Friends Missing Friends

42. Picking up the scraps (Part 1): writing plays about our grief


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About today’s guest, Ian Ornstein: Ian grew up in California and moved to Chicago in 2015. He writes (plays, short stories, essays, monologues) and performs (improv in various forms) around town. Right now he's thinking about trying to move through life with less judgement and being open to the various varieties that life presents him.

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Today, Ian and I discuss:

  • The inspiration behind Ian’s play “The Virgin Death”
  • The impossibility of fully honoring someone’s life
  • How we do NOT believe everything happens for a
  • reason (instead, something horrible happens and then we pick up the scraps, hoping to make something beautiful from it)
  • My struggles with writing a memoir
  • And so much more!
  • Tune in next week for Part 2 of our conversation!


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    Friends Missing FriendsBy Hannah Rumsey