Amy Brenneman (Private Practice, Judging Amy, Heat) and I co-created this piece, based on Amy's personal writings. It explores the ecstatic, excruciating, humorous dance between the sacred and profane in Amy's own life. Her spiritual curiosity has taken her from a Buddhist temple in Nepal to an Evangelical church in the Mississippi Delta to the red carpet in Hollywood. But it was in a recent hospital room that her beliefs were most powerfully tested. The piece celebrates the sorrows and the joys of being human, finding divinity in surprising places and ways. In the past, Amy and I worked together as members of Cornerstone Theater Company and co-created the piece, Interstates, about a young woman's search for a sense of place.

DEVELOPMENT HISTORY
Mouth Wide Open was first performed at The Yard Performing Arts Festival on Martha's Vineyard for three performances in July, 2010, the culmination of a two-week developmental residency.