This new play with music explores the potency and impact of language: words said and words unspoken.  It is both a drama with mystery and a tragedy with humor.  When Deanne Campino and Colin Maitlin meet in Mifflin’s bar in New York City, their union ignites a far too familiar attraction and slap and tickle repartee borne of their shame-filled, secret pasts.  The play is ultimately about the struggle to escape the shipwrecks of the past and the effort to maintain enough hope to want to. 

.22 Caliber Mouth was originally produced by The Bloomington Playwrights Project in 2002.  It was further developed at the O’Neill Music Theater Conference in 2004 where Ms. Robert won the Georgia Bogardus Holof Lyricist Award. 

LAUREN ROBERT is a professional actress, singer, songwriter and playwright.  She is a former Epic Records artist. Her original songs have been produced by Stephen Bray (The Color Purple, Madonna) and Robert Nemiroff (Raisin). Ms. Robert spent years recording and performing on the road at clubs, festivals and on national theatrical tours. Other theater works include Making It, produced by the John Waldron Arts Center in Bloomington, Indiana in 1999 and a new musical in progress titled The Blacksnake. She is a graduate of New York’s American Academy of Dramatic Arts.