I looked back at old emails. When the Village Theatre in Washington State did their workshop in 2008, and had an option on a production, they had originally wanted that production (if they'd done one) to be a West Coast premiere. But they never went on to do that production. Maybe that was part of the decision?
The talks with the L.A. festival were in 2009, which I remember only because the talks were at exactly the same time as B.D. had done Skip's show HERRINGBONE in La Jolla, and the Festival had tried to make some arrangement to associate HERRINGBONE and STARFIGHTER with the Festival.