 I have always been fascinated by the gray spaces where I can comprehend the incrementalism that allows bigger horrors to occur, and I want to write characters and stories that move people to take personal and collective action to make society more just and allow our planet to endure. My plays include Hysterical! (Thrown Stone Theatre Company, NY Int'l Fringe Festival, UC Davis Ground & Field Festival, Second Act New Works, published Broadway Play Publishing), The Auntie Network (Studio Theatre Tierra del Sol Staged Reading Series, Bechdel Group Finalist, SWTP Finalist, published Broadway Play Publishing), Woman’s Work (Pittsburgh New Works Reading Series, Warner International Playwrights Festival Semi-Finalist), and Reclamation (in development). I’m playwright 862 in Adam Szymkowicz' 1000+ playwright interviews series (http://aszym.blogspot.com/2016/07/i-interview-playwrights-part-862-elenna.html). As an actress I’ve recorded hundreds of radio and tv commercials, promos, and audiobooks, and my voice is in the Library of Congress for my Audible.com recording of Jennifer Crusie's Getting Rid of Bradley. Yale (BA) and Columbia (MFA).
WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA TW: @elennaselenna IG: @elspiration MORE ABOUT ME I keep "doing theater" because theatre is the medium through which I feel most connected to humanity. I love the ensemble work of rehearsal and I love the subversive feeling that connecting across the boundary of actor-audience in performance engenders. Writing my worries into existence allows me to ruminate collectively and to share the joy and beauty of being human with other human beings. WHAT I'M WORKING ON I’m currently working on a play, Reclamation, an eco-drama about the impacts of climate change, sharing THE TEMPEST's island setting, but taking place after the departure of the European colonizers. A play about what happens next, Reclamation is a reconceived masque where the audience comes to understand the play through shifting lenses: first as a Shakespeare-inspired period piece in iambic pentameter, then as a play about the present, and finally as a theatrical performance in which they are participating. And there are Elizabethan style songs. KEYWORDS Climate Justice, Feminist, Drama, Play-with-music  Theatrical Mining Company has produced two of Susan Middaugh's full-length plays, A Modern Pas de Deux and Black Widows, for the Baltimore Playwrights Festivals. Next Stage Press has published Black Widows. 18 of her 10-minute plays have had productions by 34 theater companies in the U.S., Canada and England. They include the Source Theatre; Shelterbelt Theatre; the Arts Center, Carrboro; Onstage Atlanta; Fells Point Corner Theatre; the Magnetic Theater, Stone Soup Theatre; Barrington Stage; The Strand Theater; Shandaken Theatrical Society; the Open Hydrant Theater Company; Arena Players Theater; Short Attention Span Theater; Dorset Players; Greenbrier Valley Theatre; Lebanon Community Theatre and Wasatch Theatre Company among others. Her full length play, Feeble-Minded White Trash, was a finalist in the 2024 Waterworks Festival at Live Arts Theatre in Charlottesville, VA. She is a longtime member of the Dramatists' Guild and the New Play Exchange. Susan lives in the Baltimore suburbs.
WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA https://newplayexchange.org/plays/users/1616/susan-middaugh MORE ABOUT ME My two favorite things to do when not doing theater are singing in a chorus and hiking with the Mountain Club of Maryland. If I could bring one change to theater, it would be to encourage theaters that say they believe in diversity to produce plays about people with disabilities. I overcome disappointment by seeing other people's plays and by seeking out other submission opportunities. I keep doing theater because there are more stories that my characters want to tell. WHAT I'M WORKING ON I'm working on creating short plays about substance abuse and the impact it has had on individuals and their parents based on interviews that I conducted here in Maryland. KEYWORDS' social justice, Irish Catholic, plays that reflect the society in which we live  Christine Benvenuto’s plays have been performed at Boston Theater Marathon, International Human Rights Art Festival and Sixth Festival NYC, The Braid in Los Angeles, Clamour Theater Florida, Fern Street Festival Connecticut, LAVA Center Western Massachusetts and online. A play is available as a podcast from Onstage/Offstage; another was performed by Orpheus Theatre Company, Lancaster, PA and included in the anthology Borderless Thalia, and monologues are forthcoming in the anthology Frozen Women/Flowing Thoughts from Venus Theatre and The Best Men’s Stage Monologues 2024. She is the author of two books from St. Martin’s Press, and stories and essays that appear in many newspapers, magazines and anthologies. She has been selected as a 2024 member of New Perspective Theatre’s Women’s Work cohort, NYC, and is a recipient of a 2024 grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA Website: https://christinebenvenuto.wordpress.com/ FB:https://www.facebook.com/AuthorChristineBenvenuto IG: https://instagram.com/benvenutochristine MORE ABOUT ME Theater is thrilling. Saw my first Broadway play in high school and was hooked as an audience member. Had my first short play produced a few years ago after decades of wanting to write for the stage, and was hooked on playwrighting. Nothing replaces the live theatrical experience shared by everyone suspended together in space and time for the duration of the play. Magic. WHAT I'M WORKING ON Two full length and several one act plays are in progress. KEYWORDS Jewish, sexual violence, domestic violence, abortion, satire, family, young audiences, absurdism, climate change, dementia, race, class, political  Erin Moughon is a playwright and teacher based in New York City. She is a proud member of the Dramatist Guild and an Arthur Miller Fellow. Erin also loves being a cat mom to two tuxedo kittens and being married to David. Some of her short plays can be found in several editions of The Best Ten Minute Plays edited by Lawrence Harbison and her monologues can be found in Voices of America Vol 1, 3, & 4 edited by Mike Lesser of the Playground Experiment. Check more of her plays out on the New Play Exchange.
WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA FB: https://www.facebook.com/erin.moughon IG: @erinplaywright MORE ABOUT ME As strange as it may sound (and I promise this comes full circle to Honor Roll!), The Sound of Music changed my life. I saw it when I was six, and the actor playing Maria had long brown hair just like me. It was magic and amazing, and I saw myself on stage, which made me want to create theatre. Later, I had a former student play Maria, and it made my heart swell again because here was a young Jewish Latine woman playing Maria, and I saw in the crowd other young women like her getting inspired. Now I want to create work where people of all ages can see themselves in the work, especially those over 40. Theatre is not just for those who look a certain way, whether that is gender, race, or age. I want artistic directors to know that artistic statements are awful. I would much rather you just read my play. WHAT I'M WORKING ON I recently discovered that all of my works are about women seeking agency over their own lives. So I'm working on that in a couple of different pieces. KEYWORDS Demisexual, Christian, Dark Comedy, Magical Realism, science fiction, Realism, Horror, Women's Autonomy, adaptations, autobiographical  Lesley Lisa Greene is a playwright and composer based in Ithaca, NY. Her full-length play about abortion access, The Turnaway Play, will premiere at the Kitchen Theatre Company in May 2024. She has composed music for nine musicals for young audiences with playwright/lyricist Rachel Lampert. Lesley is co-director of Story House Ithaca, an organization that brings people together to share, study, create, and enjoy stories in all their forms. She co-founded and continues to be an organizer of Porchfest, a festival that began in Ithaca in 2007 and now takes place in more than 180 cities across North America. Lesley is also a sound designer, video editor, director, swing dance instructor, and the winner of the 2024 Debra S. Newman '02 Cornell Tradition Community Recognition Award! She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the International Centre for Women Playwrights, and the New Play Exchange.
WEBSITE/SOCIAL MEDIA FB: lesley.l.greene IG: @lesleygreene1 MORE ABOUT ME: I keep doing theater because I love to collaborate on creative projects, and theater is the ultimate in creative collaboration. WHAT I'M WORKING ON I am working on a small-cast musical about a father with Alzheimer's and his daughter. |
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