Good Jeff. Bad Jeff.

This is a promotional/marketing short film I shot with a couple friends to introduce my latest full-length play, HOW TO KILL A BOY. I plan to go viral (YouYube, my blogs, Facebook) in August and see what happens. Maybe no one will watch it. Or maybe everyone will watch it and it'll become an Internet hit.

The real motivation behind creating this (it was free) was that I wanted a carrot to dangle in front of artistic directors and literary managers of theaters in the hopes that they be persuaded into allowing me to send them the full play instead of a 20-page sample OR that theaters might forego their rule of taking submissions only from literary agents.

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"the Golgotha Crux." revisted.

This was my first full-length play. Worked on it for 4 years. A theater in Phoenix recently requested to read four of my plays for possible production: "Stan's Addiction", "Pass the Salt, Please.", "Billy Balfoor Wants An Apology" and this one.

I sent the first three plays to the theater but I told them that in good conscience I could not send "the Golgotha crux." as I hadn't looked at it since 2006. You can imagine my surprise when I opened the most recent draft and noticed one major change I had made that I had forgotten. And what a great change it was.

"crux." had its premiere stage reading at the Urban Theater Project of Iowa in May 2004. It was a finalist in the Dayton Playhouse Futurefest 2004, a semi-finalist in the Wagner College 2004 Stanley Drama Award competition in New York and it received an honorable mention in the 73rd Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition/2004.

My friends, Marisa Petroro and Mark Totty, performed as the leads in this play's first reading at my former guesthouse in Bel Air.

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"Stonefly and Trout".

That's the name of one of my newest play. Haven't started it yet. Have no idea what it's going to be about or if it's a full-length or one-act...just know that's gonna be the name of it.

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$1.15 and $1.15 billion are two very different figures.

Totally unexpected! This check for $1.15 from my publisher - my cut from two copies of my play "Stan's Addiction". Man, I love our free-market economy! WHOOOOOO! (In case anyone from Heuer is reading my blog, you know I kid).

The $1.15 billion is the cost for the new Dallas Cowboy football stadium.

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Jacaranda's in Culver City, Cali.

LAIRD

It was May - last year – in the evening.
(Beat)
I should’ve paid closer attention to the weather. The jacaranda’s are typically in full bloom that time of year, permeating the air with...well, with the fragrance of jacaranda. But not that day. That day there was an unfamiliar odor in the air – an unpleasant one at that. I’m certain it was an omen of things to come.

- excerpt from Jeffrey James Ircink's newest play...which he will announce in August 2009

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Play-doh man.

The subject of my short film Rick and I shot today. That's all I can say right now. More information to follow. "Imagination takes place"!

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Latest full-length play to be revealed this summer!

My latest full-length play is a dark dramedy and the name of it - along with a synopsis - will be revealed for the first time on PASSION = TRUTH later this summer, along with a promotional short film that will be shot before the end of June. Stay tuned.

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