I'm a cultural critic, author, journalist, professor, and dean at Parsons School of Design. I write the "Face Forward" column for the NY Times Style section, on beauty, media, and politics. I have been working as a writing consultant on The New Look, Apple+'s new series on European fashion, Dior and Chanel. I have written books on theater, fashion, modern dance, and literature. My last book was Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History (Random House) which has a long section on Chanel's work as a theater and film costumer. I have also been a theater and dance critic, and for 4 years wrote the "Reading the Signs" column for NY Magazine's The Cut. I have been a professor of comparative literature, theater studies and performance, and have a dance background. Also ran my own consulting firm for years--specializing in women's issues, strategy, market research, and crisis intervention. Went to Yale for my PhD and BA. Spent years living, studying, and working in Paris. Born and raised in NYC, alumna of Hunter College High School. I am hoping to do more writing and consulting for film and television. 

WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA
TW: rkgar
IG: rhondagarelick
FB: rkgarelick
FB Author Page: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorRhondaKGarelick/

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The performance that absolutely changed my life was Ariane Mnouchkine's Twelfth Night in Avignon, at the Palais des Papes. And one more: Teno Sehgal's "This Progress" at the Guggenheim. I feel most like myself when I'm writing or deep in conversation with someone who challenges me. My favorite thing to do when not writing is dancing. Stories need to engage our bodies more.

WHAT I'M WORKING ON
A very big book about the untapped power of women's culture in global politics. A very inchoate play called 'The Interview."

KEYWORDS
​Feminist, New Yorker, talker, narrative nonfiction, biography, dance, fashion, France.

For the tenth anniversary of 9/11, "E-Mail: 9-12", now published by Next Stage Press, was produced by theatres in four states. Monologues from this, Guerrera’s response to the 9/11 tragedy, are also published in “Contemporary Monologues for a New Theater,” Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, 2018. Annarita, was selected for the Samuel French 29th Annual Short Play ‘Festival and revised in 2012. Historic works written and directed by Midge include: "Ruth St. Denis: The Dance Continues," commissioned by Somerset County Cultural and Heritage Commission and Vocational High School; a bi-centennial multi-discipline reenactment, "Turnabout " commissioned by the Millstone Historic Society; "Transitions," commissioned by the Somerset County Bi-Centennial Commission, re-counts the events that occurred in the Watchung Mountains in 1776; "Crane Chronicles", commissioned by the Stephen Crane House and funded in part by the NJ Council on the Humanities; and "Stephen Crane: The Middle Years", developed to be performed through-out the house that was home to author for one third of his life, commissioned and presented by the Stephen Crane Committee at the Stephen Crane House . "Many Snows Ago," explores the tales of Eastern Woodland Indians and has been performed at numerous schools. She has written over fifty plays for children. All were produced by the Laffin’ Stock Company. "Wanda the Girl Who Cried Witch" is published by Next Stage Press. Guerrera splits her time between New Jersey and a small village in Southern Italy. Her blog, www.nonnasmulberrytree.com shares her expat experience with subscribers in Europe, United States, Canada, Australia and South America. Set against the gorgeous roads of Italy, "Cars, Castles, Cows, and Chaos" published by Read Furiously is memoir-meets-tour-guide of errors and triumphs. 

WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA
Website: https://midgeguerrera.com/
FB:https://www.facebook.com/midge.guerrera/
TW: https://twitter.com/midgeg
INST: https://www.instagram.com/expat49/

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How can one not tell stories in these times! Politics, pandemics, pillage, rape, human rights twisted and pulled - the world has been telling these stories for ions. The locations may change, the characters names altered but the themes remain. That is the tragedy worth talking about. Immersion theater - the street theater of my youth - the flash mobs - bringing theater out of the academic and price gouging closet and into the streets - that is how we can tell the stories in these times. There is much to talk about and to reach today's audiences one must get out of the theater. The pandemic made us more aware of the availability of digital presentations. We have more venues today than yesterday. We just need to fill them with material that inspires dialogue and change.

WHAT I'M WORKING ON
Plays about my Aunt Cat (one of first female postmasters), Ruth St Denis (mother of modern dance who I adore), Flagtown Fem-Miltia (a play about women in their third acts keeping the home fires burning and safe). I'm also workin on a travel guide for Pontelandolfo and a cookbook based on traditional fare and never uses a measuring spoon.

KEYWORDS
​Mystery, Thriller, Political, Food, Equality, Historical, Fable/folktales, Immersive/site-specific, biography, young audiences, interactive

Angela Page is a writer, producer and author. Her short films are featured on the Shorts TV channel, FunnyorDie and Indiepix Unlimited. Her recent comedy thriller, "There's a Dead Girl in My Yard" was released in Dec 2021. She was a director at the Copenhagen Theatre Circle and founder of The Crown Players in London. Her social drama "Legal Gringa" will be staged at Powerstories theatre in July 2022.

WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA
Website: https://angelapage.net
FB: https://www.facebook.com/angelapage5127/
TW: https://twitter.com/angelapage1200

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The best moment in the theatre, was directing and performing in my own one act musical, "Tapioca" about a a rebellion on a fictitious Caribbean island.

WHAT I'M WORKING ON
Revising play scheduled for performance July 2022

KEYWORDS
​Latinx, satire, comedy, drama, equality, versatile, worldly, quirky

Bianca Bagatourian is a graduate of The Art Center College of Design and also the Brooklyn College Playwriting MFA Program, under lifetime Obie winning playwright, Mac Wellman. She is an experimental playwright who likes to stretch the boundaries of theater and whose works revolve around human rights themes. Her current play, THE TIME OF OUR LIES, based on the works of noted historian, Howard Zinn, was co-produced by Viggo Mortensen, and support from Eddie Vedder, Tim Robbins, Diane Lane, Tom Shadyac and the Zinn Estate and ran at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where it was nominated for the Amnesty International "Freedom of Expression" Award is now going to be on at The Park Theatre in London, July, 2019. Her play about the 1976 revolution in Iran focused on the injustice to the children of a revolution and had readings at both the Ohio Theater in NYC and The Pasadena Playhouse in Ca. In 2016, a reading of her new work was presented at The Lark Theatre in NYC as part of the Middle Eastern Convening of Playwrights. She is also working on a play about the Armenian genocide based on 800 hours of survivor stories with permission from the Armenian Library and Museum of America called THE LEFTOVER as well as OPERATION AJAX about the downfall of Mohammad Mossadegh, the first democratically elected prime minister in Iran in 1953. Bianca is the president of the Armenian Dramatic Arts Alliance, a non-profit organization she founded in 2005 which administers the $10,000 Saroyan/Paul Human Rights Playwriting Award (www.armeniandrama.org). She also works in the film world and produced a feature film in 2015 and has another in production now as well as a genocide documentary being filmed in Africa.

WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA
Website: https://www.biancabagatourian.com/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/bianca.bagatourian
TW: @timeofourlies
IG: @bagatourian

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My play about the life of radical historian, HOWARD ZINN, changed me. I never liked history growing up and didn't see the importance. Then I asked Howard what the most important message was about his life's work and he replied, "Know your history. Because if you don't know your history and your president says, go to war, you won't know the consequences of the last one and you're a blank page. You're a babe in the woods." I then knew theatre had led me down the right path in my life.

WHAT I'M WORKING ON
Currently commissioned to write a play about Wikileaks- The Story of Julian Assange. Also have just completed 2 comedy TV pilots.

KEYWORDS
​Human Rights, Social Justice, History, Zoom Plays, Radio Plays,Climate, Biography, Musicals, Adaptations, Middle Eastern, Armenian , UK