ABC News 5/20/13: Marina Keegan’s Words Live On, One Year After Her Death. In the year since the death of 23-year-old activist writer Marina Keegan in a car crash, her mother said the power of her daughter’s words sustain her and continue to inspire others in the art world and beyond.

“My daughter totally inspired me and moved me,” Tracy Keegan, 55, of Wayland, Mass., told ABCNews.com. “Her words are how she will live on, and it’s really important to me.” And now Marina’s sense of optimism and social justice will be memorialized in the national premier of her play, “Utility Monster,” at the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater — opening on the anniversary weekend of her death.

The play, written while she was a sophomore at Yale, is about two idealistic 15-year-olds who realize that 35,000 children die of hunger each day, and for only the price of a lunch at Taco Bell, two could be saved.