Two years ago, I went to a Shakespeare festival in the mountains of Oregon. I didn’t expect to meet someone who would become a scene partner, a confidant, and—somehow—a second chance at a grandfather. Kevin Cahill is a retired high school teacher, just like my own grandfather was. We met through Shakespeare and poetry, but […]
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Letters to Joan is a theatre show at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 that tells a story spanning decades through discovered love letters. Set partly in 1956 Brooklyn, it follows an aspiring playwright whose letters to her boyfriend reveal desire and ambition. Decades later, her granddaughter, also a writer, uncovers these letters and explores the love story […]
I landed in Edinburgh with my director and jumped straight into a press event—no time to breathe, just straight into Fringe life. I saw our flyers for the first time, met fellow artists, and found myself explaining Letters to Joan to someone who had never heard of it. I kept telling the story – about […]
Letters to Joan has been my baby for the past three years. Since January, preparing to bring it to the Edinburgh Fringe has consumed my life, every second, every morsel of my time and energy poured into it. Though I moved to London about a year ago, the story began in New York. This July, […]
