Salsa Saved the Girls was first conceived at the Francis Ford Copolla One-Act Play Festival at UCLA during Rose Martula's MFA playwriting program, where Sam Golzari of Paul Weitz's American Dreamz starred. As a playwright, Rose Martula won the Young Playwrights award where she was first produced off-broadway in New York. She went on to win a playwriting grant from The Skirball Center, the David C. Baumgarden Award from the APA Literary Agency, the Scholastic Press Award for fiction from Columbia University, produced at the Soho Rep Theatre in NY, the New Play Festival at UCLA and at the Acme Theatre Festival in Sacramento, received positive feedback from the Mark Taper Forum, The Royal Court Theater in London, the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, The Chesterfield Film Project, the Geffen Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, The Playwrights Center in Minneapolis, La Jolla Playhouse, The Magic Theatre, The Manhattan Theatre Club, and Yale University.

Salsa Saved The Girls then fell into the hands of Joshua Meltzer, who directed the play at the Eclectric Theatre Company at 5312 Laurel Canyon Blvd. in North Hollywood.  Salsa was performed June 1-July 9th 2006.  A brilliant cast featuring Sandra Purporo, Lindsey Seim, Suzie Cobb, Don Maloney, and Leon Acord.

SALSA SAVED THE GIRLS is a dark comedy set in Long Island, a slick, slimeball father arrives at the home of his wild-woman ex-wife one summer night to pick up his two estranged, smart-mouthed, teenage daughters for their regular monthly visit. But when his ex's outrageous boyfriends--a beefcake Guido and a sweaty, bumbling, vulnerable mess of a man--start to show up, not only is it party time, but the girls hope for their absent fathers love is destroyed. One set. Two acts, three scenes.