Jacqueline Goldfinger’s Trish Tinkler Gets Saved opens October 8, 2015 at Unexpected Stage. Skin & Bone won Best New Play at the 2014 Philadelphia Critics Awards and was nominated for the Blackburn Prize. Her 2012 drama Slip/Shot, won the Barrymore Award for Outstanding New Play, was nominated for the Weissberger Award and developed at PlayPenn […]
UpClose: Gabrielle Fulton, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Gabrielle Fulton’s Uprising is receiving a rolling premiere, opening at MetroStage on September 17. 2015. She was the 2011-2012 National New Play Network Playwright-in-Residence at Atlanta’s Horizon Theatre Company. Her directorial debut, Ir/Reconcilable, was selected as an HBO® Short Film Competition Finalist at the 2014 American Black Film Festival. Fulton, who earned her B.A. at […]
UpClose: Martyna Majok, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Martyna Majok’s new play, Ironbound, opens September 9 at Round House Theatre. She was born in Bytom, Poland, and aged in Jersey and Chicago. Her plays include Mouse in a Jar, the friendship of her thighs, Petty Harbour, reWilding, and Woman at the Well. Her plays have been performed and developed at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, […]
UpClose: Karen Zacarías, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Karen Zacarías’ new play Destiny of Desire opens September 11 at Arena Stage at the Mead Theater for American Theater. Her award-winning plays include The Book Club Play, Legacy of Light, Mariela in the Desert, The Sins of Sor Juana, the adaptations of Just Like Us and How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent plus many more. She collaborated on the libretto for Sleepy […]
UpClose: Marcia Cole, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Marcia E. Cole is a native Washingtonian who in the process of re-invention, received her BA in Early Childhood Education in 2014 from the University of the District of Columbia. Her new play, A Matter of Worth, produced by Live Garra Theatre, opens September 16, 2015.
UpClose: Madison Middleton, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Madison Middleton is a sophomore at School for Tomorrow. She’s participated with Highwood Theatre since 2011, most recently appearing in August: Osage County as Ivy. Other notable Highwood roles include William Cartwright/Chairman (The Mystery of Edwin Drood), Catherine (Proof), Johanna (Sweeney Todd), and Applegate/Ensemble (Damn Yankees). She has also performed with TheatreLab and Young Artists […]
UpClose: Caleen Sinnette Jennings, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Caleen Sinnette Jennings is an actor, director and playwright who is a founding member of The Welders, a new D.C. Playwrights’ Collective. Eight of her plays have been published by Dramatic Publishing Company, and her work has appeared in 7 play anthologies. She has received playwriting awards from the Kennedy Center and The Actor’s Theatre […]
UpClose: Patricia Henley, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Compass Rose Theater is producing Patricia Henley’s If I Hold My Tongue, set in Baltimore, MD, which opens September 17. She is the author of three novels, four short story collections, two chapbooks of poetry, a stage play, and numerous essays.
UpClose: Bekah Brunstetter, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Bekah Brunstetter hails from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and currently lives in Los Angeles. She is an alumni of the CTG Writers Group, Primary Stages writes group, Ars Nova Play Group, The Playwright’s Realm, and the Women’s Project Lab. She has previously written for MTV (Underemployed; I Just want my Pants Back) and is currently a […]
How We Died … and Bones in Whispers kick off Women’s Voices Theater Festival
The Women’s Voices Theater Festival began with two very different plays by two very different playwrights: How We Died of Disease-Related Illness by Miranda Rose Hall and Bones in Whispers by Kathleen Akerley. Both one-acts are directed by Longacre Lea auteur Akerley.
UpClose: Miranda Rose Hall, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Miranda Rose Hall is a playwright from Baltimore, MD. She has presented work in DC (Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage and Georgetown University), Baltimore (Center Stage), and Anchorage. She is resident playwright with LubDub Theatre in NYC, and an MFA student at the Yale School of Drama. Her play How We Died Of Disease-Related Illness, produced by Longacre Lea, opened […]
UpClose: Claudia Barnett, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Claudia Barnett grew up in the Bronx and lives in the woods of Tennessee. She has served as resident playwright at Stage Left Theatre and Tennessee Repertory Theatre and has developed four scripts with Venus Theatre, where Witches Vanish opens on August 20.