Howling: A Fairy Tale

diagnosed Autistic in her late-20s, birdie fears telling her new girlfriend about her disability, or the other… discomforts of her childhood. no need to trouble her; that’s what therapy’s for. in her sleep, birdie’s on a journey through a(n) (un)familiar forest; a hunted feeling follows, like the howls she swears she hears. when Dreamworld and Reality begin to bleed together, birdie stumbles on a cottage made of sweets and shelters there. but the howling’s getting closer, and birdie doesn’t know how to keep the wolves from blowing down the door.

 

Content Advisory: This play contains themes of grief, mental health, neurodivergence, ableism, emotional abuse, family conflict, strong language, and depictions of psychological distress. Recommended for Ages 15+.  

Playwright
Jordan Bird

Jordan Bird (she/her) is a queer/neurodivergent/Mad theatre artist creating work with and for her Mad/neurodivergent/queer siblings. At the intersection of the spiritually weird and the oddly embodied, her work provokes conversations about disability and trauma, and challenges the way the Other (disabled/marginalized/vulnerable) is meant to exist in a world built for the privileged/secure/abled. She’s grateful to have collaborated with Inkwell Theatre, Wordsmyth Theatre, Workshop Theatre, the Digital Dramaturgy Project, and The Other Side of Silence. Her work has been recognized by the O’Neill NPC, Bay Street Theatre’s Title Wave festival, Normal Avenue’s NAP Series, the Dramatist Guild’s Virtual Playwriting Fellowship, the Blue Ink Award, and others. She is honored to be a member of the Bay Area Playwrights Festival 47 cohort. Jordan has served as a script doctor, evaluator, and editor with students and professional theatres and is currently facilitating Introduction to Playwriting workshops through a community organization in Tennessee. She’s an active member of the DGA, and you can find her work on the New Play Exchange. Jordan lives on the land that was cared for and shared by the Tsalaguwetiyi (Eastern Band of Cherokee), S’atsoyaha (Yuchi), and Miccosukee peoples until 1838, when the Cherokee and Yuchi were forced out of the area along the Trail of Tears and the Miccosukee migrated to the Florida everglades to evade forced removal. 

TICKETS SAT, SEPT 19, 1:00PM
(In Person Reading at The Rueff at A.C.T.'s Strand Theater) FRI, SEPT 25, 7:00PM
(In Person Reading at the Rueff at A.C.T.'s Strand Theater) MON, OCT 19–SUN, OCT 25
(On Demand)

DIRECTOR: TESSA CORRIE

DRAMATURG: ARIELLA WOLFE

CONTENT EXPERT: TBA

LEAD PRODUCERS: WILLIAM GREGORY

Meet the Creative Team

Director
TESSA CORRIE

Tessa Corrie (she/her) is a Queer, Latinx, and Neurodivergent Theater Director homegrown from the Bay Area. Her passion is new play development that amplifies underrepresented narratives. She is the former Casting Director of PlayGround SF and freelance directs through the East and South Bay. Her credits include work at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Palo Alto Players, The Pear Theatre, Cutting Ball Theatre, The Playwrights’ Center of San Francisco, More Más Marami Arts, Poltergeist Theatre Project, PianoFight, AmiosWest, and Our Digital Stories.

Dramaturg
ARIELLA WOLFE

Ariella Wolfe (she/her) is a dramaturg, director, teaching artist, and producer with 10 years of experience in New Play Development and Arts Education, with a background in community-engaged and devised theatre. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, her work has also taken her to Los Angeles, New York, and Buenos Aires. Artistic Credits include EMERGING VOICES (producer/director, 2021-2026), Sandcastle New Play Reading Series (producer/director), EIGHT NIGHTS (director, staged reading benefitting HIAS), EVERYTHING THAT NEVER HAPPENED (asst. director, Boston Court Pasadena), HOMEWARD LA (director), and PHOTOGRAPH 51 (asst. director, South Coast Rep). Ariella received her B.A. in Theatre Arts from the University of Oregon and is a founding member of Sandcastle Theater Company (artistic / program director).

Meet the Cast

Cast TBA Cast bios TBA.

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