Member Productions

My ten-minute play about a Midwestern family surviving the loss of the father in 1952 will be presented as a public reading by The Scripteasers in San Diego, California. Free and open to the public, at 3404 Hawk Street.

"Bernice Sizemore's 70th Birthday" is the first in a series of staged readings of plays with LGBTQ themes by Louisville-area playwrights presented by Pandora Productions. Surprises arrive on Bernice's birthday including a gun and a gift certificate for a tombstone. Yoga-loving square-dancing Bernice has a few surprises of her own for her workaholic daughter and the son she hasn’t spoken to since he announced he was gay.

written by Andrew Black and ICWP member Patricia Milton

Nov. 4, 5, 11, 12, 2016 at ​7pm - Khaos Theatre Company, Indianapolis, IN

An out  - and outrageous - candidate for Orange County District Attorney is determined to stick to his principles. His more conservative campaign manager wants the candidate to veer to the middle. Will the two ever agree? In a chaotic campaign environment rich with politics and zany comedy, love strives mightily to conquer all.

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2483558

TAR BEACH by Tammy Ryan will open at The University Theater of Frenso State, Frenso,  as part of their 2016-1027 season presenting six modern works from a diverse selection of contemporary female playwrights.  Directed by J. Daniel Herring, Oct 28-Nov 5th. The story takes place in 1970s New York City as teenagers navigate adolescence, a failing marriage and a power outage while the Son of Sam roams free.

My short comedy Wallaroo, the Goldfish is included in the AlphaNYC Thalia Festival, featuring plays with female characters written by female playwrights on the B and C bills. The festival runs October 6-16, at 7 pm or 9 pm. Tickets are $30. Roebuck Studio & Theater is in Times Square, 300 W. 43rd Street between 8th and 9th Avenues, Suite 402.

Magdalena’s Crossing by Carolyn Nur Wistrand, Directed by Priscilla Rice will be presented in Echo Theatre's Staged Reading Series, Oct. 18, 2016 in Dallas, Texas.

"A tale of border towns: Juarez and El Paso. A young girl is trapped between her past in Juarez, her present in a mystical "between" state and her possible future in El Paso. Violence erupts when her past and her future confront each other.  In the background is the ongoing violence in Juarez, particularly the unsolved murders of hundreds of young girls."

http://www.echotheatre.org/

The Laws of the Stars, by Los Angeles playwright Jenny Marlowe, will be presented as a staged reading at Centre Stage South Carolina in Greenville -- Tuesday, September 27th at 7 p.m. The play is a finalist in Centre Stage's annual New Play Festival.

"A brilliant young cosmologist -- half-Navajo by birth, and very much in search of her own identity -- travels to the South Pole to assist a team of astrophysicists on a project with the potential to tell us how the universe began. Her bold ideas might be the key to answering some of mankind's most enduring questions -- but getting her colleagues to go along with her unconventional methods presents a challenge. Along the way, she is forced to wrestle with her place and purpose in the world -- while stranded at the very bottom of it. The Laws of the Stars is about scientific progress, origin stories, and the vast uncharted deserts we all carry inside of us."

FREE to the public! More info: http://centrestage.org/new-play-festival-2016/

Reading of Molly's Hammer at the Eddy Theater, Chatham University, at 7:30pm.   Adapted from the book Hammer of Justice by Liane Ellison Norman.  This reading is to benefit the Thomas Merton Center and to honor Molly Rush and Liane Norman.  Sponsored by The Women's Institute at Chatham University, the reading kicks off the 2016-2017 Women's Leadership lecture series.

For information and tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mollys-hammer-tickets-26926729573

Part of First Look, a public presentation of 4 plays in development at 4th Line Theatre, Millbrook, Ontario, Aug. 26 & 27, 2016 at 1 pm

It includes a reading of 20 minutes from my new play, Montgomery in Blue.   Montgomery in Blue is about L.M. Montgomery’s difficult years as a Presbyterian minister’s wife in Leaskdale Ontario and how her professional and personal life there impacted the writing of The Blue Castle, a book for adults that was banned from some church libraries.

As of One, by Laylah Muran de Assereto 
Staged Reading, ReproRights! The Body Politic as part of Three Girls Theatre’s New Works Festival | August 25th | 7:00pm tickets are free @Thick House 1695 18th Street

An evening of short pieces on women's reproductive rights and body autonomy.  Short plays, monologues, poetry, and song by these fantastic artists:

Chardonnay Comedy, Patricia Miller, Evelyn Jean Pine, Lola Miller-Henline, Lorraine Midanik, Madeline Puccioni, Maggie WIlson, Mia Romero, Nicole Jost, Pamela Winfrey, Laylah Muran de Assereto, and Susan Jackson

AS OF ONE explores the effect of isolation on three different women experiencing different issues with their autonomy.  Allison faces ageism at work, Brit's life is upended when her brother forces her to take care of their aging father, and Geta finds she's trapped in a controlling relationship.