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I've been an autism-mom for the last twenty-four years. Hence, The Rocket Family Chronicles web-series (2012). Everything one goes through when your kid has a disability blasts one's career trajectory to smithereens. You either end up with your head in the toilet, on the ledge contemplating that little step off towards oblivion, or you embark on some path that gathers your life experience and imagination into another form.
For me, writing for film began with doing dialogue polish for the narrative for Garthwaite and Griffin's film, Tibet's Stolen Child 2001), about the child political prisoner--Genden Choki Neima--successor to the Dalai Lama. The film includes amazing interviews with Nobel Laureate thought leaders who were involved with change in their countries. That boy, identified by a very ornate process, initiated by the Dalai Lama would have been the Panchen Lama, the successor to His Holiness, the Dalai Lama. ...until his abduction. Genden Choki Neima is now in his thirties,...where is he now? Chinese artist Ai Wei Wei included him in his seven-part art installation and political meditation which was set in the abandoned prison on Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay. Genden Choky Neima was included in his presentation of political prisoners.
My place of solace during these intervening decades has been writing. I've written one self-help book for women, over half a dozen screenplays, one teleplay, two novellas (Informed Consent and White Rain), several short stories, one stage play, two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree.
During the pandemic, I've been putting my pieces up on zoom performances. Last Spring, the wonderful Jeffrey Weissman (Back the the Future) read for a character in a TV pilot script. And, most recently, Austin Pendleton (just wiki him) did a heart-melting performance of one of my characters for a piece that I hope will be on stage one day in the not too distant future.
