An uncompromising painter is pulled back to her dying mother, her exhausting sister, and her too-successful ex — just as her boldest new work threatens to break her open.

I am over the moon to share that my full length play Imago is being produced in Hollywood under the auspices of Theatre Unleashed in association with Fierce Mama Productions.

I’d like to pretend that I am cool-as-a-cucumber, and saunter about with a ‘been there, done that’ attitude, but the truth is I am still in a state of awe and gratitude, and bouncing about like a puppy with a new friend.

If you are in the LA area, I hope you will find time to come out and see the production.  We’ve assembled a talented group of actors and a top notch production team, all led by director Richard Piatt.

The show runs Thursday-Saturday, September 24 through October 10, 7:30 pm.

The Hobgoblin Playhouse
1516 N. Gardner St.,
Los Angeles, CA 90046

Tickets can be purchased here: https://events.thestagecrafts.com/projects/15261

“Katherine Harmston paints butterflies as monsters. At forty-five, she lives and works in a crumbling warehouse loft, refusing to soften her uncompromising art into something that might actually sell, and refusing just as fiercely, to accept help from anyone. When her overbearing Type-A sister Beth arrives with news that their sharp-tongued mother is in hospice, Katherine is pulled back toward the family she’d fled and once again into the orbit of a glossy, commercially triumphant ex-lover who represents everything she loathes about being an artist. 

Wrestling with unsettling revelations about her past and an increasingly uncertain future, Katherine is forced to confront the possibility that she may have to finally compromise her lifestyle, beliefs, and independence in the name of survival. Her only hope is an upcoming exhibition, and a bold new painting that represents a complete departure from her established body of work… if she can ever finish it. Will this new work define her career? Or destroy it?

Imago is an unflinching, funny, and unexpectedly tender play about art and ambition, the debts we owe the people who made us, and what it costs to finally let ourselves transform.”