Greetings from Green Mountain Falls, CO! I’m thrilled to be an artist in residence at the Green Box Arts Retreat. Nestled in the side of a mountain, my residence offers me a full month to write undisturbed as well as an opportunity to commune with nature and a landscape that is quite different from my city home. I will spend the next month writing the first draft of a new play commissioned by Boomerang Theatre Company on the topic of “Belonging.” I have spent the past four months interviewing people of different backgrounds and generations about how they experience belonging in the world. Inspired by my own experience of returning to my alma mater and feeling both intense nostalgia and deep belonging, I’m hoping to investigate how we fulfill that most human of needs, to belong. In these polarized times, I hope to dig into how we find the places and people that sustain us.