I have had the distinct experience – I was going to write “distinct pleasure,” but it’s pleasure mixed with a bit of squirm-inducing – of having two articles about me over the years in my college’s glossy, quarterly magazine. The first was shortly after I graduated in 1993, and it was a reprint of an article from the Chronicle of Higher Education. The second came about recently, when a writer named Sneha Abraham came to see “Sleeping Beauty Wakes” and then proceeded to interview me & Val in a cafe in LA, and then me alone, off and on for a month, via email. Here’s the first paragraph:
Songs are stories in their own right, says Milburn. But of late they’re singing—and signing—fairy tales. In May, Milburn, Vigoda and their writing partner, Tony Award-winner Rachel Sheinkin, wrapped up Sleeping Beauty Wakes, their musical twist on the Grimms’ tale—featuring performance by both deaf and hearing actors for both deaf and hearing audiences. In the play, a lovely but impetuous adolescent collides with her father’s protective heart and a modern-day sleep clinic full of insomniacs.
Read the full article here.