For the Joan Yellen Horvitz Directing Fellowship at Cleveland Public Theatre, I am currently directing a stage adaptation of Helen Oyeyemi's short story "sorry doesn't sweeten her tea" from the anthology "What is Not Yours is Not Yours" (courtesy of the Wylie Agency). Members of a biological and chosen family (including a teen girl with a peacock's tail and an ex-shaman-turned-popstar) attempt to recover from different forms of disillusionment with methods ranging from public apologies & rehab... to the pet-sitting of a Siamese fighting fish in a house of locks where doors can only be closed with a key.