Death Wings Project (www.deathwingsproject.org) offers creatively compassionate art-making and storytelling programs about loss and grief that foster open conversation and community connection. The Project, centered on Bess' award-winning script, includes death wing making workshops and longer residences co-created with community-focused organizations around the country.

The play unfolds over the last 100 minutes of Grand’s life - her memories, visions, feelings, and questions that help her discover the five sentences that tell her final story.  She's dedicated her life to making wings that she believes helps others die, and to raising her granddaughter Rachel, a scientist who is determined to fly. Full of poetry, songs, and a radical re-visioning of the Daedelus/Icarus myth, Death Wings asks us to marvel at the wonder of flight - real and metaphorical - and the mysteries of human love, connection, loss, and letting go.

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