Listen To Your Mother Northwest Arkansas Producer/Director Announced

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: LELA DAVIDSON NAMED DIRECTOR/PRODUCER OF LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER: NORTHWEST ARKANSAS 2012

Local author and blogger Lela Davidson was selected by the national production company Listen To Your Mother Show, LLC. (LTYM) to produce and direct a local performance of the acclaimed Mother’s Day series of live readings. Lela was selected because of her success with her book and blog publications, her civic involvement, and her social media appeal and expertise. NW Arkansas was one of only 10 locations selected this year from a pool of interested cities for 2012.

LTYM features live readings by local writers on the beauty, the beast, and the barely-rested of motherhood, in celebration of Mother’s Day. Born of the creative work of mothers who publish on-line, each production is directed, produced, and performed by local communities, for local communities, with (at least) 10% of ticket proceeds benefitting a local non-profit cause. Beginning with one show in Madison, Wisconsin in 2010, five different cities hosted LTYM shows in 2011 and a national Mother’s Day movement was born.

LTYM is thrilled to announce BlogHer, Inc.’s continued National Media Sponsorship for 2012: BlogHer is the largest community of women who blog: 25+ million unique visitors per month, and hosts the world’s largest conference for women in social media –BlogHer.com/about

Lela will choose a venue, run auditions, and craft a performance to be held in spring in honor of Mother’s Day. The performances will be videoed to be shared with a national audience on LTYM’s youtube channel.

Lela Davidson has built a writing career on everyday humor and candid observations. Lela is an essayist (Blacklisted from the PTA, 2011), a journalist (the TODAY Show Moms blog), and a columnist for Brooke Burke’s Modern Mom. An entertaining professional speaker, who delights audiences on topics modern family life, marriage, and the challenges of being over-40 in a Botox world, Lela appears regularly on television and serves as Associate Editor of Peekaboo magazine. Her humorous, inspirational essays have appeared in family and parenting magazines throughout North America, and in Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms.

 

More information is available at the LTYMS national website www.listenyourmothershow.