DANA MARIE TRUPA (she/her/hers) is a poet, storyteller, and performer with an MFA in Creative Writing from Randolph College. An NYC transplant originally from Pittsburgh, her first play, Planet Joey, explores myths surrounding the working-class and the legacy of trauma. Her poetry has been performed by Emotive Fruition and featured in Playbill. She is professionally trained in the Meisner technique and a member of SAG-AFTRA.
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PLANET JOEY
Blurb
Planet Joey opens during the summer of 1985 in Mars, PA. Joey is an eleven-year-old tomboy and fanatical member of the Star Wars Fan Club. Her deepest desire is to marry Han Solo, become an astronaut, and walk on the moon. Enraged by her parent’s evil plan to sell the house she grew up in, Joey enlists her dope smokin’ cousin Fitz to bury the For Sale sign. He stays for the summer and woos the stripper next door, Misty Morning. Joey and her friend Bonnie try to lure him back from the dark side as he takes them on a joyride that climaxes on the eve of her Holy Confirmation. Her world explodes when Mom overhears a heartbreaking confession. In the end, Joey is forced to grapple with the limitations of her working-class upbringing, dysfunctional family, and a forsaken God that threatens to thwart her dreams.