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In November 2018, I had a first for a TED-style event: a TED talk performed entirely as a short play. "Reimagine" was written for TEDxSonomaCounty and staged live rather than delivered as a lecture — a married couple debate the politics of the day in the kitchen while, in the next room, their teenage daughter and a friend rewrite the rules of a simulation game.

It was a genuine collaboration. The actors worked with me on dialogue, using improv in places that shifted the text. Director Craig Miller made staging and dialogue suggestions of his own, and the cast brought a black-and-white script to life in ways I hadn't imagined while writing it. Besides a word processor, the greatest gift a playwright can receive is a talented director and cast — and that fall, I got both.