A Drama

By Tammy Ryan

October 10, 2020 at 7:30pm

When Stef is shot down in a random act of gun violence in Pittsburgh, her fifteen year old niece, Cassie, begins dreaming her back into existence. In the months after the shooting, each family member is confronted with the question: “If they had done just one thing differently would there have been a different outcome?” Told with humor and heart, Take My Hand and Wave Goodbye is about the impact of gun violence on one family in Pittsburgh and the difficult necessity of grief.

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About the Playwright

Tammy Ryan is a resident playwright of New Dramatists class of 2025 and a Playpenn Haas Fellow. Her work has been performed across the United States and internationally at such theaters as The Alliance Theater, Florida Stage, Marin Theater, People’s Light and Theater Company, Portland Stage Company, Theatre Lab, Pittsburgh Playhouse, Pittsburgh Festival Opera, and City Theatre Company among others. Awards and honors include the Francesca Primus Prize for her play Lost Boy Found in Whole Foods, and the American Alliance of Theater in Education’s Distinguished New Play Award for The Music Lesson and her work has been nominated for both the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and the ATCA Steinberg Award. Other plays include The Wake (Playfest 2019, Premiere Stages Festival Winner), Molly’s Hammer (Repertory Theater of St. Louis), Tar Beach (Luna Stage), Soldier’s Heart, (Pittsburgh Playhouse) and Baby’s Blues (NCPA, Mumbai). Her work has been featured in the National New Play Network’s national showcase and she has been supported by the New Harmony Project, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sewanee Writers Conference, the Heinz Endowment, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Pittsburgh Foundation, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and the Sprout Fund. She is a long time member of the Dramatists Guild of America.

For more information: www.tammyryan.net