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Gigi performs at the Annual Oregon Jewish Writers Reading in Portland.
Photo Larry Stillman

Writing


Articles & Essays

A Passover Memory from Siena, Italy

A Signora and a Stranger

Monster in the Closet

The Last Diaper Pail

Swimming to Nowhere: Spalding Gray’s Vanishing

The Rite of Passage of the First Day of School

No More Hanukkah Bush

My Life in the Bike Lane

Critiquing Critique Clubs

Give a Good Read


Radio

The Hannukkah Bush

Listen to radio commentary from Oregon Public Broadcasting.

Play

The Russian Lesson

Based on the real and imagined lives of Gigi's ancestors, this play is the story of Sophie, who flees her privileged if cloistered life in 1910 Crasukis, Russia for the promise of America.

Readings and Solo Performances

The Almost Mental Patient

Using simple props and minimal stage set, Gigi's solo performances explore the human psyche: its loves, obsessions, and imaginings. In her stories, both edgy and comic, she pokes at the bulges under the rug. What's hiding there? What was she - or someone else - trying to bury?