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After a truly humiliating reading on Saturday, I spent 48 hours renouncing playwriting. The draft is really, really bad. Now, I knew I was writing a bad draft. I acknowledged it openly. But THIS bad? Jesus wept. So, after the career renunciation phase (what happened to denial?), I moved to “Okay, what did I learn?” Because at this advanced age, …
I’m excited to participate in the 11th Annual International Women’s Work Festival in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada next week. The festival will offer a reading of “Without Mercy,” with a twist: three women in the cast. I specifically wrote Sam Sibley as a gender-neutral character, and I’ll get to see the effect (if any) of casting a woman in the …
I’m excited that “Believers” has been selected for the Paper Wing Theater 2nd Annual Summer Play Reading Series. Its intimate Paper Wing Theatre Fremont, located at 2115 N. Fremont Street, will be playing host to the public reading of 14 new plays written by Californian playwrights. With one Saturday rehearsal, the cast familiarizes themselves with the roles and they briefly …
3Girls Theatre will present a reading of my one-act comedy “Losing It” Sunday, June 21, 2015 at 2 pm at the Presidio Branch of the San Francisco Public Library. The reading boasts a stellar cast: Sally Dana (member, AEA), Louel Senores, Nathanael Card, and Cat Luedtke. “Losing It” follows the adventures of Win, a hard-charging executive at US Smells, Inc. …
“Moments of Truth” will be read as part of 3Girls Theatre’s Summer Festival of New Works Wednesday, July 9, at 7:30 pm at Thick House in San Francisco. The reading is free and open to the public. Music and lyrics by Caroline Altman. Book by Patricia Milton. Music Director: John-Elliott Kirk. Directed by Caroline Altman. Cast: Caroline Altman*, Stephanie Prentiss, …
Coming up soon: a staged reading at City Lights Theatre in San Jose of my short play, “Stonehenge.” 8 pm Tuesday, April 8, 2014. The play will be directed by the talented Jacquelyn Montellato, featuring Blythe Murphy, Drew Jones, and Kristen Carder. When a relationship lies in ruins, is that a good thing? Emma, Jane and Avery aim to find …
The concert reading of “Moments of Truth” under the auspices of 3Girls Theatre was gratifying and educational. We attracted an intelligent, generous audience which nearly packed Tides Playhouse in San Francisco.The after-show talkback was extremely helpful, and we’re strategizing our rewrites for another reading April 20 at the Central Works Writers Workshop, where the work is being developed. See the …
I am helping to organize an evening of short plays and monologues on the subject of women’s bodily autonomy, to take place in October 2012 in San Francisco. We plan to find an organization to sponsor, such as Planned Parenthood, but a prime motivator is to raise awareness. There have been many political moves to roll back progress in this …
I will have a table reading of “Believers” November 19 with the Central Works writing group. The cast will be Chris Morell as Rocky, Gabi Patacsil as Grace, Amy Prosser as April, and Harold Smith as Sam: a fantastic group! In this rewrite I worked to “activate” my protagonist, Rocky, whom I saw as too passive. Because he doesn’t have …
I had the opportunity to visit Asheville, NC and enjoy a reading of “Not Without Our Women” with my collaborators Caroline Altman and Andrew Black. The reading was well received by a very engaged audience. While we had a ridiculously short rehearsal time – just four hours – the cast rose to the occasion, and several seasoned professionals knocked it out of …