Happy Holidays, everyone!   Hope you’re all enjoying the festive season, wherever in the world you are.  Just wanted update you on two artistic collaborations which I’ve been involved in as a writer.  Exciting stuff.

In February, a short play of mine “Everything is Normal” will be performed on a scratch night in London, as part of Unheard 2015, a new writing festival exploring themes around sexual abuse and violence.  The Festival runs February 19-22 and will also feature three V-Day benefit performances of The Vagina Monologues.  My play will be at 7:30pm on Saturday, Feb 21 at The Bread & Roses Theatre in Clapham, and you can buy tickets for a mere £7 online here.  A portion of proceeds will also go to a relevant charity (TBD).  Hats off to the curiously-named, activist theatre company Goblin Baby for promoting writing about this important topic!

In November, I contributed a short story to Sense of the City: London, an intriguing urban design project that encourages a multi-sensory exploration of the Clerkenwell/Smithfield area of London.  What?  Basically, members of the public were invited to wander around that neighborhood, capturing their experience of the sights, smells, sounds they encountered.  As writers, we then had to take those reactions and create an artistic response in the form of a short story.  Then, actors recorded our writing, and the audio files of those performances can be heard online here.  Or you can download the PDF of a newsletter which featured our stories and was distributed throughout the neighborhood.  My short story is called “West Smithfield.” If you’re familiar with the area, Smithfield Market, St. Bart’s hospital, Fabric nightclub, and the Priory Church of St. Bartholomew the Great all feature in the story.  Hope you enjoy it!