Hello, Everyone!

Get through the holidaze? Staring bleary eyed into 2026?

Well, I decided this 2026 that life is awful short and, by gum, maybe I should get a show I've been working on for almost a decade off my hard drive and out into the world.

(This is all because of an excerpt I presented at Drunken Owl last October. The response afterward was unlike anything I've ever received for anything I've ever written, and I'm playing with this hypothesis that maybe should pay attention to such things...?)

So next month, I am bringing my whole show, Madam(e) Lou, to Seattle.

Lou Graham is one of the founding mothers of Seattle, but she's been erased from our history books because of her trade (and what's in our history books is kind of... not really what happened...?)

So, I began researching her ten years ago, and that show went from a musical to a sixteen person one-act to a four-person verbatim theatre piece... to realizing what I actually wanted to do was just present the facts.

Because those facts are pretty frickin' bonkers.

What's even more exciting is that this show was awarded a slot at the Edinburgh Fringe in August.

(The Edinburgh Fringe is the biggest theatre festival in the world. Ticket sales are surpassed only by the Olympics and the World Cup. In 2025, it ran for 25 days, sold over 2.6 million tickets, and featured 53,942 performances of 3,893 shows across 301 venues.)

SO! It's all beginning here! If you're in the Puget Sound Region, I'd love to have you come witness this first presentation as I get this sucker ready to present to the world!

Madam(e) Lou

February 13 at 7:30 p.m.

Seattle Open Arts Place

1406 18th Avenue

Seattle, 98122

Tickets are Pay What You Wish

Hopefully, see you at the theatre!

Carpe Diem!

-Kate