MARCH 2020
Chateau de Poigny Residency – France
When I received an email from Jacqueline Goldfinger a lifetime ago inviting me to a writer’s retreat in France I was delighted to say yes. This retreat, which had been planned almost a year in advance was to take place March 6th - March 14th 2020. A group of twenty American playwrights, directors, screenwriters, dramaturges, and creative beings were off to Poigny to indulge in what I now know as the simple luxury of group collaboration.
As the date approaches and whispers of the Covid-19 virus began individuals began to make choices to stay or go on the retreat. The thirteen of us who ended up converging in France had no idea that this would be the last in-person collaboration as artists for over a year.
I’m grateful to have carried the memories of this retreat with me in the frightening early days of the Pandemic. I’m looking forward to reuniting with these beautiful artists in November in Spain.
