I Interview Playwrights Part 242: Leslie Bramm

Leslie Bramm

Hometown: Mostly San Francisco.

Current Town: Washington Heights, New York City.

Q:  What are you working on now?

A:  A children's play for adults. "Molly Jones Steals Home". I've been reading a lot of Joseph Campbell lately and wanted to write a hero's journey. I do so in the context of this 9 year old girl, who's terminally sick, and trying to, as the Irish say, "have a good death". She must escape the clutches of the hospital bureaucracy, and her zealous parents and doctors, all ...