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Mind Your Own Abyssness (David Arnold, Cash McAllister)
Mind Your Own Abyssness (Cash McAllister, Becca Blanchard)
Mind Your Own Abyssness (Becca Blanchard, Cash McAllister)
Mind Your Own Abyssness (Cash McAllister)
Mind Your Own Abyssness (Annamieka Davidson and her mom, the playwright!)
End of the Rope-Premiere Performance-Oregon Contemporary Theatre (Nancy Hopps)
End of the Rope-Premiere Performance-Oregon Contemporary Theatre (Nancy Hopps)
End of the Rope-Premiere Performance-Oregon Contemporary Theatre (Nancy Hopps)
End of the Rope-Premiere Performance-Oregon Contemporary Theatre (Nancy Hopps)
End of the Rope-Premiere Performance-Oregon Contemporary Theatre (Nancy Hopps)
End of the Rope-Premiere Performance-Oregon Contemporary Theatre (Nancy Hopps)
End of the Rope-Premiere Performance (Rope wranglers-Bruce Lundy, Thomas Weaver)
End of the Rope-Hollywood (Sandy Greenwood, actor; Mio Hu, director)
End of the Rope-Hollywood (Sandy Greenwood, actor; Mio Hu, director)
End of the Rope-Hollywood (creative collaboration)
End of the Rope-Hollywood (creative collaboration)
End of the Rope-Hollywood (Sandy Greenwood)
End of the Rope-Hollywood (Sandy Greenwood)
End of the Rope-Hollywood (Sandy Greenwood)
End of the Rope-Hollywood (Playwright and Ken Niehaus, my rope-wrangler husband)
End of the Rope-Hollywood (R to L: Mio, Sandy & Moi/Director, Actor & Playwright)
Now, I Am Your Neighbor (table reads, collaborations)
Now, I Am Your Neighbor (table reads, collaborations)
Now, I Am Your Neighbor (table reads, collaborations)
Now, I Am Your Neighbor (Claudio Riumallo & Ricardo Cardenas)
Now, I Am Your Neighbor (Rehearsals at CALC)
Now, I Am Your Neighbor (Rehearsals at VLT Stage Left)
Now, I Am Your Neighbor (Sold-out inaugural performances at VLT Stage Left)
Now, I Am Your Neighbor (Sold-out encore performance at Oregon Contemporary Theatre)
End of the Rope-Manila, Philippines
End of the Rope-Manila, Philippines (Director K.L.Carpio, actress Denise Castillo)
End of the Rope-Manila, Philippines (Director K.L.Carpio, actress Denise Castillo)
End of the Rope-Manila, Philippines (Denise Castillo)
End of the Rope-Manila, Philippines (Director K.L.Carpio, actress Denise Castillo)
End of the Rope-Sydney, Australia
End of the Rope-Sydney(Director Tom Peach, Laura Tate, Musician Cassandra Scott & playwright)
End of the Rope-Sydney(Director Tom Peach and family-pre-show.)
End of the Rope-Sydney (Director Tom Peach & composer/musician Cassandra Scott-post-show!)
End of the Rope-Canberra, Australia (Amelia Forsyth-Smith)
SWAN Day Annual Performances - Oregon Contemporary Theatre
SWAN Day...in conjunction with 365 Women a Year International Writing Project.
SWAN Day-rehearsals
SWAN Day-rehearsals
SWAN Day Annual Performance - Oregon Contemporary Theatre
SWAN Day- Cast- Unter Investigation (Bill Campbell, Rebecca Nachison, Ib Hamide, Mary Wetherbee.
SWAN Day-Actors, Directors, Playwrights...Greenroom.
SWAN Day-Actors/Director of Rachael Carnes' play, Partner Of...
SWAN Day- Cast- Belovèd Traitor (Laura Robinson, Robert Best,Jane Irola
SWAN Day Annual Performances - Oregon Contemporary Theatre
The Actors' Table of Eugene (Directed, scripted)
Playwriting Bootcamp with Andrea Stolowitz -PDX, Oregon
Unter Investigation-Majestic Eight Festival
Unter Investigation-Majestic Eight Festival
Unter Investigation-Majestic Eight Festival - Talkback/Awards Ceremony
Therese Picado and revolving casts - We Are Neighbors (ongoing touring productions)
We Are Neighbors (ongoing touring productions of Now, I Am Your Neighbor)
We Are Neighbors (ongoing touring productions of Now, I Am Your Neighbor)
We Are Neighbors (ongoing touring productions of Now, I Am Your Neighbor)

ARTISTIC STATEMENT: I write about things that resonate deeply with me. Hence, the theme that ends up appearing in much of my work has to do with the enduring power of love. Living in the mess, and learning what it really means to love oneself and others – this is of great import and interest to me. I believe theatre has a unique ability to convey this learning in ways that may literally help save our world. And entertain us in the process. Such a deal!

In 2016, I had my first short play (“Mind Your Own Abyssness”) produced at a local community college. That’s all it took – I was hooked. The joy of collaboration, the thrill of seeing actors bring to life the words and story I had carefully crafted… hearing the audience reaction, knowing my story had deeply touched people…

That experience inspired me to keep writing. To “sit butt in chair” and let ideas flow through me. To sit for many, many more hours while making the major rewrites and/or painstaking “tweaks” called for in the revision processes. Fortunately, I love the process of both writing and revising as much as I love sharing the end product.

And I have things to say! My background as a healing artist and performing artist combine nicely in this form of creative expression. It’s fascinating to watch words flow out and characters reveal themselves. It’s also fascinating to see how similar “messages” that I deeply believe in manage to work their way into very diverse stories.

I’ve been very fortunate to have had a number of plays produced locally and abroad in the relatively short time I’ve been writing. For one of them (“End of the Rope”), I had the joy of acting in its local debut performance, as well as creating the recorded soundscape with my crystal singing bowls! It was a richly rewarding – and fun! – experience. That play went on to be seen around the world, garnering some heart-warming awards along the way.

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