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My play, The Midnight Ride of Sean & Lucy, has been on the shelf for way too long and is finally getting a staged reading in Portland, Maine this summer. The reading is July 31st and August 1st, 2021. More information here soon! If you happen to be in Maine this summer be sure to let me know, I would love to see you!
The wonderful folks at NewYorkRep have commissioned me to write a new play addressing the voluntary intoxication loophole that lets ‘rapists walk free’ in over forty states. This piece is not only a play but a call for change. The goal is to have a development reading of the play in both Los Angeles and New York in April, 2022. As a sexual assault survivor, being commissioned to work on this piece is a great honor and a further step to make actual change.
A big thank you to Gayle Waxenberg and Laurie Bernhard for thinking of me for this project!
My short play, EASY AS PRESLEY, was written for the pre-pandemic installment of Queens NY Madness.
Performed at the now closed Secret Theatre
Directed by Michele Travis
Featuring: Samantha Debicki, Chandler Gregoire and Cary Hite
While in Paris on a writers retreat (see this post) I learned that my brand-new play, Dixieland (working title) was a finalist for The International Thomas Wolfe Playwrighting Competition at PlayMakers in Chapel Hill.
This play was written as a response piece to Wolfe’s novel Look Homeward, Angel and I hope to continue to work on it as I have grown very fond of the piece.
Below is the list of the ten finalists. I hope you google these playwrights and discover more about their work. ☺
Missing Celia Rose by Ian August
Through Hike by David L. Caruso
Resubdivided by Mason Cordell
The Family Marcher by Alex Drinnen
Fall with Me by Jared Eberlein
Lineage by Anne Flanagan
Of the Sea by Fiona Gorry-Hines
Against the Flesh by Nick Robideau
Dixieland by Amy E. Witting
Original play, DAY 392 , named Semi-Finalist for the 2020 American Blues Theater Blue Ink Playwriting Award. It was wonderful to dust off my MFA Thesis play and invite it gently back into the world.
The American Blues Theater supports so many beautiful voices in the American Theatre. Check out their website here to learn more about this year’s winner – Yussef El Guindi!
Thanks to New Georges and their lovely space (my last in-person reading) some brilliant folks gathered to read a brand new zero draft of Dixieland (working title)
** While this update should have happened in real time, posting it now (May 2021) has me missing all these talented humans, music stands, pianos, and smooshing around a table while I drink too many seltzers to help me stay open to hearing characters come alive.
Commissioned by the Orange Beach New Play Festival
Upcoming production – February 22, 2020
Announcing:
Womyn’s Will
A new play by Amy E. Witting
