The Poetry of Pizza
A Play in Four Slices
Professor Sarah Middleton arrives in Denmark to teach at the University of Copenhagen, only to find her life irrevocably thrown off course when she stops by the Vermundsgade Pizzeria one night for a pizza. She falls suddenly and unexpectedly in love with the pizza maker, Soran Saleen, a Kurdish refugee who wins her heart with his pizzas. Sarah and Soran’s unlikely courtship arouses the curiosity and passions of everyone around them (an assortment of Danish, Arab and American characters) setting in motion a rash of culinary courtships and a chaotic comedy of errors.
Productions: The Purple Rose, Chelsea, MI; Virginia Stage Company, Norfolk, VA; Mixed Blood Theatre, Minneapolis, MN; Theatre in the Square, Marietta, GA; California Repertory Theatre, Long Beach, CA; Stage 3, Sonora, CA; Centenary Stage, Hackettstown, NJ.
Awards: Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation grant. Ruby Lloyd Aspey Playwriting award;Winner, Stage 3 Playwriting Contest and the Women Playwright’s Competition at University of Missouri, (2nd place)
