Susan Bernfield

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  • About Susan
  • SIZZLE SIZZLE FLY
  • TANIA IN THE GETAWAY VAN
  • MY LAST CAR
  • BIG HUNGRY WORLD
  • STRETCH (a fantasia)
  • TINY FEATS...
  • BARKING GIRL
  • MORE!

sizzle sizzle fly

SIZZLE SIZZLE FLY.  The former computress sits her mini-skirted self down in a regulation Mission Control swivel chair, swings her impeccable long blonde hair, and becomes the first woman to slip on the black headset, a NASA engineer.  It’s December 1968, Apollo 8 has gone behind the moon, and Poppy Northcutt holds her breath as the world changes faster than her return-to-earth trajectories can splash those dudes back down.

SIZZLE SIZZLE FLY was a 2015 EST/Sloan Commission

and was read in January 2017 in EST's First Light Festival, with Lee Sunday Evans directing

it received a Sloan rewrite commission in summer of 2018, and had two workshop presentations in the 2019 First Light Festival at EST, with sound design by Kate Marvin.

Also in 2019, it was one of three plays in MACH 33: The Caltech | Pasadena Playhouse Festival of New Science-Driven Plays 2019, where it was directed by Rhonda Kohl.  

read more about the play and the process of writing it in this interview with Rich Kelley on the EST blog!


Want to read SIZZLE SIZZLE FLY?  Just let me know.
Find me any time at susan@newgeorges.org.  
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