Member Awards

I'm excited to be giving my third TEDx Talk this October at TEDx LATI!

https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/23584

Based on FIBERS  - a play inspired by the literal sewing that enabled my grandmother to survive the death camps, as well as the act of threading my  family’s unfinished stories into a seamless narrative – a tapestry that reunites relatives across space, time, and understandings.

For those of us that LOVE Joseph Campbell and the archetypal hero's journey (where is it NOT?)  I wanted to share an exciting update - I gave my second TEDx Talk last February at VCU, and it's taken a few months, but I finally found out that the talk is going to be live next week!  In the meantime, they gave me the first three minutes that I wanted to share.  I'll share the rest when it's up on the TEDx site. In the meantime, I'd love to hear your thoughts...the rest of the talk might go in a bit of an unexpected direction - so stay tuned - enjoy...and "Welcome to the Greatest Adventure of Your Life!"

https://amyoes.com/2017/06/26/2nd-tedx-talk/

Guerrilla Girl On Tour, Aphra Behn, received the Venus Theatre Lifetime Achievement Award in Washington DC. The mission of Venus Theatre is to set flight to the voices of women and children with theatre for a lifetime. Aphra Behn performed "Act Like a Feminist Artist, a Guerrilla Girl Unmasks," at Venus on February 2, before receiving the award, and read from her new memoir, "UN/MASKED." She dedicated the award to women in theatre who work tirelessly for their voices to be heard. 

With the community-engaged seniors' theatre group Our Voices, I've received a grant to create Canada's Seniors: Our Roots, Our Future, a new play that celebrates the contributions of seniors to Canada's past, present and future.

How I Became a Bennington Girl was about a young poet student and her famous professor. The play dealt with the issue of anti-Semitism. 

Two minute film protesting with an ironic twist, the state of our fossil fueled planet, written by me, directed by Michele D'Acosta.

Awarded Honorable Mention by the Experimental Film Forum in Los Angeles

NYCAlpha's Thalia upcoming festival includes my comedy "A Trip to Eden," in which a modern time feminist gives Eve some salient advice. A group of short plays are produced a total of 6 times with different casts at Roebuck Theater in New York City. This will be the second production of "A Trip to Eden" in this venue. Tickets are $20 at the door or through this website: 

https://www.eventbrite.com/o/the-thalia-festival-cast-b-10933276932?utm_campaign=thalia_festival_playwrights_ticket_info_comps&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=2017-03-30

Rover Dramawerks in Plano, Texas, again hosts a "365 Women a Year" festival of short plays, including "The Anesthetic Was Psalms," my short drama inspired by Jane Todd Crawford (1763-1842), who had the first ovariotomy -- and lived another 32 years. According to Rover Dramawerks, the focus of the festival is to "write and present plays about extraordinary women, bring women back into the social consciousness, and plant seeds of her story around the country." Artistic Director of Rover, Carol Rice, is a passionate advocate of the "365" project. Tickets are $16-22. Visit the website for details.

http://www.roverdramawerks.com/01_CurrentSeason/01_CurrentSeason.html

Jennie Redling's musical libretto for "MY HEART IS THE DRUM" (composer, Phillip Palmer; lyricist, Stacey Luftig) - of nearly two hundred applications submitted, was one of 24 total applications that moved forward to the final review round, received praise and designation as a 2017 Jonathan Larson Grant Finalist.

I'm excited to announce that my monologue, "Flower Farthest from the Path" has been selected as a semi-finalist for the NYCPlaywrights WOMEN IN THE AGE OF TRUMP project. My excerpt will be posted January 10 at 5PM Eastern Time on the NYC Playwrights Blog.  

Several monologues from my one-woman musical, Gutless & Grateful are being licensed out to students across the country for academic senior projects, performances and competitions.  You can view a video from a student at University of Buffalo here.

You can learn more about my work at https://amyoes.com/playwright.