#HFF18 #FringeFemmes: Making It Count

Well, this year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival is over… although the energy is still palpable along Theatre Row, what with the great group of shows extended in Encore! performances through July. And, yeah, there are SO many shows that I missed during #HFF18, which I swore I’d catch if they were…

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“We Are Theatre” Gender Parity Panel @ #AWP16

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Before the panel…

I’m a bit delayed in sending a shout out about a pretty cool panel (We Are Theatre) that Guerilla Girls on Tour’s Aphra Behn cooked up for this year’s Associated Writers & Writing Programs Conference. Being a non-member-type, I wasn’t even aware the AWP or its high-profile conference existed, but Aphra – who was the gal behind the mask behind the 2012 “We Are Theatre” evening at NYC’s Cherry Lane Theatre – reached out to a few of us who’d been involved in the 2012 event (me, indirectly through the LA FPI), an evening of monologues billed as a “Speakout Against Sexism.”

So this was last year sometime. Aphra said she wanted to propose a panel to talk about gender parity issues in theatre for the conference.  Despite my fear of panels and conferences, I said yes I’d love to be involved. (Honestly, I figured we had a slim chance of being included because she said the AWP was not at all theatre/playwright-centric!)

But lo and behold, the panel was meant to be, and I ended up having a terrific time chatting with a room full of writers/would-be activists alongside LA FPI Co-Founder Laura ShamasThelma DeCastro of San Diego Playwrights, LA FPI’s Laurel Wetzork (who just formed the new collective Athena Cats) and the infamous Aphra Behn. (No, it’s not that Aphra Behn; the Guerilla Girls take the name of women from history and wear masks for “official” appearances.  Can’t wait to read her memoir, due out this October, UN/MASKED.)

Thanks Aphra for including me in this group of terrific women. (Uh, yes, beverages were consumed afterwards. Need you even ask?)

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Laurel, me, Aphra, Laura & Thelma at a downtown watering hole post conference.

“Chicken Shoot” in Santa Barbara May 16!

So much fun will be had in Santa Barbara on Saturday, 5/16, when I’ll be hanging with some of my favorite women playwrights. (That includes you, Katherine & Mercedes – sorry to miss you, Nancy!) My play “Chicken Shoot” is included in a wild batch of Semi-Finalists from this year’s…

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Heading to Canada’s Equity in Theatre Symposium

How fabulous to be representing LA Female Playwrights Initiative at the EIT Symposium in Canada on April 27, 2015!  I’m honored. (And pretty jazzed to be visiting Toronto for the first time!) Many of us from the US will be joining theatermakers from around the world to  learn about the status…

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“It’s Not About Race” in Green Light’s SHORTIES March 19-29

Having a terrific time working with director Randee Trabitz again, this time on my play “It’s Not About Race” which is included in a slate of short comedies written and directed by women.  (Yes, it’s Alex and Green Light Productions, doing it again.  Can’t get enough of these ladies!) “It’s…

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