A dream once lost - Paperback

Bassett, Tia Shearer: - Tia Shearer Bassett (she/her) is a multi-hyphenate artist whose body of work spans from "tiny play" scripts to comics to virtual theatre, and always features her favorite combination: silliness and beauty. As a writer, her works include a micro-chapbook, Fragments: Tiny Poems from a Cancer Survivor, available through Stripes Literary Magazine, and the graphic novel Wondrous Machines. As an actor, she has served as a member of Only Make Believe, performing interactive theatre in children's hospitals, care facilities and special education programs; an original company member at Arts on the Horizon, creating nonverbal shows for ages 0-6 and earning the title "Buster Keaton for babies;" and a member of Happy Theater, making family-friendly work like the award-winning interactive puppet show, The Light House. She has performed with The Second City and The Kennedy Center. She is an Audio Describer, co-creator of a web-series starring her leopard gecko: Eugene Cheese Gets It Wrong, and founding producer of The From-Home Fest. She lives in Takoma Park, MD with her husband, son, said leopard gecko, and a dog named after a video game character.