Inheritance Canyon, Liz Maestri’s new play, debuts September 18, 2015, produced by Taffety Punk.
UpClose: Jennie Berman Eng, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Jennie Berman Eng’s new play, Whenever You’re Near Me I Feel Sick, debuts September 17, 2015 at the Trinidad Theatre in Washington, DC.
UpClose: Karin Coonrod, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Karin Coonrod’s play texts&beheadings/ElizabethR debuts at Folger Theatre September 19, 2015. She is a theater maker whose work has been seen and heard across the country and around the world. She founded two theater companies – the Arden Party and Compagnia de Colombari. Her Shakespeare productions include: Theatre for a New Audience: Henry VI, Love’s […]
UpClose: Jessica Dickey, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Jessica Dickey is creator of the acclaimed The Amish Project, [produced here by Factory 449 in 2014], Charles Ives Take Me Home, and the Civil War reenactor play, Row After Row. Twice nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn prize, The New York Times recently named Dickey a “talent to watch.” The Guard is her Ford’s […]
UpClose: Andrea Assaf, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Andrea Assaf will perform her play, Eleven Reflections on September, September 15, 2015 at the Kennedy Center. She is the founding Artistic Director of Art2Action Inc., is a writer, performer, director, educator and cultural organizer. She has a Masters degree in Performance Studies and a BFA in Acting, both from NYU. She’s currently a “Building […]
UpClose: Shirley Samaniego, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Shirley Greller Samaniego’s play, Familiar Stranger, won first place in MDC’s 10 minute play contest for 2015. Her play. will be read at Mead Theatre Lab September 11 and 12, 2015.
UpClose: Ashley Amidon, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Ashley Amidon won second place in MDC’s 10 minute play contest for 2015. Her play. That’s That, is being read at Mead Theatre Lab September 11 and 12, 2015.
UpClose: Sheri Wilner, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Sheri Wilner’s new musical Cake Off debuts at Signature Theatre September 29, 2015. Her plays include Father Joy, Hunger, Bake Off, Labor Day, Relative Strangers, Moving Shortly, Little Death of a Salesman, The Unknown Part of the Ocean, Hell and Back, The Bushesteia, Equilibrium, The First Night of Chanukah, The End and Joan of Arkansas. Her work […]
UpClose: Mary Hall Surface, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Stay Awake, Mary Hall Surface’s new play for very young audiences debuts October 2, 2-15 at Atlas Performing Arts Center. She is a four-time nominee for the Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play and five-time nominee and 2002 recipient of the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Direction. Round House Theatre, Folger Theatre, National Gallery […]
UpClose: Sheila Callaghan, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Sheila Callaghan’s new play, Women Laughing Alone with Salad, is playing at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company through October 4, 2015. Everything You Touch was produced at the Contemporary American Theater Festival last summer. She is the recipient of the Princess Grace Award for emerging artists, a Jerome Fellowship from the Playwright’s Center in Minneapolis, a […]
UpClose: Jen Silverman, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Jen Silverman’s play, Phoebe in Winter, opens September 23 at Single Carrot Theatre in Baltimore. Her work has been produced off-Broadway by the Playwrights Realm (Crane Story), off-off Broadway by Clubbed Thumb (Phoebe in Winter), by Actor’s Theatre of Louisville (The Roommate, Humana 2016), and by InterAct Theatre (The Dangerous House of Pretty Mbane).
UpClose: Patricia Connelly, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Patricia Connelly’s new play Princess Margaret opens September 17, 2015 at the Trinidad Theatre. She is an award-winning playwright and director. Her plays have been presented at the Kennedy Center’s Page-to-Stage Festival and have been produced in Washington, D.C., and New Mexico. Her play, The Penny or the Stone, won the Robert Bone Memorial Playwriting […]