A production in suburban Dallas Texas was produced in summer of 2018 at OhLook Performing Arts Center, where it ran along with Hedwig and Rocky Horror Picture Show. The award-winning 2020 production at TheatreZone featured Broadway icon Andrea McArdle. Searle also writes nonfiction. Her essays have appeared in over a dozen anthologies. She has co-edited an anthology on Soap Operas from McFarland Books (2017) and co-edited an anthology with McFarland in 2018 on Teen Idols called IDOL TALK. Her essay "Knitted Goods: Notes from a Nervous Non-Knitter" appeared in the anthology Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting, published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2013. Searle has recently focused on screenwriting. Searle co-wrote with Tiffany Louquet and David Shields the feature film 'I'll Show You Mine' which is directed by Megan Giffiths and stars Poorna Jagannathan (Never Have I Ever) and Casey Thomas Brown (The Kominsky Method) and is a Duplass Brothers Production in post-production in 2021. Searle's novel A Four-Sided Bed is being developed as a feature film by Creatrix Films and by producer David Ball. Her script for A Four-Sided Bed has won recognition at over 20 festivals and award competitions in 2019-2020 including Best Feature Screenplay at the Massachusetts Independent Film Festival. It was produced as a staged reading at Zephyr Theater in LA in 2016, starring Evan Ross (The Hunger Games) and Gia Mantegna (Under the Dome). It was also performed as a Staged Reading in 2019 at ReelHeArt International Film Festival in Toronto. Searle is completing a book of short stories and has film and theater scripts in the works. Searle has taught creative writing at Brown University, Emerson College, the University of Southern Maine's Program in Creative Writing, the University of Massachusetts Boston and other institutions. She has taught at Stonecoast MFA since the program began in 2002. Searle was a longtime member, Board officer and committee chairperson of the New England chapter of International PEN. In 2020, she was one of six writers who formed the group Writers Against Racial Injustice which raised over $60,000 for the Equal Justice Initiative. The group was featured in the Boston Globe and Publishers Weekly. She is a member of Women in Film and Video. In 1984, Searle married software engineer John Hodgkinson; they have a son, Will and reside in Arlington, Massachusetts. Bibliography Novels "We Got Him" (2016) A Four-Sided Bed (1998) "Girl Held in Home"