WasteHouse with Avalanche Theatre Company

My newest play WasteHouse was a featured play in Avalanche Theatre Company’s inaugural New Play Summit.

Gretchen Prince is a washed up Hollywood TV star, known more for her stints in rehab than for her role as spiteful and conniving "it girl" on teen drama Trellis County (now in syndication). After being entrapped in a weight loss scam by a hack doctor that left her practically penniless and at death's door, Gretchen returns to the people she left behind: her family. With a well-meaning mother, bumbling stepfather, and pregnant workaholic sister, Gretchen is forced to reconcile with who she once wanted to be, especially once the boy-next-door moves back to town. But Hollywood doesn't stay quiet for long (after all, everyone loves a comeback).

The Avalanche New Play Summit is a series of new play readings, featuring some of the very best of Chicago's contemporary playwrights. In conjunction with Issue Five of the Avalanche Biannual, the Summit aims to connect these artists with wider audiences and provide the platform for discussion of these new plays.

The reading was directed by Bec Willet and featured the talents of Madeline Bernhard, Sharon Kushiner, Guy Wicke, Luisa Blanco, Felix Abidor, and Carolyn Moore.