Natalie does not diminish the struggles of LGBTQ peoples and sees the need for serious plays about them. With this play she wanted to make space for queer comedy and make a space for other family models.

The play is based on Natalie’s personal search with her wife for a sperm donor, which she also wrote about in her memoir Double Pregnant: Two Lesbians Make a Family. The search brought them into contact with all kinds of people, from all walks of life, opening eyes on all sides.

Natalie Meisner (www.nataliemeisner.com) is a playwright, an award-winning multi-genre author, and the fifth Poet Laureate of Calgary. Baddie One Shoe is a collection of odes to renegade women who fight the powers that be with laughter. Boom Baby won both the Alberta and the Canadian National Playwriting Awards. Speed Dating for Sperm Donors was a hit at Lunchbox and Neptune Theatre. Double Pregnant (Fernwood) topped non-fiction lists, and her first book for kids, My Mommy, My Mama, My Brother & Me is about a two-mom biracial family finding community. Meisner is a wife, a mom to two great boys, and a professor in the Department of English at Mount Royal University.