Lindsey Brown is a New Zealand writer whose passion for the performing arts started at a young age. Initially a keen musical theatre and improv performer, she then moved into the world of writing. She obtained a Masters of Scriptwriting from Auckland University of Technology, and since then hasn’t looked back. Lindsey has had pieces performed around the world, including London, New York, Hollywood, Florida, Chicago, Houston, Atlanta, Sydney, Dubai, Queenstown and Auckland. Successes to date include being the winner of Mixing It Up Productions New York One Act Competition 2022, 2020 recipient of the PANZ Outstanding Achievement Award, winner of the 2021 Long Beach Playhouse New Works Festival, California, and winner of Show Off 2022 for Camino Real Playhouse, California. Lindsey often favours comedy in her writing, believing that when we laugh, we are most open to learn. It’s also more fun to write! Her plays contain strong roles for women that like to challenge those themes that are universal to us all.
WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA Website: https://www.playmarket.org.nz/playwrights/lindsey-brown/ MORE ABOUT ME The plays/productions that changed my life: I would like to mention three. 1: Les Mis - as a performer myself, I was in constant tears of emotion the first time I saw this. It just blew teenage me away. Theatre in it's EPIC state. Oh, how I wanted to play Eponine one day....'a little fall of rain....' - still waiting for the chance (am I too old?) 2:The Play that Goes Wrong - Oh, how I laughed! It reminds us of the FUN that theatre brings, and such fabulous roles for actors! It really inspires my writing - the ridiculousness, the entertainment, the FUN. 3 - Celebrating the Musical - I was a performer in this one and met a group of women who have helped shape my world since. They are a creative rock that I was so lucky to find. WHAT I'M WORKING ON I am just finishing the final editing for a piece called 'A Woman Over Forty' - Synopsis: Invisible? I don't think so. A quintet of dark comedic monologues celebrating the trials and tribulations of 'a woman of a certain age'. No matter what life throws at them, which is a lot, they remain FABULOUS! (partly inspired by Honor Roll!) KEYWORDS Dark Comedy - to the point of bordering farce, women centered stories There are always stories behind the stories we get to tell. I learned this as a public radio correspondent and communications strategist for more than 30 years. As a reporter I was tasked with explaining why so many societal problems were hard to resolve. As a playwright, I continue to be drawn to life’s complexities, but now it’s the drama of it all that I hope compels the truth and our shared humanity. The COVID pandemic accelerated retirement, granting me more space to focus on ten-minute & one-act plays. My one-act play, The Last Appointment, was staged at the Vineyard Playhouse in 2011, & a monologue, Accident Report, was performed virtually by the Vineyard Playhouse in 2021. I’m a member of Playwrights’ Platform (Boston), & a regular student in Peter Littlefield’s Playwrights’ Workshop Online.
MORE ABOUT ME I think my most gratifying moment in the theater so far was when I first listened to and watched what talented actors could do with my writing...my script. What was a bunch of words on a page, on my computer, became the ideas and feelings of people on stage. I didn't "own" the work anymore, which was absolutely liberating. The actors discovered meaning and irony in places that hadn't occurred to me. It was an amazing process to witness. If I could say anything to an artistic director today it would be that wherever and whenever possible, look for new stories and less-explored but equally important topics among your many, many submissions. Consider plays that raise hard questions for audiences to ponder long after the curtain comes down. A good play does not, nor cannot, provide all the answers. Life isn't that pat. WHAT I'M WORKING ON I'm working on a series of very short (five minute) theatrical vignettes about an elderly woman and her daughter, who has become the primary family caregiver. The two have a lively relationship filled with daily adventures, frustrations, sarcasm, and deep love. I'm also working on a one-act play about the sudden death of a therapist and the challenges one of her clients faces in the immediate aftermath. The play asks this question: Was there any way to prepare for the possibility of a sudden rupture in the relationship? KEYWORDS Farce, Humor, Women, Family, Dysfunctional PEPPUR CHAMBERS is an international writer/producer/educator. An alum of Moving Arts MADLab, Circle X Emerging Playwrights Group, and current Antaeus Playwrights Lab member, she uses her voice to amplify women’s issues, social justice and love. Her commissioned radio plays The Fire In-Between, (LA’s 1933 Griffith Park fire/Antaeus Theatre Company), End of the Line (human trafficking/Antaeus Theatre company) and The Boll Weevil & Chester Higgensworth (reparations/Lower Depth Theatre) can be found wherever you listen to podcasts. Her most recent play, F/K/A Meridian was a top 15% finalist for the 2022 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, and a semi-finalist for the 2021 Garry Marshall Theatre New Works Festival. Her plays For the Love of You, House Rules, The Build UP, Dick & Jayne Get a Life and one-woman show, Harlem’s Awakening: Storytelling Live have been produced in LA and Prague. A published novella author (Harlem’s Awakening, Harlem's Last Dance), she’s also directed film and theater. Her most recent film (which she also co-wrote/produced), titled Do Something can be found on Tubi.com. As the creator of Brown Betties ™, her women’s empowerment brand, Peppur also strives to teach women how to be. Learn more at penandpeppur.com where she tells stories of heroes, including her own.
WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA Website: https://peppurchambers.com/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/peppur TW: https://twitter.com/Peppurthehotone IG: https://www.instagram.com/peppurthehotone MORE ABOUT ME One of my most gratifying moments in theater was in 2009 when my friend and I produced my first play in LA. I wrote, co-produced and acted in it. It was titled House Rules about love, respect and Billie Holiday. The last performance was on my birthday; my mom came in from Arizona to watch... she dressed in vintage clothes... the audience sang to me. And someone in the audience said, "This play is as good as anything I've seen on Broadway." That was a beautiful day; and it was at The Lounge Theatre which is no more. Bittersweet. WHAT I'M WORKING ON Radio play, The Boll Weevil & Chester Higgensworth (reparations; comedy); Time Out play about women and NBA dance, releasing my second novel, Harlem's Last Dance, producing a YouTube show with my husband, Her Words His Wine, and writing a site-specific one-woman show on migration for an Arizona-based museum. KEYWORDS Radio play, The Boll Weevil & Chester Higgensworth (reparations; comedy); Time Out play about women and NBA dance, releasing my second novel, Harlem's Last Dance, producing a YouTube show with my husband, Her Words His Wine, and writing a site-specific one-woman show on migration for an Arizona-based museum. Melissa Jordan Grey is a multifaceted artist, entrepreneur, and changemaker based in San Diego, California. A passionate polymath forever locked in a battle between the creative and logical, she tells vibrant stories through music, motion, paint, and pen——weaving pathos with absurdity along the way. A winner of both the 2021 and 2022 International Memoir Writer’s Association’s Memoir Showcases, her original pieces, “Trial and Error” and “A Walk in the Park”, were featured onstage at La Jolla’s Conrad Performing Arts Center. She most recently finished "Cringe", which explores themes of gender expectations, intergenerational language, and the impact of our digital landscape wrapped in a one-hour highbrow comedy.
WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA Website: https://www.melissajordangrey.com TW: @mindsiight IG: mindsig.ht MORE ABOUT ME I feel most like myself when I am creating. It could be composing music, recording a song, performing comedy, painting in my studio, exploring memoir, photographing expected finds, or writing an essay, play or poem. Creativity is my solace, oxygen and hope. WHAT I'M WORKING ON Currently, I am working on a play about the invisibility of women over 40. KEYWORDS Comedy, humor, satire, equality, feminist, musical. |
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