An introduction To Heat Transfer

About the Project

Lila Albright and Emma Perkins have very different ideas of how they’ll get through their twenties. Emma has a plan; Lila’s plan is… she has none. When they become roommates in their last year of college, they quickly learn that living together is a lot more than just sleeping and eating. AN INTRODUCTION TO HEAT TRANSFER is a play about tackling the confusion of one’s twenties, who you do it with, and the fundamental factor of true friendship.

Mission: I have decided to write a play. It is a play for people like me and like you and like our mothers and teachers and enemies and the women we see walking down the street and create entire worlds for in our minds, and every color and shade of people in between. It is in dedication to the people that have shaped me. A tribute to the secret code women seem to have with one another, in the way they speak and the way they move together. It is about having 20 years of life under your belt and not a clue what to do with it. About those late nights eating takeout Chinese and sitting on my living room floor, surrounded by my girlfriends, talking about absolutely nothing but of course, about absolutely everything (boys, sex, death, politics). It is about the plight of the 20-somethings: the constant internal growing and stretching and battle for acceptance. It is about realizing that the plight of the 20-somethings does not really go away. It is about feeling utterly lonely on a Tuesday until the barista in Starbucks remembers your name because it’s her sister’s. And it is about the way platonic love can be the most heartbreaking of all.