ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Writer, screenwriter, playwright, and lyricist Judith Lawson worked in film and television casting for 10 years. She is co-author of screenplay based on award-winning author Kaye Gibbon’s novel Sights Unseen. She has had more than 35 song cuts recorded, and her play of I Smile at the Sun has been produced four times to stellar reviews.

REVIEWS

”You don't have to be a preschooler to smile at "I Smile at the Sun," a perky and at times poignant staging of rhymes, tongue-twisters and Dr. Seuss-like poems for children and "misidentified grown-ups." Between comic takes on childhood--trading ice cream, bathtub fears, bugs and Simon Says--the poems by Judith Barrett Lawson offer wisdom on loss, old age and the importance of dreams”

Lynne Heffley, LA Times

"These poems basically stand on their own merit and they work on many different levels. I wanted to bring something to life that would touch children as well as adults. This definitely does. Judi has a sense of rhythm and joy."

Mark York, artistic director at Two Roads Theater in Studio City