I am over the moon excited to have my play Circle Forward selected for the Gulfshore Playhouse New Works Festival this September. I’ve had the pleasure of working with this extraordinary LORT-D theater before, when they produced the world premiere of my play Miss Keller Has No Second Book in 2018.

With the talented folks they are assembling (including director Jeffrey Binder), I can’t wait to bring my play to the table. The week’s workshop will conclude with a reading that is open to the public on Saturday Sept 16, followed by a Q&A with the audience.

Synopsis of Circle Forward: Seventeen years after the loss of her young husband from cancer, Mia meets a teenager, Ethan, who believes he is the reincarnation of her late husband. When Ethan and his mom Lexi come to Mia's house for lunch, Mia must face her doubts, her past, and the whole truth.

More info about the festival here in the BroadwayWorld press release. For Gulfshore Playhouse tickets, click here.

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Big thanks to Allison Jones and Emily Buntyn, and the fabulous Greta Gerwig. Also, Ryan. :)

Please join me for the first reading of my new musical “The Sunny Survival Caravan!” on Sunday May 21 at 2:00 p.m. at Atwater Village Theatre 3269 Casitas Ave, in Los Angeles. Tickets are FREE but you’re encouraged to R.S.V.P. through THIS LINK. The reading is part of the “First Peek” Reading Series by the L.A.-based Playwrights Union.

SYNOPSIS of “The Sunny Survival Caravan!”:
Fifteen years after the collapse of civilization, a misfit traveling band of musicians perform their relentlessly cheerful nostalgia show as they travel from settlement to settlement, throughout a decimated not-so-united states, sometime in the post-apocalyptic, climate-ravaged, accordion-filled future.

Darla, Gabriela, Razz, Chester, and Banger have managed to tour what's left of the former United States for over a year – no small feat in these difficult times. Their optimistic message and varied song stylings are wildly popular, and they’ve even rigged up an old stationary bicycle to an old battery to have some amplification and lighting, thanks to some strings of old patio and Christmas lights. When the newest and youngest member of the band, Evvie, joins them, she challenges their determination to perform only the most upbeat odes to nostalgia.

By the show’s hopeful end, we see that the healing power of music can lift us up by gathering us all together, even during the darkest times.

Cast to be announced soon. Please come out and support new theater!

I’m so proud that a monologue from one of my new plays was selected to be a part of the Smith & Kraus 2022 Anthology of Best Women’s Stage Monologues. The selection is from my new play “Circle Forward” which was presented at the Antaeus Theatre “Lab Results” New Play Reading Series last April. Available for sale at bookstores or Amazon here.

My dear friend (and former acting teacher from NYC) Brian Delate has written a compelling one-man show which I have the honor of directing.

“Guardian Angels” is being presented as part of the Whitefire Theater’s Solofest 2023, in North Hollywood (13500 Ventura Blvd).

In 1973, after returning home from the Vietnam war, a single event changed the course of Brian's life.

Please join us on Sunday January 29 at 7:00 p.m. for the premiere of "Guardian Angels." Tickets are $25 (BUY THEM HERE!) and the show runs an hour. Thanks for supporting live theater and new work!

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