MY MEMORY :  I first got to know the artistry of Alan Ball when I saw a workshop in Florida of this funny and gently moving play. I told him that I’d love to bring the play to New York, and with his blessing I began sending the script out to theatres I knew, trying to interest one of them in a production.  Thanks to a grant from the SDC Foundation, I was able to rehearse and mount a week of performances with some wonderful young actors I admired.  At first nothing came of it, but sometimes fate smiles on you in unexpected ways.  Out of the blue I got a call from the York Theatre Company who was looking for a new play to produce. Someone had seen our little run and had raved to them about it.  They asked to read it, but I proposed something better -- we put on a private performance for them in the living room of one of their board members!  And that’s how Cherokee County became the first new non-musical play that the York Theatre ever produced.

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We were an unknown author, director and cast, so we didn’t get a lot of press, but I didn’t mind so very much.  What was important to me was knowing what I had accomplished. I had been determined to make a production happen, to introduce a talented new playwright to New York audiences, and that’s exactly what I did.  To know I could set a goal for myself and make it happen, was worth everything to me.     

Act One: DOG 'N' SUDS

Act Two: CHIEFETTE PRACTICE

Act Three: OLD ENOUGH TO DRINK

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