Acknowledgments

With deep gratitude to each person who took time to share their Pee-wee memories with me, painful, joyful, and in between. Lindsey Freeman, Jack Gieseking, Dylan Mulvin, and Rianka Singh for your notes on the manuscript in progress. Michelle Phan for your careful research assistance. SFU’s University Publications Fund for financial support. Hazel Meyer for a home and life that’s just playhouse-adjacent enough to make thinking with this show and character possible. Most of all, thank you to Paul Reubens and all the weird geniuses who made Pee-wee’s Playhouse exactly the way it was, a gift to us all.