←Recommendations of Birds of North America

I love this play because it made me ache. I admire its subtext and simplicity, its humor and truth. Brava!

This delicate two-hander is sublime in the way it builds depth in spite of its apparent simplicity - by the end, you feel like you know these two human beings intimately, even though you've only seen a few brief minutes of their lives across years. The dialogue is natural, consistent, and contains so much in pauses, body language, and negative space. There is so much said about change, inevitability, and even fate without any character addressing these things head-on. It's full of so much emotion rooted in a very authentic place. A new, unique family drama for the current moment.

The seasons pass and climate change makes the autumns warmer and warmer, altering the migration patterns of the birds, fueling the slow burn between father and daughter. What begins as light comedy in Moench's hands may avoid tragedy, but ends in elegy. I reviewed Birds of North America for Washington City Paper: https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/540057/a-flock-of-feelings-in-b…

The beauty of nature and the present moment is the life force that ambition always seems to overpower. Yet it always the grounding force that connects us to what's truly important. Wonderful work!

A deft and piercing exploration of how a father/daughter relationship can grow and shift and expand and implode and get sewn back together, again and again over time. These characters have been crafted with extreme care, and I love how birding is something that John and Caitlyn can share even while the rest of their lives seem so entirely at odds with one another. This is a beautiful play about family, the things that push us apart, and the things that hold us together.

I read Man of God: loved Anna's voice so much, launched into reading this play. The simple setting, birdwatching over ten plus autumns, allows for great depths within this father/daughter relationship: so different than mine with my dad, but yet utterly recognizable. The deleted voicemail and the naming of the ten bucket list birds just wrecked me. In these annual interactions, while focused on birds, Anna says so much about our differing world/political views, family, natural violence, and how we spend our days on earth when, what we strive to leave behind, overcasts this moment right now. Beautiful.

This is a beautiful and timely play. It was selected from a pool of over 80 submissions as the winner of Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company's Generations new play competition. We are producing the world premiere in the Fall of 2017. Join us for an RWP!