https://www.nicoledyancox.com/writing-services daily 0.75 2020-12-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f27424f1304644e9f23f476/1607400832538-BBG2TTDDYQ0FYNMBUTR2/Screen+Shot+2020-12-07+at+11.09.12+PM.png Writing Services Drawing by Bob Eckstein, cartoonist for the New Yorker https://www.nicoledyancox.com/about daily 0.75 2025-05-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f27424f1304644e9f23f476/1605982842505-TVI2J85BOC1H8PUMOY55/Nicole%2BCox%2BHeadshot.jpg About Photo by Johnny Knight https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce435d6bea1ed00016ba287/1558964652247-5MWXNMFZVOPGE4TY6U2Q/MHeiderich_ReflexionenZwei-05-copy.jpg About https://www.nicoledyancox.com/contact daily 0.75 2020-12-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f27424f1304644e9f23f476/1605983941132-Y8P75DEKEZ06UFAF2MBZ/cake.jpg Contact Skateland birthday, 1983. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce435d6bea1ed00016ba287/1558964652247-5MWXNMFZVOPGE4TY6U2Q/MHeiderich_ReflexionenZwei-05-copy.jpg Contact https://www.nicoledyancox.com/work daily 1.0 2025-05-30 https://www.nicoledyancox.com/work/plays monthly 0.5 2020-12-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f27424f1304644e9f23f476/1604603528625-J3BSDX28EN9SVG92T52W/E1E4BD1E-3D12-4826-86B6-922EDDB19E22_1_201_a.jpg Work - Plays - Call Center, Morning & Evening National 1-Minute Play Festival (#1MPF), Round House Theatre, Bethesda, MD, dir. Craig Houk, 2013 2-4 actors, flexible casting Callers dial into a surreal hotline for validation for their pettiest concerns. Ten 1-minute plays. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f27424f1304644e9f23f476/1605235052812-XU5OFRTD8N75HEILEX1C/1D80FD7C-36F4-479D-BA71-5A4D93437594_1_201_a.jpg Work - Plays - Office of the Speaker Winner of Best Drama at DC Capital Fringe Festival, dir. Tyler Herman, 2019 Staged Reading, Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage Festival, dir. Bridget Grace Sheaf, 2019 1F, 2M (3 characters) Abigail is a young, progressive teacher who wants to write and have a baby. To do so, she needs money. She secretly begins working for a conservative Speaker of the House, but how much will her dreams cost her? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f27424f1304644e9f23f476/1604603121169-2EWY7JFJ04UEXM5O6HZH/JQY+blackout.png Work - Plays - Abomination Winner of the inaugural Theater J Patty Abramson Jewish Play Prize. DC Metro Theater Arts article here. Staged Reading, Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage Festival, dir. Jose Carrasquillo, 2018 4M, 2F (6-13 characters) A small group of queer yeshiva graduates take to the courts to end a conversion therapy organization of their abusers. In the process, they struggle with their old identities, search for new ones, and try to forge a new path through their ancient tradition. Based on a true story. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f27424f1304644e9f23f476/1604603643682-2RW4YPL54TIHJ72HQWPC/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-11-05%2Bat%2B2.00.31%2BPM.jpg Work - Plays - Lift and Separate Reading, First Draft Series, Chicago Dramatists Theatre, Chicago, IL, 2013 Workshop, Victory Gardens Theater, 2008 5F, 1M (5-13 characters) A naïve but talented photographer, working as a shopgirl at a local lingerie store, is manipulated by her co-dependent boss and must extract herself from the store, learning, finally, what it takes to support herself. “Cart Bride” by the great Johnny Knight https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f27424f1304644e9f23f476/1604604549431-SIJNK4VMV0VV6W0HRHZD/image.jpg Work - Plays - All Other Nights Staged Reading, New Works in Action Series, Spooky Action Theatre, Washington, DC, dir. Richard Henrich, 2018, Winner of the Citizens Play Festival, Fine Print Theatre Company, Chicago, IL, 2014 Featured play, Scene Shop Showcase, Chicago Dramatists Theatre, Chicago IL, 2013 5F, 2M (7 characters, flexible casting) Estranged from her parents, Wendy returns home for the Passover Seder hoping for reconciliation. But real-life signs and wonders plague the house and force her to question her belief in family and freedom. https://www.nicoledyancox.com/work/teaching monthly 0.5 2020-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f27424f1304644e9f23f476/1605999624317-8V0I6VGQZGVQF095NM76/2ADDFF33-B4FA-4BC3-ACD1-C8052A6C2B7C_1_201_a.jpg Work - Teaching When your Chicago students make you a Good Luck in DC card =) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f27424f1304644e9f23f476/1605980923174-A856YEYLIGA3X4EF6XQM/Zoom%2Bclass.jpg Work - Teaching First-Year Seminar at American University, Fall 2020 https://www.nicoledyancox.com/work/poems monthly 0.5 2020-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f27424f1304644e9f23f476/1606000645934-COL7JBNNZ2N9DNFU0RRH/CBEC7DD4-4577-4768-A777-8F068B7021A3.jpg Work - Poems https://www.nicoledyancox.com/work/essays monthly 0.5 2020-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f27424f1304644e9f23f476/1605242623859-OI2O5DEE9WB9OJ4FU3JY/image-asset.jpeg Work - Essays - The Day I Learned I Was a Cow The Day I Learned I Was a Cow, Split Lip Magazine “I was sure as it was coming out of me, confirmed when I stood up afterwards, that it was shaped like a bell. About five inches in diameter at the widest point and approximately a foot long. It stuck out of the water like a baby walrus coming up for air.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f27424f1304644e9f23f476/1605929945412-TP38P3XSRL1TWMLYFIK6/Screen+Shot+2020-11-20+at+10.38.23+PM.png Work - Essays - The Day I Learned I Was a Cow Proper Young Ladies, Electronic Literature “She’d wipe the sweat off her brow with the corner of her apron, then say in clipped, quick enunciation, Don’t you move until I say so. She left. I stayed. I retracted my tongue from the bubbling triclocarban and lye as best I could. The corners of my mouth stretched and dried out. I counted the watermelon-red Kansas Peonies in our neighbor’s bushes to pass the time.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f27424f1304644e9f23f476/1605928666288-Y1P9U8EC468T0PXPQPEX/image-asset.jpeg Work - Essays Dressing the Part, Tablet Magazine “I flew alone to LaGuardia and took my first taxi to 34th Street. The yellow cab pulled up to Brookdale Hall, and when I saw the registration line wrapped around the corner, my stomach dropped. I immediately saw what my mother wanted us to be, and I understood that we were not. I have never felt so Midwestern.”