How to Travel Through Time with Your Kindred Spirit (and Also Make a Feminist Webseries)
How much importance is seemly to place on our work and friends? How big a feeling are we allowed to feel for things that are not global calamities, or men?
c. 2003
“Casualties of war.”
August 2015
Beck & Clem, In the show, Clem (played by Emily) arrives from circa the 1500s-ish and Beck, a twenty-first-century woman played by me, delights in showing her the modern wonders of feminism, sexual freedom, plague cure, and Thin Mints.
October 2015
B&C,
The road trip was as idyllic as the reality was not. My first month in LA with Emily was an ever-widening stress gorge. Our housing fell through (multiple times). We got bedbugs. My dad had a heart attack. Plus, parking tickets. We consumed many cups of wine, hot from the trunk of the car, on the sidewalk outside of laundromats.
Les Misérables,
Aug 29 2016
I think I drunk-texted you about this! But here is an actual draft/sketch of ten webisodes of the two-lady comedy re: time travel.
If you DON’T want to do this I'll just add it to my screenfolio and shop it around or whatever I’m supposed to be doing. If you DO I will save it for you.
Aug 31 2016
I am all about this. When are you in Detroit next?
care
Beck & Clem
In friendship and webseries and fascist coups taking over your country, you need people in your corner who care, excessively, about doing the right thing.
[MAKES LOUD BZZZZ NOISE]
Abbey Fenbert is a writer and theater artist in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared online at The Toast, The Offing, McSweeney's, HowlRound and American Theatre.
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