Member Productions

Catherine Frid's play AfterWhys, about hope and resilience for those whose lives have been impacted by suicide, is receiving two public performances:

Monday April 15 @ 9:30 am, Evergreen Centre, 683 Woolwich Street, Guelph, Ontario

Tuesday April 16 @ 7 pm, Wellington County Museum, 0536 Wellington Road 18, Aboyne, Ontario

There is no charge for these  performances, which are generously sponsored by the Gambling Research Exchange Ontario.

A Staged Reading of my full-length play: “A Clean Well-Lighted Park Bench" on April 8th at 7:30 PM at The Shelton Theatre Company - 533 Sutter St, San Francisco, CA. 

Guilt ridden, sitting alone on a moonlit park bench, Saul wonders aloud, "Is tonight my night to finally die?" A park bench, under a flickering lamppost, entices its visitors to share their guilt, mainly lamenting to the moon. With threads of Waiting For Godot, Zoo Story, and I'm Not Rappaport, Octogenarian Saul shares his anguish about killing his nagging, loquacious wife. The shadow people who live in the park refuse to come into the light as Saul refuses to wander into the darkness ...

AIRPORT TALES, by Carol Libman, at Garrison Little Theatre, Fort Erie, Ontario,  April 5 - 7 and 12 - 14. 1101 Dipietro St.  Informaiion:garrisonlittletheatre.com

Evalina, a Canadian indomitable senior citizen, is journeying back to the old homestead to celebrate her birthday.  Along the way, this no-nonsense granny dispenses and receives valuable life advice from unlikely sources, and develops friendships that will last for the rest of her life.

Airport Tales is a light-hearted, delightful, funny and above all human on-stage "Road Movie"... at 30,000 feet.

What happens when a long-held family secret is secret no longer?

"LIES AND CONSEQUENCES" by Carol Libman, directed by Jeanette Dagger, will be presented by Rare Day Projects at the Red Sandcastle Theatre, 922 Queen Street East, Toronto, Canada, from April 30 thrugh May 5.

Performances are April 30 - May 4 at 8 p.m, with matinees may 2,4 and 5 at 2 p.m.  There will be a talk-back after the May 2 matinee. Tickets are available at the door: $25 general, $20 students, seniors, arts workers; or online, $20 from www.liesandconsequences.brownpaperticket.com

This production is under the Canadian Actors' Equity Artists' Collective Policy.

Additional information: libmancarol@rogers.com

Jennifer O'Grady's Ellery will have a reading by The Bechdel Group on April 1st at The Tank in New York City. 

On March 26 at Theatre for the New City, Melba LaRose will be presented with the Acker Award for her numerous contributions to NYC avant-garde theatre as a playwright, director, and actress.  She is Artistic & Executive Director of the nonprofit NY Artists Unlimited, known for its dedication to works that evoke dignity of the individual and sanctity of the human spirit.  For 25+ years, the company has reached audiences throughout NYC and the Northeast with plays that are multicultural, multidisciplinary, and nontraditionally cast in all ways.  Melba also created the International CringeFest/ Bad Plays Festival and Downeast Arts Center in the East Village.  She debuted in NY avant-garde theatre with Warhol luminaries Jackie Curtis and Candy Darling, as the star of Curtis's "Glamour, Glory & Gold, the Life & Legend of Nola Noonan, Goddess & Star."  She toured internationally with the NY Street Theatre Caravan and was a member of Lonny Chapman's Group Repertory Theatre, LA.  Melba appears in 4 editions of Who's Who, has won numerous grants and awards, and is a member of the League of Professional Theatre Women, International Network for Contemporary Performing Arts (ietm), International Centre for Women Playwrights, Dramatists Guild, AEA, SAG-AFTRA.  The ACKER AWARDS were created by Alan Kaufman in San Francisco and Clayton Patterson in New York.  Join Patterson and friends as they pay tribute to members of the avant-garde arts community who have made outstanding contributions in their discipline in defiance of convention, and to those who have served their fellow writers and artists in outstanding ways.  At the free event, doors open at 6 and the ceremony, hosted by Phoebe Legere, begins at 7 pm.  No reservations, just show up!

Jennifer O'Grady's "Emily's Room" premieres in Rover Dramawerks' 365 Women a Year Festival (Plano, TX) running March 28-April 6, 2019.

I will be having a directed reading of a new full-length play, THE BUTCH PROJECT, on Sunday, March 24th! Part present-time, part memoir, part non-linear, the play uses a variety of forms to present butch lesbian life(s) with a diverse cast of 7. Directed by Pascale Florestal. Starts promptly at 3:30pm; ending 6:30pm after talkback/Q&A. Fort Point Room, 290 Congress St, near South Station. $12 garage parking, or meters on the street. Please come and give the playwright some love!