International Centre for Women Playwrights Member Publications

Memoir and Two Plays

Fri, 08 Nov 2024 00:55:16 GMT

My memoir called "A Sober Way to Dream", recently published on Amazon, includes the themes in my life and two plays. Hope you will enjoy the variety and add to my expanding story by contacting me personally or on Amazon.

Writing Monologues for the Stage

Kelly DuMar — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 16:43:01 GMT

My blog about writing monologues for the stage––"Yes, You Can Write A Monologue for the Stage," was published by the Transformative Language Arts Network. You can read it here:

https://tlablog.org/2023/10/09/yes-you-can-write-a-monologue-for-the-stage-with-kelly-dumar/

publication DREAMING OF STORMS

Christine Emmert — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 14:46:22 GMT

My novella, Dreaming of Storms, is out today. March 3,2023. It is the story of a dancer who must find clarity between death on stage and death in life. Publisher is Austin Macauley.

Anthology Publications

Christine Foster — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 20:06:01 GMT

My short play "Renewables" is in the "The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2022", published by Smith and Kraus and edited by Debbie Lamedman.

"Kids Like Us" is published by Smith and Kraus in "WE/US Monologues for the Gender Minority", edited by Debbie Lamedman, 2022.

Bernice's 70th Birthday

Nancy Gall-Clayton — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 22:00:40 GMT

First Run Theatre in St. Louis, MO, will produce my full-length comedy "Bernice's 70th Birthday," November 25-December 4, 2022 (Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm Central and Sundays at 2 pm Central). Tickets are $26 at the door or $29.50 through MetroTix. The show will be at the Kranzberg Arts Center, 501 North Grand Boulevard.

https://firstruntheatre.org/tickets/

Book Published

Midge Guerrera — Sun, 25 Sep 2022 20:00:59 GMT

My book of Italian travel humor/memoir, Cars, Castles, Cows and Chaos was published by Read Furiously in March 2022. It is available where ever books are sold. The e-book came out in September.

Local Author spotlight - Jun 7, 06:30 PM - Farzana Moon

Thu, 05 May 2022 19:18:42 GMT

Farzana Moon

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Topic: CCPL Local Author Book Club: Farzana Moon 6-7-2022

Time: Jun 7, 2022 06:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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Farzana's Blog
http://farzanamoon.blogspot.com

Best Ten-Minute Plays 2021

Jennifer O'Grady — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 15:15:45 GMT

My play FRIDGE is published in The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2021, edited by Debbie Lamedman.

BITTERSWEET MONOLOGUE PROJECT Published by Theatre Unbound

Wed, 24 Nov 2021 22:42:55 GMT

Bittersweet Monologue Project published by Theatre Unbound, has published 29 new monologues by women, including my piece, IMMIGRATION MAN by Carolyn Nur Wistrand.

This is the farewell project of a Women's Theatre in St. Paul that, sadly, had to close their doors.

Best New Ten-Minute Plays 2021

Jennifer O'Grady — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:17:18 GMT

My play MOST WONDERFUL is published in The Best New Ten-Minute Plays 2021, edited by Lawrence Harbison.

Asian and Australian Women on Dramatic Reading and Culture - Culture Over Coffee

Sat, 30 Oct 2021 13:00:00 GMT

Hello all member of ICWP,

I would like to info about my women playwrights event. Thanks for your attention and feel free to join our discussion.

Indonesia’s Women On Stage presents Asian and Australian Women on Dramatic Reading and Culture as part of Cambodian Living Arts - ASEF’s Culture Over Coffee Programme.

Women On Stage, supported by Cambodian Living Arts (CLA) and the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF), is bringing together playwrights from the Philippines, Australia, and Indonesia for an Asian and Australian Women on Dramatic Reading and Culture as part of CLA’s Culture Over Coffee Programme.

The artist will be sharing excerpts of their plays and discussing their work, seeking to understand and acknowledge both commonalities and different perspective writing as well as explore the possibility of future collaborations and performance of rach others' work. There is no universal theater - despite many plays being able to reach beyond the context in which they were written, oftentimes works are initially written for specific audiences with specific understandings of the world and specific experience. This event gives the six playwrights invited to present an opportunity to share their work and test it with an audience, not from their home countries.

Women on Stage/ Culture over Coffee event brings together artists with. Variety of backgrounds including emerging writers and more experienced performers and theater directors presenting work that reflects the different world they live in and raising questions.

From Indonesia, Herlina Syarifudin, artistic director of Keluarga Teater and founder of Women On Stage, is an experienced playwright, performer, educator, and director. She presents her work “ Namaku Nama” - “ My Name is Name” which intertwines Javanese cultural traditions and mythologies that have a huge impact on women. This play focuses on the inter-generational suffering of women from grandmother to mother to daughter. Also from Indonesia, based in Kendal, Central Java, emerging writer and arts activist and educator, Venny Zega presents her new work “Lontong Opor” traditional Indonesian curry with rice cakes) about "mudik" which means going back to one's birthplace as an Indonesian Muslim culture during the Islamic holiday, Eid al-Fitri ( which occurs at the end of the fasting month). She explores how the pandemic has drastically affected the situation and how people adapted their traditions to meet their needs.

Maria Theresa C. Belleza cultural worker and freelance production manager and secretary-general of Women Playwrights International - Philippines and experienced mentor who flies between Negors and Manilla as well as other places in the Philippines, nurturing and supporting emerging artists. She was the Head of the Secretariat of the 6th Women Playwright International Festival in the Philippines in 2003. Her work has been presented three times at Women Playwrights International in South Africa, Chile, and one of her works will be fully produced at the Women Playwrights International in Montreal later this year. She will present her work “The Mango Tree”, a work in progress, that relates the story of worker ants that live in a colony in a mango tree reflecting on collective consciousness by following orders. It was originally written Phillipino and titled “ Ang Pun ng Mannga” and first read at the Cultural Centre of the Philippines Women’s Month in March 2019.

The event is proud to host two new emerging writers and directors from Performance Laboratory Incorporated on the island of Negros Occidental, in the Philippines which is about 700 km from Manilla. Noel Pahyupan, is presenting “End Scene” where a director and playwright's personal and professional lives get intertwined, is Negros based actor, director, emerging playwright, and a member of the Performance Laboratory. This work is the outcome of. Fellowship award with CCP Virgin Labfest Writing Fellowship 15 2019 at the Cultural Centre of the Philippines.

Venisa Buenflor is a cultural worker and Negors based Theater actor, director, and emerging playwright and member of the Performance Laboratory Incorporated. She presents a new play “Ang Biyah Ni Gregory” ( The Journey of Gregory) taking up the theme of young people and their concerns as two siblings reflect on their triumphs, expectations, fiascos, and regrets and the choices they made.

From Australia, but based in Indonesia for 30 years and a director/ actor/ traditional dancer, Kerensa Dewantoro “Jengkol: Jangan Jengkel”,( Jengkol{local food}: don’t be mad.) in her excerpts is exploring the issues of misinterpretations and cultural misunderstandings within different versions of Islam; and the stereotypes moving in both directions between Islam and the West. She will also be raising questions regarding identity and who has the right to write about issues

The importance of gatherings such these for networking amongst artists is evident by the fact that Herlina Syarifudin, Kerensa Dewantoro, and Maria Theresa C. Belleza (Tessa) can connect and meet due to the opportunity presented by WPI International. Herlina Syarifudin and Tessa met at Women Playwrights International Conference (WPIC 2015) in Cape Town, South Africa. It is hoped that this event Culture Over Coffee will lead to more regional connections between artists to showcase their work, reach new audiences and see their work through the eyes of others in the region rather than a euro-centric view of playwrighting.

Link to join meeting: https://fb.me/e/11kCwaduy

For further information contact Herlina Syarifudin on http://wa.me/+628179611519

Or via email onstagewomen@gmail.com

In Flight

Jenny Lyn Bader — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 18:29:29 GMT

IN FLIGHT by Jenny Lyn Bader, a comedy in rhymed couplets and surely the world's first verse play set in the offices of an in-flight airline magazine, is now available from Next Stage Press. You can buy a copy or a digital edition or read an excerpt here: https://nextstagepress.net/in-flight/

A Trilogy: Truth Lies and Deception by Joanna Pickering

Tue, 03 Aug 2021 12:56:37 GMT

New Debut release on August 1st with Next Stage Press of three one act plays for women roles. From publisher:

“Finding a writer that can not only cross mediums, but also theatrical disciplines is a real treat. Such is the case of actor/writer Joanna Pickering. She’s crafted three plays that capture the essence of some of the dark side of show business. Challenging roles for women all wrapped in three engaging tales—- packed into one acting edition. Aug 1! Only from Next Stage Press!”

The Trilogy contains:

Cat and Mouse – Marcus Meekus is a Hollywood movie director. Jade is bussing tables having just appeared in her first acting role — a tampon advert. When their paths cross, Jade thinks her life will change forever, but both are in for a shock.

Sylvie and Sly – Sylvie and Sly tells the tale of an aging actress, who is in denial about her tragic reality, and decides to save a floundering career with the help of a devoted friend and social media.

Beach Break – In Beach Break, two young female friends go away to a holiday resort to escape problems at home. It’s only a matter of time before something terrible happens. Something that will have dark and explosive repercussions.

"I had the great pleasure to direct the premiere zoom reading of Joanna’s play, Sylvie and Sly, and loved working with her and our cast. Joanna has a great voice, impeccable timing, and is a wonderful story teller. I loved all three plays, which cover a wide emotional range. I highly recommend these 3 plays to read, enjoy, use for auditions and scenes, and hope they will have numerous productions." Lorca Peress (Multistages)

Audience feedback:

“The overall arc of your plays with regards to human behavior was absolutely masterful”

"Women behaving as badly as men but with all the devastating consequences"

“Great social conscious work”

“The writing has fantastic moral ambiguity, the darkly comic interchanges power the stories, and the relationship forward”

"Your writing is fierce, complex, nuanced, deep and honestly human. Thank you for your willingness to be messy and real”

"You express the duality of people and human nature elegantly. You’re not afraid to work in the shadows."

Publication

Jennifer O'Grady — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 14:18:25 GMT

My monologue CLOSET CAT is published in the 2021 issue of some scripts literary magazine.

Publication

Bara Swain — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 16:15:20 GMT

My ten-minute play, UNFATHOMABLE, has been selected for Best Ten-Minute Plays 2021 (Smith and Kraus; Editor, Debbie Lamedsman).

Publication

Bara Swain — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 16:13:02 GMT

Two monologues from my play, CHOOSE!, are published in Best Women's Monologues 2020 (Smith & Kraus).

farzana's interview link

Farzana Moon — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 19:05:25 GMT

Sharing my interview on spiritual seedling website with Nancy Finchbaugh

An interview with Farzana Moon.

Publication!

Laura Thoma — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 16:39:55 GMT

My play "Magpie" is being published by Next Stage Press!! It will be available starting April 1st. If any one is interested in buying a copy I'd love it if you would leave a review as it helps drive more people to the play--Thank you!

Here's a link: https://nextstagepress.net/magpie/

Best 10 Minute Plays 2020

Mon, 15 Mar 2021 20:05:45 GMT

My play "Losing It" is in Smith & Kraus "Best Ten Minute Plays of 2021!

Publication!

Donna Spector — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 19:46:09 GMT

A monologue from my play "Not for the Ferryman" was published in "The Best Women's Stage Monologues 2020" by Smith & Kraus.

Poetry for the People by Sandra de Helen

Sandra de Helen — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 17:15:27 GMT

My third poetry collection to be published by Launch Point Press in as many years. Poetry for the People is a collection of political poems on topics from the personal to partisan politics to children in cages, black lives matter, the pandemic and more. Available wherever books are sold online.

Momo No Kawa: Peach River

Shoshannah Boray — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 18:36:41 GMT

Momo No Kawa: Peach River. Drama. 25-30 minutes, for elementary students, 12-50 actors, gender neutral, simple set, colorful. Adapted from classic Japanese folktale, a modern fable about cooperation, peace, and courage. With Japanese folkdance, language, music. Published by YouthPlays. https://www.youthplays.com/play/momo-no-kawa-peach-river-by-shoshannah-boray-531

The Most Important Thing in the World

Shoshannah Boray — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 18:25:43 GMT

The Most Important Thing in the World is a short play, for two actors (age 14-22, gender flexible) about siblings, love, and meeting life's challenges with courage, humor, and love. Published by YouthPLAYS.https://www.youthplays.com/play/the-most-important-thing-in-the-world-by-shoshannah-boray-515

Dreams of Glass - One Act Play

Tue, 17 Nov 2020 22:47:06 GMT

Dreams of Glass is a short one-act dramedy for a solo performer.

A one-woman 40-minute play with comedic and dramatic elements.

Daisi Dickie, a young woman with dreams of becoming a clairvoyant, and a changer of lives, discovers her power to influence her own life. Planning to open a psychic hotline with her sister Madi, she grapples with her own identity, predetermined by her father’s system of numerology, her mother’s disappointment with her own life, her own role in a relationship with boyfriend, Kenny, and her relationship with her father who “appears” offstage as a spirit.

Published by Blue Moon Plays

In the Matter of Manifest Destiny A One Act Play in Review Americana Spring 2020 Volume 15 Issue i

Joyce Fontana — Sun, 08 Nov 2020 22:08:41 GMT

The Court of Universal Perpetuity is in session. Its task, to determine eternal placement of human events on the Wrong or Right Side of History. Manifest Destiny is present to make her case, but finds her position challenged by other stakeholders in the Court’s decision. How will the Court rule on this American phenomenon that has carved the heritage of the country, yet left a trail of scars and tears?

"Ella Cinder's Blues" Brooklyn Publishers

Wed, 04 Nov 2020 18:06:04 GMT

SYNOPSIS: Ella Cinder and her two sisters are worked to the bone scrubbing floors in Eddie Diamond’s depression era jazz club where the Showgirls treat them like servants. On the night everyone is preparing for the big card game between spelling gangsters, Johnny Jett and rhyming JoJo Ned, the Cinder girls receive a visit from their Fairy Godparents who introduce them to their royal heritage and leave them with important life lessons.

ELLA CINDER'S BLUES

by Carolyn Nur Wistrand

Genres: Comedy

Running Time: 35 minutes

Speaking Cast: 12 females, 6 males, 2 either (20 total cast)

Flexibility: 10 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/ella/FMfcgxwKjBTWTWngFhJVnxNtmKWtBchT

Dreams of Glass - A one-woman short play

Fri, 16 Oct 2020 23:12:44 GMT

Daisi is preparing for her exams in fortune-telling school. Planning to open a psychic hotline with her sister Madi, she grapples with her own identity, predetermined by her father’s system of numerology, her mother’s disappointment with her own life, her own role in a relationship with boyfriend, Kenny, and her relationship with her father who “appears” offstage as a spirit.

https://havescripts.com/product/dreams-of-glass/

"Voices on the Move" anthology by and about refugees

Cristina Bejan — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 17:02:54 GMT

With contributions from members: Domnica Radulescu, Catalina Florin Florescu, and Cristina A. Bejan

Edited by Domnica Radulescu and Roxana Cazan (Solis Press)

https://solispress.com/9781910146460.html

Voices on the Move: An Anthology by and about Refugees

Edited by Domnica Radulescu and Roxana Cazan

This multi-genre anthology is a collection of diverse artistic works ranging from poetry to creative fiction and non-fiction, from drama to photography. The collection is inspired by the multilayered experience of displacement, with a focus on the migration of what Edward Said calls “large aggregates of humanity” of the last several decades.

Most of the contributors to the collection are themselves immigrants or refugees, or have worked with displaced peoples, such as migrants unfairly kept in detention centers or struggling to resettle in their host countries. This offers an added level of authenticity and truthfulness to their work.

The multifaceted artistic exploration of the trauma of migration unfolds with a sense of urgency that engages and awakens readers to the harsh realities faced by millions as they escape war, famine, and gang violence only to encounter new and unexpected difficulties in the countries where they have asked for refuge.

This book could not be more relevant and necessary today, having arisen as a direct and impassioned response to the present realities of the migration of peoples, in the belief that artistic expression in all its forms has the power to transform, heal, raise consciousness, and incite to real action in the world.

“Voices on the Move is a moving, must-read artistic exploration of migration and the trauma of displacement. Through diverse modes of expression—poetry, fiction, photography, play—the voices in this collection present the multitudinous ways with which we experience uprooting and belonging. The book is a jewel, a chronicle of our times, an intense awareness of humanity’s suffering and its yearning for home.”

Samrat Upadhyay, author of Arresting God in Kathmandu

"Green Horses on the Walls" poetry collection by Cristina A. Bejan

Cristina Bejan — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 16:02:44 GMT

The publication of Cristina A. Bejan's first poetry collection "Green Horses on the Walls" (in English, Romanian and French)

Available here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1646622154/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i2

"Cristina A. Bejan's collection Green Horses on the Walls is a raw and startling odyssey of a quivering self, torn between cultures, languages, tormented family histories, wrenching traumas and a fierce drive to heal and transform experience into redemptive and empowering art. The poetic voice bursts with uncompromising honesty, and hints of nostalgia for luscious and disheveled landscapes such as the restless streets and people of Bucharest, as it also traverses frightening landscapes of a memory painfully replete with harrowing moments of sexual violence and sinister mental health wards. Experience is channeled in an effervescent and gutsy linguistic orchestration deliciously sprinkled with polyglossia, at times heartbreaking at other times suspenseful and yet at other times luminous and whimsical. A poetic tour de force of cathartic storytelling!"

--Domnica Radulescu, award winning author of Train to Trieste and Country of Red Azaleas

A YAQUI SPRING MUSICAL

Wed, 04 Mar 2020 23:40:33 GMT

In Manhattan, Hudson Guild Theater, (Chelsea)

26th St, NY, NY

March 9, Monday, 6:15PM

March 13, Friday, 9PM

March 15, Sunday, 3:30PM

"Little Black Dress"

Debra Kaufman — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 19:15:02 GMT

My monologue, "Little Black Dress," which was part of the Illuminated Dresses project, was recently accepted for publication in an upcoming issue of Broadkill Review and for the stage as part of Flush Ink's production She Speaks! in Waterloo, Ontario, March 7-8, 2020.

MOMO NO KAWA

Shoshannah Boray — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 16:47:53 GMT

New play for Elementary school actors,

Momo No Kawa: Peach River https://www.youthplays.com/play/momo-no-kawa-peach-river-by-shoshannah-boray-531, an original and contemporary adaptation of the Japanese folktale MOMOTARO

My newest book!

Carolyn Gage — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 21:18:27 GMT

I have just published my eighth collection of plays, and the first collection in seven years! It's called The Island Collection and contains six of my most recent plays.

One of my favorite endorsements:

"I’ve been a “theatre person” for 26 years, and I have never enjoyed reading plays… until The Island Collection. This is a collection that I could not stop reading. Reading each work is a complete experience: visual, auditory, and emotional. I am still mulling over moments from the first one I read, days later. One simply does not see this caliber of female characters represented on stage or in commonly-studied scripts. Full of vulnerability, intelligence in all its forms, and indomitable strength, the women inhabiting these plays will walk away with your soul... A warning, though: do not pick up The Island Collection unless you are ready for your heart to be torn from your chest, poked, prodded, examined, then lovingly massaged and replaced, a whole new organ..."—Emily Stamets, coach for women+ in theatre and leaders in the arts.

It can be ordered at https://carolyngage.weebly.com/play-and-short-story-collections.html

The Lovebirds

Nancy Gall-Clayton — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 17:27:08 GMT

Heartland Plays has just published my 10-minute, 1W,1M, romantic comedy, "The Lovebirds." https://heartlandplays.com/search/?search=gall-clayton

ANNABEL LANGONI

Sun, 05 Jan 2020 17:37:08 GMT

To be published by Stirling Publishing Ltd., Scotland, in June 2020- scroll down to find me - cheers!

https://www.stirlingpublishing.co.uk/our-authors-2

Desire Returns for a Visit audiobook by Sandra de Helen

Sandra de Helen — Fri, 13 Dec 2019 18:32:14 GMT

New audiobook. Sandra de Helen reads her collection of lesbian poetry for Audible. This is an award-winning and highly praised collection by playwright/poet de Helen.

Lesbian Humor is Not an Oxymoron: Light Verse by Sandra de Helen

Sandra de Helen — Fri, 13 Dec 2019 18:30:00 GMT

Sandra de Helen has a keen ear for language and nuance. The poems in this new volume are accessible and clever while also being insightful. This is the kind of collection you can read over and over and enjoy it fresh every time. Published by Launch Point Press. Available in paperback and ebook formats.

Tomorrow or Next Year

Jennifer O'Grady — Fri, 08 Nov 2019 22:34:54 GMT

Jennifer O'Grady's "Tomorrow or Next Year" is published in Feels Blind Literary.

new poetry collection

Debra Kaufman — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 16:46:09 GMT

My new poetry collection, God Shattered, is available from Jacar Press http://jacarpress.com/category/books/.

Crows and mirrors, shadows and mothers. Moving seamlessly
between lyric and persona and always telling a piece of a larger
story, God Shattered offers poems that are home to many
familiars—family and community, landscape and weather, fairy
tales, daydreams, skepticism, silence and hope. In the journey of
this book, Kaufman discovers how personal disillusionment can
be a guide to finding the godly within ourselves. These poems lead
us to contemplate and understand our place in this fragile world.

AfterWhys Tour

Catherine Frid — Thu, 29 Aug 2019 16:28:22 GMT

Catherine Frid's play AfterWhys about hope and resilience for people whose lives have been impacted by suicide is touring with public performances in southern Ontario: Hanover on September 24th; Orangeville on September 25; Waterloo on September 27; Mount Forest on September 30.

SEEDS

Thu, 22 Aug 2019 17:32:13 GMT

SEEDS by Laura Shamas will be published in "Silk Road Review," Issue #21, Fall 2019. (silkroad.pacificu.edu).

SEEDS , a ten-minute play, is set in a dystopian future, and is about a Native American family's guardianship of native seeds.

45's 24

Vita Morales — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 20:28:00 GMT

Little Black Dress INK theater company has compiled an extraordinary collection of monologues and short plays about the present sitting president of the United States and the victims of his sexual appetite. The collection is being finalized and will be made available to theaters and other professionals in printed form. Any monies realized by the project will benefit RAINN.

My contribution ends the program. All women in the theater should take a good look at this collection and support the cause. You can sign up for your copy at LBlackDressINK.org or look them up on Facebook.

American queen

Farzana Moon — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 18:34:52 GMT

http://farzanamoon.blogspot.com

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=farzana+moon+american+queen&i=stripbooks&ref=nb_sb_noss

American Queen

This book delineates the true story of an American girl, Ora Ray Baker, who fell in love with an Indian mystic by the name of Hazrat Inayat Khan. They were married in London and settled in Paris. Their firstborn daughter Noor-un-Nissa, during WW11 became a British spy in Paris. She was captured by Gestapo and later killed in Concentration Camp in Germany. Their eldest son Vilayat Khan served in Royal British Navy, docked on the beaches of Normandy to deliver men, weapons and equipment to allied forces. He survived WW11 and now his son Pir Zia carries the Sufi legacy of his grandparents Ora Ray Baker and Hazrat Inayat Khan in Richmond Virginia, USA. Ora Ray Baker’s memories are still alive in Fazal Manzil in Suresnes, a suburb of Paris where she lived and died, her home, now a Sufi retreat. It also hosts memories of her husband and their children, especially of Noor-un-Nissa who was posthumously awarded highest medals, French Croix de Guerre presented by General Charles de Gaulle and British George Cross by King of England George V1. She is also enshrined in a movie, Spy Princess.

Please post a review on Amazon if you kindly purchase the book. Greatly appreciated!

New Book - Body and Space in Performance: The Plays of Manjula Padmanabhan and Poile Sengupta

Rachana Pandey — Tue, 09 Jul 2019 02:57:53 GMT

I am happy to share that my book titled Body and Space in Performance: The Plays of Manjula Padmanabhan and Poile Sengupta is published. Kindly find the following details -

Body and Space in Performance: The Plays of Manjula Padmanabhan and Poile Sengupta. New Delhi: ABS Books, 2019. pp. 156, ISBN: 978-93-87229-00-6. Hardcover. $36, INR 645.

The Premiere of a play “An Albanian, A Serb and the Soldiers”

Ibi Abazi — Sat, 06 Jul 2019 19:08:07 GMT

We are happy to inform that the world premiere of a theater play “An Albanian, A Serb and the Soldiers” was really successful event. We have Eight other performances on the dates below:

July 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 at 8 PM.

Venue: Producers Club Theaters, 358 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036 (between 8th and 9th Avenue). The venue has a bar/lounge.

“An Albanian, A Serb and the Soldiers” written by Ibadete Abazi - IBI, is a full-length (60-minute) drama, with six characters. It explores deep conflict, and a dynamic story based in reality about those opposing the wars in former Yugoslavia and the political games of swapping territories … and more.

The year is 1999, the time, the last night of the NATO bombing campaign of the Serbian Army in Kosovo. In a cellar in downtown Pristina, two hungry and frightened men, journalists from opposing sides, await their fates. As NATO fighter planes scream overhead and drop bombs, two opposing fighting forces in the darkened city struggle to win their objectives – independence for the breakaway province of Kosovo, or maintaining the dominance of the old Yugoslav Serbian political order. An Albanian journalist and a Serbian journalist, hiding from the fighting, must either decide to coexist peacefully together, or their fate will be to die together. Soldiers do their job.

Honey and Blood Theater is a name which evokes dual and competing images of Balkan Europe, a region historically filled with both beauty - the honey, and violence - the blood.

Produced and directed by Vinny Abazi.

Cast features Vinny Abazi, Albanian-born American actor, director, and producer; Croatian actor Ivica Marc, and introducing to the U.S. stage three new talented performers, Serbian-born actor Ivan Kirincic, Albanian-born Julian Gjaci, and Montenegro- born American actor Izzy Durakovic. The actors are from the five countries which are part of this ongoing territorial drama: Croatia, Serbia, Albania, Montenegro, and Kosovo. The play is translated by Alexandra Channer along with the consultations of Greg Kay and Janet Wasserman.

For a closer look at the production in rehearsal and more information about Honey and Blood Theater, go to https://www.facebook.com/honeyandbloodtheatre/
To purchase tickets, see: http://honeyblood.eventbrite.com.
See also: http://www.kosovapress.com/en/mobile/news/new-york-city-based-honey-and-blood-theater-has-produced-a-play-entitled-an-albanian-a-serb-and-the-soldiers-215208/
https://lavenderafterdark.com/2019/07/02/an-albanian-a-serb-and-the-soldiers-world-premiere-from-honey-blood-theater-comes-to-new-york/?fbclid=IwAR0Ue96GTfI2IjrNeicbzMjBsbkDb6hfqJF6ilvjIuR8PX08e5mqf4v3kJ8

Audiobook The Chaga Hunters and Other Stories, written and narrated by Suzanne d'Corsey

Suzanne d'Corsey — Sun, 30 Jun 2019 18:06:39 GMT

Including the theatre monologue 'Lucy' published in Singular Voices: Monologues from the International Centre for Women Playwrights, July 2008, the rest of the collection is composed of short stories previously published in literary journals.

https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Chaga-Hunters-and-Other-Stories-Audiobook/B07SZHDXWJ?qid=1561918282&sr=1-1&pf_rd_p=e81b7c27-6880-467a-b5a7-13cef5d729fe&pf_rd_r=HY6CDPFSSNYKFJG0E3BK&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1

Released 19 June, 2019

New Book, Memoir & Adventures in Theatre, Healing & Community

Thu, 20 Jun 2019 22:39:03 GMT

I'm thrilled to have published my memoir and creative guide, My Beautiful Detour: An Unthinkable Journey from Gutless to Grateful.

"My Beautiful Detour: An Unthinkable Journey from Gutless to Grateful" Barnes & Noble Book Launch July 11th

and New York Book Launch after the performances of my original musica: PASSAGEWAYS : Songs of Connection, Abnormal & Sublime HERE Arts Center August 6, 7, 8th

Book available everywhere this month!

ISBN: 9781733138802

“Amy’s extraordinary life and work reveal the power of art to transform. Her survival journey is more than inspiring; it is a celebration. Against all odds, Amy finds – and creates – the magical out of the impossible.” — Writer/actress Amanda Gronich, The Laramie Project

“Thank you, Amy, for this book and teaching us all that when we live in and from gratitude for EVERYTHING life hands us, ANYTHING is possible.” — David Friedman, Broadway Composer, author of The Thought Exchange

See more updates at www.amyoes.com/book-events

New book about teaching theatre in prison!

Thu, 20 Jun 2019 19:41:38 GMT

My memoir, Hummingbird in Underworld: Teaching in a Men's Prison, will be published on July 23, 2019 by She Writes Press!

"With open-mindedness and empathy, Tobola explores how systemic issues play out in individuals' lives as they grasp for light in the darkness."--Booklist

More info here: https://deborahtobola.com

Ten-Minute Play Publication

Jennifer O'Grady — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 18:51:28 GMT

Jennifer O'Grady's "Pre-War" was recently published in Stage It 3: Twenty Ten-Minute Plays (Bonita Springs Center for the Arts).

Ten-Minute Play Publication

Jennifer O'Grady — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 18:47:44 GMT

Jennifer O'Grady's "Persephone" was selected for 30 New Ten-Minute Plays due out this year from Applause Theater & Cinema Books.

"Col sesso ho chiuso" will be published in an Italian collection of monologues for Women

Antonia Brancati — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 10:25:29 GMT

Dino Audino editore is about to publish a collection of Italian monologues for women, among which there will also be Antonia Brancati's monologue "Col sesso ho chiuso" - "I'm Off Sex for Good" - which is often used for auditions in Italy. The monologue is an extract from the one woman show "Cose che contano e cose che non contano" - "Things that Matter and Things that Don't".

publications and interviews

Rachana Pandey — Sun, 07 Apr 2019 05:33:01 GMT

https://fmsbhu.academia.edu/RachanaPandey

2019. “In Conversation with Gautam Chatterjee on Banaras and Theatre.” Muse India 83 (Jan- Feb 2019). Web. (ISSN No. 0975 - 1815) Available at: www.museindia.com

2018. (Interview) “In Conversation with Manjula Padmanabhan.” Muse India: The Literary eJournal Special Issue: Indian Feminism 78 (Mar-Apr 2018). Web. 28 April 2018. www.museindia.com

2017. “Men in Theatrical Performance.” Muse India 72 (Mar-Apr 2017) Web. 10 Apr. 2017. Available at: www.museindia.com

Dear Anita Bryant by Ronni Sanlo

Ronni Sanlo — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 14:13:04 GMT

April 7, 2019, 7:00 PM

My Readers Theater play Dear Anita Bryant will be presented at the Desert Rose Playhouse in Palm Springs, CA.

In 1977 singer Anita Bryant kicked off her anti-gay work in an effort to repeal Miami’s new non-discrimination ordinance. Successful, Bryant took that campaign on the road across the country. The next year the Florida legislature ruled that lesbians and gay men were not fit parents. In 1979, I came out as a lesbian and lost custody of my two young children. Years later, I wrote a letter to Anita Bryant. This play, both dramatic and humorous, shares the challenges of pain and the power of forgiveness as it tells the stories of LGBT history during that time through the AIDS crisis to the present.

This play was also produced at the Palm Springs Camelot theater on February 15, 2019 and at the San Diego Diversionary Theater on February 19, 2019. In addition, a youth edition of the play was performed at the Rainbow Youth Summit in Palm Springs on March 2, 2019.

"Township Girls; The Cross-over Generation", Nomsa Mwamuka

Fri, 01 Mar 2019 03:55:28 GMT

This is an anthology that focuses on the personal experiences of 31 Zimbabwean Women before and after the war of Independence.

Weaver Press, 2018

https://www.amazon.com/TownshipGirlsthecrossovergeneration

The Most Important Thing in the World by Shoshannah Boray

Shoshannah Boray — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 15:15:21 GMT

Recently published by YouthPLAYS

Benny and Andy take care of one another; that’s what siblings do. Especially when it’s just the two of them against the world, which shouldn’t happen when you’re teenagers, but…here they are. Budgeting their income and paying the bills, talking to the principal, starting college, making still more doctor appointments…and through it all they’ve managed to keep their little house of cards standing. But when Benny steals Andy’s piggy bank, will it all come crashing down?
https://www.youthplays.com/play/the-most-important-thing-in-the-world-by-shoshannah-boray-515

The Princess of Pain: The Fairy Tale to End All Fairy Tales

Carolyn Gage — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 23:28:47 GMT

Fable for trauma survivors and compassionate witnesses... Illustrated by Sudie Rakusin and published by Headmistress Press.

Blue Roses a play by Sandra de Helen

Sandra de Helen — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 16:31:35 GMT

Blue Roses was published by Madwomen in the Attic online with notes by the author. It can be read for free in total here: https://madintheattic.org/2019/01/21/sandra-de-helen/ The play is set in 1940 in a so-called insane asylum in Fulton, Missouri. Two women, both sisters of famous men, undergo lobotomies, while two local working-class women who are employed there set out to save the Roses as well as themselves. [The two Roses are Rosemary Kennedy, sister of JFK, and Rose Isabelle Williams, sister of Tennessee Williams. Both were lobotomized in real life. The play is a fictionalized account.]

No Breathing Room: A Monologue by Charlotte Higgins

Thu, 27 Dec 2018 17:35:02 GMT

Charlotte Higgins' monologue "No Breathing Room" from her play ALABAMA BOUND was published in Spring 2018 in APPLAUSE Books "Later Chapters: The Best Monologues and Scenes for Actors Over 50." The monologue is the darkly humorous story of a woman at a major crossroads who must choose between saving her own life and her duty to her downtrodden husband and his tyrannical mother.

The Most Important Thing in the World

Shoshannah Boray — Thu, 27 Dec 2018 16:34:17 GMT

published by YouthPLAYS

https://www.youthplays.com/play/the-most-important-thing-in-the-world-by-shoshannah-boray-515

Publishing Contract

Wed, 19 Dec 2018 18:44:45 GMT

for my novel, Annabel Langoni, scheduled

to be published 2020 with Stirling Publishing, Edinburgh, Scotland.

RenWomen: a nonfiction book by Dale Griffiths Stamos

Dale Stamos — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 01:47:36 GMT

RenWomen: What Modern Renaissance Women Have to Teach Us About Living Rich, Fulfilling Lives details the inspirational stories of 16 multi-faceted, multi-talented women. It is co-authored by ICWP member Dale Griffiths Stamos and her twin brother, W. Scott Griffiths. Says Human Development Founder, and iconic author, Jean Houston, of the book: “This stunning work is exceptional in its fascinating portraits of women who are creating a renaissance of spirit."

Available in paperback and Kindle edition at:

https://www.amazon.com/RenWomen-Modern-Renaissance-Living-Fulfilling

JUICE

Patricia Montley — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 19:56:57 GMT

Monologue published in Later Chapters: the Best Monologues and Scenes for Actors Over Fifty, ed. Diana Amsterdam. Applause, 2018.

New Play on Ida B. Wells' Lynching Crusade by Carolyn Nur Wistrand published September 2018 by One Act Play Depot in Canada

Tue, 18 Dec 2018 16:56:40 GMT

https://www.amazon.com/Ida-B-Lynching-Tree-History/dp/1723940615

A new edition of IDA B. 'N THE LYNCHING TREE by Carolyn Nur Wistrand was published September 2018 by One Act Play Depot in Canada and is now available on Amazon. Ida B. ‘n the Lynching Tree is based on the foremost African American female journalist of the 19th century, Miss Ida B. Wells. A founding member of the NAACP, Ida B. Wells was characterized as courageous, fearless, and militant. The play moves swiftly through major events in the life of Miss Ida B. Wells, from her birth on July 16, 1862 in Holly Springs, Mississippi, to the Memphis lynchings of March 9, 1892, which resulted in her lifelong crusade against lynching and inequities, brought about by Jim Crow laws in the Deep South.

Quran and Wisdom of Hazrat Inayat Khan by Farzana Moon

Farzana Moon — Sun, 19 Aug 2018 19:20:40 GMT

https://www.amazon.com/s?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Quran+and+wisdom+of+hazrat+inayat+khan%2C+Farzana+Moon

http://farzanamoon.blogspot.com

This book is a journey into the spiritual realms of Islam and Sufism. Endowed with the gifts of music, spirituality and mysticism, Hazrat Inayat Khan guided by the poetry of the Quran and by the Grace of God came to America more than a century ago to unite East with the West in God Realization. His message still resonates fresh in this century twenty-one. The wealth of esoteric and exoteric knowledge in this book can serve as the contemporary books of Quran, Bible and Torah for the People of the Book. Love, peace and harmony is the only message in this exquisite journey into the valleys of truth from sharing to caring, to living to the fullness of one’s own divine-self within. May every reader discover the kernels of spirituality to the fulfilment of their own faith and fealty.

‘Many seek protection from all hurting influences by building some wall around themselves. But the canopy over the earth is so high that a wall cannot be built enough. The only thing one can do is to live in the midst of all inharmonious influences, to strengthen his willpower and to bear all things. Yet keeping the fineness of character and a nobleness of manner with an ever-living heart.’ Hazrat Inayat Khan

‘The need of the world today is not learning, but how to become considerate toward one another. To try and find out in what way happiness can be brought about. And in this way to realize that peace which is the longing of every soul and to impart it to others, thereby attaining our life’s goal, the sublimity of life.’ Hazrat Inayat Khan

Please post reviews on Amazon if you decide to purchase this book. Also if you would please kindly share this link on social media, facebook or other, etc.

Many thanks in advance.

farzana

African Theatre Series

Fri, 10 Aug 2018 21:44:36 GMT

''Lunatic!'' publication in an academic journal in UK under the African Theatre Series - Contemporary Dance 17

https://boydellandbrewer.com/series/african-theatre.html

C'MON IN - The Musical Story of Bessie and Jessie Pickens

Elaine Kuracina — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 17:51:14 GMT

When the old music hall built by their grandfather was restored, the spirits of Jesse and Bessie Pickens make a come back. They tell their story and sing songs from vaudeville to opera.

Monologues published in anthology and on audio cassette

Sat, 07 Jul 2018 17:38:45 GMT

two of my works are now available on Amazon - New World Theatre’s “Solitary Voice: A Collection of Epic Monologues,”

https://www.amazon.com/Solitary-Voice-Collection-Epic-Monologues/dp/1720657203?keywords=amy+oestreicher&qid=1529244398&sr=8-1-fkmrnull&ref=mp_s_a_1_fkmrnull_1

As well as Nevertheless She Persisted, which was nominated for an Audie Award last week:

https://www.amazon.com/Nevertheless-We-Persisted-Tales-Finding-ebook/dp/B076NBVCH9?keywords=amy+oestreicher&qid=1529244477&sr=8-2-fkmrnull&ref=mp_s_a_1_fkmrnull_2

You can also see my new playwright website! www.amyoes.com/playwright

Best,

Amy Oestreicher

THE SECRET LISTENERS

JULIA PASCAL — Sat, 07 Jul 2018 17:11:55 GMT

Julia Pascal co-edits The Secret Listeners with Thomas Kampe for Pascal Theatre Company. Published 2015.

Amy Drake writes for Medium.com

Sat, 07 Jul 2018 14:19:12 GMT

I invite you to read my latest blog entries on Medium.com. Here is the link: https://medium.com/

WATCHWOMEN

Thu, 28 Jun 2018 00:32:27 GMT

Summer 2018 edition of Coachella Review, the literary journal of The University of California at Riverside/Palm Desert features the play, WATCHWOMEN by Carolyn Nur Wistrand.

http://thecoachellareview.com/wordpress/archives-2/film-plays/watchwoman/

Watchwomen tells the story of a South African nursing student charged with stealing medicine from an American clinic. As she awaits her fate in jail, three young female ghosts with stories from the African homeland haunt her prison cell. Moving between urban America and the border of the Republic of Botswana and South Africa, Watchwomen offers a look at women and HIV/AIDS throughout the diaspora.

Published Research Paper/Interview

Rachana Pandey — Sun, 17 Jun 2018 01:59:21 GMT

Pandey, Rachana. “In Conversation with Manjula Padmanabhan.” Muse India Special Issue: Indian Feminism 78 (Mar-Apr 2018). Web. 28 April 2018. (ISSN No. 0975-1815).
Pandey, Rachana. “Men in Theatrical Performance.” Muse India 72 (Mar-Apr 2017). Web. 10 Apr. 2017.
“SITA: Retelling the Lila.” Muse India Focus: Écriture Feminine 64 (Nov-Dec 2015). Web.9 November 2015. (poem)

Find the published work on this link http://www.museindia.com/

WRONG WAY, DUDE by Robin Rice

Robin Rice — Sat, 02 Jun 2018 15:06:24 GMT

One-act play about twists and turns of dating and self-confidence. To be performed by teenagers. Licensed by Drama Notebook. 2018.

HUMANS REMAIN by Robin Rice

Robin Rice — Sat, 02 Jun 2018 14:53:21 GMT

An extended family chooses to live apart from the rest of the world on a mountain. A curious young man discovers them and wants to save them from disease that is diminishing their numbers, but that would require revealing their whereabouts and ruining their way of life. Based on real people. Winner of awards. Published by Blue Moon Press. 2018. https://havescripts.com/product/humans-remain/

HONEY'S SMILE by Robin Rice

Robin Rice — Sat, 02 Jun 2018 14:49:32 GMT

A play with original songs to be performed by a large cast of children. Honey's mother is moving them from her beloved island home to New York City. Honey is distraught. One night she seeks a way to hide with the help of her friends, a wise pelican, a bossy rooster, a feminist hen, a school of minnows and a trumpet vine. Published by YouthPLAYS. 2018. https://www.youthplays.com/play/honeys-smile-by-robin-rice-497&ref=search.php%3Fquicksearchbox%3DHoney%2527s%2BSmile

Lunatic!

Sat, 02 Jun 2018 14:45:38 GMT

https://boydellandbrewer.com/series/african-theatre.html

The play has been selected for publication scheduled for November 2018 at the above link.

Lunatic Synopsis

Khanda, former driver to a presidential candidate is transfered to a female prison disguised as a woman. His two prison inmates, Sdudla and Bhakhosi are unaware Khanda is a man. The two women have been imprisoned to stop them betraying state secrets and constantly lie to stay alive but when alone they are vulnerable and confess who they are hoping to be rescued.

Khanda is rejected by his cell mates and forms an alliance with Nyembezi, an emotionally unstable woman confined to an isolation wall. Two female guards Supervisor and Bhoza, who have the task of keeping all prisoners in check manipulate Khanda for their sexual needs.

Hell breaks loose when Bhakhosi discovers Khanda is a man, which leads to his death and Sdudla's insanity, torture and solitary confinement.

Later Chapters: The Best Monologues for Actors over 50

MT Cozzola — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 16:18:56 GMT

MT Cozzola's play BOY SMALL is featured in Applause Books' new anthology of monologues (Diana Amsterdam, editor) entitled "Later Chapters: The Best Monologues for Actors over 50", released in April, 2018.

Artemis Journal 2018 - Sandra de Helen

Sandra de Helen — Sat, 07 Apr 2018 16:17:19 GMT

The beautiful Artemis Journal 2018 is published as of May 4, 2018. More than 1000 entries were received from all corners of the globe for this issue, entitled "Women Hold Up Half the Sky." I'm proud to have my essay, "Our Half of the Sky," included.

NON-REFUNDABLE, in The Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2017

Mon, 19 Mar 2018 13:37:26 GMT

C.J. Ehrlich's Heideman Award finalist NON-REFUNDABLE is published in the Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2017 anthology.

Synopsis: Two teachers in love, in Bible Belt Kentucky, tired of pretending to be “just friends who work together”, run off on a hideaway package tour of the former Communist block so they can just be themselves. But when a foreign power invades their hotel room, they learn a big lesson about hiding away.

https://www.amazon.com/Best-Ten-Minute-Plays-2017/dp/157525915X

ALICE IN BLACK AND WHITE by Robin Rice

Robin Rice — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 12:18:00 GMT

Full-length drama about the life of Alice Austen, the first female photo-journalist. Alice bucked Victorian social norms and fell in love with photography and another woman. Lyrical and real. Excellent for college and community theaters as well as professional. Ran Off-Broadway. Published by Original Works Publishing. 2018. Available: Drama Book Shop (NYC) and https://www.originalworksonline.com/AliceInBlackandWhite

Best Monologues for Actors Over 50/Applause Books

Mon, 19 Mar 2018 11:41:55 GMT

Christine Toy Johnson's play THE SECRET WISDOM OF TREES is featured in Applause Books' upcoming anthology of monologues (Diana Amsterdam, editor) entitled "Later Chapters: the best monologues for actors over 50", coming out in April, 2018.

The Adventures of Emanuel : The Flying Shark of Bouncy Land

Sat, 10 Mar 2018 04:10:43 GMT

A strange and unexpected turn happens while Emanuel is fast asleep. A mysterious owl named Mr. Kitch transports Emanuel to a peculiar world called "Bouncy Land". There, he experiences a thrilling adventure with a pink dolphin & a flying shark called Dani Zuckow, who sees him as an intruder and a big threat.

Can Emanuel survive? Will he find his way home in the end?

Find out in this thrilling adventure with a twist, packed full of beautiful imagery and magic.

Now available here:http://a.co/5FAnPeQ

The Adventures of Emanuel : The Secret of the Knotting Clock

Sat, 10 Mar 2018 04:01:55 GMT

Blurb:

Imagine being uprooted from your home where everything and everyone was unfamiliar. That’s exactly what happened to Emanuel. His mother would be traveling for her new job and he had lost his father at the tender age of three. Watched over by his grandmother, what was poor Emanuel to do?

When Emanuel met Evonne and Rio at his new school, things began to get a little more interesting. Suddenly caught up in a quest to find the mysterious Knotting Clock, the three encounter uncharted territory. Emanuel is even reunited with his father. But does his father even know he is his father?

Can the three schoolmates put the evil Queen back in her rightful place? Can they rescue the children in the dungeon? Most importantly, can Emanuel and his new friends solve the mystery of the Knotting Clock?

A world where reality and fantasy collide awaits you...read on to find out. You’d better hang on to your helium orb though...it’s going to be a rough

Now available here://books2read.com/u/mKJWZB

Molly's Hammer by Tammy Ryan

Fri, 09 Mar 2018 22:19:06 GMT

Molly's Hammer by Tammy Ryan, published by Dramatic Publishing Company, Inc. https://www.dramaticpublishing.com/mollys-hammer. World Premiere at the Repertory Theater of St. Louis in 2016, nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, ATCA's Steinberg Award, St Louis Theater Critic's Circle Award.

SYNOPSIS

In 1980, Molly Rush, a Pittsburgh housewife and mother of six, walked into a G.E. plant in King of Prussia, Penn., and took a hammer to the nose cone of a nuclear warhead in protest of the buildup of our nuclear arsenal. She and her fellow activists, The Plowshares Eight, including Daniel and Philip Berrigan, went to trial to sound the alarm, and the world was pulled back from the brink of nuclear annihilation for the time being. Molly’s Hammer is the fictionalized story of these events, inspired by the book Hammer of Justice by Liane Ellison Norman. Told with humor and love through the competing narratives of Molly and her working-class husband, Bill, Molly’s Hammer shines a light on how the choice of ordinary people to take action is what is needed to save our world.

farzana's monologue Stormy Nights

Farzana Moon — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 20:11:11 GMT

#MeToo

Theatre women sharing their works

Sunday March 18, 2018, 2:00 PM

National Action Network

House of Justice

106 West, 145^th St. New York NY 10039

Monologue written by Farzana Moon

Stormy Nights

‘It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.’ Lewis Carroll

I am Stormy Daniels. I had an affair with Donald Trump when Melania was pregnant. For the price of my silence not to disclose Trump’s adulterous affair I was offered one hundred and thirty thousand dollars which made me twice the victim of my own nightmares. The first time I was victim of my own guilt for being the lover of conscienceless Trump while Melania languished at home, heavy with child. My second time as a victim began with #MeToo movement when women stood up against the sexual harassment and I couldn’t say a word, since my silence was bought at a heavy price. During all those years between then and now, my sufferings never ended, for inside the cage of my own mind I remained a prisoner, shackled by chains of remorse, my heart wounded and bleeding. But now, the purple wound in my heart is abscessed and throbbing under the burden of too heavy a ransom for my silence. This silence within me is soaked in my blood and veins, my body revolting against the violence done to women by men rich, craven, egotistic and vainglorious who can buy carnal pleasures at their own whim or caprice. This #MeToo movement has awakened me to the realization of the hopeless, helpless pain of countless women who have been victims of sexual harassment for years, but their lips were sealed for the shame of being violated and for the brutal fact that even if they were to expose their naked shame to the world, no one would be willing to believe their tragic plight. Before Trump became president, and listening to his tapes, bragging about his salacious assaults on women, not only wounded my heart but bruised my mind afresh, wild and tortured. After Trump became president he kept insulting the women he had sexually assaulted, and the globe of shame within my mind became a searing, maddening mirror, reflecting a myriad of torments those innocent women suffered while Trump corrupted the Oval Office with his lies grand and fantastic. Exulting in his sexual assaults by denial and arrogance, even siding with Roy Moore the pedophile, backed by a legion of Republicans to corrupt the very air of Senate Halls. This reek of corruption from White House nauseates me and I long to comfort my #MeToo sisters, but Trumpian Lawyers follow me like hounds, poised to stab me with the knife of their lies till I am bled to death. I beg you, please take your blood money back, even take my life, you liars lawyers vultures, but before that speak I will, telling the truth, my story, the tragic story of every women in the world who has suffered through the carnal desires of men-beast. Even if one man-beast Trump can be held accountable for his sins and removed from the Oval Office, world would become a better place.

Paradoxically, in this bazaar of a world, we are defined as buyers and sellers. All of us are selling something, our wares, our ideas, our bodies. Yet, when a woman is forced by circumstances to sell her body, she earns little money and a lot of disrespect. When women holding ‘prestigious’ jobs are defiled by lecherous men, porn stars can feel their pain and shame much more intensely and profoundly, for they too are the victims of this so-called civilized world./

‘I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.’ Mahatma Gandhi

farzana's new book

Farzana Moon — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 21:04:01 GMT

Publication of new book:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999524313/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1510242438&sr=1-1&keywords=Friends+Incarnate%2C+Farzana+Moon

MEDUSA'S TALE now available from YouthPLAYS

Carol Lashof — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 23:16:39 GMT

MEDUSA'S TALE by Carol Lashof

Countless would-be-heroes have tried to slay Medusa, the famous monster with snakes for hair, but every one has turned to stone, simply by meeting her gaze. The young Perseus is different, though. The Goddess Athena has given him a sword and shield and told him to beware of Medusa's tricks. But Perseus finds himself suddenly unprepared when Medusa's weapon of choice is a bedtime story—the story of her life.

This play has been produced around the world at universities, high schools, professional, and community theaters from Fairbanks, Alaska to Beijing, China. Originally published in the widely-read anthology PLAYS IN ONE ACT, it is now newly available in an acting edition from YouthPLAYS.

https://www.youthplays.com/play/medusas-tale-by-carol-s.-lashof-482

ON Huffington Post: Can You Make a Trauma-Warrior Resilience Kit...from Picture Frames, Leftovers, and High Heels?

Tue, 05 Sep 2017 23:14:44 GMT

Can You Make a Trauma-Warrior Resilience Kit...from Picture Frames, Leftovers, and High Heels?

Placing myself in other people’s words, as in placing myself in other people’s shoes, has given me the opportunity to get below the surface — to get “real.” - Anna Deveare Smith

Picture Frames:

One of my favorite parts of performing Gutless and Grateful at the esteemed Feinstein’s/54Below was getting to premiere one of my Original Songs, Picture Frame.

Read more at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/can-you-make-a-trauma-warrior-resilience-kitfrom_us_59a91304e4b0c50640cd5e96

ArtAge publishes METAPHORICAL SHOES

Fri, 04 Aug 2017 21:06:19 GMT

Art Age Publications, which publishes plays for senior theatre companies, has published my ten-minute comedy, METAPHORICAL SHOES--probably because the main characters are between 65 and 90! It's also been very popular with small theatre companies.

So if you're 65 or older and looking for a show, check it out at https://www.seniortheatre.com

Monologues published on PerformerStuff

Sun, 09 Jul 2017 07:10:31 GMT

Excited to have my monologues published on a great site, PerformerStuff! I have varying age ranges and topics - definitely many in the female empowerment area!

Here's my profile and check out the monologues: https://amyoes.com/monologues

You can also find them here: https://performerstuff.com/generalpwprofile/155014/pw

Huffington Post: Who's Crazier? Me for Singing About a Coma at NY's 54 Below, or NBC's Today Show for Writing It?

Wed, 21 Jun 2017 07:00:37 GMT

On Huffington Post

Are you near New York on June 30th? Maybe you can tell me if I'm completely insane.

"I'm performing a show about my life next week!"

"Oh yeah? What's it about?"

"Uh...there's a discount code?"

"Uh...[panics] watch my TEDx Talk? [hands out postcard, runs in other direction]"

I've been having the hardest time trying to explain exactly what I'll be singing about at New York's most famous supper club on June 30th.

Oh, and why I have Kathie Lee Gifford and NBC's Today Show to thank for it.

Oh...and why I chose a venue with the finest dining in the city to sing about what it's like to be denied even a single drop of water for six years?

Oh. And why critics are calling a show with my surgeons operating notes read on a voiceover..."hilarious?"

Am I crazy for bringing a musical called "Gutless & Grateful" to Feinstein's/54 Below this month? A cabaret club most famous for award-winning, Broadway entertainment? Is anyone going to even WANT to buy a ticket with a story that may be..."hard to digest?" or..."make your stomach turn?" (Sorry - too much?)

Maybe, That's why I'm offering a special discount this time - just in case I've lost it completely.

When I tell people my “stomach exploded” people don’t really know what to make of it.

Apparently, Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb did. Six years ago, I was thrilled; I never thought I’d be featured on the “Today” show.

As a teen, I was merely thrilled to get my very first college acceptance letter. I couldn’t believe I had gotten into the musical theatre program at University of Michigan. All my life, I had dreamed of pursuing a career in theatre, on Broadway, in every musical possible — and this was my golden ticket. I didn’t realize in two weeks my world would drastically change forever.

It was the night of our family Passover Seder — a favorite holiday of mine. As always, there were 30 joyous and over-stuffed friends and family surrounding us. As always, we told the Passover story with our mouths full of laughter, song, brisket and kugel. As always, I felt snuggly embraced by the love and warmth of the people in my life and the safety of a time-honored family tradition. And then I felt something that I had never experienced before.

Just a Stomach Ache

A simple stomach ache that escalated into excruciating pain, never ceasing and only growing worse for two entire days. As the pain grew more and more intense, my father drove me to the emergency room for a routine X-ray, although my physician reassured us that it was only gas. On the way to the hospital, (as my mother has told me) my cheeks suddenly puffed up like a chipmunk, and I collapsed as soon as I tried to get out of the car. Then I don’t remember anything else but the physical sensations of awful pain. All I remember is gradually waking up about six months later.

Waking Up Without a Stomach

I awoke as a newborn does, discovering sensations around her for the first time. Lying flat in a hospital bed, I only had a view of the ceiling for my first weeks coming out of a coma. I reoriented myself with the world of sound, sight and those I loved, who were all waiting for me when I awoke.

Unable to talk, sit up or control my trembling hands, a doctor — who seemed to know me very well at this point — explained as gently as he could about happened to me. Apparently, my stomach exploded due to an unforeseen blood clot. So much pressure had built up inside of me that my stomach actually burst to the ceiling in the operating room. Both of my lungs collapsed, I needed 122 units of blood and I was even read my last rites. I had no stomach. I couldn’t eat or drink, and the doctor didn’t know when or if I would ever be able to again. What do you say to that?

I asked why this happened to my family, to my doctors and to myself. Why was I blessed with such luck and blessings my entire life only to become a helpless victim of circumstances?

Wait, Seriously? Why Me?

Then I rethought that word — victim. What makes a victim? Certainly, I had control over my own mindset, my passions, my thoughts and my dreams. That was my turning point. I stopped asking, “Why me?” and started asking myself, “Why not?”

You can call it bad luck that I spent six of the past 10 years unable to eat or drink. Being quite crafty as an artist and performer, I decided to make my own luck. My life was too full to suddenly resign to being a “patient” or a “victim” for the rest of my life.

"Only Healthy People Can____."

Although my mother...and everyone else questioned whether it was too soon to mount three of my own art shows, star in musicals, teach nursery school, learn karate, start my own chocolate business and remain as vital internally as I once felt on the inside and outside, I went past my fear and nerves. I took a risk based on the passion I still felt in my heart.

Eight years after my coma, I was finally headed towards a life of medical stability. I learned through experience that things can heal with time, and that it’s not always the prettiest or easiest way. It was an extremely difficult journey, trying to make sense of the bizarre story I was now the lead character in.

My story was apparently something the “Today” show was extremely interested in. My anatomical circumstances landed me on Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb’s lovable hour of chat on NBC, and all at once, I was out there in the world.

Kathie Lee Gifford and David Friedman wrote a beautiful song for me called “Still Alive,” an upbeat, joyful testament to my positive attitude throughout 27 surgeries.

The Sick Girl Gets to Be a Role Model?

I received hundreds of emails and friend requests all at once. Suddenly, everyone wanted to know more about the “girl whose stomach exploded.” How did I survive without a stomach? How did I sustain myself if I couldn’t eat or drink for years? Had this ever happened to anyone before?

No, it hadn’t. It was that bizarre. But as bizarre as my story was, could I show them the person behind the “medical miracle?”

“Still Alive” became the final song of my one-woman musical, “Gutless & Grateful.” I lost my stomach but gained a story. And now I’m taking my show across the country, inspiring others with the bizarre reality that anything is possibility with a bit of resilience.

As much as I love being bizarre, I do wish my life were more normal at times. I still think about my old life and the feeling that anything was possible. But everything and anything became possible once I was willing to wander from my teenage fantasies and take on this new life on proudly. I can’t be 18 again, but, lucky for me, I can be the best 30 I can. This isn’t the path I planned for myself, but does anyone’s life ever work out exactly how they plan it?

When Life's Crazy Enough to Sing About

My stomach exploded. My world changed in an instant. My life took a detour as all lives do. So I made the best of it, and now I have my detour to thank for all the gifts in my life. I’m Gutless, but I am oh so Grateful. Grateful to be who I am.

And honestly? There’s nothing bizarre about that.

Okay. A little bizarre. But isn't that what we love about theatre?

Well...that's up to you to decide, of course. Come to 54 Below on June 30th and decide for yourself.

https://youtu.be/HjBoXW27sHE

I'll be singing and dancing in the same red dress I've worn for six years, with an open wound that will probably never heal, oh, and wrapped in more gauze, tape, and bandages than a mummy. My life is far from perfect.

But I'm doing what I love. And hopefully you'll love it too.

See ya in the club, New York. You bring the ticket, I'll bring the crazy.

Amy is offering a special discount code for readers, AMY35 when you buy tickets online. Catch Gutless & Grateful at New York's Feinstein's/54 Below on June 30th, 2017 Oestreicher is currently touring the country with her musical, “Gutless & Grateful,” which was inspired by her appearance on the “Today” show. You can learn more about the musical here, bring it to your area, or see where she'll be next.

UN/MASKED, Memoirs of a Guerrilla Girl On Tour

DONNA KAZ — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 11:38:47 GMT

UN/MASKED, Memoirs of a Guerrilla Girl On Tour by Aphra Behn was published by Skyhorse.

In alternating chapters and eras, Aphra Behn's memoir divulges her secret lives. In the ’70s her public identity was that of a struggling actress and girlfriend of a famous Hollywood star, while privately she was a victim of domestic violence, chillingly addicted to her life-threatening relationship. Two decades later she began a nineteen-year career as an activist with the clandestine arts gender-justice warriors The Guerrilla Girls, granting the reader a security pass into a mysterious and renowned revolutionary arts secret society. A compelling and page-turning read, and a testament that fighters for fairness and justice are not born: they are made. - Kia Corthron, playwright

“Fierce, funny and shrewd, much like the Guerrilla Girls themselves, Aphra Behn has written a memoir filled with so much hope and frustration it’s impossible to put down. A page-turning how-to about changing the world, and the challenges therein.” - Theresa Rebeck, playwright (Seminar), television writer (Smash) and novelist (I’m Glad About You).

“Aphra Behn's book is more than a wildly entertaining snapshot of 80s art culture. More than an answer to the question of, “Who were those crazy feminist activists behind the gorilla masks?” It is a generous, fearless, often hilarious coming of age tale that takes Behn from being a victim of domestic abuse in Hollywood to becoming an artist and part of one of the most unforgettable art protest groups of our time.” - Elissa Schappell, author of “Use Me” and “Blueprints for Building Better Girls”

“I loved this book by a woman with dreams that don't get realized but she makes her life work, no matter what, and tells her story with such honesty and clarity. An incredible achievement. It is unique, original and Aphra Behn is what Arthur Penn would say, somethin’ else.” —Estelle Parsons, Oscar winning actress

This Isn't Toronto by Catherine Frid

Catherine Frid — Mon, 05 Jun 2017 15:29:06 GMT

Catherine Frid's 10 minute play This Isn't Toronto is part of Long Story Short, an anthology published by the Playwrights Guild of Canada.

In This Isn't Toronto, a mother and daughter navigate a life-changing crossroad in their relationship.

Fibers: Oral History Performance Based on a Holocaust Legacy

Sat, 06 May 2017 17:07:08 GMT

FIBERS is a solo performance based on extensive oral history interviews I've conducted with my family about my grandmother's survival through Auschwitz and immigration after the War. After its premiere staged reading was so well received, I am eager to publicly workshop these excerpts further, possibly followed by a facilitated talkback, and discussion - You can learn more about the project at www.amyoes.com/fibers, and I have read my article in the Wisdom Daily Publication:

http://thewisdomdaily.com/grandmothers-death-love/

My goal with "FIBERS" is to shift an entire community ethos in the direction of inclusion – to bring untold stories to light, to give courage and a sense of belonging to people who are struggling with all kinds of challenges, and to help build a society that gives everyone the kind of awareness and generosity of spirit that makes that world a better place.

To read the script, send me a note at amyoes70@gmail.com.

ISOSCELES published!

Wed, 08 Feb 2017 14:06:51 GMT

Lynne S. Brandon’s short play, “Isosceles,” has been published in Off The Rocks Vol.20, NewTown Writers Press, Allison Fradkin editor, Chicago; and is available from Lulu Press (lulu.com).

“Isosceles” queers "the Erotic Triangle," the sexual dynamics of two men contesting for a woman’s favors. In 1910, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas lived in Paris. In “Isosceles,” butch dyke Gert and femme Alice spend an evening with noted womanizer Pablo (Picasso). The artists’ Cubist works (Tender Buttons, Picasso’s “Absinthe”) inform the trio’s word play. Alice uses all the power available to her and, by the end, she is the focus of the “masculine” attention. In an isosceles triangle, there is always one short side, opposite one dominant angle.

Performed at Smith College (2008) and SLAMBoston! at the renowned Factory Theatre in Boston (2010), it also had a staged-reading in “She Speaks,” part of the “365 Women a Year: A Playwriting Project,” in Kitchener, Ontario, 2015.

AIR APPARENT by Sandra Dempsey

Sandra Dempsey — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 16:11:42 GMT

AIR APPARENT by Sandra Dempsey
has been published in Long Story Short: An Anthology of (Mostly) Ten-Minute Plays- a collection of twenty-five very short but powerful plays that pack a punch through a variety of genres and styles, issues and experiences, as well as characters and performance roles.

AIR APPARENT: One of the forgotten, Aisling is losing her grasp on the periphery of society as she struggles with the after-effects of "that day." Her health is destroyed by the gray dust, she can't even keep up with her meagre dog-walking, and she is left as one of the thousands with terrible, insidious internal injury, struggling for every breath.

Ideal for a range of readers from drama students to aspiring theatre practitioners, and for those working in community and professional theatres, Long Story Short gathers from acclaimed and emerging playwrights a breadth of plays that are united in their ability to create complete and moving stories that transcend the page in about ten minutes each. ISBN 9781770915633

http://www.playwrightscanada.com/index.php/long-story-short-an-anthology-of-mostly-ten-minute-plays-print.html

sd@SandraDempsey.com

www.SandraDempsey.com

Farzana's book promotion by Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Farzana Moon — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 22:38:26 GMT

Meet our Authors: Farzana Moon – December 2016

14 December 2016

Farzana Moon is a teacher, poet, historian and playwright with a Masters in Education. She has published work on Sufi poetry, historical and biographical accounts of the Moghul emperors, and has written plays based on stories from religion and folklore.

Her publications on the Moghul emperors include: Babur: First Moghul of India; The Moghul Exile; Divine Akbar and Holy India; The Moghul Hedonist; Glorious Taj and Beloved Immortal; The Moghul Saint of Insanity; and Poet Emperor of the Last of the Moghuls: Bahadur Shah Zafar.

Her other non-fiction publications include Holocaust of the East, an account of the partition of India and Pakistan, and works on religion and spirituality, including Irem of the Crimson Desert, Prophet Muhammad: The First Sufi of Islam and No Islam but Islam. Farzana has also published works of fiction, such as Romance Quartet, and her play Osama the Demented had a stage reading in Stockholm.

She has a new book about the Quran forthcoming, and is currently writing another book, The American Queen (a work on Ora Ray Baker, the wife of Hazrat Inayat Khan, who was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico).

Farzana describes the experience of publishing multiple titles with Cambridge Scholars Publishing:

“Academic publishing is a niche within the wider publishing market, and I was given the opportunity to publish my first scholarly work, Holocaust of the East, by Cambridge Scholars. CaroI Koulikourdi was the friendliest of editors, and it was a rare delight to work with someone so affable and helpful. I was moved by her kindness and expertise, and decided to publish two more titles with Cambridge Scholars: No Islam but Islam and The Moghul Saint of Insanity. Despite the diversity of subjects, the editors’ knowledge extended widely across the various disciplines. I applaud their patience and dedication as they stayed loyal to the high standard of their scholarly vision admired by university presses in America. All of my titles are much sought-after by scholars and universities, and I am very grateful to have published with Cambridge Scholars.”

As part of the Meet our Authors campaign, we are offering our readers a 50% discount on The Moghul Saint of Insanity. To redeem your discount, please enter the promotional code MOADEC16 during checkout. Please note that this is a time-limited offer that will expire on 16^th January 2017.

You can find out more about Farzana and her work at her website by clicking here, or watch a video of her poem Politico 2016 being recited by actor Kaleb Alexander below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj1dHlegPWM

children (play)

Fri, 11 Nov 2016 14:54:50 GMT

Children (play) 2016

Afghanistan 2012. Two daughters and their father suffer from a prevailing tradition (Bacheh pooshi). A family without a son makes its little daughter wear and behave like a boy. As this girl is growing up with all the freedoms and authorities of a boy in that society, she believes actually she is a boy and proud of herself. Her father is also happy to have a son. When this boy gets thirteen years old his father tells him: “you are old enough and must marry a man.” The boy is confused, the father tells him the truth. The boy gets distressed and mad. He blames his father for cheating him, the father replies it is a tradition and also you ignored the signs and indicators showing you were not a boy.

The play goes on.

Mahin.mohasseb@gmail.com

The author’s language is Persian.

Staying Authentic in Solo Performance: for The Solo Performer

Sun, 06 Nov 2016 23:37:50 GMT

I'm honored to write for The Solo Performer on staying authentic to your own path when devising, performing and producing your own solo performance:

http://www.thesoloperformer.com/2016/11/amy-oestreicher-on-staying-authentic-to.html?m=1

The Solo Performer: Celebration and Exploration of the Art of Solo Theatre Performance.

The Empty Seats (play) 2016

Sun, 06 Nov 2016 17:50:25 GMT

The Empty Seats (play)

In a city in the Middle East two prostitutes are on trial. While prosecutor tries to prove that they are guilty, they defend themselves. One of the prostitutes has been taken out from her city when she has been a child and her city has been destroyed by an earthquake. The other one has been a poor child working for a family and has been raped over and over. They tell about their lives and persuade the court that they had no choice but to be prostitute and if prostitution is a crime why the seats of the men who have participated are empty in the court?

By the way the language of the author (Mahin) is Persian.

mahin.mohasseb@gmail.com

Dramatherapy as a Lifeline in Transforming Trauma for Transformative Language Arts Network Blog

Sat, 05 Nov 2016 15:20:26 GMT

Read article: https://tlablog.org/2016/02/25/dramatherapy-as-a-lifeline-in-transforming-trauma-by-amy-oestreicher/

We are instinctively creative beings. Through the transformative power of dramatherapy, we gain adaptability and create a positive, empowered attitude toward obstacles, physical or mental struggles, hardships, and trauma. Our vision is a world where “detours” in life are everyday blessings.

As we enter the new millennium, the world is faced with massive challenges as well as opportunities to solve them. Communication is a very powerful tool. Words have the power to engage, to move ideas from the fuzzy margins to the focused center of our attention, and to inspire us to think in new ways. Theatre, arts, expressive communication, language, and learning can move us to the center of life’s stage. Gutless & Grateful empowered me to move forward and spark a sense of rejuvenation, renewal, and hope from within."

Beating Chronic Illness By Performing About It - Odyssey

Sat, 05 Nov 2016 15:16:04 GMT

Read article: https://www.theodysseyonline.com/write-show

Or on Huffington Post: "Forever Gutless, Forever Grateful"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amy-oestreicher/forever-gutless-forever-g_b_8073014.html

"Eight years after my coma, I was finally headed towards a life of medical stability. I learned through experience that things can heal with time, and that’s not always the prettiest or easiest way. It was an extremely difficult journey, yet when I started to put together a musical of my life, things felt like they had happened for a reason. Now I had a story to tell, a message to share."

New book published, The Moghul Hedonist

Farzana Moon — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 17:07:22 GMT

http://farzanamoon.blogspot.com

https://www.amazon.com/Moghul-Hedonist-Farzana-Moon/dp/1770766103/ref=sr_1_5_twi_pap_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1477254068&sr=1-5

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Moghul-Hedonist-Farzana-Moon/dp/1770766103/ref=sr_1_1_twi_pap_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1477267824&sr=1-1&keywords=the+moghul+hedonist

https://www.amazon.ca/Moghul-Hedonist-Farzana-Moon/dp/1770766103/ref=sr_1_1_twi_pap_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1477268066&sr=1-1&keywords=the+moghul+hedonist

The Moghul Hedonist, published by Editions Dedicaces, is fourth in the series of the War of Moghul Succession in India. Emperor Jahangir reigned in name alone, while his empress Nur Jahan possessed the power to rule the emperor and the empire. Jahangir, a mystic and a naturalist laid kingdoms at the feet of his empress, abandoning himself completely to his love for wine, both from the nature's cups and from gold flagons. His hunger and passion for beauty in nature lured him to the paradise in Kashmir five times during his twenty-two years of reign splintered with intrigues and rebellions. The beautiful gardens of Kashmir, some built by Nur Jahan and some restored by her, became the sanctuary of this Moghul couple, away from the royal burdens of the court intrigues. With the exception of Jahangir's sons rebelling against him, peace and prosperity flourished during his artistic and sensuous reign. Industry and commerce yielded great revenues. The art of painting in detail and accuracy reached its culmination under his patronage and indulgence. The poets basked under the sunshine of the emperor's generosity, and literature attained the heights of nobility and veneration. Though cultural development rose to its peak, the emperor's health failed due to excessive drinking, his bane and challenge. Two major challenges finished his life. The rebellion of his favorite son styled as Shah Jahan, and one hundred days of captivity by his faithful vizier, Mahabat Khan. The last blow to his frail health came from the hands of a tragedy, when his son Prince Perwiz died of his own indulgence in drinking. At the age of fifty-eight, when Jahangir died, Shah Jahan ascended the much-coveted throne with great pomp. Not in the least suspecting that he would know grief shortly, wedding only Taj Mahal as his lost love and bride.

The main contribution of this sequel toward scholarly pursuits lies in the fact that the emperor Jahangir steps out of the pages of history as a scholar himself. A man of varied talents and interests, his observations about plant and animal life are worth exploring, if not his passion for art and literature.

"UN/MASKED, Memoirs of a Guerrilla Girl On Tour"

DONNA KAZ — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 16:08:12 GMT

“UN/MASKED, Memoirs of a Guerrilla Girl On Tour,” will be published by Skyhorse on November 1. Pre-order your copy here: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/un-masked-donna-kaz/1123362775?ean=9781510709430

“A vivid memoir of an eager, energetic woman of the theatre confronting sexism in love and art. It’s also a rare first-hand account of life inside the famed Guerrilla Girls, those gorilla-masked artists and performers who made feminist protest daring, original and fun.” - Katha Pollitt, The Nation Columnist, poet, essayist and author

BOOK LAUNCH November 1. 7PM at WORD in Brooklyn, http://www.wordbookstores.com/event/bk-donna-kaz-presents-unmasked-memoirs-guerrilla-girl-tour

A Good Old Fashioned Redneck Country Wedding by Kris Bauske Published by Samuel French

Tue, 27 Sep 2016 17:24:25 GMT

Samuel French is publishing the sequel to the holiday hit, "A Good Old Fashioned Redneck Country Christmas". "A Good Old Fashioned Redneck Country Wedding" picks up the action where 'Redneck Christmas' leaves off. New characters add to the unique flavor of 'Redneck Wedding' while retaining the hilarity and action audiences have come to expect from the beloved rednecks friends of the first play. Explore the complexities of love, life, and community in this warm and welcoming comedy series available only through Samuel French. (Available late 2016)
Check Kris' website for other titles at http://www.krisbauske.com

Politico 2016/US elections

Farzana Moon — Sun, 25 Sep 2016 02:00:28 GMT

Farzana's lyrics for US election, Politico 2016, performed/read on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj1dHlegPWM

Soldier's Heart by Tammy Ryan published by Broadway Play Publishing, Inc.

Sat, 27 Aug 2016 21:42:05 GMT

Soldier's Heart by Tammy Ryan, Broadway Play Publishing, Inc. https://www.broadwayplaypub.com/?s=soldier%27s%20heart&post_type=product

"Portrayls of soldiers wrecked by war date to the ancient Greeks (see Aeschylus), but Ms. Ryan adeptly reworks the time-tested recipe from a woman's perspective to make it seem fresh again...Briskly written in brief scenes that easily flash back and forth...the subject of sexual assault in the military gives the play weight and merit. Ms. Ryan deftly layers critical incidents that culminate in a forceful climax...Frank colloquial language delivers a strong sense of spontaneity."

Michael Sommers, New York Times

"Shuffle Along and Ethnic Humor" by Sandra Seaton

Sandra Seaton — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 15:21:22 GMT

My article about Shuffle Along was published in the May/June 2016 issue of The Dramatist Magazine. In the article I talk about the original Shuffle Along, whose book was written by my great uncle Flournoy E. Miller. My article includes an exchange of letters between Jack Viertel and August Wilson about a possible revival of the original Shuffle Along.

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PLAY NICE! by Robin Rice

Robin Rice — Tue, 31 May 2016 14:50:08 GMT

PLAY NICE!, a full-length drama inspired by Jean Genet's THE MAIDS. A great play for high schools, colleges and universities especially since the four characters range in age from 12 to 18. But it is in no way a play for children.

PLAY NICE! ran Off-Broadway in New York City. Published by Original Works Publishing. 2016.

Available at: https://www.originalworksonline.com/PLAY-NICE-by-Robin-Rice_p_199.html

BOUND by N.P. Katedza

Sun, 10 Apr 2016 18:01:50 GMT

A clash of cultures, precipitated by a journey from Apartheid South Africa, enmeshes the reader in suspense and intrigue.

Published- May 2016

Sharia Exposed published

Farzana Moon — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 17:52:09 GMT

Farzana's new book available on Amazon

https://www.amazon.ca/Sharia-Exposed-Farzana-Moon/dp/0996663452/ref=sr_1_1_twi_pap_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1458749335&sr=1-1

"QUEENS OF COMEDY" Book by Susan Horowitz

Susan Horowitz — Wed, 09 Mar 2016 00:20:08 GMT

Enjoy my book "QUEENS OF COMEDY" (interviews with legendary comediennes Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, Joan Rivers, Phyllis Diller, etc.)

Here's the link to onlne book.

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/219367?ref=susanhorowitz

(Print copies also available.) Here's my website: www.drsue.com

The Wise Peasant Girl published!

Donna Spector — Sun, 06 Mar 2016 22:43:22 GMT

The Wise Peasant Girl has been published by YOUTHPlays!

Young King Alexander lives, isolated, in a beautiful castle, surrounded by a high wall. When a peasant girl tells him about strange troubles in his country, he angrily explores his kingdom at night, in disguise, and discovers not only the truth and the solutions to his subjects’ woes, but also the key to his own happiness.

Golden Ladder published

Donna Spector — Sun, 06 Mar 2016 22:34:33 GMT

Golden Ladder, my Off Broadway full-length comedy, has been published by YOUTHPlays!

Raised as a Presbyterian by her anti-Semitic mother who married a Jew, Catherine worries that her father, a “Jewish atheist,” will go to Hell. Because her Catholic friend Mary has told her that Jewish girls have excessive hormones, when she meets Aaron Feldman, Catherine assumes he is her sexual destiny. Too innocent at 14 to be lovers, they become close friends until Catherine breaks off their friendship because she knows her father wants her to please her mother. With zealous fervor Catherine tries to be a Presbyterian, then a Catholic and finally a Fundamentalist Christian. But each fails to satisfy her because she is motivated by the wrong reasons. Ultimately Catherine realizes that in denying her Jewish heritage she has become like her mother. It is then that she returns to Aaron and the religion of her father and grandmother.

PLAY NICE! published

Robin Rice — Sat, 05 Mar 2016 15:17:12 GMT

PLAY NICE!, a full-length play inspired by Jean Genet's THE MAIDS, has been published by Original Works Publications. Three siblings use imagination to battle the Dragon Queen, their mother. Scary, funny and real. Challenging roles for four youthful actors. /www.originalworksonline.com/PLAY-NICE-by-Robin-Rice_p_199.html See synopsis: www.RobinRicePlaywright.com

DRACULIZA by Bianca Bagatourian - Published by Cedar Grove Books

Sun, 24 Jan 2016 18:43:21 GMT

Cedar Grove Books has just published playwright Bianca Bagatourian's first children's book.

"DRACULIZA is a little vampire who wishes she could be a princess in a fairy tale. Alas, she’s from Transylvania which throws a monkeywrench into her plans. Along with her top advisor, a bat named Spike, Draculiza finds a clever way to break into the fairy tale world and turn it upside down!"

The play, DRACULIZA, will be produced this coming Halloween, directed by Michael Arabian.

www.biancabagatourian.com
www.draculiza.com

Air Apparent © by Sandra Dempsey

Sandra Dempsey — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 16:12:47 GMT

Sandra Dempsey's heart-wrenching piece Air Apparent © has been selected from a national call to be included in the new 10-minute play anthology by Playwrights Canada Press, to be published in 2016.

Air Apparent © reveals the plight of one of the forgotten, uninsured victims of 9/11 - one of the non-uniformed, non-rich victims - and the struggle she endures as she tries to get medical help.

www.SandraDempsey.com

www.PlaywrightsCanada.com

Our Voices: Senior Selfies, by Catherine Frid

Catherine Frid — Tue, 12 Jan 2016 19:46:36 GMT

Created through a unique collaboration between a professional playwright and a group of seniors, this collection of scenes is based on true stories from the lives of seniors today.

Our Voices: Senior Selfies celebrates seniors’ empowerment through vignettes that are hilarious, insightful and poignant. These 19 scenes include “Smart Alec Car Sales;” a mock tv game show “So You Think You Can Help;” the “Best Adult Child” competition with audience voting by ballot; “Quickie,” a (non) conversation about sex; and an original rollicking finale song.

Playwright Catherine Frid worked with a storytelling group of seniors over five months to collect and craft the material for Our Voices: Senior Selfies. These scenes are for 1-9 actors, and are 1-15 minutes long. They can be presented as a two-act show or as stand-alone vignettes, and work well for script-in-hand presentations.

Published by ArtAge Publications: http://www.seniortheatre.com/product/our-voices-senior-selfies/

"Discovery" by Nancy Gall-Clayton

Nancy Gall-Clayton — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 16:26:25 GMT

One-Act Play Depot, based in Spiritwood, Saskatchewan, Canada, is publishing "Discovery," a 16-page play with 3 female characters. The play is about a teen who "feels" Jewish and breaks into the agency that handled her adoption, to learn the truth. More information at http://oneactplays.net.

The Philadelphia Connection: Conversations with Playwrights by B.J. Burton

B.J. Burton — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 19:32:27 GMT

This book features interviews with some of Philadelphia's most influential and successful playwrights, including Jacqueline Goldfinger, Arden Kass, and Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon. The interviews include early influences, the creative process, and advice to writers. Published by Intellect Books, 2015.

Monologue in Smith and Kraus 2015 Best Stage Monologues for Women

Sat, 10 Oct 2015 20:54:08 GMT

Stel's monologue from THE OWL GIRL appears in the newly issued Best Stage Monologues for Women 2015 from Smith and Kraus.

http://www.amazon.com/Best-Womens-Stage-Monologues-2015/dp/1575258978

Whispers to the Moon Published by Stagescripts - London, UK

Tue, 15 Sep 2015 15:37:38 GMT

Marcia Mayfield has returned to the same hotel on the Riviera every August for the last forty-two years. There, she meets up with the one true love of her life, Charles DÁnjou, and they spend two weeks together despite the fact that each is married to someone else. This summer, however, Marcia’s adult daughter shows up unannounced, and Marcia must juggle her efforts to help Carol choose her life’s path while trying to find a way to tell Charles she must finally end the affair. Can Marcia keep her secret from Carol, and is the affair the only secret Marcia’s hiding? What is the dark secret only Charles knows?

This play was a finalist in a number of competitions in 2013 & 2014, including the Ashland New Play Festival. It was the winner at the Northeast Indiana Play Festival in 2014 and was given a full production run at the Fort Wayne Civic Theatre.

Cast of 4: 2W/2M
(3 Characters are aged 70+ and may be played by actors 50 and older.)

Phoolan som Totes

Mon, 06 Jul 2015 16:04:26 GMT

Col.lecció Teatre Entreacte, AADPC (Associació d'Actors i Directors de Catalunya) no. 63, Barcelona, 2006

www.aadpc.com

Introduction by playwright Rosa Victòria Gras.

El Cobert

Mon, 06 Jul 2015 16:00:46 GMT

Textos A part, Teatre Contemporani, Arola Editors, Tarragona , 1ª edició, Març 2009.

www.arolaeditors.com

Introduction by Miquel Caminal, Director of the Democratic Memorial.

Amor Eterno

Mon, 06 Jul 2015 15:55:42 GMT

Her poem Adelante is included in this anthology

Published by Centro de Estudios Poéticos, Madrid 2009

Edired by Manuel López Rodríguez

To My Friend Nathan Thornton: In Memoriam

Mon, 06 Jul 2015 15:47:55 GMT

Introduction by Jack Hirschmann.

Published by C.C. Marimbo, Berkeley, 2011

www.ccmarimbo.com

Occupy SF: Poems from the Movement

Mon, 06 Jul 2015 15:45:24 GMT

Her poems Winter Flower and Ode to Oscar Grant Plaza are included in this anthology.

Jambu Press, Studio Saraswati, San Francisco, 2012

www.studiosaraswati.com

Poems for the Hazara

Mon, 06 Jul 2015 15:41:06 GMT

Her poem Poema en Català pel Poble Hazara was included in this anthology.

Heartfire: Second revolutionary Poets Brigade Anthology

Mon, 06 Jul 2015 15:35:46 GMT

Her poems Llàgrimes de Sang, Frank Ogawa Plaza and Tapestry are included in this anthology.

Kallatumba Press, San Francisco, 2013 Edited by Jack Hirschmann and Agneta Folk.

New book The Moghul Saint of Insanity

Farzana Moon — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 20:36:55 GMT

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=the+moghul+saint+of+insanity

The Moghul Saint of Insanity depicts the life of Aurangzeb, the sixth emperor of India. His reign of tyranny tore the fabric of the Moghul Empire into shreds. Learning too late of his follies of hatred and bigotry he prayed fervently for forgiveness on his deathbed. The gist of this book can be summed up in his last letter to one of his sons:

Soul of my soul! Now I am going alone. I grieve for your helplessness. But what is the use? Every torment I have inflicted, every sin I have committed, every wrong I have done, I carry the consequence with me. Strange that I came with nothing into this world, and now am going away with this stupendous caravan of sins. Wherever I look I see only God. I have greatly sinned and I know not what torment awaits me?

With fundamentalism on the rise, this book would serve as a gong of warning for the would-be-suicide-bombers that zeal and violence would be the annihilation of their own factions if they continued the practice of hate, brutality and intolerance. It would also be a learning tool for the young victims—educated by hateful mullahs, and hypocrites, to glean truth out of lies and to dispel ignorance. Hoping that this book would set the tone of contemplation, touching the hearts of the clerics, religious leaders and leaders of the Islamic nations to raise their voices in unison against the ones involved in crimes of torturing and murdering innocent men, women and children! May this book promote and nurture the gifts of compassion, learning and understanding.

BOOK/MEMEMOIR

Thu, 21 May 2015 19:38:21 GMT

"LULU'S CHRISTMAS STORY-- A True Story of Faith and Hope During the Great Depression", published by Title Town Publishing, 2014. Amazon.com is offering the kindle edition for $2.99 during May 2015, and extending the offer. Already #1 in three non-fiction categories. Also great reviews. (Comments always welcome.)

A Good Old Fashioned Redneck Country Christmas, Illustrated Novella

Sun, 17 May 2015 21:25:28 GMT

The hit musical and comedy published by Samuel French is now available as an illustrated novella. Written by Kris Bauske and illustrated by Kristina Muñoz, "A Good Old Fashioned Redneck Country Christmas" has been hailed as the most original Christmas story in over a decade.
Find it online now at all major retailers. Here is the link to the book on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Fashioned-Redneck-Country-Christmas-Books/dp/0692444785/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1431897838&sr=8-1&keywords=A+Good+Old+Fashioned+Redneck+Country+Christmas

ZELDA AT THE OASIS published by Samuel French!

Patricia Lin (P.H. Lin) — Sun, 10 May 2015 12:15:13 GMT

ZELDA AT THE OASIS (a play about Zelda Fitzgerald) is a two-hander with “star turn” roles for both actors (1 M, 1 F). Will appeal to anyone with an interest in the Fitzgeralds, the Jazz Age, American Literature of the 1920s, and/or women’s issues.

Ideal for

theaters operating on a shoestring budget as well as for College or Student Theaters, Community Theatres, Dinner Theatres, Professional Theatres, Blackbox Theaters and also Reader's Theatres.

To make any production even easier, a digital sound design file…which includes the sound cues from the Off-Broadway production as well as tracks for all the piano music required in the script…is available as an add-on through Samuel French.

For further info contact www.samuelfrench.com and search for the webpage by title

Recently published book: The Moghu Exile

Farzana Moon — Mon, 30 Mar 2015 01:13:56 GMT

Recently published book:

http://www.amazon.com/Moghul-Exile-Farzana-Moon/dp/1770764836/ref=sr_1_1_twi_1_pap?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1427669286&sr=1-1&keywords=the+moghul+exile

http://farzanamoon.blogspot.com

The Moghul Exile

Humayun is the second Moghul emperor of

9 Steps from St. Ann Street

Sat, 07 Mar 2015 18:17:37 GMT

9 Steps from St. Ann Street published by One Act Play Depot, Canada February 25, 2015

http://oneactplays.net/9Steps.html

Synopsis: When her daughter disappears a mysterious woman must come to terms with her decision to embrace African traditions in antebellum New Orleans.

Forward by Drama League Director, Elena Araoz.

The Case of the Lost Lavakian Princess

Sat, 07 Mar 2015 17:46:19 GMT

The Case of the Lost Lavakian Princess published by One Act Play Depot, Canada, 2015. http://oneactplays.net/lostlavakian.html

Synopsis: When the Lavakian Princess is kidnapped in London, the Baroness of Slovakia solicits the services of Miss Sherina Holmes and Miss Winifred Watson to find her. The young detectives head for Hobble Row, in London’s crime district, where they discover petty criminals of the underworld involved in the international plot. When Miss Watson is taken hostage, it is up to Miss Holmes to solve the case as time runs out.

POLITICAL PLAYS

JULIA PASCAL — Wed, 07 Jan 2015 15:18:46 GMT

Woman On The Bridge

Honeypot

Nineveh

Broken English

Published by Oberon Books 2013

"Leo" Winter/Spring 2015

Sat, 06 Dec 2014 17:32:30 GMT

My poem, LEO, will be published in the Winter/Spring issue of the Rockford Review.

Christmas Greetings

Nancy Gall-Clayton — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 16:30:47 GMT

Christmas Greetings is a 271-page anthology of short writings by members of a multi-genre writers' group based in Louisville, Kentucky. Included in the volume are my award-winning short story "Yarrow" and my 10-minute comedy "Christmas with Pat."

Edited by Jerry Buck Deaton (who also is taking the book to various book signings), the anthology is published by Williams Printing Company and costs $15 plus postage.

interJACtions: Monologues at the Heart of Human Nature, Vol. III, published by JAC

Sun, 27 Jul 2014 02:19:15 GMT

My monologue A CAT IN THE WOODS is published here - for a young woman, early 20s.

http://www.jacpub.com/Books/interJACtions/interJACtions_Vol.3.htm

Carol S Lashof, AND TOMORROW AND TOMORROW ...

Carol Lashof — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 03:04:33 GMT

AND TOMORROW AND TOMORROW ...

Stumbling in a daze from the battlefield to the afterlife, Macbeth encounters three mysterious and yet familiar spirits, who offer him a chance for a do-over. Will he get it right this time?

A four-character 10-minute play published by YouthPLAYS, Spring 2014

http://youthplays.com/

Stumbling in a daze from the battlefield to the afterlife, Macbeth encounters three spiritsundefinedGraymalkin, Paddock and Pyewacket (rhymes with “I thwack it”). They appear to Macbeth as a cat, a toad, and a dog, and they also look familiar. Very familiar. And indeed, that’s what they are: “familiars,” the companion spirits of the three witches whose prophecies led to his ruin, offering Macbeth the chance for a do-over. But will he get it right this time...?

FIRE by Deborah Magid

Thu, 03 Apr 2014 09:56:13 GMT

Commissioned by Next Stage Press as part of The Four Elements plays.

Confetti, A Collection of Cozy Crimes, by Patricia L Morin

Sun, 09 Mar 2014 23:09:25 GMT

I am pleased to announce that my third collection of short stories, Confetti, A Collection of Cozy Crimes, was released on March 4, 2014. From a theme party in Mizpah, NJ, to a surfing incident on the north shore of Oahu, murders are planned. From a Malibu beach with remote control cars, to the northern hills of Las Vegas, people are disappearing. Confetti is available on Amazon at: http://www.amazon.com/Confetti-Collection-Patricia-L-Morin/dp/1496011864. To learn more about me and my writing, please visit: http://www.patricialmorin.com/. Warm Regards, Pat Morin

VICKI, A MEMOIR - The Sheepshead Review

Wed, 19 Feb 2014 23:24:18 GMT

A short memoir of my mother published in The Sheepshead Review by Univ. of Wisconsin, fall 2013 issue.

THAT'S LIFE! - Work Literary Magazine

Wed, 19 Feb 2014 23:12:54 GMT

My short play THAT'S LIFE! will be published online in WORK LITERARY MAGAZINE within the next 3-6 months in 2014.

Synopsis: Simone, an editor at a publishing company in New York City, is on a deadline and gets two irritating phone calls at work.

SCENES from the Common Wealth

Nancy Gall-Clayton — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 01:37:34 GMT

"The Fish in the Dumpster," a dramatic monologue for a young woman is included in a new anthology SCENES from the Common Wealth: Short Plays & Monologues by Kentucky Women, ed., Shan Ayers (MotesBooks 2013). $15. Contact nancygallclayton@earthlink.net for details.

Nobody Is Who He Seems In Hollywood

Fri, 24 Jan 2014 05:26:42 GMT

A monologue about Old Hollywood, published by interJACtions - Monologues at the Heart of Human Nature, Volume 11.

Two monologues in an anthology

Elana Gartner — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 17:51:41 GMT

Monologues from my scripts "Daughter" and "Because of Beth" were published in "Audition Monologues for Young Women #2: More Contemporary Auditions for Aspiring Actresses" (Meriwether Publishing) by Gerald Ratliff. Available for purchase on Amazon.

POLITICAL PLAYS

JULIA PASCAL — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 21:43:11 GMT

HONEYPOT, A DEAD WOMAN ON HOLIDAY, NINEVEH, BROKEN ENGLISH.

Four political plays by Julia Pascal published by Oberon Books.

Honeypot explores Susanne, a 33 year old Swedish mother who goes to Israel to join Mossad as a honeypot. She is used as part of Operation Vengeance in the aftermath of the assassination of Israeli athletes in the Munich Olympics.

Woman On The Bridge is the journey of 55 year old London journalist Judith who goes to the Brooklyn Bridge to jump off it.

Nineveh is set in a whale where four ex-soldiers come to terms with the horror of their actions and try to find a way out.

Broken English is set in London in 1947 where Jewish nationalists plot to kill the Foreign Secretary as a way of spotlighting his quota of Jewish entry into Palestine. The play is based on a real event.

Novel - The Nun's Dragon

Christine Emmert — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 16:16:34 GMT

My novel, The Nun's Dragon, will be published by Dante's Heart in mid-December, first as a piece on Kindle and then in hard copy in March 2014. It details the close friendship between a Nun and a Dragon she has known since childhood. How this friendship impacts others and the worlds beyond the convent where the Nun has lived is the content of the book.

CUES: Theatre Training & Projects from Classroom to Stage

Tue, 10 Sep 2013 14:58:01 GMT

A book for every teacher, actor and theatre group, CUES is packed with training exercises for new actors, directing and producing tips and lots of devised theatre projects, suitable for the classroom or stage performances. Learn how to conduct exercises that will result in engaging group-created theatre pieces. Receive tips on writing effective monologues and scenes. Everything you need to make your theatre program come alive is right here.

STAGES: Creative Ideas for Teaching Drama

Tue, 10 Sep 2013 14:52:43 GMT

First published in 2002, the revised 2nd edition will be out in Oct. 2013. Packed with drama exercises and activities to develop the imagination,and concentration, observation and communication skills through tableaux. pantomime, improvisation and games.

Available on Amazon.

www.taliapura.com

Virgin Labfest 2009-2012 Anthology 2, Debbie Ann L Tan

Thu, 27 Jun 2013 03:17:44 GMT

Her play in Filipino was included in the anthology, "Balunbalunan, Bingibingihan" (literal translated as "Gizzard, Playing Deaf"
Published by the Cultural Center of the Philippines 2013

ENTER SINGING the Musical, CD

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:08:33 GMT

The official ENTER SINGING CD was engineered at Luna Productions, Tucson, AZ. Four core songs were sent to the ASCAP Stephen Schwartz (Godspell, WICKED) NY workshop in April, 2012 where more songs were written. In February, 2013 Dan Ankney at Sweetwater Prod., Ft. Wayne, IN remastered and added 8 additional songs to for the mix. The CD is for sale for $10, email Linda Evans at lindaevans1@aol.com for mailing.

Politically Incorrect - a short story

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 00:25:09 GMT

Published by Danse Macabre, March 2013.
The thoughts of a taxi driver taking a passenger from Newark, NJ to New York.
Danse Macabre

"An Interesting Life" Short story by Donna Spector

Donna Spector — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:29:16 GMT

Published in 2012 by the MENSA writer's wing in Calliope, a literary journal, this comic story takes place in Berkeley, California, and is about a young woman's journey of self-discovery by visiting a Freudian psychiatrist.

The Poem Family, a short story

Donna Spector — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:25:56 GMT

"The Poem Family," published in 2013 by 34th Parallel Magazine. A learning disabled boy learns to read by writing poems and becomes a brilliant poet.

The Candle of God, a novel

Donna Spector — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:19:04 GMT

Published in 2012 by Outskirts Press.

Fourteen-year-old Danny struggles with cystic fibrosis, but that's not his only challenge; he's also on a quest to find his biological father.

As Danny continues his quest, his journey and his illness inspire visits from a cast of colorful, lovable characters, all bent on saving the life of a dying child. Converging on his California abode are his eccentric Jewish family, including a pair of Gentile cousins and a dead grandfather, plus a menagerie of unlikely guests – psychics, an ex-rabbi, a motorcycle gang, a parade of faith healers and the head of the Tucson Atheist Society, whom Danny believes is his real father.

Nominated by an editor at Harper Collins for the Pushcart Editors' Book Award.

Publication in Smith and Kraus 2013

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 17:48:04 GMT

My short play, Black and White, about a crossword puzzle and a Sudoku, will be published in Smith and Kraus's Best Ten-Minute Plays 2013 anthology.

Donna Hoke

Time Waits and other Tsinoy Plays by Debbie Ann L Tan

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 04:25:53 GMT

Solo book has Yin Yang Trilogy with the produced and awarded Fate's Line, Question of Worth and Internal Arrangement. The full-length play Professional Eaters and the Palanca Awarded Time Waits. Available on order. Email author.
Published by The Bookmark Inc. (2012) launched January 23, 2013

THE HOUNDING

Sandra de Helen — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 16:15:49 GMT

The Hounding is Book One in a series featuring Shirley Combs and her sidekick Dr. Mary Watson. Shirley uses the methods of Sherlock Holmes to solve her cases. They live in present day Portland, Oregon. The book is available in both paperback and Kindle on amazon.com and has an excellent Kirkus Review as well as 5 Star reviews from readers.

Lost Boy Found in Whole Foods published by Dramatic Publishing Company

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 19:34:18 GMT

http://www.dramaticpublishing.com/product_info.php?products_id=3261

Winner of the 2012 Francesca Primus Prize

In the early 90’s in Sudan after civil war destroyed their villages, an exodus of boys trekked eight hundred miles across Africa until making it to refugee camps in Kenya where they lived on a bowl of grain a day for ten years. In 2001, the U.S. resettled 3,600 of these “Lost Boys” in cities across America.

LOST BOY FOUND IN WHOLE FOODS tells the story of Christine, a recently divorced “East Ender” from Pittsburgh who meets Gabriel, a former “Lost Boy” working in the produce section of Whole Foods. Soon Gabriel’s world becomes enmeshed with hers and daughter Alex -- leading to a remarkable journey of awareness, struggle and hopefulness. The play asks the question: what happens when we open up our lives to help another human being -- leaving us to wonder about the effect of one soul upon another.

"Ryan's play poignantly and powerfully integrates a personal story with a current world issue. When single mother Christine meets Gabriel, one of the "lost boys" from Sudan, in the produce section of a Pittsburgh Whole Foods where he works, the two form a relationship that changes both their lives. The play avoids easy, feel-good answers in exploring the very different ways that Christine and Gabriel think he should deal with the challenges he faces. As Pittsburgh theater critic Christopher Rawson perceptively observes, "the person who is most truly lost amid middle-class comfort is..Christine...[the play charts] the faltering, one-forward, one-back steps she takes to find her own usefulness and meaning." - The American Theater Critics Association upon awarding the play the Francesca Primus Prize 2012.

A Confluence of Dreaming by Tammy Ryan published by Broadway Play Publishing

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 19:30:12 GMT

http://www.broadwayplaypubl.com/CONFLUENCE%20OF.htm

A Confluence of Dreaming tells the story of Carol, an under appreciated and seemingly invisible suburban homemaker who finds herself wondering what the hell happened to her life. She rediscovers stifled thrill and passion in the secret, sexy world of cyberspace. As her husband obsesses over their local property tax assessment and the cost of their current kitchen renovation, the state of their marriage (along with their roof) is about to collapse under the weight of what they haven’t addressed. Their seventeen year old “activist” daughter, who is about to leave the nest and save the world, is torn between going to college or Tibet. Taking place in Pittsburgh during the summer of 2001, Carol solicits a face to face meeting with her online lover in New York City. When fantasy collides with reality in his studio apartment, Carol confronts the choices she’s made against the desires she has suppressed in the quest for self-fulfillment.

2 Women, 2 Men

Voices of the Land: The Seed Savers and Other Plays

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 15:30:48 GMT

The land and those who live in intimate terms with it are the focus of Koller's plays. In The Seed Savers, Joe faces pressure to purchase genetically modified seed; Jeanie refuses to sell untilled land for development in Cowboy Boots and a Corsage; Abby sees a lake as her final resting place in Abby's Place; and in The Early Worm Club, Millie realizes a deep sense of belonging to the Alberta parkland and its birds while searching for her mate. Nature goes beyond mere setting and backdrop in these plays to effect transformation and resolution on the characters. Ranging from romantic comedy to drama and from one-act to full-length, the plays in Voices of the Land show western Canadians at the point of leaving, returning, and renewing against the backdrop of their native landscape. To order or download a FREE PDF, visit Athabasca University Press.

WHAT REMAINS by Martha Patterson

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 09:00:08 GMT

WHAT REMAINS, A One-Act Drama. This play has been produced Off-Off-Broadway by Love Creek Prods. SYNOPSIS: At their summer cottage in coastal Maine, Jean tells her grown daughter Madeleine about an affair Madeleine’s proud, deceased, Irish-born father had, as Jean agonizes over the affair and the business of selling their vacation home. Through flashbacks, we see the disastrous result the affair had on Jean and Emlyn’s marriage. Meanwhile, the daughter, Madeleine, is trying to resolve her relationship with a young man she may marry. Will Jean and her daughter reconcile themselves to their sad past, and keep their beloved summer home? Paperback. Available on Amazon, and by phone from JAC at 781-272-2066 or at joe@jacneed.com. Published 2012.

THE MAID'S DAY OFF by Martha Patterson

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 08:57:28 GMT

THE MAID'S DAY OFF, A full-length comedy. Present-day, full-length play about Sophia, a young, struggling American actress who is shacking up with Nick, an aging, semi-retired English rock star in London. With booze flowing freely, their talk ranges from Shakespeare to interracial marriages, snooty shopkeepers, and Sophia’s career as an actress. Impatient with Sophia, Nick sends her packing. When they meet five years later in New York, Sophia is now a successful but troubled film star. Will they connect this time, or will their conversation revolve mostly around Nick’s obsession with losing his current maid? Paperback. Available on Amazon, and by phone from JAC Publishing: 781-272-2066 or at joe@jacneed.com. Published 2012.

TALKING TO STRANGERS by Martha Patterson

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 08:54:14 GMT

TALKING TO STRANGERS was first produced Off-Off-Broadway by Love Creek Productions. It is a one act comedy set in New York City, about a young man and woman who meet by accident on a bench in Central Park. Anne’s boyfriend has just knocked her into a fountain and she enters dripping wet. At first put off by her openness, Harry, a friendly but quiet graphic artist, seeks to end the conversation quickly, but then finds Anne more interesting as she reveals her insecurities to him, and they develop a friendship through a long conversation about their jobs, love lives, dates with celebrity look-alikes, and loss of virginity. At the end of the play Harry invites Anne to spend the night on a sofa in his apartment, just to get away from her boyfriend – but will Anne accept his invitation? Paperback. Available on Amazon, and by phone from JAC Publishing: 781-272-2066 or at joe@jacneed.com.

Published 2010.

WHAT WOMEN WANT by Martha Patterson

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 08:48:34 GMT

WHAT WOMEN WANT, A Collection of Nine Short Plays. All feature strong women's roles. Includes comedy and drama; suitable for wide range of ages. These plays have been produced at Northwest Changing Scene Theatre, Washington; Thespian Productions, Florida; Pink Banana Theatre, Wisconsin; Short + Sweet Festival, Sydney, Australia. Paperback. Available on Amazon, and by phone from JAC Publishing: 781-272-2066 or at joe@jacneed.com. Published 2012.

We Did It For You! Women's Journey Through History

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 19:33:43 GMT

We license the 45-minute jukebox musical We Did It For You! Women's Journey Through History (by ICWP member Thea Iberall) to high schools, colleges, theatrical troupes, women's organizations, and traveling shows. Script, published by SMART Theatre Productions, can be purchased at www.wediditforyou.org. Performance rights are available. 22 female characters (can be performed by 8 actors).

Millennium Monologues

G.L. Horton — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 23:39:51 GMT

Monologues by G.L. Horton are published in this anthology, Millennium Monologues. 95 contemporary characterizations for young actors. Edited by Gerald E. Ratliff. Published by Meriwether Publishing, Ltd. Copyright 2002.

Audition Monologues for Young Women

G.L. Horton — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 23:36:03 GMT

Monologues by G.L. Horton are published in this anthology, Audition Monologues for Young Women. Contemporary audition pieces for aspiring actresses. Edited by Gerald E. Ratliff. Published by Meriwether Publishing, Ltd. Copyright 2011.

BUSYBODY now available on Amazon.com

Patricia Milton — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:24:50 GMT

The 20-minute play, Busybody, by Patricia Milton, and published by Original Works Publishing, is now available in the Kindle edition.

Read more about Busybody here.

Order Busybody here.

DARK PART OF THE FOREST published by Broadway Play Publishing, Inc.

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 12:09:51 GMT

DARK PART OF THE FOREST is available now from Broadway Play Publishing, Inc., June 2011.

"Tammy Ryan should have called her new play "The Dark Part of the Marriage" instead of DARK PART OF THE FOREST...in the play's potent debut...Joan and Bill's faltering marriage is the main event. What's also intriguing about DARK PART OF THE FOREST is the abundance of fairy tale imagery...Ryan has written no fairy tale, though. She can be grimmer than the Grimm brothers--but just as enigmatically entertaining."
-- Peter Filichia, The Star-Ledger

"compact, poetic, turbulent writing...a vivid appreciation of how dark the forest that surrounds us can be...a topic that is both timely and eternal.."
-- Chirstoopher Rawson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

LILITH, The Night Owl, Kindle Amazon

Christine Emmert — Tue, 31 May 2011 14:48:45 GMT

My story LILITH is now an electronic book offered as a Kindle selection through Amazon.com Price is $1.99.

The story is based around Lilith, the mythological figure from the Old Testament who visits and torments a writer doing her thesis on the subject of Lilith.

Dark Comedy on Off Off Broadway

Sun, 14 Nov 2010 23:59:55 GMT

GOING TO THE DOGS:
Saturday, November 20
PLAY IN New York City (Midtown)
9:00 PM -11:00 PM

Also on Sunday, November 21--2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Payan Theatre in New York City
Times Square Arts Center
300 W. 43rd Street, New York (Fifth floor Studio).
Tickets: $18.00 at the door.
Info: 212-957-8358

Ten-MInute Play, "Going to the Dogs."
What happens when a soured-on-life elitist and an aging bohemian
vegan try very hard to come to grips with life in a 55+ retirement
Mecca of Discontent? “Irving,” the family dog, is really deceased
husband, Len, in this dark yet ridiculous comedy of lost
desires, regrets, and reincarnation!
Local Asbury Park playwright, Pam Munson Steadman, will be
directing her new short comedy, "Going to the Dogs," in
an off-off Broadway production
It is part of an arts festival of several short plays presented
by Strike 38 Productions of Manhattan/John Chatterton

New Anthology of Work by 11 Women Playwrights, Also Includes Intro by Theresa Rebeck

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:14:57 GMT

Out of Time & Place: An Anthology of Plays by the Women’s Project Playwrights Lab Members features a hilarious and biting introduction by Theresa Rebeck that challenges the American theatre to celebrate and produce its women playwrights, and the anthology showcases the extraordinary work of eleven of them. The playwrights included in the book are as diverse in style, background and experience as they are talented. Collectively, they’ve been produced, published and received awards on four continents. Their work’s been seen on NY and regional main stages, as well as edgy downtown black boxes—if you don’t know these writers’ work yet, you soon will.

Edited by Alexis Clements with Christine Evans, the anthology also includes a preface by Megan Carter.

Volume 1 includes:

Back From The Front by Lynn Rosen
Rewind by Laura Eason
The Quiver of Children by Charity Henson-Ballard
The Vigil or The Guided Cradle by Crystal Skillman
Weightless by Christine Evans

Volume 2 includes:

At Her Feet by Nadia Davids
Conversation by Alexis Clements
Le Fou by Bekah Brunstetter
Sleeping Rough by Kara Manning
TBA by Carla Ching
Undone by Andrea Thome

This anthology is published by Women’s Project & Productions, Inc.

Buy your copies and learn more here:

http://www.outoftimeandplace.com/

(This two-volume anthology is available as a paperback and a PDF download.)

Publication of INTERJACTIONS: MONOLOGUES AT THE HEART OF HUMAN NATURE

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:26:04 GMT

Includes monologue "Marnie" from THE BIG HAT, by Martha Patterson - published by JAC Publishing & Promotions.

The Woman Who Married Herself

Donna Spector — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:25:12 GMT

Donna Spector's poetry collection, THE WOMAN WHO MARRIED HERSELF, was published in April, 2010, by Evening Street Press as a finalist for the Sinclair Poetry Prize.

El Teatro Poblano Autóctono: Identidad contra Esperpento by Angelina Llongueras

Wed, 19 May 2010 08:39:06 GMT

"El libro que tiene ahora el lector en sus manos es producto de una valiente mujer que pone el dedo en la llaga, y os hace adquirir mayor conciencia de los problemas entre un grupo cultural que detenta la hegemonía cultural, y la expresividad de las comunidades indígneas del país, a las que margina y obstaculiza"

Martha Julia Toriz Proenza
CITRU Researcher
(Prologue to "El Teatro Poblano Autóctono: Identidad contra Esperpento")

Edición: Soc. Juan Coba Caiza, Teatro Arawa, Universidad de Guayaquil, Ecuador, 2004.

Phoolan som totes by Angelina Llongueras

Wed, 19 May 2010 08:29:13 GMT

Phoolan is all of us: In Memory of Phooolan Devi is conceived as a homage to this woman from India, of low caste, that was a bandit and a member of Parliament, a candidate to the Nobel Peace Prize and that was finally murdered in 2001.

Published by Editorial AADPC (Associació d'Actords i Directors Professionals de Catalunya), Col.lecció Teatre-Entreacte, núm. 63, Barcelona, 2006

SATAN'S CHAMBER -- a spy thriller by Molly Best Tinsley and Karetta Hubbard

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:34:28 GMT

An early reviewer claims SATAN'S CHAMBER, by Molly Best Tinsley and Karetta Hubbard, is the the first feminist spy thriller! The novel, published by Fuze, a small press in Virginia, and currently in its second printing, is available on Amazon, through the Fuze website (www.fuzepublishing.com), and at independent bookstores. For more information, including a peek at the Prologue and Chapter One, please visit the SATAN'S CHAMBER website (www.satanschamber.com).

"Busybody" Now Available from Original Works Publishing

Patricia Milton — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:14:37 GMT

Patricia Milton's short black comedy, "Busybody," has been published by Original Works Publishing.

"a chilling little tale designed for maximum emotional discomfort."

- The Contra Costa Times (San Francisco)

WORLD PREMIERES FROM HORSE CAVE THEATRE with Nancy Gall-Clayton

Nancy Gall-Clayton — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:07:32 GMT

Nancy Gall-Clayton's full-length play Just Taking Up Space, about a troubled teen, is one of 14 plays in a new anthology entitled World Premieres from Horse Cave Theatre. Located in a most unlikely place (a town with a population of 2,000 in Kentucky's cave country), Horse Cave Theatre, a Lort D theatre, had an acclaimed program for developing playwrights under the stewardship of Warren Hammack from 1981 to 2001. Marc Masterson, Artistic Director of Actors Theatre of Louisville, calls the anthology "essential reading for those curious to explore who we are in contemporary times."

Publisher: MotesBooks (http://www.motesbooks.com) 2009
ISBN: 978-1-934894-15-6

"Candledancing: The Voice of Julian of Norwich" by Coni Ciongoli-Koepfinger

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:07:56 GMT

Coni Ciongoli-Koepfinger's drama "Candledancing: The Voice of Julian of Norwich"

Publisher: Tate Publishing & Enterprises (19 May 2009)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1606046268
ISBN-13: 978-1606046265

CANDLEDANCING examines the synthesis of humanity's physical, mental, and spiritual dimensions by weaving together the words, thoughts, and feelings of its sincere yet disconcerted characters who seek to understand the meaning of their lives.