Show Notes
For our 100th Episode, award-winning playwright and director David Rigano joins us to discuss his play What We Deserve. Rigano's work includes the award-winning musical You Heard It Here, as well as We Were Wild, Get the Duchess, and Awaken: A Sleeping Beauty Musical, written with his longtime collaborator and brother, Paul Rigano. He also co-created the long-running Ides of March Extravaganza and co-wrote The Holy Cows of Credence South Dakota with Mark-Eugene Garcia. The conversation will be moderated by writer, director, and performer Catie Carlisle, whose plays include 100 Days, That Night, and The Overlap.
What We Deserve follows six strangers whose chance encounters repeatedly bring them together in unexpected ways. As relationships form and shift, they grapple with questions of love, fulfillment, and whether the lives they're living are truly the ones they deserve. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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