I have just returned from my incredible Albee Foundation Fellowship in Montauk, NY. It was more than I ever could have imagined as both a respite from the daily grind (Hello, three jobs! Oh, how I have not missed you.), and as a really wonderful setting to create. I revised 1 play, wrote two full-length plays, and began sketching out an idea for another full length play and also a TV pilot (hey, a girl can dream!)

The whole time I was surrounded by incredible artists, beautiful beaches, delicious (and maddeningly expensive) farmers’ market fare, and a wonderful caretaker, Rex, who recommended all the best places and helped me find my dog when she temporarily got lost.

I finished up my trip with a 48-hour whirlwind in NYC, where I saw 3 plays and met with 6 awesome & talented theater professionals, all of whom were encouraging and insightful about the industry.

Overall, it could not have been a better experience, and I have every intention of applying again in the future. Obviously fellowships agree with me.

My furbaby, Bechdel, in my room at the Barn. Literally a Room of One’s Own. You know, assuming the “one” refers in this instance to my dog.

The Mid-America Theatre Conference is being held in Houston this year and I am honored to be included as a playwright in their playwright’s symposium. There will be a development process and staged reading for my play Changeling Play, about two sisters-one of whom believes she is a changeling-who don’t know where they fit in to their community. I will also be attending the full conference, so if you’re a theater artist in the area, come say hi!

I am thrilled and delighted to be the literary assistant at the Alley Theatre, where I have been fortunate to assist the brilliant Liz Frankel and Skyler Gray in putting together the Alley All New Festival. This will be the second year of the festival and I am thrilled about our lineup of plays. Performances of all the developmental work is free and open to the public, and a weekend pass (which includes meals, exclusive parties, and access to otherwise sold-out shows) is only $210. If you’re around Houston this is a fantastic chance to see wonderful plays and meet amazing artists! I’ll be around the Alley nonstop in the weeks ahead, so if you do come by, say hello!

Excited that my short comedy Chair Play will be included in Playhouse 1960s Short Play Festival 2016 this February–so happy birthday to me!

I am producing and writing for this fantastic festival! It will take place in March 2017 and feature local female playwrights! Dates and details forthcoming.

Here is a blurb:

“The Future Is Female Festival invites individuals and theatre companies across the US to host productions or readings this March (2017) of ten-minute plays written by women of all backgrounds on the subject “the future is female,” and what that looks like and/or means to them.

All of the readings and shows will be performed under one unifying umbrella; by joining together in a shared festival happening simultaneously in numerous places, our voices will be louder. Instead of spending the month celebrating women’s history, we’ll celebrate women’s futures.

The Future Is Female Festival is a creation of playwright Mya Kagan.”

I am very excited to be  involved with the Boiling Point Players, a lady-focused group right here in Houston that is putting on the fun New Day Cabaret this January 19. I wrote a play, titled Working Lunch, specifically for the cabaret to the theme “A New Day” and including a pre-selected tableau. There will be improv, two other plays, and music! Come hang out with me and see my play!

My short play WHAT THE LADIES DO, last seen in Two! Short! Plays! here in Houston, is being produced in New Orleans by the fantastic Blunt Objects Theatre. Blunt Objects included LADIES in their Bachannalia 2016 reading series & are now going on to fully produce it. I am so excited to see what they do!*

*update–check out the photos in my gallery!

My short play “Sisterhood” will premiere at Mildred’s Umbrella’s Museum of Dysfunction VIII Festival this coming June 23-July 2. It will be directed by the talented Bree Bridger, and accompanied by 19 other fantastic short plays!

My short play “What the Ladies Do” was included in an evening of readings of short plays presented by Blunt Objects Theatre at Mag’s Bar in New Orleans this March.

Plays were fit to the theme “This is not the Future I was promised,” and all 4 plays included in the festival were unique, hilarious, touching and utterly delightful. I drove down from Houston to see the  show and also had the wonderful opportunity to meet fellow playwright Lia Romeo.

After the show I ate a brilliantly giant po-boy in the company of the three actresses that performed in my piece. They were and are talented and amazing, and I learned so much about the piece from watching them perform it, and from talking to them afterward about the ways that the connected with the characters, the humor, and the violence of the play.

Fantastic, brilliant, wonderful experience, & I cannot speak highly enough of the work that Blunt Objects is doing.

Check it out!

The NPX is a great tool for potential producers and theatre companies to discover the work of new-to-them playwrights! There are tons of playwrights on the Exchange just waiting for you to find and love them.