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February, 2010. Working on the new play for Pollyanna: Just Bee.
January, 2010. The PATTERN NATION DVD is released! Buy your copy today!
December, 2010. Drumroll, please: I finished a draft of a novel. I really enjoyed writing it. More when I figure out what to do next.
November, 2009. The ICWP Mother/Daughter Monologues are released. Proceeds benefit the International Centre for Women Playwrights.
June/July 2009. Had a fabulous run of PATTERN NATION at the lovely Long Center for the Performing Arts. Looking forward to completing the ICWP Mother/Daughter Monologue Project, a series of 4 volumes of monologues relecting the Mother/Daughter experience: Babes and Beginnings, Thirtysomethings, Mid-Life Catharsis, and Urgent Maturity. I've been a member, off and on, of this organization since the mid 1990's. It's amazing to have a sense of other women writers over an extended period of time: particularly now that Emily Sands, a student of Steven Levitt's (Freakonomics), has revealed new evidence that women playwrights face special obstacles in the marketplace. My deepest respect and warmest thanks to everyone there for their camaraderie over the years.
February 2009. In revisions for the PATTERN NATION direct to DVD script that The Pollyanna Theatre Company is shooting in April. So happy to be working again with the beautiful and talented (and talented in creating beauty) Ia Ensterä-Layadi and can't wait to see what she comes up with for the animation! We hope to have the DVD ready by the Fall.
August 2008. Duckie Sees the World is opening at by The Pollyanna Theatre Company.
In 1992, a cargo shipment of toy rubber ducks from Hong Kong was lost in the Pacific Ocean. For the next eleven years, the ducks floated around the world's oceans, washing up on unexpected shores. This real event comes to life in a delightful new play by Emily Cicchini, following one special duckie on a search across the Arctic to find a kid to love. Appropriate for audiences ages 5 and up.
Dougherty Arts Center, 1110 Barton Springs Rd. Austin Tx
Weekdays, August 7, 8, 11 and 12 at 9:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.
Saturday, August 9 at 2:00 p.m. and Sunday, August 10 at 2:00 p.m.
Tickets: $5.00 and up: call 512-743-7966 or e-mail Judy Matetzschk-Campbell
December 2007. Happily writing a book tentatively titled "Arts In Action: Launching A Successful Arts Education Program." About half way done right now. It's like butter.
Starting work on Duckie Sees the World for production in Summer 2008. Been wanting to write this since I first heard about the real rubber ducks who are mapping the world.
More Patterns, our sequel to 2005's Patterns, was presented by The Pollyanna Theatre Company at The Dougherty Arts Center, August 9 - 14 2007 and is touring schools through Spring 2008. We're having much fun with Red, Blue, Green, and Yellow as they learn the patterns of school and play.
Early/mid 2007. Working on revising a lot of material and getting some submissions out the door. Been getting more involved with The International Centre for Women Playwrights. I'm hosting a discussion forum about women and playwriting, so come post, if you please.
Looking forward to another Pollyanna Theatre Company production, working title More Patterns: The Repeat with my dear friend Judy Matetzschk-Campbell. Check out all her good work with The Pollyanna Theatre.
2006 was the year that I sold my first screenplay, Young Beowulf. Also, a short play I wrote for middle school actors, Like A Metaphor, won the Everyday Heroes award and the Dramatic Developments award, and I had a totally lovely experience with Lynda Sharpe and the students of Middleton High School with In The Middle Of It All.
Went to CineStory in California Fall 2005 to work on Eliza's Ferry. But perhaps the highlight was getting to screen the short animated film I did with my good young friend Dylan, Joe in a Pickle, to an audience of "industry professionals."
My 3 minute personal essay Sometimes, Abortion Saves was featured Public Radio International's Primary Sources, including stations: WNYC/New York Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, WHYY/Philadelphia, WAMU/Washington, D.C., KERA/Dallas, WCPN/Cleveland, and KCRW/Los Angeles, Spring, 2005.
The Pollyanna Theatre Company and Ballet Austin's Trail of Tears: Walking the Choctaw Road, which I adapted from the book by storyteller Tim Tingle, published by Cinco Puntos Press, premiered January 22 of 2005 at the Texas School for the Deaf to a standing ovation! It is slated to tour to Corpus Christi and Oklahoma between Feb and May, and then returned for a tour in the Spring of 2006. Tim's book was named the official State book of Oklahoma. He's a great and true storyteller.
The Pollyanna Theatre Company presented a staged reading of Sarah Who Saved Thanksgiving October 29 & 30, 2004 at the Dougherty Arts Center. After a week long workshop where thirty or so pages were re-written and songs were added and thrown out, the response to the "sing-through" was very positive: one audience member called it "A Christmas Carol for Thanksgiving!" and that rather sums it all up.
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