Michael C. O'Day.
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Michael C. O'Day.
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Actor, playwright, arts administrator, general nuisance.

Website: https://michael-c-oday.com/
NPX profile: https://newplayexchange.org/users/29139/michael-c-oday
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Hey, I love pop scifi, crass commercialism, and shameless media plugs as much as anybody - but why the f%*k was there a Demogorgon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?
#MacysThanksgivingParade #ItsADemogorgonDammit
November 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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New blog post is up!

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Up To Date in Kansas City - Michael C. O'Day
A few weeks ago now, I was fortunate enough to have my work featured at the Midwest Dramatist Conference, and make my first trip to Kansas City.  (If you weren’t able to travel out to Kansas City your...
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November 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Haven't forgotten you guys! New blog post is up.

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Halloween Night at the Movies - Michael C. O'Day
Halloween fell upon a Friday this year, Constant Reader, and so, as I write this Sunday night, New York City is staggering towards the end of a three-day weekend of phantasms and debauchery.  I’ve bee...
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November 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Apparently it's a moot point (temporarily) as of tomorrow night (yay!), but anyway...new blog post is up! Next one of these will be sometime mid October.

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What I Have the Bandwidth For Right Now - Michael C. O'Day
I was wracking my brain about how to address this week’s latest atrocities, the weaponization of the FCC to shut down Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night program on ABC for criticizing the current administratio...
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September 22, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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In Which I Discover How to Add Umlauts to Posts - Michael C. O'Day
I’ve been a bookworm since childhood, and I’m an academic by training.  So research is always a critical part of the process for whatever creative project I’m working on – and indeed, my love of that ...
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September 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Back to the Park - Michael C. O'Day
It has been two years, since it was shuttered last year for renovations, but the Delacorte Theater in Central Park is open once again, and a new production of Twelfth Night has opened as part of the P...
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August 25, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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In Which I Celebrate What I Can While I Can - Michael C. O'Day
For the past month and a half or so, I’ve been wrestling with a particularly recalcitrant rough draft.  It’s a two hour (I hope), four-act chonker roughly modeled after Chekhov (as transplanted to Gre...
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August 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Take THAT, you stupid rough draft, do you hear me? That's what you get! THAT'S WHAT YOU GET!
#NoContextForYou
#ButImIWriterSoYouCanProbablyGuess
August 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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It's not much of a blog post, but it's up!

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A Disjointed Blog Post For Disjointed Times - Michael C. O'Day
It’s been another two weeks of chaos and heartbreak the world over – but a period of time in which, perhaps paradoxically, the power of the arts has been reaffirmed.  The Late Show With Stephen Colber...
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July 28, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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YOYOs 2 - Return of the Signal Boost - Michael C. O'Day
Back in November, I blatantly avoided writing a blog post during a period when I was frantically trying to finish drafting a project by signal boosting a film project done by some friends of mine.  Th...
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July 14, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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New blog post is up!

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Public Service Announcement - Michael C. O'Day
There’s a number of hard lessons you’ll need to learn if you’re serious about being a playwright, or actor, or any other creative artist, primarily dealing with the inevitability of rejection.  One of...
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June 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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All Over the Map - Michael C. O'Day
It seems like we only just started (and indeed, I only posted a news item about it last week), but the run of Naya James’ 60/40 is now concluded.  It was a terrific experience, working on a scarily re...
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June 16, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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This is a show I'm in, and tonight's opening night! #OrMaybeOpeningAfterDinnerTheatricalExperience #630ShowTime

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60/40 - New York Theater Festival
* by Naya James Sonnad * * * * MONDAY June 9, 2025 @ 6:30 PM WEDNESDAY June 11, 2025 @ 9:00 PM SATURDAY June 14, 2025 @ 6:45 PM * * * Blurb 60/40 is a 7-day race to save humanity, told in 7 scenes abo...
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June 9, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Broken Clocks, Etc. - Michael C. O'Day
It’s been a busy few weeks, Constant Reader.  I’m in rehearsals for a new show, and shortly about to start teching.  I’ve been fortunate enough to collect a few lovely NPX recommendations.  All of the...
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June 3, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Smoke Gets In My Eyes - Michael C. O'Day
I had it settled, more or less.  Barring the complete destruction of everything (which is entirely possible these days – thanks a LOT, resurgent fascism), my creative projects for the foreseeable futu...
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May 19, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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If you're following NYC actors on this app, you've probably seen dozens of these already. Here's mine - new blog post is up.

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Well, Here We Go - Michael C. O'Day
I took a trip on Saturday out to New Jersey, to the private residence of a friend of my classics reading series, to have a private soiree complete with readings.  (My oh so glamorous life, Constant Re...
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May 5, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Out of Order - Michael C. O'Day
Well, we still seem hell-bent on rushing headlong into fascism and dystopia, economic and environmental calamities appear to be right around the corner, and (most galling of all, perhaps) the various ...
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April 21, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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April 7, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Sorry it's been a while, but I didn't forget about you all! New blog post is up:

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I'm Back, Baby! - Michael C. O'Day
At some point during the pandemic, Reproductions Studios in New York closed its doors.  It was the go-to location for actors needing mass duplication of their headshots, a spacious office off of Bryan...
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March 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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World of Pure Imagination - Michael C. O'Day
It’s been a month since I had a developmental reading of my play Mycorrhizae, through the auspices of Naked Angels’ First Mondays program, and I’ve had a lot to think about since then.  That’s what th...
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March 3, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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No blog post this week - instead, just wanted to signal boost this post from Primary Stages. #WeveGotOurMarchingOrdersPeople

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We will not comply — Primary Stages
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February 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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This was supposed to be my Presidents' Day blog post but it didn't go live until today for some reason - but here you go anyway!

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Yes It's Terrifying But I'm Going To Make an Extended Joke About It All Here Anyway. (With Random Facts) - Michael C. O'Day
Well, it’s Presidents’ Day, 2025 – the first such holiday on which the duties of the President of the United States now include Chairperson of the Kennedy Center Board. Yes, as you’re probably aware (...
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February 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Solitude Sitting (In the Back Row) - Michael C. O'Day
Last week, I was fortunate enough to have a debut public reading of a brand new full-length play of mine, Mycorrhizae.  It was part of Naked Angels’ First Mondays series, which presents scripts which ...
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February 11, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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As a reminder - my new play MYCORRHIZAE is receiving a First Mondays reading tomorrow, which is free for one and all! It's a rousing story of wilderness survival - which may or may not include ghosts, or monsters, or small rodents, or ukuleles...
February 2, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Hey NYC friends - there's a free First Mondays reading of my new play this Monday February 3!
January 31, 2025 at 5:20 PM