This has been a busy summer for a little play called 36 Perfectly Appropriate Mealtime Conversations. First it got a staged reading at Willamette University in June and then it was performed for three weekends at HART Theater. It’s hard to put into words all the feelings that come along with the experience of watching other flesh-and-blood human beings inhabit characters I made up and recite lines that made me snicker to myself once upon a time when I wrote them alone in a co

Impressed with the hard-working, dedicated, hilarious cast of 36 Perfectly Appropriate Mealtime Conversations at Hillsboro Artists' Regional Theatre. It's a real joy to watch them breathe life into the characters in my script. They are young actors who have taken on the herculean task of learning numerous parts in a play that requires each cast member to play a different role every night that its performed. So essentially every night of the show is opening night. Not a single

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Really enjoyed getting to participate in several Q and A's after the performances this weekend. It's so meaningful to hear feedback, reactions, and praise from people who didn't previously know me or my work. I know I'm supposedly a writer or whatever but it's impossible for me to find the words to articulate how grateful I am for this experience to make people laugh, have cool conversations with perfect strangers about gender identity, and ruin a bunch of pop songs for proba

Day 2 of 36 Perfectly Appropriate Mealtime Conversions at Theater 33. What an amazing experience it has been to share this piece in Salem. I know I say this every time but it's indescribably cool to watch real life humans transform into people I made up and my head, and to hear a room full of people laughing at jokes I wrote quietly to myself in a coffee shop somewhere without knowing who would ever hear them. Thank you to everyone who has come so far or who plans to come ton

Weekend after next, this theater will present four staged readings of my play, 36 Perfectly Appropriate Mealtime Conversations. It's a pretty special experience for me to be back on the Willamette University campus, 10 years after I dropped out of this very same school. I'm glad to return with something to show for myself! I hope you can make it! The cast and crew are doing great work and the show is pretty funny so I'd love to share it with you. #36conversations #theater #pl

Had a great time at the season announcement party at HART last night. Such a warm community of hardworking, passionate people. I had fun getting to meet the director and stage manager working on 36 Conversations (my play, which opens July 7th)! The cast reads through the script for the second time tonight. #theater #36conversations

The Gender Symposium was fun. These four knock my socks off...I'm so impressed with them for rolling with this super weird, extra experimental take on this play. I'm feeling grateful for the incredible conversations I had throughout the day and the surprising and delightful connections I got to make with not-quite-strangers who I'd otherwise never know. It's always really interesting to see and hear people's reactions to this play. I love seeing it performed! But I also feel

Tomorrow Night! Come to Page to Stage V to see a scene from 36 Perfectly Appropriate Mealtime Conversations. We all bring to our relationships different assumptions, expectations, confusions, and insecurities—and we bring them to the theater as well. As our culture finally begins to push back against the preconceived traditional notions of gender and sexuality, these conversations are important ones to have. What’s exciting about this show is not just that it’s funny, modern,