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My new book, Hello? Who Is This? Margaret,  August 2025

COMING AUGUST 2025!

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A comedic look at blind ambition, stubborn optimism, and perseverance

 

Dani Alpert is an expert on the fortitude and delusion required to pursue childhood dreams that just won’t drop dead. Her experiences are a case study in the human spirit’s tenacity and its unwavering ability to keep going in the face of crushing rejection. After years toiling in the entertainment industry, hearing “Almost,” “So close,” or “Not quite” on a loop, she turned rejection into fuel and humor into a survival tool.

 

Some of Dani’s stories dive into the bowels of childhood, the creative psyche, and the birth of an aspiring Broadway baby. Other episodes explore crippling adult fears and self-doubt and what happens when the ingénue becomes a member of AARP. Whether she’s describing her bumpy road trying to get a foothold in Hollywood, her retail adventures shopping for gas masks during COVID, or her idiotic decision to vacation at a romantic couple’s resort after a heart-wrenching breakup, Dani offers gentle shoves—inspiration wrapped in cautionary tales for anyone still chasing their dreams but feeling stuck.

 

Hello? Who Is This? Margaret? delivers tales of universally awkward, misunderstood, and human failings through wit, pop culture, and Dani’s losses and wins (mostly losses). Her humor—sometimes dark and distorted but always self-aware—is a salve for the messiness and absurdities of life. Dani’s candid essays speak to the hopeful in all of us.

 

 

ABOUT

Dani is the author of the memoir, The Girlfriend Mom, winner of the 2020 Story Circle Network Gilda Award for comedy, honoring Gilda Radner. Her work appears in numerous outlets. Dani spent decades working in theater, television, and film, performing, writing, and directing. She’s a Pilates instructress and an advocate for the Down syndrome community. Dani’s first headshot was her mugshot taken after being arrested for tagging when she was a juvenile. She’s been trying to reclaim those glory days ever since. 

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Winner of the Gilda Award, The Girlfriend Mom, a memoir
Podcast interview, The Girlfriend Mom, a memoir
My pole essay published in Manifestation
Told story on podcast from The Girlfriend Mom, a memoir
A guest on this podcast
Podcast interview, The Girlfriend Mom, a memoir
Interview on this podcast, The Girlfriend Mom, a memoir
Podcast interview, The Girlfriend Mom, a memoir
Finalist for my essay about Norman Lear
Work published on this website
Mention about performance in the show Mortified
Featured in an article about friendship
My first published piece in an anthology, poem
Regular performer in this show, NYC, Brooklyn
Phone interview about The Girlfriend Mom, a memoir
Contributed writing to this site
Blogging live in the studio audience
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Writer on show, New York
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Contributing writer, several issues
Review, The Girlfriend Mom, a memoir
Screenplay option
Writer's assistant, Los Angeles
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Panelist at this conference, Cleveland
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Writer's assistant, Los Angeles
Published Essay about Pilates and Orthodox Jews
Published Essay about buying a house in mid-life
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Semi-finalist, The Girlfriend Mom, a memoir

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