About the Play:

Going To A Place Where You Already Are is a full-length dramatic comedy by Bekah Brunstetter. A fun-loving couple are avowed atheists in their golden years, moving along nicely until she undergoes a serious medical diagnosis. Going To A Place Where You Already Are is an insightfully compassionate play about a senior couple navigating the land mines of their advancing years in a delightfully carefree manner, until life catches up and demands some big decisions about faith.

Going To A Place Where You Already Are is a poignant tale touching on topics of love, religion, and the afterlife. Is there a heaven? Joe says no; it's all a bunch of hokum. His wife, Roberta, has always claimed to agree. But lately she's beginning to wonder, especially when they find themselves in church a lot, having reached the age when funerals are more frequent than weddings. Their granddaughter, Ellie, doesn't have time in her own busy life to ponder the after-life. But when mortality confronts them, her grandmother's claim to have gone to heaven and back doesn't sound so crazy after all. With thoughtful storytelling and quiet wit, Bekah Brunstetter looks at beginnings, endings – and an enigmatic angel.

Going To A Place Where You Already Are premiered in 2016 at South Coast Repertory Theatre in Costa Mesa. The play has been performed in regional and community theatre productions.

Cast: 2 women, 3 men

What people say:

"Belief, mortality and the possibility of heaven. Playwright Bekah Brunstetter manages to treat these subjects seriously, drawing out their emotional resonance, while making them entertaining...A terrific new play." — Los Angeles Times

"Brunstetter has a gift for words...humor and a sense of reassurance that rises gently out of authentic emotions and situations." — DC Theatre Scene

"Sweetly dramatized without being preachy either for or against the adherence to faith, Going To A Place Where You Already creates a safe space for love and goodness to thrive." — Broadway World

About the Playwright:

Bekah Brunstetter is an American playwright and screenwriter. Born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and educated at UNC Chapel Hill (BA) and the New School for Drama (MFA in Dramatic Writing), she currently lives in Los Angeles. Her plays have been performed Off-Broadway in New York and leading regional theatres in the US. As a TV writer and producer, she has written for Switched at Birth, American Gods, This is Us, and Maid.