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I greatly enjoyed directing 'A Lighter Shade of Noir' last year with my middle school theater students. It had everything I was looking for in a script for 6th, 7th and 8th graders: lots of parts for girls or parts that could be changed to female roles, action without lots of fighting, multiple character scenes that had things to do while other people were talking, a main story line but also sub-plots, links to school subjects (like literature and history), and most importantly - dialogue that I could stand listening to over and over in rehearsal that gave the students motivation to look deeper and deeper into their character development. I hope you write more for theater, especially children's theater. We need more good writing for these young actors. Sharon Boski

We have been using your scripts for a few years, after I met Lindsay Price at the EDTA convention. Last year we performed Drop Dead, Juliet! at the International Thespian Festival. I really like your scripts because they are timely, age-appropriate and don't have bad words in them.

We performed your play (Power Play) on Sunday night at the Kawartha District Sears Drama festival and it won the Outstanding Production award (along with Awards of excellence for ensemble acting, tech work, direction and stage management)!!! The adjudicator really loved how the play "took her on a journey...the character development was fantastic". My students have been completely consumed by this project! It has been so rewarding as a teacher to see them so invested in something! Thanks again for providing such amazing material for our students. They have learned so much from this experience.