In this episode, Adam has internet issues in Cairo so Budi flies solo as he continues the Audio New Play Festival with a conversation with the U.S.-based playwright of the upcoming audio play POWER GIRLS SUPPORT GROUP, Michele A. Miller.

Michele is a writer of plays, fiction, and occasional poems who also makes a living writing grants and other documents for her non-profit clients. Many of her plays have centered on simultaneously strong and vulnerable women from our mythological or historical past that reflects Michele’s previous career as an archaeologist. Michele’s first full-length play, Real Estate, was a semi-finalist in the 2002 American Theatre Coop Playwriting Contest and received readings at Women's Project Theatre, Word of Mouth, and Vital Theatre. Her one-act, Products of Conception, was produced as part of the Estrogenius Festival at Manhattan Theatre Source in 2003, the Strawberry Festival in 2004, and was a 2012 semifinalist for Eden Prairie Players Collection of One-Acts. Her full-length comedy Bedtime Stories was produced at Manhattan Theatre Source in 2004. Her short play Power Girls Support Group was produced by the New Perspectives Theatre Company in 2008 and in 2011 at the Pied Piper Theatre Company in 2019. New Perspectives also presented her full-length comedy, Mother of God! at the Richard Shepard Theatre in 2011 and in 2017. With that play, Michele was also a finalist in the 2010 Princess Grace Awards. Her one-act comedy, Crazy for you, Baby was a finalist in the 2012 Estrogenius Festival and has since been read by numerous other theatre companies. Other short plays of Michele’s have been seen at Boston Playwrights' Theatre, Women’s Project Theatre, and Blueberry Pond Theatre, and more recently on various virtual play festivals. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, the League of Professional Women Theatre Artists and Honor Roll!, an advocacy group of women+ playwrights over 40

Mentioned in this episode:

Texas Abortion Ruling
Melinda Gates' The Moment of Lift
Joshua Miller's Think Critical Podcast
Women's Work Project

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