All I Wanna Do Is Be Pretty Like You
120 mins: 5w, 1M
A group of twenty something actors are trying to perform as a group of abducted teenage girls who are trying to perform as a group of pageant contestants so that one of them can be awarded the crown by their Director--and be set free.
A play about performing womanhood, goodness, and trauma for the male gaze, and the blurred lines between desire and abduction, fantasy and reality, and violence and beauty itself.
History
April 2022: Wokshop, New Coordinates, Chicago — Director Nadya Naumann
AWARDS & recognition
2024 Semi- Finalist Blue Ink Playwriting Award, American Blues Theater
20242023 Semi-Finalist National Playwriting Conference, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center
2023 Semi-Finalist Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Playwrights Foundation