​I will be spending much of the fall in a cabin in the woods of New Hampshire, pummeling away at a keyboard. The wonderful folks at The MacDowell Colony have awarded me a fellowship to work on my newest creation, SUMO. Stay tuned for what comes out of solitude and the company of geniuses!

https://www.americantheatre.org/2019/10/08/jeanie-tesori-and-sarah-delappe-named-macdowell-colony-fellows/

'Best Quantum Physics Joke' of the Fringe by The Scotsman
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Best quantum physics joke
“Why is Heisenberg’s wife angry? Because when he has the time he doesn’t have the energy.” Thank you Kirsten Vangsness, whose show Mess, about childhood trauma, the nature of time, and kittens, was full of lots of other funny things that only really made any sense in context, and sometimes didn’t make any sense even there, but in a good way.
https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/edinburgh-festivals/andrew-eaton-lewis-gongs-that-really-matter-from-first-principles-to-final-apologies-1-4991403

FIVE STARS for Cleo, Theo and Wu:
"I left it thinking I need to bring every girl I know to see this show...It's very well written, it's very well performed with an incredibly talented cast."
Edinburgh Culture Review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3VjHItJK9E

FIVE STARS for Mess:
"Her high-brow show is a groaning buffet of loop-the-loop logic and cosmic questioning; delivered in inimitable style."
Eddie Harrison, The List
https://edinburghfestival.list.co.uk/article/110145-fempire-mess/ 

FIVE STARS for Mess:
​"It will blow your mind"
Edinburgh Culture Review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtdZipYrQQM

FOUR STARS for Mess:
"Fempire: Mess is unique and unlike any other show you are likely to see at the Fringe."
Lucy Dison, Voice Mag​https://www.voicemag.uk/review/5998/fempire-mess-kirsten-vangness

FOUR STARS for Mess:
"A cascade of emotion and non-sequential events, like Pinter, this Mess is not so much to be analysed but experienced, a maelstrom of joy and anguish"
Michael Flett, SG Fringe
http://sgfringe.com/?p=3636

FOUR STARS for Cleo, Theo & Wu:
"An empowering and uplifting feminist fairytale, in her pillarbox red dress – with pockets! – Vangsness is the eye of the hurricane who brings focus to this restless raw energy, vulnerable and funny as Lucy"
Michael Flett, SG Fringe
http://sgfringe.com/?p=3590

​I read PUNKPLAY ten years ago and have loved it for the last ten years. I will be co-directing it with Matt Bretz in the fall at Circle X Theatre Co.

​https://www.circlextheatre.org/coming-soon-punkplay