THANK YOU

Just a moment to give thanks:

To First Person Arts RAW, and all the wonderful First Person Arts staff, who made this show possible, and made me stick to my story.

To Liz Green, who enabled me to dream big, encouraged me to throw all the spaghetti at the wall, and then to wonder if maybe the wall would look better with a little less spaghetti.

To Tara Demmy, Sarah Gladwin Camp, Britney Leigh Hines, Sara Madden, Lisa Rothstein, Jessica Wong, and Ilse Zoerb, whose incredible talents brought this story to life, and whose own stories brought me back.

To Meghann Williams, who, well, Christ.  Fucking everything.

Additional thanks to all you blog-readers, audience members, and volunteers.  And to all the folks who read my story, dropped off a table for the set, or just lived me throughout all this, pushing me through fear to the unearthly power of sheer vulnerability:

The Bridal Salon at Painted Bride Art Center, Lindsay Browning, Anna Drozdowski, Tim Evans, Liz Filios, Julie Gorham, Brian Grace-Duff, Gillian Grassie, Anthony Kamani, Foster Longo, Janice Longo, Stephen Longo, New Boy, LaNeshe White, everyone from the Sound of Words, Julia Taus, JJ Tiziou, Rich Wexler, Rebekah Zhuraw, and the Rutgers Camden Summer Writing Conference.  Plus anyone who appears in this story without permission, and anyone who doesn’t appear in this story but totally should.  And of course, HCK.

 The True Story, or Vicious & Multiple & Untrue After All premiered as part of First Person Arts RAW at the First Person Arts Festival (November 8-17, 2012).