Bad Neighbors – Best of Week – FronteraFest 2020!
It’s time to join the BAD NEIGHBORS at Hyde Park Theatre in FronteraFest 2020 for their BEST OF WEEK performance! February 1, 2019 at 8 pm. —— The development of BAD NEIGHBORS was made possible by a commission from ScriptWorks. For information about ScriptWorks programming or membership, visit us on line at wwww.scriptworks.org This project is supported in part...
Bad Neighbors at FronteraFest 2020!
It’s almost time to join the BAD NEIGHBORS at Hyde Park Theatre in FronteraFest 2020! January 29th at 8 pm. —— The development of BAD NEIGHBORS was made possible by a commission from ScriptWorks. For information about ScriptWorks programming or membership, visit us on line at wwww.scriptworks.org This project is supported in part by the...
Dress For The Job You Aren’t Qualified For
I received the following email from Brandyn and felt forced to to write him a passionate response. Brandyn, I received your latest missive and I am so happy to hear from you again, and this time with such an enticing and surprising offer. Technical Animator – PROMINENT Gaming Company! Me? At first, I thought, oh,...
Get Ready for Summerween!
I made you a thing! A Gravity Falls loser candy thing! We are a pale, geeky, indoor, air conditioning-loving bunch around here, so summer holidays are not highly anticipated in this house — but even the palest members of Team Hanna get excited about the best summer holiday ever, Summerween! Every June 22nd we carve the jack-0-melons,...
Come see Big Brad Wolf at Hyde Park Theatre!
I’m excited to announce that my newest comedy, BIG BRAD WOLF, is part of ScriptWorks’ Out of ink 2018: Lost & Found. Out of Ink is a fun showcase of 10 minute plays that were written with specific rules or “ingredients” that had to be included in each script. This year’s rules included: 1) An...
Come See Haggis at FronteraFest Austin!
I’m super excited to announce my FronteraFest show this year — Haggis! A couple’s search for adventure at a desert nudist resort lands them in rural Scotland with an inscrutable groundskeeper and inadequate wardrobe. A new comedy by Ava Love Hanna; starring Anne Hulsman, Weldon Phillips, and Travis Dean. Join us for the fun: January 24th, 8pm, Hyde...
Video – Am I Willing to Punch a Peacock?
Remember that time I was attacked by peacocks at Mayfield Park and wrote an essay about it? Because I like to live on the edge, I returned to the scene of the crime and told a live version of the story, surrounded by the very same peacocks, for the Night of the Peacock Benefit organized by Max Langert and Cinnamon Path Productions. My husband recorded my performance (probably in case we needed evidence for a peacock-attack related insurance claim) and it's available to watch from the comfort of your peacock-free home.
Camp NaNoWriMo: Like Camp But With Words and Deadlines
I'm super excited to be participating in Camp NaNoWriMo this April. I'm primarily an essayist and poet, so I've never participated in NaNoWriMo (the attempt to write a 50,000 word novel in November). But, I stumbled across the Camp NaNoWriMo website and saw that it offered the flexibility to work on a variety of writing projects including poetry, and I was intrigued. It's free, fun, summer camp-themed, the t-shirts feature a Storysquatch, I'll have an excuse to eat "working" s'mores -- there's nothing that could make me love this more.
A Feminist in the Kitchen: Modern Hestia
I’ve been thinking about Hestia lately, the virgin goddess of home and hearth. Basically, her story goes like this: she was pursued by both Apollo (the god of the sun) and Poseidon (the god of the sea), but rejected both of them and chose to remain a perpetual virgin in order to keep the peace. As a reward, Zeus gives her the duty of maintaining the fires of the Olympian hearth. Oh, and the hearth isn't portable, so she was rewarded with a life in the kitchen... forever.