Boo Killebrew

After her release from prison Lettie is desperate to regain custody of her teenage children. Training to be an iron welder Lettie will stop at nothing to reclaim her family and start life anew. Inspired by real Chicago stories Lettieis a powerful moving and funny play by playwright Boo Killebrew.

Playful, funny, and fiercely emotional, Killebrew's acclaimed play explores what it means to be a father - or a daughter. It's not easy putting on a play. It's even harder when your dad is the lead character, he's playing himself, and even though you're the professional playwright and he's the emergency surgeon, he keeps trying to rewrite your script. After Hurricane Katrina swept through her home town, Boo was determined to write a play about it. But she never imagined it would be this hard...

Keen Teens is a unique and free educational theatre program, run by the Drama Desk and Obie Award-winning Keen Company. Keen Teens seeks to improve the quality of plays written for high school students by commissioning scripts from highly regarded playwrights, and gives students the opportunity to work with professional artists in an Off-Broadway setting.

Sisters Liz and Bernie couldn't be more different: Liz is a polite southern stay-at-home mom; Bernie is a flailing actress smoking and swearing her way through New York City. But when Liz is suddenly widowed she and her young daughter move in with Bernie to start again. While Bernie challenges all of Liz's assumptions about life love and raising a child Liz goes out on a series of internet dates which eclipse the grief fear and gentility she's known for so long. Can Liz compel her own sto

The Play About My Dadis a look at Larry Killebrew through the eyes of his playwright daughter Boo. His words his family his job as an emergency room surgeon his community of Gulfport Mississippi and Hurricane Katrina which almost turned Gulfport into a coral reef. As Larry tries acting and Boo adds new scenes they discover how hard it is to tell the story the true way.