Mother(Land) Will Teach You That

by Anya Martin

(Pittsburgh, PA, USA)

The pain of an electric fence is meant to keep Pat’s dog, Stella, safe. When this border is unexpectedly crossed by a little girl, blood and boundaries are drawn as Pat navigates invisible fences in the ground and in the current of her heart.

about the author:

Anya Martin is a playwright, director, producer, and theatre thinker. Her plays have been praised as “smart, sharp and witty,” (Pittsburgh City Paper) with “scenes of imagination and poetic insight.” (Pittsburgh Post Gazette) In 2018 her play “Helen at the Gym”was a winner in RedBull Theater’s Annual Short Play Festival. (Published by Stage Rights) In the thick of the pandemic, Martin was introduced to “Hear Me Out” in an online playwriting class in which she asked Roland Tec to read for President James Buchanan in her full length play, “The President’s Pants." (In which the ghost of the 15th president haunts a gay women who must return home to live with her Mennonite family. Roland was very good!) Martin grew up in a conservative Mennonite family in rural Mercersburg, PA, where she graduated from James Buchanan High School. She then ran away to drama school, and earned her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and her MFA in theatre from Sarah Lawrence College. Currently, she lives in Pittsburgh, where she is the Founding Artistic Director of Hiawatha Project. www.hiawathaproject.org.