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[Script Highlight] The Last Toll-Taker: A Golden Gate Confessional by Jonathan Curiel

Editor’s note: Welcome to some scripts literary magazine’s new blog series titled Script Highlight, where we showcase short, or excerpts of, stage plays, screenplays, radio plays/audio dramas, Zoom plays, monologues, and more. Please know that all scripts published are for the reading public only, and that if you wish to use/produce a piece, you must contact the scriptwriter or their representation.

First up is the one-person play “The Last Toll-Taker: A Golden Gate Confessional” by Jonathan Curiel!

Jonathan Curiel is a burgeoning playwright in San Francisco. His journalism can be found at his website, https://jonathancuriel.com/

Content Warnings: mentions of suicide by jumping off the Golden Gate bridge, mentions of disease by line of work, descriptions of car crashes

Submissions for some scripts, both the publication and blog posts, are currently closed until fall 2022. Until then, explore what we like to publish in Issue 5: “What Now?”

July 22, 2022
Resources for Standing with the AAPI Community
We must all take the time to stand in solidarity with the Asian-American and Pacific Islander community in light of the recent shooting in Atlanta by a white supremacist targeting and murdering six Asian women and the ongoing rise in racism and anti-Asian violence across the United States. It is still sadly ongoing, and furthermore we should always be working in solidarity and dismantling systems of oppression and harm, especially those of us who are white. Here are some links for resources:
- Support the organization Red Canary Song and check out their resources page, including GoFundMes for each of the Atlanta victims’ families: https://www.redcanarysong.net/atlanta
- Bystander Intervention Training: https://www.ihollaback.org/bystanderintervention/
- https://anti-asianviolenceresources.carrd.co/
- https://stopaapihate.org/
- https://www.advancingjustice-atlanta.org/
- https://nymag.com/strategist/amp/article/where-to-donate-to-help-asian-communities-2021.html?fbclid=IwAR0GfTHvsJ4gqI9eoeBzjNeTaz2521CSrnvxc6Yp3W_ltF5gMZ2Dj0oQmmo
If anyone has anything else to add (resources or anything at all), please feel free to share with some scripts.
April 3, 2021
Black Lives Matter. Black Lives in Theatre Matter.

Theatre has not listened. some scripts also needs to take responsibility. We would like to take this moment to say #BlackLivesMatter and to continue creating change for our growing magazine that caters to an industry that has ignored the lived experiences of Black and Brown folx.

This video is a must-watch for the white folx who follow us or who have been contributors. Please watch. And please begin to take tangible action in our theatre and arts institutions. “You have a choice to not recognize it.”

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June 4, 2020