Dana Higginbotham, the mother of American playwright Lucas Hnath, has no Wikipedia page yet; however, her son is featured.

Dana Higginbotham is the mother of the king of playwright Lucas Hnath.

Lucas has portrayed the real-life story of his mother in his play Dana H., which is to be played at Vineyard Theatre.

Dana H. is based on the real-life story of Dana Higginbotham, about her five-month abduction and torture time.

The isolation of Dana, after a divorce, consequent job loss, and being away from her only son made her an easy target for her abductor.

Dana Higginbotham Wikipedia

Dana Higginbotham, American playwright Lucas Hnath’s mother, is yet to be featured on Wikipedia.

Dana Higginbotham was raised in Pittsburgh in a Presbyterian household; she is a psych ward chaplain in Florida.

She explains her mother said she was evil from 3.

she dreamed equally of being an actress and an evangelist along with the famous faith healer Kathryn Kuhlman.

She did theater in college, then went into radio and music production, taking her to Miami.

She had Lucas with her first husband, a recording engineer, and opened her recording and rehearsal studio.

Lucas Hnath Play Dana H. & Cast: Deirdre O’Connell

Lucas Hnath beautifully scripted the real-life story of his mother Dana Higginbotham’s abduction by a disturbed client some 25 years ago.

In the play, the authentic voice of Dana Higginbotham can be heard, but she is not present onstage might be due to her traumatic experience.

Instead, the actress Deirdre O’Connell lip-syncs to a recorded account of Dana’s abduction.

In 1997, Dana Higginbotham was a psych ward chaplain in Florida.

She used to help people with mental health conditions, meth addicts, and ex-convicts who required her aid.

Dana was just divorced from her husband, and Lucas was off to New York University and lost her employment with an evangelical Christian facility as it has prohibited divorce.

Dana was isolated; she offered kindness to Jim, who was a meth-addicted, prison-tattoo-covered.

Jin was a seriously disturbed ex-con raised from childhood in the criminal underworld of White Supremacy and violence.

Her KIndness was taken scrupulous Jim, who showed up at her home one late night, beat her unconscious, and abducted her.

In that play, painful truth came to the revelation that it was merely the beginning of five-month captivity along with a seemingly endless series of cheap motels and criminal way stations.