Coaches'' Corner With Coach Andrew

Introduction for Coach Andrew Alana Ruben Free works internationally as a playwright, director and educator developing The Eden Plays and other theatre work. Theatre critic, LB Syke wrote of Alana’s solo play Beginner at Life: “It’s the sort of revelatory, energetic writing and performance for which a critic, or other enthusiast, hankers, lives and breathes…” Beginner at Life has been performed in North America, Europe, Australia, and the Middle East and was anthologized in Bowery Women.   Alana’s work has also been published by Smith&Kraus in The Best Women Stage Monologues of 2013 and The Best Men’s Stage Monologues of 2013. Alana was one of the founding editors of the literary journal, The Mom Egg, and was the executive producer of the narrative documentary The Last Stand. Alana began her career performing monologues and poetry in downtown New York at the C Note, Cornelia Street Café, The Bowery Poetry Club, and later uptown at the Museum of Motherhood as well as at universities, festivals and conferen