JANITT DOTT is the prose pen name of Minneapolis/Seattle playwright CYNTHIA HANSON TRIPP who majored in Theatre Arts, Journalism & Commercial Art at the University of Minnesota from 1972 - 1979, where she studied playwriting under Charles Nolte with seminar classmate, Twin Peak’s co creator Mark Frost. Both were awarded multiple residencies with the Playwright's Lab of Minneapolis. She was a founding member of The Playwright's Guild in Seattle. Her produced plays include Wet Dream (Winner: National Women Playwright’s Festival, Seattle 1980) The Hippodrome Murder, Ares' Serpent: A Retelling of Antigone, Play for a Fallen Church, Tunnel Suspended Animation and a stage adaptation of Charles Dicken’s 
A Christmas Carol. Her latest completed script is the screenplay for Konrad Hollenstein’s DREATH TRILOGY.

Her plays in progress include "[scar]", which explores the long term traumatic effects of medical violence on infants and children; and a folksy rock opera, "Welcome to Elmwood" chronicling world famous UFO sightings that occurred in the 1970's in Elmwood, Wisconsin, that attracted international attention by UFO investigators, Dan Rather, Huraldo Rivera and Steven Spielberg.

She was a contributor to Applause Magazine & under her prose pen name janitt dott, writes extensively in other disciplines as a freelance feature writer, film critic. political activist, commentator & publicist. She has also taught writing courses writes commercial scripts on commission and dramaturgs new plays.

The INTENT of Kill Pen Ponies is to spawn and support activism on the raw subject of Equine Rescue as seen at public auctions where countless sound healthy horses offered by fond sellers end up NOT being sold to new “homes” who will keep and care for them but instead endure hardship and cruelty as they are shipped from the US (where slaughter for meat is prohibited) to packed stockyards in Canada & Mexico where they will be…butchered. 

The fate of cats & dogs is championed by heart wrenching celebrity pitches and shocking exposes in the media. But, sadly, the harsh and brutal deaths of our largest Companion Animal is a virtually unknown atrocity to most. 
Within the context of that “cause” are amazing acts of compassion and courage to SAVE doomed horses resulting in not only tragic outcomes but also a wealth of courageous saves, amazing recoveries, compelling first person accounts and heartwarming images. 

This is the STUFF of “Reality TV” and the best news for production is that Rescuers are already generating dramatic inspiring content on a weekly basis on cellphones websites and Facebook pages. A reality series needs only to harvest the abundant content that is already…out there…waiting to be shared.

That said, Equine Rescue is a highly contentious debate with many pros & cons played out in a closed self protecting often fractious horse community that does not welcome…outsiders. To get...inside...This Great Story takes a skilled and sensitive guide who can effectively navigate the terrain and shape the narrative.
The SolutionTo restore and outfit 100 year old Shadowland Farm in rural Wisconsin as a horse rescue facility; 
To Document that upgrade process, then to follow the colorful people & horses involved in the daily operations of Shadowland as the central focus of a new syndicated Reality Series that dramatically and entertainingly highlights the complexity challenges solutions and successes of equine rescue and rehabilitation.

JANITT DOTT is the prose pen name of CYNTHIA HANSON TRIPP who majored in Journalism & Theatre Arts, at the University of Minnesota. She was in residence with the Playwright's Lab of Minneapolis and a founding member of The Playwright's Guild in Seattle. Her work was featured in the National Women Playwrights' Festival in 1980.While in the UofM Commercial Art Certificate Program, she was Art Director for the University Theater PR Department at Rarig Center and she worked in multiple capacities as a/writer/publicist and designer for The Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, Mill City Theatre, The Old Log Theater, Sheldon Theatre, and the Empty Space & New City Theatre in Seattle. A feature contributor to Applause Magazine, she's written extensively in many disciplines as a copywriter, critic, commentator, online moderator & publicist. She also edits writers and dramaturgs new scripts. Her prose fictions include Voyeur, a tale of hard core love; The Comfort Son, a futurist novella on family planning; The Silent White, a twisted turn on three volume Victorian romance novels; and Passion of the Teaser Stallion, love in the horse show set.Miss Dott serves as the “staid spinsterly” RP head of housekeeping of the massive & mildewed Moldy Mansion online message board.

And her Shadowland Farm has been a sharp lens to focus attention on more than one...great story...about Rural American Life.She recently joined startup Graveyard Innovations as head writer/senior copy editor also AS a client to develop multiple her reality series projects based on her 100 year old family homestead and the 16 "kill pen ponies" that she has rescued from slaughter.She now accepts freelance assignments to support these lovely & worthy...saved horses.

Gonzo journalist Janitt Dott lives with her playwright alter ego Cynthia Hanson Tripp on an 80 acre hundred year old Civil War land grant homestead built by her great grandfather on a bluff above the Mississippi on the Wisconsin/Minnesota boarder across the river from Red Wing (the town that gave the world distinctive pottery and sensible work boots) The farm also cultivated her illustrator grandfather, Arthur C Hanson who painted the original logo for the LandOLakes Lady.Tripp/Dott persists day to day with too many rescued horses, some damn good (and not so good) farm dogs, a colony of cleverly named barn cats, a flock of fractious geese & feisty chickens, hutches of fertile fuzzy bunnies and the farm's original tenant, the unidentified Union soldier rumored to buried in her front yard.THIS rugged life has inspired non fiction works including "Millennium Gothic: the generation gap essays" and "Walden Extreme, a survival guide for modern rural American life". Both titles have dovetailed to form the basis for "Shadowland" a reality series in development that explores the dear but desperate state of aging farmers on their fading farms in The Heartland and suggests some...unique solutions...to 21st century re- settlers.ALL her life two equal passions have vied for her attention.Writing & HorsesSo she is ALSO defining the mission and creating the location format and content for "Kill Pen Ponies" a second and/or alternative reality series that follows the amazing courage triumph & tragedies of the intensely moving emerging Equine Rescue Movement in America.Her latest project is to finally utilize her mostly untouched 65 acre wooded "wisconsin coulee" for it's delightful camping potential through the upcoming HipCamp collectiveIn all of these ways, Shadowland Farm looks become the lens to focus attention information and support on more than one...great story.