Ladies a gentleman

gentleman, thanks for coming to the UCB Franklin Theater.

Please welcome to the stage Playwrights Horizons Theater. Voices here. I'm really honored that so many people are

sorry I'm a little winded are able to participate in this reading tonight.

There's a few people that I do need to thank.

I'm honored to be selected by UCB Theater's LA Playwrights Horizons program.

Over 8,000 established playwrights submit their work each year.

And UCB and PhD's panel of judges select only one winner.

And I was that winner.

So I feel incredibly fortunate.

This program's connected me with funding

from a variety of grants.

I have to mention the PBS True American Visionary Grant.

The KQED singularly Brilliant Mind Grant Program.

The Scientology Celebrity Center, Celebrity Advancement Grant, and the icing on the cake was I actually got a Yale School of Drama Honorary Degree. Just based off my submission, and it's truly humbling.

And you know, without these grants and funds,

it would have been incredibly hard to write this play.

So I'm very excited to share with you tonight a piece of this play which is a drama entitled,

Rain's coming in. It's about a family in.

It's about a family in a small town, but it's about all of us.

It's about dreams, goals, love, resentment, adulation, bitterness, jealousy, addiction, boredom, intimacy, and of course

Thanksgiving. I hope you'll see yourself in this play and that it will hold a mirror up to your own faults and that's any artist's humble hope, I think.

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