I will be delivering a 25-minute conference talk, “Two Kinds of Scripting: What Writing Plays Has Taught Me About Writing Python Programs” at North Bay Python 2023 in Petaluma, CA.
More information and conference schedule forthcoming.
My short play “The Sugarplum Trap,” a Christmas-themed parody of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film Notorious, will be featured in PlayGround SF’s delightfully twisted holiday show. See what happens when a suave Interpol agent recruits a down-on-her luck cocktail waitress to spy out the hidden secrets of Santa’s workshop!
The evening will also feature holiday twists on other Hitchcock classics like Vertigo and Rear Window, by local playwrights Jeffrey Lo, Cleavon Smith, Alexis Standridge, Eteya Trinidad, and Maury Zeff.
“The Sugarplum Trap” is directed by Emilie Talbot and features actors Nicole Apostol Bruno, Emily Keyishian, Nic Sommerfeld, and Mark Truitt.
There will be two evening performances at Potrero Stage in San Francisco on December 10 and 11, plus options to stream the show from home through December 31. More information and ticket links here.
A dispatch from 2020; a dress from Y2K. During lockdown, a thwarted playwright tries to make sense of the 21st century by writing time-travel fiction.
I will be reading selections from the novel I tried to write in June 2020 as part of the EXIT Theatre’s “Adventures in Place: A Post, a Poem, a Prayer.” For 12 nights in November, Stuart Bousel and friends will be presenting work created during and in response to the first two years of the Pandemic.
The show has different “special guests” each night so I am only appearing on Thursday November 10, but I encourage you to check out the other evenings if you are unable to attend my specific night!
Tickets are $20 in cash at the door.
My ten-minute play Laodike, a sex comedy about the lead-up to the Trojan War, was performed by NYU students program in their Fall 2022 One-Act Festival. There were 3 performances: Thursday Nov. 17 at 7:30, Sunday Nov. 20 at 3:30, and Sunday Nov. 20 at 7:30.
More information on Eventbrite.
Those who best understand history are doomed to repeat it.
My short play “A Stitch in Time” will have a staged reading in the first Monday Night PlayGround of the 2022-23 season, directed by Jim Kleinmann.
Other featured playwrights that evening are Monique Hafen Adams, Justin P. López, Bridgette Dutta Portman, Eteya Trinidad, and Maury Zeff. Each of us wrote a 10-minute play inspired by the prompt “In Disguise” — mine is about what it takes to blend in as a time-traveling historian!
In addition to the live performance at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, the evening will be simulcast and available for streaming.
For more information and to reserve pay-what-you-can tickets, visit PlayGround’s website.
My ten-minute play Laodike, a sex comedy about the lead-up to the Trojan War, will be performed by the students of Atlantic Acting School’s Full-Time Conservatory program in their One-Act Festival.
Tickets (“very limited availability”) here.
My sketch “Gen-X Support Group” is featured in Quicksand Club’s August comedy show, streamed live over Zoom and now available on YouTube (sketch begins at 8:15).
It was directed by Malinda Coler and performed by Annie Kim, Dan Kurtz, Karen Offereins, and Sunil Patel.
Before the pandemic hit, San Francisco’s EXIT Theatre was set to stage my short play “The Great Man Theory” in summer 2020, part of an anthology evening of short plays titled These People’s History of the 20th Century.
The production has been rescheduled for next year, but in the meantime, 7 of the 20th Century writers did a Facebook livestream with the EXIT’s Amanda Ortmayer about our project and how we are dealing with the tumult of 2020.
You can watch the video recording of our chat here.
I am directing staged readings of MORGAUSE by Lucy Elizabeth Knight and IGRAINE by Nirmala Nataraj. This evening of four short plays about Arthurian women will also feature ELAINE OF GARLOT by Elaine Gavin and MORGANNA by Jessica Chisum, both directed by Megan Briggs.
Staged readings of my two new 10-minute plays inspired by these Arthurian figures, presented by the San Francisco Olympians Festival. Part of an evening of plays about knights of the Round Table directed by Nara Dahlbacka.
I will be speaking at a Hackbright Academy panel where alumnae talk about their job search and their experiences as women breaking into tech. Admission is free, but you are encouraged to RSVP on Eventbrite.
A staged reading of my one-act play MACARIA, or THE GOOD LIFE, directed by Michelle Elaine Ianiro. Paired with a reading of Michelle’s one-act play THOTH, directed by Stuart Bousel. The final reading in Custom Made Theatre’s Undiscovered Works series.
I will be reading the Stage Directions for the San Francisco Olympians Festival’s staged reading of BORDER LINE by Laylah Muran de Assereto, directed by Dan Wilson. Tickets are $10 at the door or $12 in advance on Brown Paper Tickets.
My new 10-minute play, PLEASE KEEP ME HONEST, will be performed every Monday night in March as part of MUSIC/SCENE, a show that pairs local playwrights with local singer-songwriters. The play, about 3 generations of women and why they moved to San Francisco, was inspired by Tommy P's song "Hemingway"; it features actors Elizabeth Ho, Tina Marzell, and Iris Stone and is directed by Bert van Aalsburg. Tickets $10.
My play YOU'LL NOT FEEL THE DROWNING is having a staged reading in New York City with the Custom Made Theater Co., directed by Leah Abrams.
CARMENTA, my new play about motherhood, rock music, and the turns a woman's life can take, will have a staged reading in the Olympians Festival. The evening will also feature plays by Neil Higgins, Bridgette Dutta Portman, and Elizabeth Flanagan, all directed by Megan Briggs. Tickets are $10 at the door or $12 online at Brown Paper Tickets.
I will be reading the Stage Directions and playing ukulele in a staged reading of TIAMAT by Stuart Bousel, directed by Genevieve Perdue. This Olympians Festival event is a double feature with Megan Cohen's solo performance THIRST TRAP (ABZU). Tickets are $10 at the door or can be bought in advance on Brown Paper Tickets.