Love These Ladies! Back @ The Road #luckyplaywright

I’m so glad to get another chance to play with director Laura Stribling and a bunch of fab actors in new reading of INTO THE GOBPILE through The Word @ The Road on October 14! It’s been terrific digging into this play, which has been supported by The Road Theatre…

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At Home with “Footprint”

Sometimes things just fall into place. I was very excited when EST/LA chose to support my my play Footprint through their Long Term Dramaturgy Project earlier this year… especially as it had just been named a 2019 O’Neill Finalist. Footprint is a uniquely LA story, and it was great to…

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Returning to the Road with “Into the Gobpile”

There are some plays… I’m so so so pleased to be exploring Into the Gobpile – which is (I think) a different sort of play for me – with the wonderfully talented artists at The Road Theatre Company. This is a play that’s sort of a (backwards?) love letter to…

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Yay & Yum! Love my NOT CAKE Collaborators…

What an incredible experience, working on my new play NOT CAKE in a truly collaborative environment! Gratitude galore to Chelsea Sutton and Lisa Dring for allowing me to be part of Rogue Artists Ensemble’s inaugural Rogue Lab. And for hooking me up with director Estela Garcia, who was the perfect…

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NOT CAKE in Rogue Artists Ensemble’s Rogue Lab

Super excited to have been working with a group of incredible artists since last September in the creation of my new play NOT CAKE! Being part of the inaugural Rogue Lab meant that I, alongside writers Lisa Dring, Eric Fagundes, John Guerra, Mildred Lewis & Chelsea Sutton, was challenged to…

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“Smiling Cat Candy Heart” – MOVING ON @ EST/LA

Such a terrific time working on this new 10-minute play with the fabulous artists at Ensemble Studio Theatre Los Angeles as part of the 2019 One Acts! Director June Carryl put together a kick-ass cast for “Smiling Cat Candy Heart” (Lauren Campedelli & Desiree Mee June, alternating; Christopher T. Wood;…

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FOOTPRINT @ The Road SPF!

I’m very excited that my new play FOOTPRINT, which I began to write early last year at the National Winter Playwrights Retreat and developed through Moving Arts MADlab (with more than a little help from the Playwrights Union!) will be part of The Road Theatre Company’s 9th Annual Summer Playwrights Festival! Working on this play has been a…

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Diving “Into the Gobpile”

I realize that, as I’m writing this, half of this year is over. Right. How did that happen? I feel like I’ve been crazier and busier than ever. Like it’s all coming out of nowhere and then I sit down and think about what’s been going on, and I say,…

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Tomorrow’s February

And if it’s February, it means I’m writing a new play. Ack! Yep, yep. I’m so grateful to Jennifer Haley & my fellow Playwrights Union playwrights for kicking off PU’s Annual Writing Challenge, wherein I and other members who are crazy enough write a play (or something that somewhat resembles…

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“Rebecca on the Bus” @ EST/LA Launchpad

How fantastic to get to play with some amazing artists on my little rape comedy, Rebecca on the Bus, included as part of a slate of one-acts to close Ensemble Studio Theatre LA‘s Launchpad2017, a festival of staged readings.   Working with director Shaina Rosenthal, and actors Anna Lamadrid, Denah Angel…

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