Dykewomon’s death from cancer Sunday comes as the Bay Area Playwrights Festival presented her play about her late partner’s struggle and death from Lewy body dementia.
Elana Dykewomon, the trailblazing lesbian writer and activist, died at her Oakland home Sunday, just 20 minutes before the start of a staged reading of her first play, a moving account of her struggle to care for her longtime partner who died of dementia nearly six years earlier.
In COVID-19-era fashion, the actors performed remotely with Dykewomon dying just before the play began to stream. Viewers received the bittersweet news of her passing in the form of a message posted by her cousin, Jennifer Brier, in a live chat that accompanied the play. Tributes immediately began to pour in, via the chat or on social media, in what amounted to an online version of a triumphant curtain call.
Nachman said he and others in his sister’s inner circle, who were with her in her final moments, logged on to watch after she died. “It was tough,” Nachman said. “But we wanted to see what she had created.”
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