Grace has developed work at SPACE on Ryder Farm, The Orchard Project, CAP21, the Johnny Mercer Writer's Colony at Goodspeed, The PiTCH, The Civilians R&D Group, New York Stage & Film and MacDowell.
in the green
IN THE GREEN tells the origin story of one of Medieval history's most powerful and creative women: Hildegard von Bingen. Before she became a healer, a composer, an exorcist, and finally a saint, she was a little girl locked in a cell with her mentor, Jutta.
This new musical is the tale of two women and the journey that leads one to embrace death, and the other to celebrate the beauty and blemishes of a fully lived life.
IN THE GREEN was commissioned by LCT3 and received a production at the Claire Tow Theater at Lincoln Center June8-August 4, 2019. Winner of the 2020 Richard Rodgers Award.
Licensed through Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
A short history
A SHORT HISTORY is an adaptation of Kate Walbert’s 2009 novel A Short History of Women, chronicling five generations of women from the close of the nineteenth century through the early years of the twenty-first. Beginning in 1914 at the deathbed of Dorothy Trevor Townsend, a suffragist who starves herself for the cause, the story traces the echoes of her choice in the stories of her descendants - a brilliant daughter who tries to escape the burden of her mother’s infamy; a granddaughter who chooses a conventional path, only to find herself disillusioned; a great-granddaughter who wryly articulates the free-floating anxiety of post 9/11 Manhattan. In a kaleidosope of characters and with a richness of imagery, emotion and wit, A SHORT HISTORY is a thought provoking and vividly original narrative that crisscrosses a century - a story for “any woman who has ever struggled to find her own voice; to make sense of being a mother, wife, daughter, and lover” (AP)
Written in collaboration with Kate Walbert.
hag
hag is a horror-comedy musical about the cultural fear of aging and decay.
It’s Lois’s 50th birthday party, and she’s throwing her party at Chili’s. There’s a karaoke machine! Sure, Lois and her husband are getting a divorce, but it’s fine. Sure, her son’s just gone off to college, but it’s fine. Everything is really, really, really fine!!!! But Lois is keeping a secret from all of them: she’s turning into a wolf! A chorus of hags moonlighting as waitresses at this Chili’s gleeful steward Lois into this new bloody beginning.
Written in collaboration with Kate Douglas.
after peter
After the sudden death of her collaborator, Jo goes on a quest for answers that may or may not help finish the piece they were working on together. Generations of artists speak to each other across the chasm of space and time in this living requiem about the intertwining of loss and the creative process, and the ways in which art hides and reveals us.
Written in collaboration with Adam Chanler-Berat.
AGAINST WOMEN & MUSIC!
In the 19th century, music was considered dangerous for women to play or even hear. Ideas about women's weakness of nerves was pervasive, and music was seen as inflammatory, leading to passions, despair, crime, madness, melancholy, hysteria and more.
AGAINST WOMEN & MUSIC! is an absurdist-horror Victorian chamber piece. Celine is a widow emerging from a year of mourning and grappling with her daughter Geneva’s melancholia diagnosis. As Geneva begins taking piano lessons on doctor’s orders to “finesse her emotional intelligence,” Celine discovers a sinister presence has possessed her daughter.
Written in collaboration with Kate Douglas.
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