Beverly Dale

Beverly will write songs and musical accompaniment for the dramatic vignettes of several characters from her one woman show An Irreverent Journey from Eggbeaters to Vibrators. Since these characters are all struggling with sexuality and religion in a variety of forms, Beverly sees the additional songs as providing a more nuanced way to portray the themes of sexuality, liberation, and repression in order to deepen the audience’s understanding of the issues. She hopes that these songs will be especially useful in shorter workshop settings.

Beverly will create educational literature to promote a broader sexuality ministry using feedback she received from her one-woman show, An Irreverent Journey from Eggbeaters to Vibrators. PassionWorks, the name she uses for this ministry, seeks to stimulate social change on specific topics related to sexuality through a variety of performances, workshops, and interactive media. The development of materials to promote this broader sexuality ministry will allow her to further address sexual misinformation and sexual wounding.

Beverly will create a one-woman show which uses music, poetry, memoir, and fiction that explores the destructiveness of sexual repression, stereotyping, ignorance and gender hierarchy promoted by the Church and this culture at large. It offers an alternative story that embraces a feminist erotic spirituality that liberates, celebrates and stands in opposition to convention. The play will link current sexual behavior models with sexual assault, while modeling for survivors that healing is possible. As a pastor, Beverly hopes her play will reach both religious and secular audiences. She feels it’s imperative to tell this story of sexual healing and survival, and that ultimately an audacious celebration of the sexual is intimately linked to the sacred.