Plays & Performances, Writing

Finding Words

Why

When it’s too hard to find the right words, there’s always other people’s words.

What

Characters: 1 woman, 1 man
Running Time: 10 minutes
Summary: A man tries to find the right words to express his feelings to a librarian.
Recognition:
• Finalist, Cross Currents Theatre’s 2004 Five and Dime Playwriting Contest

When & Where

Availability: Available for performance.
Production History:
• Produced by CrossCurrents Theatre, Kansas City, MO, as part of their “Random Acts: Random acts of love, laughs, life, death and poor customer service,” November 2004.

By Alexis

Alexis Clements is a writer and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. Her creative work has been published, produced, and screened in venues across the US, Europe, and South America. Her feature-length documentary film, All We’ve Got, premiered in the fall of 2019 in New York City and has since screened around the US and internationally. Her play Unknown also premiered in October 2019 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Other plays of hers have been produced, published, and anthologized across the US and the UK over the past two decades. Her prose writing has appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Guardian, Bitch Magazine, American Theatre, The Brooklyn Rail, and Nature, among others, and she is a regular contributor to Hyperallergic. In addition to her writing and filmmaking, she is currently serving on the Executive Board of CLAGS, the Center for LGBTQ Studies at the City University of New York (CUNY), as a Coordinator at the Lesbian Herstory Archives, and a co-founder of Little Rainbows, a queer story time for children and their caretakers.

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