Non-Fiction
Occasional essays were published on multiple websites, most collected in Everyone Else is Wrong (And You Know It).
"Acting in Waiting for Godot"
"An Actor's Journal"
“An Afternoon at the Movies: Portrait of the Artist as Emerging Hermit”
"Anatomies of Influence"
"The Burning Monk and Me"
"The Bluffs at Lost Creek: A Memory of Dad"
“David Mamet and the State of American Theatre with a Brief History of our Major Playwrights”
"Fallen Starman: A Reminiscence of Drama School"
“Favorites”
“Introduction to Love Suicide“
"Jimmy Buffett (1946-2023): A Legend"
"The Juveniia: First Words"
"Meeting Craig Lucas"
”Me Too and Me”
"My Boy Gabriel"
"My Favorite Alice in Wonderland"
"Native Children"
"New York, New York"
"Not I but Also: Notes from an Age of Madness"
"One More Time Again with James Taylor"
"On Joy, Luck, and the Color Purple"
"On (Not) Being Influenced by Tennessee Williams"
"On Profanity"
"On Wagner" and Disconnect"​
"Our Furry Friends: A Goodbye to Macey"
"A Quarter Century at the Table Writing Plays"
"Reckoning with Jim Carrey (Finally)"
"Remembering Spalding Gray"
"The Room: A 20th Anniversary Celebration"
"Sondheim on Film"
"Soundbite Obits"
"The Old gods are Dead: Farewell to the Movies"
"A Writer Looks at Forty"
“Writing for Others”
“Writing Night Shade“
"He doesn't write about hot-button topics you see in the headlines each day. He writes about things that aren't going away-- love, God, death and taxes."
Rick Watson
Daily Mountain Eagle