Judith Leora - Recent productions: The Hierarchy of Fish at Hillsborough (Tampa, FL) and Shenandoah University (Winchester, VA); Elijah at The Victory Theatre Center (LA Times Critics Choice); Showpony at The Victory (LA Times Critics Choice); Elijah at Bristol Valley Theatre; The Cookie Fight at BVT; Gideon - Ego Actus/Paradise Factory and at UMASS Lowell (commission); Icon Plays/Ego Actus, NYC; 1MPF - numerous times. Readings: Painting with Lulu, MadLab/Kraine Theatre; Showpony - Living Room Series/Blank Theatre (Hollywood, CA); Cap Rep Theatre Next Stage Festival, Albany, NY; The X and the Y at BVT; Heart-Shaped Uterus a MadLab/IRT; The Cookie Fight (Last Frontier Theatre Conference). 2020 Project Y Playwrights Group; a Founding Member/Executive Director - New York Madness; Robert Askins Playwriting Fellow/Lone Star Theatre.
WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA https://www.judithleora.com/ Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/judithleora Twitter: @Judithleora Instagram: @Judithleora MORE ABOUT ME I love hearing the truth. Once in a while we achieve that in theatre, and it's thrilling. I will always strive to add to canon of work. And also just make people laugh. Because life. WHAT I'M WORKING ON You, Me and Margaret Atwood, an intimate comedy about gender dynamics and politics. Or why white women vote Republican... Lynda Crawford is a New York playwright. Her work includes NIGHT SHADOWS—OR, ONE HUNDRED MILLION VOICES SHOUTING, On Women Festival, Irondale Center, Brooklyn, NY, March 2020; WHITEWASHED, Planet Connections ZoomFest, August 2020, and 365 Women a Year Festival, Florida State University, October 2017; KP 1968 (co-written with Peter Reich), Fenimore Art Museum Spring 2020 (Zoom), and HB Studio’s Coming Apart Together Series, June 2020 (Zoom); THE REWRITE, Emerging Artists’ Theatre Fall 2019, and The Hive, Provo, Utah, 2019; STARS OUT OF BALANCE, nominated for Outstanding Playwriting, Planet Connections Festivity 2018; THE AUDIT, HB Playwrights Theatre, June 2018, and Emerging Artists’ Theatre, Fall 2015; ROJO VERDE, nominated for Outstanding Playwriting and winner of the Greener Planet Award, Planet Connections Festivity 2017; FAMILIAR STRANGERS, nominated for Outstanding Playwriting, Planet Connections Festivity 2016; PILLOW OF TEARS, Women Playwrights International 2015, University of Cape Town, South Africa; STRANGE RAIN, FringeNYC 2013, awarded Overall Excellence in Playwriting; A PROCESSION OF CLOUDS, Unchained Festival 2013; CONSUMER BEHAVIOR (co-written with Gary Kupper), FringeNYC 2002 and recipient of a Playwrights’ Project grant from Abrons Arts Center–Henry Street Settlement in 2000 and 2001; SECRETS OF THE BIRDS, a finalist in the 2006 Samuel French Short Play Festival. Lynda's other writings have appeared in literary journals and in the book, TITTERS: THE FIRST COLLECTION OF HUMOR BY WOMEN (Macmillan). Lynda received an MFA in playwriting in 2001 from Brooklyn College and she is fortunate to lead the playwriting lab at SUNY/Empire State College (where she was once a student).
WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA http://www.yayaproductions.com @yayaproductions MORE ABOUT ME I feel most like myself when writing. WHAT I'M WORKING ON A play about LOVE. KEYWORDS Human, Flawed, Dreamer, Thriller photo by Keily Anderson-Stale “If we are to shift the paradigm, we must change the stories we tell.”
Playwright, composer, lyricist, director, Broadway performer, poet, and all-round energetic sort, DS (she/her) is a Fellow of both the Women’s International Study Center and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, and an emeritus Cleveland Public Theatre Artist and 10-year alum of the Cleveland Play House Playwrights’ Unit. Her plays comprise drama, comedy, rock and chamber operas, romcom, tragedy, SciFi, verse and free-verse, modern, historical, pop and C&W musicals, magic realism, and "Richard Wagner’s Entire Ring Cycle in 10 Minutes with Sock Puppets." Magid's thoughts comparing the techniques of wrighting a play vs. the book of a musical is published in the November-December 2018 issue of The Dramatist. WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA http://dsmagid.com MORE ABOUT ME Many years ago, I saw a production of Robinson Jeffers’ translation of Medea on Broadway, with Zoe Caldwell and Dame Judith Anderson – whom my father saw on Broadway as Medea – as the Nurse. Quite late in the play, the Nurse speaks of her fear – in this production, directed by Robert Whitehead, the Nurse took a full minute to cross the stage, silently, in the middle of her speech. I have only to write these words, to be once again riveted by this dangerous choice. No one coughed, no one moved, the proverbial pin did not drop. And when the Nurse finished uttering her line, there was a collective intake of breath throughout the theater. At the time, I thought, what a magnificent actress. This moment has expanded for me, over the years, into the understanding that it was a magnificently brave choice. It changed my conception of what the collaboration between director, text, and actor could be, and could do. There are so few truly communal experiences any more, and the one place we seem to come together as a community, even when there are vast differences in creed or economic strata, is in a theater. This is both a gift and a responsibility for the playwright and director, the storytellers, who draw together, focus, and present the world of the play to the audience in a way that lets, that encourages us all to commune. WHAT I'M WORKING ON An adult musical adaptation of a fairy tale; a retelling of the true history of a much-maligned and slandered archetype; a whole-cloth play-with-music about women prevailing. That's what's on the front burner. Regina Y. Evans is a Modern Day Abolitionist in the fight against child sex trafficking, a social justice playwright, actor and poet. She is the Founder of Regina's Door, an Oakland based vintage store which operates as a creative arts healing space for young survivors of sex trafficking, a Co-Founder of Conjure And Mend, a sewing salon created for young survivors to learn the art of costuming, and the Founder/Creative Director of Beloved: An Insistence a street based artist initiative designed to bring artistic and theatrical care and beauty to victims of child sex trafficking.
Ms. Evans is an award winning social justice poet, playwright, costumer and performer. Her stage play 52 Letters, which brings awareness to the fight against modern day slavery, was honored to win a 2013 Best of SF Fringe Festival Award, and was a part of the Oakland (formerly Ubuntu) Theater Project 2019 season. 52 Letters was a finalist for the 2019 Outstanding Solo Performance for the Theatre Bay Area Awards, SF, Ca. Also in 2019, Ms. Evans was the recipient of the Equity in the Entertainment Industry Award, Stanford University. Her stage play, Passage (on slavery, the commodification of the Black Female womb and healing) received Semifinal status for the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, 2020. Ms. Evans is a native of Oakland, Ca. WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook: @reginasdoor Twitter: @echojustice Instagram: @reginasdoor MORE ABOUT ME My most gratifying moments in theater are the times spent mentoring young survivors of sex trafficking in the art of theater. WHAT I'M WORKING ON I am currently working on writing and developing a series of street based stage plays (I was lucky enough to receive a grant through the Just City Fund, Oakland, Ca) that will challenge infrastructure/entities (ie retail, hotels, transportation, etc) that unwittingly support human trafficking due to lack of knowledge. The plays seek to bring awareness so that these entities can disengage and operate in a more just manner. Secondly, I am tweaking my stage play, Passage, which looks at human trafficking through a lens of past day slavery and the commodification of the Black female womb. In doing so, the play seeks to go to the root of this injustice so that healing can flow. KEYWORDS Social Justice, Black Female Playwrights, Survivors, Historical, Slavery, Human Trafficking Ritual, Ceremony, Magical, Street-based theater, Insist |
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