Member Productions

An exciting new event that Tahoe Women's Services will be introducing to the community for the first time ever. The first act of the new production will consist of various monologues; the second act will be a one-act play. Inner Rhythms dance group will be performing.

The performance itself will be on May 1st at the theater at North Tahoe High School in Tahoe City.

 SWAN day Reading  of
 Rapture Makes Perfect by Roberta D'Alois

April 19, 2009
2 PM
The Marsh Studio/Cafe
1070 Valencia St
San Francisco CA
94110
$5 Donation requested but no one turned away
All proceeds benefit Jump! Theatre and International Centre for Women Playwrights

A staged reading of Rapture Makes Perfect by Roberta D'Alois

Art show featuring:
Nena St. Louis, sculptor
Madison Clell, graphic novelist, (whose play CUCKOO, based on her autobiographical graphic novel just premièred at Jump! Theatre)
Jan Steckel, poet
Gaetana Caldwell-Smith, visual artist

Rapture Makes Perfect - In New York City, a candidate for the
 Presidency believes that through engaging with a television evangelist
and the ghost of a dead rock star, she can rebuild the World Trade Center as well as her political career.

Roberta D'Alois  is a monologist, playwright and director. Her current projects include: collaboration with musician Robert Scott
on his monologue The Jade Pyramid, and continued work on
Rapture Makes Perfect, a full length play.

Monologue Mania in Bloomberg, NY (open mic!) will perform MEDA MEDEA by Linda Evans on April 20, 2009.

MEDA MEDEA will be included in the ICWP monologue anthology.

3rd Annual SWAN Day Celebration --
"March Madness - Women on the Edge"
Readings of Short Work and Music by Boston-area Women Playwrights and 
Artists
Boston Playwrights' Theatre
Saturday Afternoon, March 28, 2009 @ 2-5:30pm

Come join us for a program of staged readings of new theatre pieces 
and poetry, and songs created by local Boston playwrights and 
artists.  This year's theme is Women on the Edge, which was defined 
very broadly and open to many interpretations.  The work, all new and 
not previously presented, includes short plays, scenes, monologues, a 
poem and songs by area artists Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro, Kelly DuMar, 
Dara Eagle, Hortense Gerardo, Kim Hoff, Leslie Powell, Monica Raymond,  Ellen Sullivan, Sandra Weindraub and Debbie Wiess.  Diane Ripstein  will be Mistress of Ceremony for the event.  Some of the Boston-area  theatre scene's favorite directors and actors will be involved.  After the approximately 2-hour program, there will be a party with light refreshments for mingling and socializing.

This event is part of an International celebration of women artists 
called SWAN Day, which stands for Support Women Artists Now Day, and  is being organized under the auspices of the International Centre for  Women Playwrights.  The March Madness Boston SWAN event takes place at  the Boston Playwrights' Theatre (BU) located at 949 Commonwealth  Avenue, Boston, on Saturday afternoon, March 29, from 2-5:30pm.  There is no entrance fee, but donations ($5 suggested) at the door are  welcome.  All proceeds of the event will go to The Fund for Women  Artists organization, one of the two groups, which conceived SWAN Day,  to support its efforts.  Last year's show sold out so reservations are  recommended.  For more information or to reserve seats, please contact  Debbie Wiess at 617-437-0352 or djwiess@msn.com.

SWAN Day, established in 2007, is an annual event that takes place on  the last Saturday of March, which is Women's History Month.  The idea 
for SWAN Day grew out of a collaboration between organizers of The 
Fund for Women Artists and Women in the Audiences Supporting Women  Artists Now.  For more information about SWAN Day and other SWAN Day events happening around the world, please visit www.SwanDay.org.

The Fund for Women Artists (www.WomenArtists.org) is a non-profit 
organization dedicated to helping women artists get the resources they  need to do their creative work.  Its emphasis is on women in film,  video and theatre.  Over the past decade it has raised over $4 million 
(including an endowment of $425,000) and built a website that provides  networking, advocacy, and fundraising services to approximately 2,000 
visitors a day.

Key City Public Theatre presents a reading of short works by women playwrights both local and international on Saturday, March 14 at the Key City Playhouse, 419 Washington St. The program begins at 2:30 p.m. and is a benefit for the Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault Program of Jefferson County.

Monologues and ten-minute plays by writers from Port Townsend to Romania will highlight the event directed by DJ Adams and featuring local actors David Speck, Michelle Hensel, Denise Fleener, Heather Paulson, Charles Duncan, Cheron Dudley, Patricia Earnest and Sarah Ohman.

The program is made possible by a generous grant from the International Centre for Women Playwrights, which is sponsoring similar readings around the world this month.

“It is a pleasure to partner with the International Centre for Women Playwrights to bring eight exciting and talented world voices to our stage. This is a wonderful way for KCPT to help Port Townsend celebrate Women's History month.” says Denise Winter, KCPT Artistic Director.

Local playwrights include Mara Lathrop (“FantasyLand”) and Judith Glass Collins (“Of Poisoned Pens and Palates”). Also representing Washington is Shane Shipley of Issaquah (“The Governor & Her Mother”).

Other pieces by American writers are Kathleen Coudle King of Grand Forks, North Dakota (“Plantanos”), Carolyn Gage of Portland, Maine (“The Parmachene Belle”), and Constance Congdon of Amherst, Massachusetts (“True North”).

International playwrights are Margaret McSeveney of Glasgow, Scotland (“Marilyn”) and Lucia Verona of Bucharest, Romania (“Don Juan’s Wife”).

A reception with some of the playwrights will follow the performance. The box office and lobby bar will open one hour prior to the curtain.

Suggested donation is $10. Tickets will be available at the door, or by calling the KCPT offices at 360-379-0195

28 March 2009, 8 p.m. EST - Incubation Period -

A comic tragedy by Hortense Gerardo

The First [W]rite Series - play readings by local artists.  Featuring Rachelle Coury, Brian Dunham, Christopher King, Robert Murphy.

56 Bratelle Street, Harvard Square.  $10/advance purchase recommended.  (617) 547-6789, ext. 1 for tickets or visit ccae.org .

Produced by the Cambridge Center for Adult Education and in vivo Productions as part of Swan Day, 2009.

FLUSH INK PRODUCTIONS THE INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS & THE CITY OF KITCHENER PRESENT:  SHE SPEAKS - An evening of women's voices.

March 8, 2009 8pm - Kitchener's City Hall Council Chambers.

Like a Terrible Beauty - a scene - Inspired by the Easter Rising of 1916 in Ireland, and the subsequent Anglo-Irish war, and heart-breaking Cival war, comes an account of sorrow, regret, devastation...but always hope.

We know the stories of Michael Collins.  We know the story of the proclamation.  The women’s stories are sadly missing from much of the history.  This is Maeve’s story, celebrating the strength of the women who participated in this rich history, side by side with the men, and the women who stayed at home, tending the farm, always fearing the worst.

A tender, funny, lyrical, heart-wrenching play that is simply about people.

Jennifer Cornish will be reading Maeve and Kathleen Sheehy will be reading Clare.

Following Act I & Act II there will be a talk-back session lead by Gary Kirkham.

The audience is free to ask questions, make gentle comments, discuss the pieces presented.

Donations at the door will be given to The Women's Crisis Services of Waterloo & ICWP.

Contact:

FORKS OF IVY, a full-length drama, written and directed by Cass Erickson, will have a staged reading on January 30 and 31, 2009 at the Lowry Lab Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota. The reading is sponsored by Lex-Ham Community Theater.

Set in a cove in the mountains of southern Appalachia, FORKS OF IVY is the story of an aging patriarch who questions his faith and life in the aftermath of the accidental death of his son. The subsequent dynamics of an unraveling family become intertwined with the arrival of a couple from New York. The play pays homage to contemporary life in southern Appalachia and explores the issues of loss, loneliness, domestic violence, transiency, belonging, spirituality, redemption, and reconciliation.

FORKS OF IVY was a finalist in the 2006 Trustus Theatre Playwrights’ Festival (Columbia, South Carolina). Trustus Theatre literary manager Jon Tuttle found the play 'utterly Faulknerian . . . in the richness of its language and detail.'

The Theater Space Project, owners of the Lowry Lab Theater, provided the venue through a generous grant from Travelers Foundation. For more information, see www.theatrespaceproject.org.

The reading is free and will be followed by an author feedback session.

Copperheads and Common Women, a one-woman show by Sandra de Helen will be performed by the playwright as part of Fertile Ground New Works Festival in Portland, Oregon. She will be directed by Meg Chamberlain. Date: January 25, 2009. Time 12:30pm. Place: Portland Center Stage. Tickets may be reserved at www.pdxtix.com or purchased at the door for $5. This play brings to life a country woman and her eight year-old granddaughter in rural Missouri.