The Recent
This September: 11th Annual Communal Spaces (a garden play festival)
I’m writing an original, site-specfic script for The Motor Company’s upcoming festival at Moore Jackson Cemetery & Garden in Woodside.
Performing this September, stay tuned for more detials.
The Henley Rose Playwright Competition for Women: Finalist for A Stupendous Illusion of Reality
Finalist: Sonora Review
My nonfiction essay “Vicious” was a finalist for their RAGE edition.
The Latest
Fort Sunny at 10th Annual Communal Spaces (a garden play festival)
Corinne & J, beings of Magic
at 50th Street & Barnett Avenue
invite you to attend and to take part on the occasion of the
Removal from their Garden
An Unknown Magic will be officiating for The Powers that want us out
”Listen for the siren"
Produced by The Motor Company
by Angela Santillo
directed by Dina Vovsi
by Angela Santillo
Performed September 2022 at Sunnyside Community Garden
2022: Leopardi Writing Conference
One week in Recanati, Italy to further develop my manuscript When It Bursts in a nonfiction workshop lead by Samina Ali.
And Then Suddenly: Season 3
The podcast about the sudden moments that turn our lives upside down is back!
Available wherever you listen to podcasts:
Guest Professor at Saint Mary’s College of California
I was honored to co-teach “Making Documentary Theater” at SMC’s January Term.
I developed a rigorous curriculum that included writing, interviewing skills, and performance training with my co-teacher (and mentor) Rebecca Engle.
Students focused on exploring the untold stories of the college’s workers and what they had to do to keep things running during COVID.
A Stupendous Illusion of Reality: finalist for Athena Project’s 2020 Plays in Progress Series
Podcast appearances
Take it From The Iron Woman
A podcast to inspire and empower others by cool stories from every day smart, sophisticated, trendy, hip, energetic people from around the world.
I share the similarities between running and theater.
Ignorance Was Bliss
This is a podcast about how we become who we are — about making just about anything sound normal, from PTSD to podcasting to serial murder. It’s about people’s stories.
I share my watershed moment. Sometimes life has a very clear line between before and after.
& then write
Part of what separates a good writer from a great writer is their ability to not only draw inspiration from a wide variety of sources - some truly unexpected places - but also their ability to pivot creatively when life decides to throw some serious curveballs. Guest Angela Santillo personifies the phrase “embracing the unexpected,” and joins me today on the podcast.
2019 Pushcart Prize Nomination
Exposition Review has nominated my nonfiction piece, Everything I Could Dump Into a Prologue, for a 2020 Pushcart Nomination.