The Moors in Latvian

Posted on February 3, 2020 by jen

Maybe the most delightful invitation I’ve ever received. If anyone is in SF and speaks Latvian, Mara Lewis and the Sanfrancisko Jaunais Teātris have got an experience for you.

WITCH // The Geffen Playhouse

Posted on September 5, 2019 by jen

And… then we opened. Running through Sept 29.

Tales of the City Premiere // SF Film Festival

Posted on April 11, 2019 by jen

San Francisco!!

Some of us writers just happen to be hanging out casually on this sidewalk by coincedence

I forgot to mention, we’re in a band, this is our album cover

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The real actual serious people, on a serious stage

Lauren Morelli & Alan Poul

LA // Brief Stop

Posted on February 2, 2019 by jen

A little over a year ago, I’d just landed in LA. It was five months before the pub date of The Island Dwellers, and maybe four days before the writers room began for Tales of the City.

Things that have changed: 1) Tales has been written and has filmed. 2) The Island Dwellers is out. 3) The second book for Random House, a novel, is starting to become A Thing and not A Thing That Comes Next. 4) There is more gray in my hair.

Things that are the same: This apartment, and this lemon tree.

Crime and Punishment, a.k.a. Life in L.A.

Posted on June 1, 2018 by jen

THIS IS THE CULPRIT!* *We have named him “Punishment.”

I may be in my last few weeks in LA, but there’s still a lot to discover. I only just learned what a jacaranda tree is.

Swan communes with the jacaranda.

W is For…

Posted on March 8, 2018 by jen

In honor of International Women’s Day, I’m apparently only writing plays that start with W.

WITCH, a commission for Writers Theatre in Chicago, and a chance to get fresh with Jacobean drama.

WINK at Marin Theatre Company, a chance to get fresh in general.

W is also for Wandering, which is what you sometimes do when the Writer’s room ends for the day…

Just A Sunday Hike

Posted on February 25, 2018 by jen

The part right BEFORE The native Californian explains to the New Yorker that the weird holes in the steep and narrow path? …are snake-holes. In which, presumably? There are snakes. NOPE NOPE NOPE. Bye, mountain path.