Hello Internet! It never rains but it pours.
I’m a long-time fan of the Women’s Work Festival. I love them. I read in a workshop quite a while ago, and since then I have mostly been asked to speak on panels. I often submit plays, but I’ve never had one accepted for workshopping before.
This year, on submission deadline day, I was trapped under a baby, and I saw the submission form come up, and I decided to just go with it. I added that application to the growing list of applications I’ve typed with one thumb while a baby sleeps on me. And this year… I got in!
So my play Factory Girls is going to be read in public this coming Sunday, by an absolutely amazing group of people who didn’t mind that I had to pump breastmilk at the workshopping table, and led by the luminescent Bernardine Stapleton.
BUT THEN ALSO, about half an hour after I learned that my play was in the festival, I heard from my friend August. August has been working on their play, Tea for Two, for a couple of years now, and I have been poking my nose in for an hour or two at a time, helping them take it where they want it to go. And August had also been accepted, and was asked if they had a preferred dramaturge… and they asked me to do it!
So this year, with an almost-5-month-old baby, I am working as a dramaturge for WWF for the first time, AND I am having a script workshopped by WWF for the first time, and it is… just awesome. The amazing administrators of the festival even moved their schedule around to allow me to workshop one play on each day of last weekend, so that Sam could be home with his dad. They are amazing.
Also amazing: getting back into the room with a piece of writing and some actors. Gosh, I love it so much.
Tea for Two by August Carrigan, March 2nd, and Factory Girls, March 3rd, 7pm at the LSPU Hall.