets more brains on fire than Tom Cruise on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:35:00 PST

Under My Coat is the Truth-- in an elevator

Dear Friends,The year 2008 begins with some wonderful news. My short play, Under My Coat is the Truth, has been selected for production by Specific Gravity Ensemble as part of Elevator Plays 2: ...
Posted by ROMERO sets more brains on fire than Tom Cruise on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 08:55:00 PST

THREE CARD WEASEL in a 4’ x 4’ box

Dear Friends,As part of Philadelphia Dramatists' Center's project, "Primary Stages", my short play Three Card Weasel will be performed, script-in-hand, inside of a 4 foot by 4 foot stage. This w...
Posted by ROMERO sets more brains on fire than Tom Cruise on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:29:00 PST

SHARPEN MY DICK To Open in Delaware

Dear Friends,My ten-minute play, Sharpen My Dick, begins its second voyage into production-- this time with Wilmington, Delaware's City Theater Company.Having opened originally off-off Broadway in Wor...
Posted by ROMERO sets more brains on fire than Tom Cruise on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 03:25:00 PST

LULLABY Opens in Louisville

Dear Friends,On September 21st, 2007, The Most Beautiful Lullaby You've Ever Heard begins its second journey into full production-- this time with Louisville-based theater company, Specific Gravity En...
Posted by ROMERO sets more brains on fire than Tom Cruise on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:51:00 PST

The First Journey of THE MILKY WAY CABARET

Dear Friends,The Cardboard Box's production of The Milky Way Cabaret has just closed, completing the first leg of a highly rewarding, highly instructive, highly incredible journey.My first commi...
Posted by ROMERO sets more brains on fire than Tom Cruise on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:40:00 PST

THE MILKY WAY CABARET is open for business!

The full-length commission I've been working on, The Milky Way Cabaret, opens tonight, Thursday, September 6th, 2007.This has been a highly instructive and rewarding process-- the play is inspired by ...
Posted by ROMERO sets more brains on fire than Tom Cruise on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:55:00 PST

Production Dates Announced for LULLABY

Specific Gravity Ensemble has announced the production dates for my play, The Most Beautiful Lullaby You've Heard.This scrappy, big-hearted Louisville theatre ensemble is doing great work on the play,...
Posted by ROMERO sets more brains on fire than Tom Cruise on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 01:17:00 PST