YOU ARE PRETTY
full-length play
3M, 4F
You are Pretty explores the intimate lives and loves of workers at the Hippie Ho House, a legal brothel located in Moundhouse, NV. The Hippie Ho House depends primarily on the earnings of its top performer Bunny, known for her kinky parties and exaggerated “polyorgasmic” performances. As the women work to entertain a rotating cast of clients, their livelihood is threatened when Bunny refuses a client for the first time.
PRODUCTION HISTORY:
2008 - St Idiot Collective (Austin, TX), site-specific performance
DEVELOPMENT HISTORY:
2006 - St Idiot Collective (Austin, TX), workshop
2005 - Live Girls! Theater, New Playwrights Festival (Seattle, WA), reading
2004 - Downstage at Sarah Lawrence College (Bronxville, NY), reading
AWARDS/HONORS:
Winner, 2004 Stanley and Evelyn Lipkin Prize for Playwriting
2007 ScriptWorks Finer Point Funding
2007 Marchbanks Family Foundation Grant
2006 ScriptWorks Seed Support Grant
PRESS:
St. Idiot's amazingly intimate tour of a brothel is funny, daring, and real - Austin Chronicle
“Favorite Moments Onstage,” Austin Chronicle
VIDEO EXCERPT:
“For a play with such a tantalizing, sensationalistic premise, Pretty is actually full of nuance, quiet moments, and sadness. It’s about the fragile people sucked into such a ruthless lifestyle (however they mask it as a world of fantasy) . . .”