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Playwrights’ Center Core Writer 2024-2027

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).

Tomorrow Game Published by Samuel French!

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!

Wow! Art!

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?

Now Streaming: Abruptly, Austen

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:

Houston: That’s a Wrap

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Thanks to everyone over at Mildred’s Umbrella for a wonderful reading and post-show discussion!

The entire Consenting Bodies series was rad, and I was impressed with all the in-depth discussion of the themes brought up by these three awesome plays.

Here’s a candid of me looking Minnesota Fancy in my favorite plaid shirt at the talkback:

That’s me on the far left! With the wonderful director and festival coordinator Bree Bridger, Dano Colon (Bryan), Callina Anderson (Monica), and mediating the talkback, Danielle Bunch who directed THE MORNING AFTER by Erica Saleh, and played Bree in BULLY by Amina Henry.

And here’s a pic of the second most-important thing I did while back in Texas:

Nobody makes a Julep like they do in the south, and nobody makes a cocktail like they do at Anvil Bar & Refuge!

Consenting Bodies a “Must Do”

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Houstonia Magazine published this great feature of the Consenting Bodies Readings. The article includes some fantastic quotes from Bree Bridger, who is curating the festival, as well as directing my play, KRAV MAGA!

Equally excitingly, they’ve included the reading series as one of their weekly “Five Things You Must Do This Weekend” in Houston!

I am so very excited about this reading, and can’t wait to see all my Houston buds this weekend!