ALL-FEMALE PLAYWRIGHTS ANNOUNCED FOR "WOMEN OF A CERTAIN AGE" Not Writing About Menopause!
New Feathers Productions (NFP) announces their first-ever, all female theatrical production, WOMEN OF A CERTAIN AGE, NOT TALKING ABOUT MENOPAUSE set for Thursday, November 11th at the Zlock Performing Arts Center. NFP will exclusively produce the latest scripts by six female/female-identifying select playwrights throughout the NY, NJ and PA region and will be directed by Sarah LeClair. Tickets at www.bucks.edu/tickets
Playwright, Performer & Director: Mary Carpenter. Photo Credit: Contributed.
Mary Carpenter has been working in Philadelphia Theatre as a performer, director, teacher, writer and producer for over twenty years. She has worked with The Second City, 1812 Productions, Act II Playhouse, Philadelphia Theatre Company, the Arden, the Wilma, and Montgomery Theatre Company. Directing credits include Intimate Exchanges and Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe at 1812, On the Road Again, Oh What Fun, Didn’t Your Father Have this Talk with You, Making Spirits Bright, A Few of Our Favorite Things, and Kalamazoo at Act II Playhouse, and I’ll Have What She’s Having at CSZ Philly. She has written and produced two one woman shows: The New & Improved Stages of Grief and Dot & Me. Mary has been a performing and teaching member of ComedySportz for over twenty-five years where she also served as Artistic Director twice. She holds Theatre degrees from Northwestern University and The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, and has recently published Do Or Do Not: How to Improvise Like a Jedi.
Playwright, Performer & Filmwriter: Jan Jalenak. Photo Credit: Contributed.
Jan Jalenak grew up in Memphis, TN, is a lifetime member of The Actors Studio and New Circle Theater Company and a graduate of New York University. Her acting training with the inimitable Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse in the 80’s instilled a fearlessness to dig deeper with both her acting and writing. As a playwright, her plays have been featured in venues throughout New York City, including Greenwich Street Theater, Naked Angels, The Gene Frankel Theatre, The Robert Moss Theater, The Ohio Theater, New Georges, UBU Rep, Studio Theater, Playwrights’ Horizons, and The Actors Studio.
Playwright, Kerri Kochanski. Photo Credit: Contributed.
Kerri Kochanski is an author and playwright. Her work has been performed throughout the United States and Canada. Her plays include: COLLEGEBURG, USA: THE TRUE STORY OF A TOWN IN CRISIS IN THE ADVENT OF A RACIST REGIME, OR PRIVILEGED, OR SUPREME (WE ARE GOING TO HAVE THIS CONVERSATION), CREEP, THE FOOD MONOLOGUES, COMMUNICATING THROUGH THE SUNSET, SPITTING DAISIES, and numerous short plays and monologues. Excerpts from her dramatic work have been performed in various thespian festivals across the United States, and have been published in anthologies by Smith & Kraus, Meriwether, Dramatic Publishing, ICWP, Cengage Learning, and Applause Books. She is the author of the book, QUIRKY AND DRAMATIC MONOLOGUES, and the pop culture/humor book, 1,001 PEOPLE THAT SUCK. She is a resident playwright with Emerging Artists Theatre (NYC), The Witherspoon Circle (Princeton, NJ) and Lancaster Dramatists’ Platform (Lancaster, PA). Her work has received support from the NJ Council for the Humanities and The Puffin Foundation. She received a MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University. She lives in Greater Philadelphia.
Playwright, Performer Meghan Malloy. Photo Credit: Contributed.
Meghan Malloy: Meghan Malloy is a professional actress, director and teaching artist. BFA in Acting (Point Park Conservatory). Barrymore nominated actress (Wilma Theater's My Children! My Africa!). Meghan taught and directed for the Walnut Street Theatre for nine years, from adult scene study to children’s musical theater. Locally, Meghan has taught theatre camp for at-risk youth and dialect workshops for The Conservatory in Doylestown. She enjoys private coaching monologues, audition sides and dialects. Playwriting is her latest adventure after being on an eight-year hiatus with her children. www.meghanmalloy.org.
Playwright, Performer Shelli Pentimall Bookler. Photo Credit: Contributed.
Shelli Pentimall Bookler holds an M.F.A. in Playwriting from Temple University and an M.A. in Theatre Arts from Eastern Michigan University. Productions of her full-length plays include the musical Snyder v Phelps, based on the controversial Supreme Court decision in the case against the Westboro Baptist Church, Addicted about young adults in recovery for drug addiction, All the Dead Biddles, a dark comedy that takes a unique view of how we grieve after a significant loss, and Bird in the Window, the story of a young woman who develops an eating disorder after a traumatic event. Short plays featured in play festivals include Committed (Montgomery Theatre, the Brick Playhouse), Decision (Village Players of Hatboro), Jugs (Colonial Playhouse), Global (Heartlande Theatre Company), and Vanity, featured in Seeds of Spring, A Night of Feminist Performance Art. She was the New American Voices Playwriting Series finalist (Pieces of the Pie), Midwest Dramatist Center’s Playwriting Conference finalist (The Interview), American Association of Community Theatre semi-finalist (Bird in the Window and Pieces of thePie), and her play Captive was featured in Panglossian Production’s Weekend of Women Playwriting Series in Williamsburg, Virginia. She is a member of The Dramatist Guild, Philadelphia Dramatist Center, and the Witherspoon Circle, a playwriting group based in Princeton, New Jersey, as well as an actor, director, dramaturg and choreographer in Philadelphia.
Playwright, Julie Zaffarano. Photo Credit: Contributed.