Musical theatre writer (Arden S2, 57th National Mathlete Sum-It, The Bone Harp, etc). Co-Founder of Underscore Theatre Company. She/her. Loves ghosts.https://bsky.app/profile/laurastratford.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/laurastratford.bsky.social/post/3lqsh7kaidc2eI assumed the Boys in Don Henley’s “The Boys of Summer” would be as integral to the song’s narrative as Thin Lizzy’s Boys (the ones who are “Back In Town”) but somehow they only feature in the last line of the chorus?! But they’re the TITULAR Boys!04 Jun 2025 18:37 +0000at://did:plc:jpd5dwagquvgkey6vvym4zdb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqsh7kaidc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/laurastratford.bsky.social/post/3lj67ujkjj22tCoworker: Have you come up with more-- Me: --lyrics to the Severance theme yes I have: helena eagan she's really helena eagan stalking mark talking to mark watching mark kissing mark missing mark helena eagan27 Feb 2025 15:36 +0000at://did:plc:jpd5dwagquvgkey6vvym4zdb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lj67ujkjj22thttps://bsky.app/profile/laurastratford.bsky.social/post/3lhjssg6k5k2e@lwflouisa.bsky.social hi! You do beautiful work. I think my friend was added to your Crypto Scammers blocklist by mistake—she works in fundraising for the arts and is vocally against crypto and genAI. I won’t tag her (bc, blocked) but her @ starts with vodkaqueen.06 Feb 2025 19:24 +0000at://did:plc:jpd5dwagquvgkey6vvym4zdb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhjssg6k5k2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/laurastratford.bsky.social/post/3lgxvikzkl22uI just think that perhaps senators, who ignore emails with impunity, should perhaps have voicemail options for when their call volume is high rather than directing constituents to “hang up and try later”30 Jan 2025 16:24 +0000at://did:plc:jpd5dwagquvgkey6vvym4zdb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgxvikzkl22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/laurastratford.bsky.social/post/3lgstoqrhac23I recommend this training from the IDP if you want context for this moment in our country's immigration policy, would like to know how to help, & wants to see what tactics ICE has used in the past & how people have successfully defended their rights: www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/ttt-materials/ https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/ttt-materials/28 Jan 2025 16:09 +0000at://did:plc:jpd5dwagquvgkey6vvym4zdb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgstoqrhac23https://bsky.app/profile/laurastratford.bsky.social/post/3lgqp4jhhqk2nMy sweet friends are joining! Haaai @davidkornfeld.bsky.social and @udonemessedupaaron.bsky.social, anyone you following that I might have missed coming over?27 Jan 2025 19:41 +0000at://did:plc:jpd5dwagquvgkey6vvym4zdb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgqp4jhhqk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/laurastratford.bsky.social/post/3ld5gw2nahc27I had a moment that surprised me before our holiday party at work seeing some people start drinking—really surprised me because after 11 years I almost don’t think about drinking anymore. It can sneak up on you. [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 Dec 2024 23:39 +0000at://did:plc:jpd5dwagquvgkey6vvym4zdb/app.bsky.feed.post/3ld5gw2nahc27https://bsky.app/profile/laurastratford.bsky.social/post/3lcq6gbudbc22Just gave to help Ahmad’s family. If you can give, anything helps. [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Dec 2024 17:02 +0000at://did:plc:jpd5dwagquvgkey6vvym4zdb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcq6gbudbc22https://bsky.app/profile/laurastratford.bsky.social/post/3lcolyymgdk2yMy husband just said “are you sure you haven’t already had enough tonight” but instead of about alcohol he was talking about hot sauce after I choked on spicy miso soup07 Dec 2024 02:00 +0000at://did:plc:jpd5dwagquvgkey6vvym4zdb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcolyymgdk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/laurastratford.bsky.social/post/3lc6hth6uus22I’ve hit an important milestone in my relationship with my mother—the point where she asks me “am I being a b*” and I get to say “noooo you’re 100% right!!”30 Nov 2024 16:02 +0000at://did:plc:jpd5dwagquvgkey6vvym4zdb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lc6hth6uus22https://bsky.app/profile/laurastratford.bsky.social/post/3lc4porlqk22jWas recently informed my husband does in fact read my Bluesky posts and that means he will see me admit that after viewing Gladiator II, unfortunately Joseph Quinn remains a “would”29 Nov 2024 23:18 +0000at://did:plc:jpd5dwagquvgkey6vvym4zdb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lc4porlqk22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/laurastratford.bsky.social/post/3lbvgeozh2k27Did a fun lil calculator in the 529 plan website to see projected cost of college for my 10 month old and it’s $666k 🙃 even if I put $10k into the account now I’d have to contribute 150% of my mortgage every month to hit the goal!27 Nov 2024 01:42 +0000at://did:plc:jpd5dwagquvgkey6vvym4zdb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbvgeozh2k27https://bsky.app/profile/laurastratford.bsky.social/post/3lbndqqk7tc2tRight after I got up from a nap at my parents’, and just after Rowan went down for his nap, my mom goes “Lau! Rowan was going commando this morning!” And it took me five full minutes to get out of her that she meant he was army crawling. “Does that mean something different?”23 Nov 2024 20:34 +0000at://did:plc:jpd5dwagquvgkey6vvym4zdb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbndqqk7tc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/laurastratford.bsky.social/post/3lbmvrwvdwk2rSo I’m reading Alan Moore’s new tome on magic and he’s so into the overlap of Kabbalah and Tarot that I got skeptical and decided to do a lil one-card pull to see if learning more about Kabbalah would actually be helpful/indicated for me. And I pulled The Magician.23 Nov 2024 16:24 +0000at://did:plc:jpd5dwagquvgkey6vvym4zdb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbmvrwvdwk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/laurastratford.bsky.social/post/3lbknro6v4k25Disheartening (if understandable!) when the friend whose plays most regularly have development opportunities says even he might be leaving playwriting behind because of how tough the industry is.22 Nov 2024 18:56 +0000at://did:plc:jpd5dwagquvgkey6vvym4zdb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbknro6v4k25https://bsky.app/profile/laurastratford.bsky.social/post/3lbcsg4zuds2nThere’s a storm building. A clash of titans brews on the horizon. A household’s unity teeters on the brink. Who will triumph? (My husband and I spell our son’s nickname differently in text messages)19 Nov 2024 15:57 +0000at://did:plc:jpd5dwagquvgkey6vvym4zdb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbcsg4zuds2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/laurastratford.bsky.social/post/3lbbb4y5shk2nDuring a critical annual meeting two coworkers were musing about historical rainfall in Spain and the sheer self-restraint I demonstrated by not asking “was it mainly in the plain?” —19 Nov 2024 01:15 +0000at://did:plc:jpd5dwagquvgkey6vvym4zdb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbbb4y5shk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/laurastratford.bsky.social/post/3lb3efmzyl22iThe conundrum of posting: I want to talk about interesting stuff in the world that is not my baby but there’s a baby here all the time and I’m not doing much that’s interesting because of him16 Nov 2024 16:58 +0000at://did:plc:jpd5dwagquvgkey6vvym4zdb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lb3efmzyl22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/laurastratford.bsky.social/post/3layspwywuk2sIf you like queer romance/fantasy with characters who are nuanced and plots that are compelling, you have to check out @freyamarske.bsky.social ‘s work. Just finished Swordcrossed after devouring The Last Binding trilogy and I miss the characters already!15 Nov 2024 16:36 +0000at://did:plc:jpd5dwagquvgkey6vvym4zdb/app.bsky.feed.post/3layspwywuk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/laurastratford.bsky.social/post/3layg3bl7zk2sAt an event for my work’s LGBTQIA+ group yesterday an 18 year old told us she was going to go to an event that would have “Chappell Roan, if you know who that is” and I would very much like to know how ancient we look to her15 Nov 2024 12:50 +0000at://did:plc:jpd5dwagquvgkey6vvym4zdb/app.bsky.feed.post/3layg3bl7zk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/laurastratford.bsky.social/post/3laphzummk22yI’ve so gotten used to never posting that I forget I could actually post here without regretting immediately. Anyway hi folks! My kid is almost 10 months old and life is so much easier than it was. It would be better if he didn’t frequently wake up for the day at 5am, like today, but still.11 Nov 2024 23:31 +0000at://did:plc:jpd5dwagquvgkey6vvym4zdb/app.bsky.feed.post/3laphzummk22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/laurastratford.bsky.social/post/3klig4id6wk2jIt is genuinely life-changing to have my child go from needing to eat every 2 hours (from beginning of feed) to every 3 hours. Happy one month of life, baby!15 Feb 2024 22:19 +0000at://did:plc:jpd5dwagquvgkey6vvym4zdb/app.bsky.feed.post/3klig4id6wk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/laurastratford.bsky.social/post/3kl35lxw7fk2oI’m still getting over my Twitter conviction to never post, but have been thinking it would be good to share somewhere how things are going and baby, Bluesky is the place my in-laws’ friends won’t see and judge!10 Feb 2024 15:42 +0000at://did:plc:jpd5dwagquvgkey6vvym4zdb/app.bsky.feed.post/3kl35lxw7fk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/laurastratford.bsky.social/post/3khg7bemofk2zSo my mom gave me some soap from an ostrich farm she visited and I asked what part of the soap was from the ostriches and she confidently said “the milk”26 Dec 2023 03:30 +0000at://did:plc:jpd5dwagquvgkey6vvym4zdb/app.bsky.feed.post/3khg7bemofk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/laurastratford.bsky.social/post/3kh5lwvn7jv2zI had a reading of a musical I’ve been working on for years at Theater Row in NYC, started two other new musical projects, and gestated most of a person, so it’s been pretty okay [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Dec 2023 17:23 +0000at://did:plc:jpd5dwagquvgkey6vvym4zdb/app.bsky.feed.post/3kh5lwvn7jv2z