Offers prime comic role to older actress. A 2022 O'Neill NPC finalist!

Tagline: For the ambitious woman, is a man ever a plan?

The story is about a complex friendship between two generations of ambitious women writers -- including Dionne, a groundbreaking libertine feminist philosopher obsessed with dieting.

Inverts the traditional form of a play, with a woman's friendship at center, and the men playing supporting roles.

The story: At first, Judith, a young author, doesn’t know what to make of Dionne. In her first visit to Dionne’s almost-magical cottage in Michigan, Judith even fears that Dionne is trying to recruit her into an orgy. But soon Dionne and Judith bond over their shared struggles, and Dionne becomes Judith’s valued mentor, helping her overcome a major career crisis, caused by disabling chronic pain. But clashes how to achieve their other goal in life – domestic bliss — rip them apart. Judith is suspicious when Dionne decamps to Kankakee, Illinois with a longtime boyfriend on parole; Dionne is more upset when Judith choose a traditional route of marriage and kids -- and financial dependence -- in suburban Buffalo Grove.

Meanwhile, they both struggle with the need to be alone to create -- and questions about how to control the unruly body: its fertility, its weight, its pains, its addictions, its wayward lusts.

Dramatizes a very pivotal -- and not often dramatized -- time in life for a woman, her late 30s, when basic life-determining decisions about work and family get made.

Also made first cuts for ScreenCraft Stage Play and Gary Marshall New Works Festival competitions in 2022, ranking highly as a comedy.