met Anastasia Rutkowski in a Chekhov workshop where we performed the Three Sisters fire scene together. Bonding over our Massachusetts roots, and our writing and devising backgrounds, we decided to team up in the creative process and experimentation of seeing what would happen to these complex characters if taken to a different place and time in history. After a three hour coffee date Steel Birds was born and the concept of taking the three sisters out of provincial Russia and on to an estate, near a naval base in Oahu, Hawaii in 1939. Less than nine months after that we were in rehearsals for the plays premier as EstroGenius Festival's main stage production. The process from start to finish had been a whirlwind of an adventure and I can't wait to see where the play goes next. Thus Steel Birds became my first completed and performed play and I hope that this is the beginning of an ongoing creative partnership with Anastasia.
Steel Birds has been nominated for two New York Innovative Theatre Awards this year; Outstanding Premiere Production of a Play and Outstanding Original Full-Length Script.
