NEW YORK, N.Y. (WSAV) -- When Abby Rosebrock was growing up in South Carolina, she had no idea how her formative years would impact her work as a playwright.

"I when I first started writing plays, I think I tried to write stories that felt more immediate to my experience. So I was writing about, like, actors in Brooklyn, but I soon figured out that the place that I know best, even though I haven't lived there in 20 years, is definitely the Southeast."

Now a New Yorker with several stage productions under her belt, she often returns to her southern roots for inspiration. One of her earliest plays, "Blue Ridge," is set at a halfway house in the Appalachian Mountains. The dialog, while pointed and direct, is written on the page to reflect the easy way Southerns speak. But make no mistake: R

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