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Alison Luterman
Alison Luterman is a poet (her book, The Largest Possible Life, published by Cleveland State University Press is available from Amazon.com), a budding playwright (her show Saying Kaddish with My Sister has been performed in San Francisco, Seattle, New York, Los Angeles and Detroit) and an all around fun person to have over for some intense conversation about mythology, society and everything else she packed into her one-act Oasis, a complex little fairy tale I had the honor of directing as part of No Nude Men’s evening of one acts, Cerberus Barking. The first living, modern playwright I had worked with since Nirmala Nataraj wrote The Book of Genesis at my behest, Alison’s play both intrigued and scared me, and rising to the challenge of knowing she would come to see it made me more nervous on opening night than I had been for a good long while. Luckily, she really liked it, and said some amazingly nice things about me on her blog (www.seehowwealmostfly.blogspot.com), which is definitely an advantage of working with people still alive to appreciate what you do with their work. Of course, the trick is finding folks whose work I’m taken with enough to want to cheat on my standing love affair with Shakespeare- but yeah, Alison’s that good, and I definitely look forward to seeing what she produces next.
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