Tag: Theatre

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:

How to Live Forever at Madison New Works Lab

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!

ABRUPTLY, AUSTEN at Soaring Gardens

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!

How to Live Forever at CMU

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Very excited to share that my graduate thesis play, How to Live Forever, will have a workshop production at City Theatre’s Hamburg Studio Theatre next week! The play is directed by the fantastic senior CMU director Nora Gair.

The event is free and open to the public, and tickets are first-come first-serve on the day of the performance. See the show:

Saturday, Nov. 16 – 4:00 PM

Monday, Nov. 18 – 630 PM

Tuesday, Nov. 19 – 9:00 PM

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!