Mommies Who Drink

No one is more surprised than Brett that she ended up this way: A wife and mother of two boys living and working in Los Angeles, writing books and shows for TV. The daughter of American parents working in Germany and England, Brett’s family didn’t have a TV until she was in second grade. The family eventually got a small snowy black and white set in England, on which she watched Pride and Prejudice and David Frost. She never saw The Brady Bunch or Welcome Back Kotter, or any of those shows that when merely referenced, send contemporaries into fits of laughter. It is this disconnect, perhaps, that adds to Brett’s constant state of bemusement. Possessing talent for very little else, Brett pursued a degree in Theater and Drama at a small college in London, finishing up at Indiana University. Brett went to I.U. because she knew nothing about the States and her high school journalism teacher had told her that the campus was pretty. This is how Brett ended up being bemused in America’s heartland for a couple of years. She escaped quite quickly, moving to New York to attend The Circle in the Square Professional Workshop. It is there that she learned how to build a character, cry on cue, throw her voice, and smoke a pack and a half of cigarettes per day. When she graduated, she did a couple of cool, political plays in the village that no one came to.	Photo Credit: Katherine Emery