Product Description
by Tara Meddaugh (Author)
To four young children, Christmas is no simple sleigh ride. Annie's new best friend is a talking reindeer, and she's not sure if that's really okay... Sam is experiencing the pressure of being the Lead Shepherd in the church pageant. Dylan has a very secretive wish he hopes Santa can deliver. And Lauren needs to make sure someone is giving her little brother a very special Christmas. Experience the joys and challenges of Christmas through the eyes of children in this monologue-driven one-act comedy. This is a play for 5 actors (3 male, 2 female, but casting is gender flexible)
Author Biography
Tara Meddaugh is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University's MFA program in Dramatic Writing. Her work has been performed throughout the world and is enjoyed by tens of thousands of readers each month. Students and teachers world-wide have utilized her plays for Directing, Acting and Dramatic Literature courses and workshops in schools and colleges. Her monologues have been performed by actors around the globe and many have been published in various works, from acting websites and to a compilation of female monologues to an Oxford Press Language Arts textbook in South Africa. Serial monologues she wrote were performed for two years by the internationally recognized receptionist-robot, Valerie. Additionally, she toured in a Children's Theatre Troupe, which she wrote for, co-directed, and performed in. She has taught Playwriting at the university level, at public theaters, in schools, and in programs to underserved youth. She is a two-time recipient of the Shubert Fellowship in Dramatic Writing, the Sloan Screenwriting Fellowship, the New Works for Young Women [Actors] Award and is a member of the Dramatist's Guild. Tara has written children's books, short stories, a novel, and writes and records music in the chick-core rap band, Girl Crusade. She lives in Westchester County with her husband and two dramatic children.
