Dinner! Franny and Connor Write a Cookbook was a multi-year collaboration with Francesca Chilcote that explored the ways we cope with crises through food, and the connections that can emerge from those dishes. This piece began as a digital interactive performance for one in early 2021 in which we helped at-home cooks improvise a recipe based only on the ingredients in their pantries. Disguised as a “recipe development” cook, Francesca and I rifled through over thirty kitchens and collaborated with those folks who were kept at home due to the COVID-19 pandemic on a completely original cookbook. 

Equipped with these thirty plus recipes, we worked with graphic designers Debi Belt and Hannah Cabbell to illustrate and design this cookbook, also titled Dinner! Franny and Connor Write a Cookbook. This piece was intended to have in-person run in the 2023 Philadelphia Fringe that was abruptly cancelled due to a COVID infection in the cast. Copies of the cookbook, however, are still available for sale.