I'm delighted and honored to have my 10-minute play, "Who's in Love with the Big Bad Wolf?" be a part of the Kathie Rasmussen Production Company's  Mythical Creatures Short Play Festival in Madison through February 9, 2019. Here I am (center, holding my pink fuzzy ear muffs--hey, it's Wisconsin and freezing!) on opening night with two of the three members of the amazing cast, Granny and Red. (The Big Bad Wolf must have gone off to his den before we could take the picture. I don't blame him. I think it was -1 below by the time the show had finished, around 11 PM.) The cast and director brought my words to life in a way that was way more powerful (and funnier and sexier!) than I could have imagined, and I am so grateful to them, and to the producer for choosing to include my play.

The other plays are by turns funny and moving, and it's always interesting to see how other playwrights respond to a prompt.

Now that it's January, I'm turning my attention to new plays, new festivals, new projects, and I'm writing and sending out new material--and hoping to send out more.

What about you? What are your writing or other artistic or professional or personal goals for 2019? Please share them in the comments!

Break legs, all! And... cheers!

My short play LOSING IT, about a graduate student in media studies interviewing the original Disney Princesses about their "wedding nights," was one of 9 plays chosen out of 300 submissions for Theatre@First's Fractured Fairy Tale Festival in Sommerville, Mass. I love these pictures (taken by Jay Sekora and Katrina) of the production, which shows these talented actresses bringing my words to life.

As a reader, I have always loved fairy tales. As a writer, I am interested in retelling them with a feminist, modern perspective. I have a love/hate relationship with Disney, and in writing about these characters in new ways, I feel I am having a conversation with Walt Disney, with the Grimm Brothers, and with my young self, who yearned to be like Snow White, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty.

I am grateful to Theatre@First and everyone involved in the festival for choosing LOSING IT and bringing it to the stage so beautifully, and of course, I am grateful to the audiences, without whom our work as playwrights would have little meaning.

Check out this fine theatre company's website for more information: http://www.theatreatfirst.org

And let me know in the comments which is your favorite (least favorite)  Disney princess--and why you love (can't stand) her!