Still Here.
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After an award-winning London premiere, 10 First Dates, a dark comedy by Portland playwright Christine Rose, is coming home to Portland this November and December! The play follows Maggie, newly single after 25 years of marriage, as she dives headfirst…
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10 First Dates Earns LPT’s Festival Fave Award
What wonderful news to start the day! I woke up to a text from my producer of the March 2026 production of 10 First Dates at the Etcetera Theatre’s Women Writers Festival telling me the play won a Festival Fave…
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Liberty Wept Finds Permanent Home in Olympia, WA
I am overjoyed and humbled to share that Liberty Wept has won the People’s Choice Award at the Percival Plinth Project in Olympia, WA — and Olympia’s City Council has officially voted to purchase her for permanent public display. When…
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Introducing 10 First Dates Workbook: A Guided Journey for Dating With Intention
I’m so excited to finally share this with you. Back in 2018, after a marriage that ended three years earlier in a very painful and confusing way, I did something a little wild: I decided to go on ten first…
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Liberty Wept in Oly Arts
“Liberty Wept” has been featured in an Oly Arts article by Molly Gilmore! (Photo by Skip Albertson) The piece that’s getting the most attention, though, is “Liberty Wept,” a reclaimed metal sculpture by Christine Rose, a Portland artist, author and…
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Liberty Wept Needs Your Vote!
Liberty Wept is standing on her plinth on the Olympia waterfront boardwalk — and she needs you. The Percival Plinth Project is a year-long public art installation featuring 14 sculptures displayed throughout Olympia, WA. Throughout the month of July, the…
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Liberty Wept Has Left the Building — She’s in Olympia Now
On June 26th, we loaded a 175-pound weeping Statue of Liberty into a cargo van and drove her two hours north to her new home. Liberty Wept, my 6’3″ reclaimed metal sculpture, has been accepted into the Percival Plinth Project…
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Garden Duet VIII — Come Find My Work in SW Portland Next Weekend
One of my favorite things about being a sculptor who works exclusively with reclaimed metal is finding my people — and ReClaimIt PDX’s annual fundraising event and art show, Garden Duet, is full of them. I’m thrilled to be one…
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Burn It Down
I burned the haystack before it had a name — and wrote a play about it. There’s a viral dating method sweeping the internet right now called the “burned haystack.” The premise is elegant in its ruthlessness: if you’re looking…
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“10 First Dates” — London Premiere, 4-Star Reviews, and 3 Award Nominations
I saw my own play for the first time on opening night. Watching something you wrote come to life on a stage while strangers laugh at exactly the right moments is surreal—and one of the most extraordinary things I’ve ever…
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