Excited to share that my passion project BABY, a horror feature about abortion access and the evils of trusting your charming nerd boyfriend, was recently selected as a semifinalist for the Moonshot Initiative Feature Accelerator! Got to meet the other semifinalists recently and they’re all so cool. I’m so pumped to be on this list:
I’m beyond stoked to share that my post-Roe-v-Wade body horror script BABY has been selected to this year’s Dead List.
I’m passionate about telling this story and I am so excited to share it with all of you! You can see the profile for my script here, which is also where you can read a 1-page sample and request the full script. I can’t wait for you to check it out!
It’s genuinely a dream come true for me to share that I’ve been selected as a 2024-2027 Playwrights’ Center Core Writer. I grew up in Minnesota, and so much of my work is inspired by my experiences as the granddaughter of a bunch of German Lutheran farmers playing pretend in the middle of a corn field. I’ve wanted to work with the Playwrights’ Center for a long time, and I’m SO excited to develop my work back in the place that (despite moving two or three states since then) still feels like home in so many ways.
Here’s a little selection from the announcement:
If you want to read the script sent them, it’s available for purchase through Samuel French (link here).
Beyond pumped to be working with the inaugural Athena Film Festival Abortion Pipeline Project to develop my horror feature BABY! This screenplay is a shriek of existential rage and I’m so honored and thrilled that Athena saw the passion and wanted to help this baby grow to be the most glorious murder extravaganza it can be!
I’m being featured along with five other incredible writers telling kickass abortion stories, and we’re all receiving a grant and developmental support for our scripts! I just wrapped up an incredible 2-day lab with a number of abortion storytellers and subject matter experts, and I cannot WAIT to jump back into rewrites on this script.
More soon!
This play is one of my proudest accomplishments, and now it’s available to purchase on the internet! Read it, teach it, produce it, rip out the pages and make cool wallpaper with it — whatever floats your boat!
TOMORROW GAME is a 2-hander for ladies or nonbinary folks set way, way after the end of the world. Here’s a blurb:
Bell and Roe live in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. They each live in isolation, until they happen to meet. Bell shows Roe a game: take off your mask and see if you can breathe. Try this vegetable, and see if you wake up. Read a poem. Do more than just not-die. Bell may also have ulterior motives. Roe’s shelter is stocked with years worth of canned goods and other priceless resources. Is their friendship true – or just another game?
Exceptional puppeteer, performer, and writer D.T. Burns and I have worked so hard to create this weird little series adapting Jane Austen’s oeuvre into teeny tiny puppet shows!
We started last October at the Soaring Gardens Artist Retreat and have been working remotely for nearly a year post-retreat to finalize, edit, and release these babies!
ABRUPTLY, AUSTEN uses 7 different puppetry styles, and each video is around 5 minutes long and gives an accurate (in essentials), comedic take on Austen’s beloved books.
The videos are coming out on Tuesdays from now until Halloween. We’d love you to watch, subscribe, and share with your Austenite friends!
The sizzle reel is up now, and you can also watch it here:
I’m so pumped to head to Virginia in August to visit James Madison University and workshop my play HOW TO LIVE FOREVER with the students there! I have already had several affirming and artistically exciting conversations with the team at JMU, and I just cannot wait to bring this play to life.
HOW TO LIVE FOREVER was my thesis play at Carnegie Mellon in 2019, way back when it was a dinky little 60-minute 3-person excursion into what’s possible with time travel and gender. With the generous developmental support of director Nora Gair, it’s morphed into a 2-act epic for double the actors.
I’ve been dreaming of tackling this new version of the play for a long time, and I am giddy with excitement to get started!
Just got back from the wonderful Soaring Gardens Artist Retreat, where I developed my SEVEN adaptations of Jane Austen’s ouvre for puppets with my good friend and collaborator D.T. Burns. We not only developed the scripts, but also built over 80 puppets and shot videos of the plays, which will be forthcoming on your internet machine to watch in 2023!
Look what we did!
For Austen-themed jokes, follow us on Twitter!
For more info on the project, check out our silly little website!
I simply cannot wait to see my 5-minute opera, THE BEGINNING OF EVERYTHING: A LOVE STORY, composed by Joshua Brown, presented in animated form with a live singer at this year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival.
New Opera West will feature THE BEGINNING OF EVERYTHING along with two other video projects at a two-night event at the Hudson Guild Theatre. Tickets are free, drinks are complimentary, and both evenings will be followed by a brief talkback with the artists (including me) – so come hang out!
This piece was animated by the talented Ankita Panda, and will have live vocals by Maria Lindsey. New Opera West will also release the animation in a digital format, with vocals by Colleen McGovern.
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