Life on the Moon by
A young man named Spencer returns home from the military for Christmas. His sister, Piper, who is autistic, is the only person in the family who notices that something is making Spencer unhappy.
Anna Tatelman
Anna Tatelman
Anna Tatelman is a graduate of the University of New Orleans’s Creative Writing MFA program. Her play Life on the Moon is the the 2017 winner of the Triad Shakes Theatre’s New Play Competition and of Southeastern Louisiana University’s Inkslinger Playwriting Competition. Life on the Moon has been produced at two universities and, prior to the pandemic, was slated to receive its first professional production at...
Anna Tatelman is a graduate of the University of New Orleans’s Creative Writing MFA program. Her play Life on the Moon is the the 2017 winner of the Triad Shakes Theatre’s New Play Competition and of Southeastern Louisiana University’s Inkslinger Playwriting Competition. Life on the Moon has been produced at two universities and, prior to the pandemic, was slated to receive its first professional production at Detroit Repertory Theatre. Anna’s other plays have been produced or are forthcoming at venues such as the Mid-America Theatre Conference, FemuScripts Theatre, The Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts in Hammond, and Intramural Theatre. Anna’s fiction and non-fiction writings have appeared in numerous publications such as Drunk Monkeys, The Bookends Review’s online magazine and Best of 2017 printed anthology, and The Gallatin Review. Her forthcoming essay “The Edgy Game” was an honorable mention in the 2018 Samuel Mockabee Award for Non-Fiction. When not posing as the female reincarnation of Tennessee Williams, Anna can usually be found overdosing on caffeine, befriending feral cats, and/or eating ice cream.