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Parenting and Playwriting Highlights

Remember the days when my kids were too young to complain about my writing about them? Here are five of my favorite essays from the "Parenting and Playwriting" series!

Multiple actors clutch a brightly lit woman onstage.
Essay
18 September 2011

For Catherine Trieschmann, parenthood interrupted her playwriting process by taking up time that used to be spent daydreaming.

Essay

The Boyfriend Plot

19 March 2015

Catherine Trieschmann tackles what happens when she leads storytelling exercises with her daughter’s Girl Scout troop, and almost all of them write about boyfriends.

Essay

While I was Gone

8 November 2013

On this week's edition of Parenting & Playwriting with Catherine Treischmann: going away to work on your art.

A landscape of a creek next to a rocky cliff.
Essay

A Room with a View

18 August 2012

On this week's edition of Parenting & Playwriting with Catherine Trieschmann: what's a mom to do when they can't bring her kids with her on a retreat?

Essay

From the Mouths of Babes, Feedback

3 October 2015

Catherine Trieschmann writes about her first experience bringing her children to a production of one of her shows.

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