february 24-25, 2020

Directed by Graham Miller

Normal Ave.’s Medicine Show Theatre
549 West 52nd Street, New York, NY 10019

about the play

When her husband Craig dies suddenly, Melody is indoctrinated into the rules and regulations of what it means to be a proper (capital w) Widow. Part dream, part waking-nightmare, this delightfully dark comedy dances through the music of Melody’s memories as it explores what we allow others, and ourselves, to feel in the wake of a complicated loss.

Meet the Cast

About the Playwright

Bekah Brunstetter hails from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and currently lives in Los Angeles.

Plays include The Cake (Ojai Playwrights Conference), Going to a Place where you already are (South Coast Repertory), The Oregon Trail (Portland Center Stage Fall 2016, O’Neill Playwrights Conference; Flying V) Cutie and Bear ( Roundabout commission) A Long and Happy life (Naked Angels Commission), Be A Good Little Widow (Ars Nova, Collaboraction, The Old Globe), Oohrah! (The Atlantic Theater, Steppenwolf Garage, the Finborough Theater / London), Nothing is the end of the World (except for the end of the world) (Waterwell productions), House of Home (Williamstown Theater festival) and Miss Lilly Gets Boned (Ice Factory Festival.)

She is an alumni of the CTG Writers Group, Primary Stages writes group, Ars Nova Play Group, The Playwright’s Realm, and the Women’s Project Lab. She is currently a member of the Echo Theater’s Playwright’s group.

She has previously written for MTV (Underemployed; I Just want my Pants Back) ABC Family’s Switched at Birth, Starz’s American Gods. She is currently a Co-Producer on NBC’s This is Us.

BA UNC Chapel Hill; MFA in Dramatic Writing from the New School for Drama.

Medicine Show Theatre

549 West 52nd Street, New York, NY 10019

Be a Good Little Widow is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc., a Concord Theatricals Company. This is an Equity approved showcase.