Notes, Announcements and Comments from Scene4 Writers and Artists

In April of 2025 I co-founded a literary journal called Washington Unbound. https://www.washington-unbound.com/ We just celebrated our first anniversary. We publish new content every Tuesday focusing on DC-areas writers and events. We get hundreds of views every week and we’re still going strong.
Gregory Luce

Years back, Scene4 published the script of my musical play on the life and work of the great medieval French poet François Villon (with music by my brother, Lewis). I just posted our first YouTube in a series that will include most of the play's songs. Here's the link to "I am François" for Scene4 readers who have a few minutes to listen and possibly hit the like button and comment on it: 
https://youtu.be/IVVjQmdadjY
David Alpaugh

At the end of April I ran my 24th consecutive Boston Marathon in a time of 3:28:10, which easily requalifies me for next year's race.
Patrick Walsh

Onstage
My recital from Kandinsky’s poetry was invited to Ivan Sokolov’s “Word Moves” program in San Francisco.
Voice work
A 50-year voice & speech teacher, after a too-busy period: an inspiring new student!
Ongoing voice training and consultation for a forthcoming studio album spearheaded by longtime songwriter and record producer, Gary Grelecki of the seminal band, Blue Cheer.
Editing
For the 11th time, I edited the large annual catalogue for the experimental theatre festival in Wuzhen, China.
Lai’s legendary “Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land,” included in The Selected Plays of Stan Lai (3 vols.) for which I was Editor, was just named by the New York Times as one of twenty “Essential Works of Theater of the Last 100 Years.”
Lissa Tyler Renaud

I’ve officially released my latest collection,
The Screenwriter Died Before the Third Act (The Life on the Water Bottle Tour), now available on Amazon. Centering on the concept of the "Fic-Review," this sharp, pop-culture-infused collection blends creative fiction with deep artistic critique. Readers who followed these stories during their original publication in Scene4 Magazine can now experience the fully revised collection. Set largely in New York City, the narrative voice drifts between references to John Cassavetes, HBO’s Euphoria, independent filmmaking, museums, vanished characters, and the absurdities of screenwriting culture. 
Altenir Silva    

If it weren’t for Eugene O’Neill, American theatre would have been adrift in Europe and Hollywood would have been an early infection of the You Tube plague. He is the only American playwright to bear the Nobel Prize.
Danin Adler

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