I wrote Broken as part of an evening of plays commissioned by Baltimore’s Interrobang Theatre, including the words and music for the song “Sharing a Table,” that closes the play. Broken was directed by Katie Hileman and premiered in 2015 at The Strand, in Baltimore.

Her world and her family are moving targets of misperception for a woman in her eighties who has had a stroke. But the right recipe might hold all the answers.