Donald Steven Olson

BLOOD

My first play, Blood, was an Equity Showcase produced in New York in 1986. It’s a comedy-drama about a gay guy whose best friend, nine months pregnant, comes to live with him after her boyfriend dumps her. The two of them have to contend with his flamboyant lesbian mother, a TV comedy sit-com star who wants to move back to New York from Los Angeles (it’s her apartment); his religious aunt, who arrives in New York from North Dakota in her Winnebago; and his lover, who left him for another man but now wants to return. Amongst other things, Blood dealt with the then-unheard of issue of gay parenting.