What a gift to be given time, space, and access to incredible talent in order to work on this play. Palimpsest had the honor of being included in the 2024 In the Works-In the Woods Festival at the Forestburgh Playhouse, and did we ever make the most of it. A very full week of writing, rehearsing, and creating, culminating in two public reasings to packed houses. I learned so much about this play and the work grew immensely! Hoping to bring it to production somewhere in the near future.

Find out more about our team and the In the Works – In the Woods Festival here.

This is incredibly exciting! My play The Great Divide has been translated into Yiddish through the Segal Centre’s Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre program. It’s thrilling to see any work translated, but this is espcially meaningful, since most of the dialogue in the play would have been spoken in Yiddish.

Yiddish translation by Aron Gonshor and Edit Kuper
Directed by Trevor Barrette

You can find out more about this very special production here.

It’s always very meaningful when a play gets a second production, and I am especially excited about this one. I love all my plays, but some are just special! The Great Divide won the 2015 Canadian Jewish Playwriting Competition, and now it has had it’s Canadian Premiere at the Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company in Toronto. I love Canada!

Find out more about the production here.

Oh boy I am back on stage.

I don’t usually perform in my own work unless it is a solo show, but there is a character called “The playwright” in this one, so…you know.

I am seriously stoked for this gorgeous production with these incredible actors. It could not be coming at a more urgent moment and feels more and more relevant every day.

Find out more about this production here.

I’m so stoked to be working with some terrific people and companies on my new audio feature, GHOSTWRITER. I have been working on this idea for a long time and sitting on this news for a few weeks, so it’s super cool to share it with the world now! You can read all about the project and the brilliant creatives involved on the Hollywood Reporter site.

Great news for your pandemic entertainment! Certain Woman of an Age, the solo show I wrote with Margaret Trudeau, is available to listen to on Audible.

They call it an “audiobook” but it’s really a solo show, running under 90 minutes.

Here’s a description:

“Margaret Trudeau, former wife of Canada’s 15th Prime Minister, Pierre Trudeau, and mother of Canada’s current Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, opens up with refreshing candor in her one-woman show, Certain Woman of an Age, the compelling true story of one of the world’s most fascinating figures. Through vividly told public and private anecdotes, the Audible Original weaves a raw and revealing journey of motherhood, loss, mental illness, and feminism. “

You can find it here.

My new play TWENTY TWENTY: A play will have its world premiere this fall with Fault Line Theatre. Fault Line commissioned and is developing this play, and I could not be more excited about working with Aaron, and the whole crew there. It’s a wacky, political, absurd, somewhat experimental, deep dive into a weird moment in American history (well, a couple of them) and how I have struggled to tell stories when it really feels like screaming into the wind. They also have a great line up of developmental readings that are sure to be terrific. Find out on the Fault Line website or at Broadway World.