THIS JUST IN - TRASH announced as a semi-finalist for the O'Neill!

My dramatic two-hander TRASH is currently a semi-finalist for the 2012 O'Neill Playwrights Conference.

TRASH is my latest full length play. It was written in the spring of 2011, and will premiere at the Side Project Theatre in Chicago, March 24th through May 5th, 2012, by the Babes With Blades Theatre Company.

It won the 2011/2012 Joining Sword and Pen competition, and has received staged readings at the Side Impact Theatre in Chicago (Babes With Blades), and the 61 Local Theatre in New York, courtesy of the Truffle Hunt Theatre Company.

The play takes place entirely in a dump - a municipal landfill, where two estranged sisters have come to look for a letter from their mother. They've come from their mother's funeral - the first time they've seen each other in years, and as they dig through the literal and metaphorical trash heap, they get further and further into their complicated relationship with each other - and with the lives they led under the shadow of a domineering mother who still controls and influences them even after her death.
It's powerful drama, with a lot of very funny moments.

For information on producing this play, please contact me, and if you'd like to get a feel for it - try reading the monologues available here.