Peggy's full length drama Briefly
Amanda was selected for the Fullerton
College Playwrights Festival 2005.
Peggy’s ten-minute play Strange
Bedfellows won Second Place in the Claire
Donaldson Short Play Competition at Augustana College,
was selected for a staged reading at The
Last Frontier Theatre Conference 2005 in Valdez, Alaska, appeared in the Herring
Run ArtsFest, Middleborough, MA and in Estrogenius:
A Celebration of Women's Voices at Manhattan Theatre Source,
New York City, in September, 2005.
Peggy was the first place
winner of the Loudest Laf! Laurel National Humor Writing Competition. Her
romantic comedy Love
Takes
Turns was a finalist in the National
Writers Workshop Screenplay Competition. Peggy is a member of
The Dramatists Guild of America, Inc., The Alliance of Los Angeles
Playwrights, New Voices, Actors Alliance of San Diego, and
Scripteasers.
FROM BED TO WORSE:
A psychologist slips over the edge when her young, gorgeous
new client describes an affair with a married man who sounds
suspiciously like the psychologist’s husband.
Misperception, mistaken identity, miscommunication, and
mishap after mishap abound in the full length comedy From Bed to Worse. The
six characters (3M,
3F) reveal and discover
themselves as they pursue and seduce each other.
From
Bed to Worse has had full productions at World Premiere Theatre in Eureka, CA (2001)
and Patio Playhouse in Escondido, California April 1-24, 2005.
From Bed To Worse has
had staged readings in Carlsbad, California, Grand Rapids, Michigan,
Boca Raton, and New York City.
MOTHERLOAD:
Mothers and daughters confide and collide in Motherload,
a trilogy of biting one-act comedies
about 'enduring' family ties.
"News"
“Tight Genes" and
“Motherload
" constitute the trilogy, Motherload.
In
"News", a twentysomething daughter’s news is upstaged by her
mother's bigger news. "News" was selected for the Fritz Blitz Festival of New Plays 2000.
"News" has
also had productions at The Looking Glass Theatre, New York City,
December, 2002 and at the Vanguard Theatre, Fullerton, California,
July, 2005, as part of the New Voices Festival of Short Plays.
In "Tight
Genes", fortysomething
Rose trades truths and slings zingers with her wisecracking mother
in an exchange which transforms their relationship.
"Tight Genes" won Third Prize in the Pen and Brush 2004 National Playwriting Contest. "Tight
Genes" was selected for the Actors Alliance Actors Festival
2001 and was performed at St. Cecilia’s Playhouse in San Diego in
May, 2001. "Tight
Genes" had a staged reading produced by American
Playwrights Theatre at Mid-Manhattan Library, New York City on April
22, 2002.
In the three generational "Motherload",
fortysomething Dora and her daughter Natalie struggle to find
separate identities, as well as escape the Juggernaut of Nora, the
redneck Grandma. "Motherload"
was selected for the Samuel French Short Play Festival 2002 in New
York City.
The trilogy
Motherload has a running time of 90 minutes.
The
seven female characters can be played by as few as three actors (mid
20s, mid 40s, mid 60s). Each
play uses the same, simple set.
Heidi Baker is a 20 year old
single parent whose unacknowledged addictions compromise her judgment and cause her to
unwittingly risk that which matters most.
