Member Awards

FEEDING THE FURIES, a full length play by Andrea Markowitz has won third place in the Baltimore Playwrights Festival in September.

See the BroadwayWorld press release here.

Playwright, actress and TEDx speaker Amy Oestreicher‘s short play, “The Sky is Blue” is now a semifinalist in Manhattan Repertory Theatre‘s Short Play Contest. On August 24th at 6:30pm and 9:00pm, 8 Finalists will be competing for the “Best Ten-Minute Play Production” from the best of this month’s series.

Oestreicher’s short play is an excerpt from the full-length original drama, Imprints, which will premiere this January at the Thespis Theatre Festival. IMPRINTS is a semi-autobiographical, humorous and poignant portrayal of how trauma affects the family: amyoes.com/imprints

Manhattan Repertory Theatre is a forum for playwrights, directors and actors to share and explore their craft. “The Sky is Blue” is a tribute to the true-to-life moment the Oestreicher first told her mother she was sexually abused, juxtaposed with the difficult healing process of her family underwent before she awoke from her coma.

Oestreicher is a strong advocate for sexual assault prevention through theatre and expressive arts , and has toured her theatrical works, including Gutless & Grateful, to survivor organizations, women’s groups and rape crisis centers to spread awareness. The cast features Kostas Paragios, Tatsumi Romano,Troy Peckham, Ana Andrick, and John DeFilippo, and will be directed by Mary Catherine Donnelly. Romano, who plays the protagonist in “The Sky is Blue,” is also a New York representative, hosting workshops and providing resources to those who are (or know individuals) being affected by domestic violence and sexual assault.

Voting will be done by audience ballot with graduated voting of each of the audience members favorite plays. A winner will be announced at the end of the night for a $250 cash prize.

10 MINUTE FINALS

Two performances at 6pm and 9:30 on August 24th will determine the final winner at Manhattan Repertory Theatre. For more information, go to https://amyoes.com/2016/07/29/manhattanrep/  You can help support the full production of IMPRINTS at patreon.com/amyo.

Honored to have received the 2014 IMEA (International Music & Entertainment Award) for Outstanding Original Book of a Musical and its Nomination for Outstanding Original Music of a Musical - entitled: YOU WANNA HEAR LUCK?

My new play, BIRDS OF A FEATHER: A COMEDY ABOUT DE-EXTINCTION was selected from international submissions for Festival51 in Rhode Island! For more info, visit http://www.festival51.org/ 

"Circular" by Laura Shamas was a 2016 O'Neill Playwriting Conference Semi-Finalist. The two-character play centers on an army psychiatrist's first tour of Afghanistan, and a study of Homer's "Odyssey."

The Nearly Final Almost Posthumous Play of the Not-Quite-Dead Sutton McAllister by Kris Bauske will receive a reading on March 19th at 2 PM at the Tennessee Stage Theatre in Knoxville.  The unusual comedy is a finalist in the Tennessee Stage's 2016 New Play Festival. The playwright will attend the festival and participate in a talkback after the reading. Details at www.tennesseestage.com  Winner of the festival will receive a full production next season.

http://villagetheatre.org/issaquah/My-Heart-Is-The-Drum.php

MY HEART IS THE DRUM, a musical with book by Jennie Redling, music by Phillip Palmer and lyrics by Stacey Luftig opens March 17, 2016 at Village Theatre in the Seattle area.

The book for MY HEART IS THE DRUM won the Jerry Harrington Award from BMI for creative excellence. The score won the 2016 Fred Ebb Award and lyricist, Stacey Luftig won the 2016 Kleban Award. The show was one of six finalists for the 2016 Richard Rogers Award.

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Patricia Milton's world premiere, "Enemies: Foreign and Domestic" produced at Central Works Theatre in Berkeley, CA, has been nominated by the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle in three award categories:

Original Script (no seat category)

Best Overall Production, East Bay (fewer than 100 seats)

Best Overall Production, SF Bay Area (fewer than 100 seats)

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My musical, My Heart is the Drum will premiere at Washington's Village Theatre on March 17, 2016. Village was awarded a NEA grant for the production. This year my partners, Stacey Luftig, lyricist and Phillip Palmer, composer were awarded the Fred Ebb Award and Stacey Luftig was awarded the Kleban Award for work on our show.