This text contains discussions of the playwright's major works, critical perspectives and comparisons with other playwrights, including Rachel Crothers, Caryl Churchill, and Anton Chekhov.

I Love You Terribly includes six glimpses of romance, snapshots of couples in and out of love. Crisp and playful, soulful and sad, these dramas distill life's miseries and joys into stylized sketches with lyrical twists. Featuring women and men at different stages of life, these plays make up an enticing evening of theater, a fresh scene book for actors, and a lively, compelling read.

Kate Stoddard murdered Charles Goodrich in 1873--after he told her they weren't really married and had her evicted from his Brooklyn brownstone in a blizzard. Kate's struggles to maintain her sanity and her identity, both before and after she shot her one true love three times in the head, are the subject of this play, which moves backwards and forwards through time and invokes a poetry of madness.