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Kirsten Dahl: ​Denver based playwright, novelist, and general writer

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EXPLORING OFFBEAT DENVER

Recent Stories from Colorado Community Media newspapers

What do muskrats, 1950’s nightclubs, ghostly hippies, flirtatious wild ducks and Denver socialites of the Gilded Age have in common? They are all things I never expected to write about. But the pandemic of 2020 had a way of upending expectations.

News

On Sunday, Oct. 8 at 2:30 pm there will be be a free, staged reading of Della Doucet (doo-SAY) at the Vintage Theatre in Aurora, CO. The play was just named a finalist in the Vintage's 2023 Romantic Comedy Competition.  


Books

Plays

MAKING W.A.V.E.S

When Verna Swenson enlists in the WAVES in 1943, the Navy assigns her to teach instrument flying to pilots. It’s a difficult job for the young, Swedish-American farm girl. Especially when she realizes that she’s the one who wants to fly.

 

LAST RESORT

When a body turns up beneath the date palms in an old California desert resort town, the police troll the local gay community. They suspect Godfrey, a retired Broadway singing coach who lives in Mid-Century Modern splendor. His young social worker, Betsy Kehoe, knows he’s innocent. But as she fights to clear Godfrey’s name, suspicion shifts to her younger sister.