Ann Timmons started in theatre as an actor (MFA, University of Illinois), and went to NYC to seek her fortune. Realizing there weren’t enough juicy roles for all the talented women who deserved them, she decided to create her own. She honed her writing skills at Playwrights’ Horizons Theatre School, produced her one-woman show, "Off the Wall: The Life and Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman” Off-Broadway, and toured with it nationally for 16 years. Other productions (including “Becoming Calvin,” Washington, D.C.; “Beyond Shadowlands,” national tour; “The Jamestown Adventure Express,” Virginia tour) continue her exploration of accepted history, featuring protagonists, mostly women who upend the status quo. The 2021 professional premiere production at Dallas’ Echo Theatre of “It’s My Party!” celebrated the suffragists who fought for the 19th Amendment. As a founding member of Pipeline Playwrights, Ann co-wrote and helped produced, “How’s That Workin’ Out for Ya?” and “How’s That Workin’ Out For Ya? 2.0” for the Capital Fringe Festival in Washington, D.C. She continues to produce with Pipeline Playwrights, as well as for First Acts at the First Presbyterian Church in New York City. Ann is a proud member of Actors' Equity Association, SAG-AFTRA, the Dramatists Guild, and Honor Roll!
WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA Website: http://www.anntimmons.com FB: ann.timmons TW:@annspeaks IG: @anncommsarts MORE ABOUT ME If I could bring one change? Well, it’s a BIG one: I would like theatre to be more accessible, for theatre artists as well as theatregoers. Not just in terms of physical--or even thematic--access. In my perfect world, theatre would not be divided between elitist, special-interest, and popular. There would be plays and shows for everyone, all the time, whatever their taste and current preoccupations. Going to the theatre wouldn’t necessarily be an “event” the way it is now. It would be more integral to everyday life. But how to do this? We live in a world where theatre professionals generally don’t get paid commensurate with other workers at the same level of experience, education, and training. So we’re talking about a different funding model. American theatre has largely operated as a capitalist venture, even from the beginning. So it would take a massive paradigm shift for this to happen. But I do dream of it: the day when the art will be judged on its own, not according to the marketability of the playwright. In the meantime, I have banded together with four other “older” women playwrights to form our own production collective, Pipeline Playwrights (www.pipelineplaywrights.org). We’re all writing and producing each other’s original shows. It is hard work, doing it all. And, we are constantly chasing individual donors as well as those elusive grants. But we are doing it – getting our work out there! And maybe one day, the funding gods will smile on us and we’ll reach a level of modest success, so we can produce more plays by an ever-expanding circle of women playwrights. And break the cycle of the making artistic choices based on the profit motive. WHAT I'M WORKING ON A new play about Ida B. Wells and other women who were engines of societal change in early 20th century America. KEYWORDS Political, historical, religious, biographical, period, societal, women, comedy of manners, family drama Phyllis Gordon is an actress and comedienne who writes her own work. A mimic, impressionist, singer, dancer and parodist, she showcases all these skills in her solo shows: “Phyllis Diller Believes in Me”, “Faye and Me”, “Painfully Funny” and “Em-Pathetic” (Best Short Solo at Marsh International Solo Festival). A stand up comic adept at characters, she has performed at Standup New York, Comic Strip, Caroline's, Don't Tell Mama's, Gotham, Improv Boston, and The Comedy Studio. A Meisner and Method trained actress, Phyllis performs on stage and screen. Recent credits include comedy film “Beth and Don” (opposite Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and “Ziwe” (Showtime). She was nominated for Broadway World’s Best Actress Award for her work in Agatha Christie’s “The Hollow”. She is also a Voiceover Artist (FRONTLINE, Audible, Library of Congress).
WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA FB: facebook.com/PhyllisGordonActor IG: @phyllisgordon.soloshow.net MORE ABOUT ME My life is the grist for my mill. I overcome disappointment, pain, and life's unfairness by turning it into comedy. This comes naturally to me. When I was a child my Dad was bi-polar and my mom taught me "It's better to laugh than to cry." I was a gifted comedienne from the start and honed my standup skills entertaining my school friends. I used impressions to fend off bullies by making them laugh. In 2020 I was diagnosed with breast cancer. When the hospital staff was rude to me, I thought, "This is my next show." For the last two years, I've been writing it. "Em-Pathetic" is a solo show about the lack of empathy in healthcare. It has traveled from page to stage, from director to editor, from Zoom to live performance. My greatest gift is turning pain into comedy, lemons into lemonade. WHAT I'M WORKING ON Next week, I'm performing my solo show "Em-Pathetic" at the Emerging Artists New Works Series at TaDa! in NYC. KEYWORDS Comedy, Characters, Impressions, Mimic, Solo Show, Vegan, Piano, Parody, Musical, Puppets, Standup I grew up in the remote woods of the PNW (but, you know, we had a house). As an actor, I’ve lived in LA and NYC but finally gave up my gypsy days calling Portland my home since 2007. I’m an actor, a writer, a producer, a storytelling for the stage teacher and I’m on the boards of the 21ten theater. One time I auditioned to play Mark Wahlberg's wife in a big movie but the night before I got a budget haircut and ended up with a not-cool mullet. Suffice to say, an Italian model got the part, not me. I welcome any inquires about my storytelling teaching series and whether or not you should get bangs -- I'm an expert in both!
WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA FB:https://www.facebook.com/genevieve.sage.3/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/genevievesage/ MORE ABOUT ME Most gratifying moment in theater? Playing Ben Affleck last Summer in Matt & Ben. Play/production that changed my life? Adrienne Truscott's "Asking For It": look it up (it's too ribald to talk about here) but it was gutsy, mind-blowingly brave and performed expertly. I want Artistic Directors to stop casting the same people, to take a chance on the unassuming, un-pedigreed women who've been quietly working for years without a big splashy graphic designer or PR team behind their name. WHAT I'M WORKING ON Warner Brothers had exclusivity last year on my TV Pilot but I'm still shopping it around; a play starring two famous female poets; I'm producing and acting in shows at The 21ten Theater and I'm trying not to have personal meltdowns every time I hear a leaf blower. KEYWORDS Feminist, Satire, Comedy, Mid-life-Glow-Ups, Women-over-40, Bad-Ass, Equality, Food, Wine |
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