My newest play “Run Wild” received a sold out performance and standing ovation – for a reading!! – on Thursday, July 11th. Here’s a brief and insightful article from the Pittsburgh Tribune Review about Bards of Burgh which includes interviews with the playwrights.

RUN WILD: A Trilogy of of 10-minute Inspired Greek Goddess Plays + A Satyress

Heroes and monsters become entangled in mythic misogyny and modern tragedy with absurd and genre-breaking irony as Demeter questions the drills that mine her mother’s heart in “Demeter’s Fracked Heart,” Eve and Pandora step outside the box of woman-blaming in “Eve and Pandora Revise Herstory” and Helen runs through centuries of femicide canonized within our hero stories in “Helen at the Gym (Again).”  Meanwhile, as a cast of local actresses move through the grueling performance demands required of them in “RUN WILD,” Dionysus headlines a cabaret fundraiser to save the theatre in “Satyress,” questioning if the theatre today is just a running joke or perhaps our biggest hope.

*“RUN WILD” includes a Redbull Short Play Winner, an ATHE New Play Lab Winner, and a Sienna College Climate Justice Winner. 

DEMTER’S FRACKED HEART (and the Emerald Ash Borer) – A vegan instagrammer arrives hungry to buy out-of season apples from the legendary farm stand, “Queen of the Harvest,” but the forest trees are choking from the invasive Emerald Ash Borer, and the lifeblood of the farm has been polluted by fracking drills.

EVE AND PANDORA REVISE HERSTORY – Only one day after the 2024 election, Kiera, a woman journalist is tasked with writing an article explaining the election results, when suddenly Pandora and Eve challenge her to “bite the apple” and break the framework within our origin stories.  

HELEN AT THE GYM – (AGAIN It is 2009 and Helen of Troy runs on a treadmill at fitness center, when in stumbles a shipwrecked Odysseus, and a mass murderer named George Sodini.