Gigi performs at the Annual Oregon Jewish Writers Reading in Portland.
Photo Larry Stillman
Writing
Gigi Rosenberg’s creative writing and nonfiction has been published by Random House, Seal Press, Parenting, Writer’s Digest, The Writer, The Oregonian, Oregon Humanities magazine and The Jewish Review. She’s performed at Seattle’s On the Boards and broadcast on Oregon Public Radio.
From Siena, Italy
The Italian Passover
A Signora and a Stranger
On the Home Front
Monster in the Closet
The Last Diaper Pail
The Rite of Passage of the First Day of School
Commentaries
Swimming to Nowhere: Spalding Gray’s Vanishing
No More Hanukkah Bush
How-to Articles
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?