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Lou Clyde’s play Pouf!, an “uplifting” comedy with big hair and even bigger laughs, has been published by Dramatist Play Service. 

A synopsis: What happens when you mix hairspray, head lice and a little dab of Elvis? Hairlarity. The year is 1958 and Betty finds herself unfulfilled as a housewife. She and her husband have been unsuccessful in starting a family, and her husband won't "permit" her to get a job. With the encouragement of her sister, Betty secretly sets up an in-home salon, leveraging her prowess with hairspray and bobby pins. Betty begins to change the lives of neighborhood women by “poufing” their hair.

The play has received strong reviews: “Lou Clyde has created a gem of a comedy that through laughter and subtle human insight asks the underlying question: ‘Can a good hair-do really change your life?’” writes Carolina Curtain Call.

A three-time EBWW attendee, Lou is a playwright and blogger living in South Carolina. She has written five full-length comedies, including Heck the Dolls with Chardonnay and Matching up Mabel, which have been staged at theatres in the Columbia, South Carolina.

Pouf!, selected as a winner in the SheNYC Arts New Play festival, was presented at the Connelly Theatre in New York in July 2021. Upon return from New York, it played to 11 sold-out audiences in the Midlands of South Carolina. The play also was awarded first place in the 2020 CentreStage Theatre New Play Contest.

Her short play, The Senior Discount, was selected for the Chapin Theatre Company’s 2021 10-Minute-Ish Play Festival and was the 2022 Pick of the Vine at Little Fish Theatre. It was also staged at the Tampa Bay Theatre Festival and the Carrollwood Players One-Act Festival.

Lou loves comedy, and her humor has been influenced by the works of Erma Bombeck, David Sedaris and Jenny Lawson.

Originally from Buffalo, New York, Lou is card-holding member of Bills Mafia. She is going to get a Buffalo Bills tattoo when they win the Super Bowl.