Offers prime role to older actress. A 2022 O'Neill NPC finalist!
The play has a modern take on a still-under-dramatized core struggle of the ambitious woman: to sacrifice career or family -- while also practicing self-care (in this case, with the invisible disability of chronic migraine) for the sake of mental health.

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

The story is about a complex friendship between two generations of ambitious women writers -- including a groundbreaking libertine feminist philosopher, Dionne, obsessed with dieting that the O'Neill judges singled out for its "complexity of character, delighting in her eccentricities."

At first, Judith, a young author, doesn’t know what to make of Dionne, a trail-blazing libertine world-famous philosopher. 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 in suburban middle-class 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.