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Flush Ink Performing Arts Presents

 

THE PLAYWRIGHTS

 

 

It also takes an entire village to put on a show.  Ours is growing…

 

 

Dori Appel

Dori Appel is an award-winning playwright, poet, and fiction writer.  More than a dozen full-length plays, plus many one-acts, shorts, and monologues have been staged as full productions or readings in the U.S., Canada, and Australia. Several have also received awards, including the Oregon Book Award in Drama in 1998, 1999, and 2001.

 

"Girl Talk" and "Hot Flashes," both co-authored with Carolyn Myers, are published by Samuel French, and a number of monologues are included in anthologies.  Dori's collection of poems, Another Rude Awakening, is forthcoming from Cherry Grove Collections in 2008.

 

 

 

 

 

Dori’s play, Treasure Hunt, was performed on the sidewalk in AJS III, and we were thrilled to have her here from the State of Washington to see the show.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shirley Barrie

Shirley Barrie is a playwright from who has received two Chalmers Awards and a Dora Award for her work. Her newest play, Beautiful Lady, Tell Me…, a vaudeville musical murder mystery, will be produced at 4th Line Theatre, Millbrook in August, 2007.  Other recent productions:  the award winning one-act, Revelation (Alumnae New Ideas, Toronto Fringe), Possession (Alumnae New Ideas) and two new adaptations of old tales:  Hansel and Gretel (Geordie Theatre) and The Girl in the Flower Basket (Japanese Folklore Theatre Productions).  She was in South Africa for much of 2005/06 working as Senior Story Editor on Jozi-H (short for Johannesburg Hospital) , a 13 x one-hour TV medical drama series broadcast on CBC TV in Canada and SABC in South Africa. Shirley was a co-founder of the Tricycle Theatre in London, England and of Straight Stitching Productions in Toronto.

 

Brianna’s Quest ~ (Act: I  Scenes I&II), was read for She Speaks 2007.

 

Meny Beriro

Meny Beriro was born in Gibraltar and raised in Queens, New York.  Meny studied playwriting at PLAYWRIGHT’S HORIZONS THEATRE SCHOOL.

 

His works include Grosso Is In Jail (presented at the Samuel French Short play Festival in 2005), A Love of Music (Creative Mechanics Stage This! Semi-Finalist 2005), Climbing the Unisphere (public reading October 2006 at Queens Theatre in the Park) and Twenty Broken Legs (staged reading by Mid Life Productions, March 2006).

 

Most recently his monologue, Worn, was presented by This Woman’s Work Theatre Co. in January, 2007, and in February 2007, The National Anthem of Mercury was presented by EndTimes Productions.        

 

Meny’s play, Shock, was performed in a make-shift art gallery in AJS II.

 

 

Michael Burgan

 

As a freelance writer, Michael Burgan has written more than 100 non-fiction books for kids. He studied playwriting for one year in Emerson College's MFA writing program and is currently a network playwright with Chicago Dramatists and a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Playwriting Center.   Credits include:

 

 

Alternate selection, 1999 Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival (GIGO)

Curtain Players 2005 Playwrights’ Festival, Westerville, Ohio (Mayor Mac)

Appetite Theatre 2005 Bruschetta Festival, Chicago (Bob’s Head and Toys in the Attic)

Theatres Against War 2005 Freedom Follies, New York (Truth, Justice, and…)

Around the Coyote 2006 Play Reading Series, Chicago (Last Refuge)

 

 

Michael’s play is Can Can’t was performed in a garbage dumpster AJS II.

 

Mark L. Burris

 

 

 

 

Mark. L. Burris lives and plays in Missouri.  Banter is his first play. Aside from his work in finances, Mark has an organic landscaping business.

He finds solace in nature and spends much of his time outdoors.  He is an armchair philosopher with a fascinating, albeit cynical view on life.

 

 

 

Mark L. Burris’s play, Banter, co-written with L.D. Garver,  was performed throughout Asphalt Jungle Shorts I.

 

Robyn Buttrell

Robyn Buttrell has been playwright-in-residence at Toronto’s Theatre Passe Muraille and The Factory Theatre as well as an associate playwright with Canadian Stage and the Tarragon Theatre. Two of her stage monologues can be found in the anthology The Perfect Piece published by Playwrights Canada Press, who also published her play Bad Taste. Most recently The Makings of a Man, her irreverent adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, , was work-shopped and presented at Nightwood Theatre’s Groundswell Festival in Toronto; she’s had numerous dramas produced and broadcast by CBC radio and CBC t.v., including the five-part comedy Mrs. Poole Takes a Job, an extended monologue for one man Darleen, and the award-winning drama Queenie’s History of the World, whose complicated sound script won Best Sound at the International Radio Awards. A copy of Queenie’s History of the World was later donated by the CBC to the National Radio Archives in New York City as ‘an example of Canadian Radio Drama’. Robyn is also a published fiction and creative nonfiction writer twice nominated for a National Magazine Award. Born and raised in Oxford County, Robyn now lives in Kitchener with her husband and daughter.

 

Robyn’s monologue, That Sinking Feeling, was performed for She Speaks 2008.

 

 

Lea Daniel

 

 

Lea Daniel was a founding member of Theatre & Company’s Writers Bloc and PlayLab and is currently a member of Pat the Dog playwrights’ collective. Her short play Highway Robbery was produced as part of Theatre & Company’s May Playfest (1999); Burn was part of May Playfest (2002); Heretic, a full-length play was chosen for the Off-The-Page Series at Equity Showcase Theatre, Toronto (2003), for a reading at The Cobblestone Festival, Paris, Ontario (2004) and was work-shopped in 2006. Lea is an award-winning illustrator and writer of books for children.

 

 

Lea Daniel’s Colour Me Fuchsia (fragments) was part of She Speaks 2007, and In The East a Glass of Water was performed in a green space in AJS II.

 

 

Francine Dick

 

 

 

Francine Dick lives in Toronto and is part of the Alumnae Theatre's New Play Development group.  Her play, As Large As Alone, was part of the Alumane's New Ideas Festival in 2006.  She is also the author of Meditations and A Wedding in Blue and White.  Under the name of Miriam Wright she published a collection of short stories, The Inner Core.

 

 

Francine’s play, Down Memory Lane, was part of She Speaks 2007.

 

 

 

Linda Eisenstein

 

Linda Eisenstein’s plays and musicals have been produced throughout the US, and in England, Australia, CanadaSouth Africa, and the Philippines. She is a three-time recipient of Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Playwriting Fellowships for Three the Hard Way and her musicals Star Wares: The Next Generation and Discordia (both with James Levin). Other prizes include the Gilmore Creek Award (Three the Hard Way), Sappho’s Symposium Competition (The Names of the Beast), an All-England Festival Prize (Marla’s Devotion), and a New York Theatre Innovation Award nomination (Eisenstein's Monster).  She has been a finalist for the Jane Chambers Competition (Rehearsing Cyrano), the Heideman Award (Higher), and the Midwest Play Competition (The Last Red Wagon Tent Show in the Land). 

 

Fifteen of her short plays and monologues have been anthologized by Heinemann, Smith & Kraus, Dramatic Publishing, Penguin, Viking Press, and others.  Linda is a member of the Cleveland Play House Playwrights’ Unit, the Dramatists Guild of America, Inc., ASCAP, and the International Center for Women Playwrights. She lives in Cleveland, Ohio.

 

Linda two plays, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE & BALANCING ACT were performed outside the chapel in the City Hall, and in The Rum Runner (a bar) – respectively, for AJS I, and we were thrilled when Linda came up from Ohio to see.

 

Christine Emmert

 

Christine is an actress, playwright, director and theatre educator. She has been in the theatre world for fifty years. Presently she is rehearsing a production of Lettuce and Lovage in the Philadelphia area.  Her plays have been performed in three (now four) countries, published in three, and she continues to write as well as appear on stage.  She is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild of America.  Her novel ISMENE was published three years ago.  Christine is a member of ICWP.

 

Christine’s play, Boxing it, was performed at She Speaks 2008, and what a pleasure to have her and her husband join us from Pennsylvania.

 

Catherine Frid

Catherine Frid's one-act drama Greater Good was selected by 6 th@Penn Theatre in San Diego, California, for inclusion in the Human Rights Play Festival 2007. Her play Golden Door, a full-length drama, was read by Toronto's Praxis Theatre as part of its New Play Reading Series, in December 2006.

 

 

She sits on the board of directors  of Aluna Theatre in Toronto.

 

 

 

Catherine’s play, Fetiish, was performed in The Delta Inn for AJS III, and her play The Mess, was read in She Speaks, 2008.

 

L.D. Garver

 

 

 

Banter is L.D. Garver's first play.  He lives in Missouri where he is continually entertained by his sons, Jacob and Ben.  Although not directly involved in theatre, he is a avid patron and is said to have a voice like an angel...although no one has yet said that of his character. 

 

Aside from writing, Larry enjoys building things, collecting things, playing Texas Hold 'Em and watching the Chiefs nearly win. 

 

 

L.D. Garver’s play, Banter, co-written with Mark L. Burris, was performed throughout Asphalt Jungle Shorts I.

 

L.H. Grant

 

 

 

L.H. (Lee) Grant has written many full-length and one-act plays. His work has been produced in New York, Massachusetts and Vienna, Austria.

 

Lee is also an artist whose paintings have been exhibited in several galleries. Born in Detroit, Michigan, Lee took advantage of the closeness to the border with Canada and spent a good deal of time visiting many places in Ontario including Algonquin Provincial Park where the cry of the loons and majesty of the aurora borealis left an indelible mark. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Lee currently resides in Northern California.

 

 

 

Lee’s plays 600 SECONDS (performed in a make-shift office for AJS I) and Man_Woman_Man (performed in a City Hall Board Room for AJS II) were both very well received and we’re hoping for more.

 

 

Paddy Gillard-Bentley

 

Paddy has been involved in one aspect of theatre or another since her Mother, Tessa, was four months pregnant with her performing in Time Out For Ginger.  Her full-length play, Shaking the Dew from the Lilies, had its debut in Kitchener, Ont. Canada, in November 2002.  It received its American premier in May - June, 2005, in Denver, Co. at The Playwright Theatre, directed by Cynthia Davies.  Two one acts; White Noise, directed by Stuart Scadron-Wattles, and Sanguine Sonata, directed by Gary Kirkham were produced with Theatre & Company and Comic Strip appeared in a festival of shorts in Toronto with The Cabbagetown Theatre Company.  Quantum Entanglement has been produced in Calgary, AB and Philadelphia PA. Several short plays have been produced: One Tender Lie (Sacramento), In Tense City (North Dakota, Boston and Provincetown,  Cynthia’s Story (Provincetown), Frailty Thy Name is Woe (Manhattan).  She has had four plays produced for GI60, NYC, and Frailty Thy Name is Woe  has been published by Merriweather in Volume II of Young Women's Monologues from Contemporary Plays.

 

Paddy is the Artistic Director of Flush Ink Performing Arts,  President of ICWP (International Centre for Women Playwrights), was in Writer's Bloc, a playwright's group affiliated with Theatre & Company for four years and was a member of The Alumnae Theatre in Toronto, Canada.

 

Paddy’s plays Howard and the Snake (City Hall Stairs) & About Surreal Life (Rum Runner) were in AJS I and Honey Meet the Bickersons (thouout) & Well Bread Kitchener’s City Hall) were in AJS III.

Opaque was read in She Speaks 2007 and Coaxing the Kitty in 2008.

 

Laura Henry

Laura Henry’s full length plays have been produced or work-shopped at theatres across the country, including OpenStage Theatre & Co., Centenary Stage Company, Echo Theatre and Urban Stages.  Laura has received fellowships from Cornerstone Theater Company, the Edward F. Albee Foundation and the Dramatists Guild and has been a finalist for the Princess Grace Award. She is a graduate of the MFA playwriting program at the University of California, San Diego and currently teaches for Theatre for a New Audience and Young Playwrights, Inc. 

Ano 1868 has been previously seen in the DNA short play festival, produced by the University of Idaho/Idaho Repertory Theatre (USA), the Harrowgate Theatre (Great Britain) and at Java Theatre in Boston (USA). 

 

 

Laura’s play, Año 1868, was performed behind the Mayfair Hotel in AJS I.

 

Grace Kary

 

Grace Kary is a graduate of Ryerson’s media arts program in Toronto and an active member in the independent media community in Canada, Grace Kary is the first recipient of the prestigious Hunter Award for her script “Immaculate”.  Her short films have appeared in film festivals around the world and on Canadian television. In addition, she has received grants from civic, provincial and national granting bodies including the Canada Council, the Toronto Arts Council and the Waterloo Regional Arts Foundation. 

 

The Sun is a Neon sign is her first full-length play.  She has had a short play has been produced in Canada.  Two upcoming exhibits of her work include a show in Mexico March 2007 and an installation piece in Zero to One Gallery, Kitchener in June 2007. 

 

 

Grace’s play, The Sun is a Neon Sign, was read at She Speaks 2007, and A Grave Familiarity, was read at She Speaks 2008.

 

Shirley King

Shirley lives in Benicia, California.  My first play, MORGANA'S HEART, won a California Arts Council competition for best new play and was produced in 2002. Since then my plays have had numerous productions, workshops and readings by theatre companies including, Radiant Theatre, Penobscot Theatre, Big Idea Theatre, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, SlamBoston, Women's Theatre Alliance of Chicago, Instant Theatre, University of North Dakota, Stockyards Theatre Project's Pro Peace Plays series, Asphalt Jungle Shorts, Kitchener, Canada and Short Leaps Festival, Eureka Theatre, San Francisco.

MURLOCK, USA will be produced by both Riverside Theater and Universal Theater in 2008. In February, Love Creek Productions will produce THE DIE IS CAST/STREET HAMLET. MARKERS will be produced March 2008 by the University of Maryland at Baltimore together with commissioned plays by Naomi Wallace and Tina Howe. 

Awards: finalist for the Maxim Mazumdar Award, three finalists for the Nancy Weil New Play Search, finalist for the 2006 Contra Costa Times New Play Competition,
Kansas City's Barn Project, Australia's Short & Sweet Festival and Solano County Repertory's 2008 Play Competition.  I'm a member of The Dramatists Guild and International Center for Women Playwrights.

 

 

Shirley’s Home Page

 

Shirley’s play, The Orange Whistle, was performed on the fifth floor of a parking garage in AJS I and Name Game was read in She Speaks 2008.

 

 

Gary Kirkham

 

Gary Kirkham is a playwright, actor, filmmaker, et al.  His play, Queen Milli of Galt, won the Samuel French Canadian Playwriting Competition and will be part of the 2007 Blyth Festival Season.  His one act play, Look, was adapted into a short film staring Mike Peng and Alan Sapp. His newest play, Falling: A Wake, will premiere at the Registry Theatre March 15-24, 2007!  Gary is a member of Lost & Found Theatre.  He has also acted with Theatre & Company and most recently, MT Space, touring in their version of The Season of Immigration.

 

Gary spent years as an improviser with several comedy troupes including Mental Floss and was in The Second City’s Master class. And, if you didn’t blink, you might have seen him in several sketches on The Kids in the Hall. As a filmmaker, Gary filming Bard on the Street, a series of Shakespearean monologues performed on locations throughout the region.

 

 

Gary Kirkham’s plays Beth At 50 (behind The Mayfair Hotel), & Live Nude Mannequins (in a shop window) were performed in AJS I.  Beth at 50 was revived for Asphalt Jungle Lederhosen. 

 

Tamara Knezic, from Toronoto,  likes to mix it up.  In 2006 she edited the content for the Pride Toronto website, worked on the Journal for the Association in Defense of the Wrongly Convicted and work-shopped a play she wrote called "Willfully Blind".

 

 

She's excited about having her newest play included as part of the ICWP's staged readings on International Women's Day 2007.

 

 

 

 

Tamara’s play, The Death Of Suzie Lau  - Two ordinary guys struggling with everyday sacrifices, was part of She Speaks, 2007.

 

Kathleen Kramer

Kathleen Kramer is a playwright, actor, and poet. She lives near Ithaca, NY, where her full-length plays, Colorful Bricks and Fanatics and The Tadpole Stage, have been presented to standing-room-only audiences. Her full-length, Solitary Lights, received a staged reading by 3rd Floor Productions, a women's playwriting and producing collective, of which Kathleen is a member. In February '07, Sleeps Through Storms, a 20-minute play about a woman's relationship with an unseen entity residing in her attic, was presented by Armory Square Playhouse in Syracuse, NY.

 

Some of Kathleen's shorter works have been featured in a creative writing curriculum at Ithaca College, while others have been part of group shows produced by 3rd Floor Productions. The most recent group show, Queueue, included six of Kathleen's short plays about people standing in lines of various kinds and the drama and comedy which can occur in these common settings.

 

 

Two of Kathleen’s plays, Bad Feet (in the queue) and Allen Funt is Dead (at the Cenotaph) were performed in AJS II.  We were thrilled to have her and her husband join us for an evening from NY.

 

Andrew Lakin

Andrew Lakin has been performing on stage and designing lights in the K-W region for over a decade. He is delighted to be a founding member of Lost & Found Theatre, where he has performed in Vigil and Cotton Patch Gospel, designed lights for Eleemosynary, and directed The Anger in Ernest and Ernestine. He has also recently performed with MT Space and the Perimeter Institute. Other favourite productions include The Foreigner, Cherry Docs, Three in the Back...Two in the Head, Waiting for Godot, and Girl in the Goldfish Bowl, all at Theatre & Co. Other lighting designs there include Red Lips, A Walk in the Woods, Proof, and Mary's Wedding. In his spare time, Andrew writes, spends time with his wonderful wife Joanne and their Yellow Lab puppy Lucy, and he is looking forward to his next big challenge in life... becoming a father! 

 

Andrew Lakin’s play, SENTINEL, was performed at the corner of King & Frederick Sts. in AJS III, and in his own words, it was its Galactic Premier!

 

Em Lewis

EM LEWIS is a member of Moving Arts Theater Company, the Alliance of LA Playwrights, the International Center for Women Playwrights and the Dramatists Guild.  Her plays have been read and produced around the country.  Heads (a hostage drama, set against the war in Iraq) had its world premiere at the Blank Theater in Los Angeles, won Coe College’s New Works for the Stage competition, was featured in the hotINK International Festival of New Plays at NYU, and was a semi-finalist for the O’Neill Playwrights Conference and the Julie Harris Award.  It was featured in the GPTC Long Play Lab in 2007.  Infinite Black Suitcase (about grief and survival in rural Oregon; a semi-finalist for the 2006 O’Neill Playwrights Conference) received its world premiere in LA in April 2007, produced by TheSpyAnts.  Lewis lives in southern California now – but she’s from Oregon.

 

Visit her on the web at:  www.dramatistsguildweb.com/members/emlewis/ 

 

 

Ellen’s play, Lend Me A Mentor, was performed inside KW Book Store in AJS III.

 

 

David Lewison

David’s plays and one-acts have been produced by companies including Theatre Neo, Company of Angels, Chautauqua Theatre Alliance, and the Turnip Theatre Company.  A graduate of NYU and AFI-CAFTS.

 

 David also co-wrote the award-winning comedy short, "Dora Was Dysfunctional."  Acting credits include "Vanilla Sky," “My Wife and Kids,” “LAX,” and “Side Order of Life.” 

 

More at http://www.davidlewison.com

 

 

 

David’s plays, Crazy & Walking Distance, where performed in AJS III, one began with the actress screaming from behind some bushes, the other, at the Delta Inn.

 

Christopher Lockheardt

 

 

Christopher Lockheardt is an amateur playwright and has the bank account to prove it. His wise and beautiful wife suggests that if he cashed the royalty checks received from generous theaters rather than framing and hanging them in his study, he might then be able to afford from time to time to buy her a drink at a really nice bar.

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Christopher’s play, LUKE MEETS CHARLENE AT A REALLY NICE BAR, was performed at the Delta Inn, a really nice bar, for AJS II. 

           

 

J. Brian Long

 

Though born in South Carolina and, as a child, having taken up residence for extended periods of time in both Florida and Texas, J Brian Long has spent most of his life in eastern Tennessee. He has served on the board of directors for the Knoxville Writer’s Guild and edits the poetry section of a regional print magazine.

 

He is author of a volume of poems, The Singing of the Wheels:  Poems from Somewhere Not Far (Wind, 2004) which was nominated for the Kentucky Literary Award.

 

He has served as a reader for the Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel, and is a columnist and freelance contributor for the Knoxville News-Sentinel. His work has also been published in various magazines and literary journals.

 

Brian’s play, Two, was performed in a few places in AJS III.

 

 

 

Melissa Major

 

Melissa Major grew up in rural Ontario and now resides in Toronto. She graduated from York University 's Glendon campus with a degree in Drama Studies as well as a degree in Psychology. Awards for her work include the York University President's Prize for Playwriting in 2004 (Art is a Cupboard), 2006 (Unicorn Horns) and 2007 (Kicking and Smiling). Art is a Cupboard was also a semi-finalist for Reverie Productions' Next Generation Playwriting Contest in New York (2006). Her only children's play Wanda T. Grimsby, Detective Extraordinaire won the 2006 Summer Shorts Festival Playwriting Competition, where the play was produced by Youth Education OnStage in Williston, North Dakota. One of her short plays, Delly's Belly was a finalist for the 2006 Emerging Artist Theatre's Fall EATfest award in New York, where it garnered a staged reading.

Although her focus is on writing, she also makes a habit of parading around in other hats, such as the intricate director's hat, the inventive actor's hat and the illustrious poet's hat.  Recent credits include a physical reading of Unicorn Horns for Nuit Blanche Toronto (Playwright/Performer), stage managing several shows for the Ashkenaz Festival at the Harbourfront Centre (Uprising: A Ballet by Donna Greenberg; The Wandering Jew; & Blue Cows & Green Ducks), the Toronto Fringe Festival production of Art is a Cupboard (Playwright) & playing the role of dog/grandma in Puzzled Man (New Ideas Festival, Alumnae Theatre).

On a personal level, she enjoys cycling, painting and conducting obscure psychological research in her spare time. She has an extremely delightful family.  Unicorn Horns was produced in the IDEA 2007 World Congress of theatre this July in Hong Kong.

Melissa’s play is Double-Edged Word, was performed in the Legion parking lot, with a bit of a run first, for AJS II.

Mary Alice Mark

 

Mary Alice Mark’s plays for young actors on social issues have been produced by New York Children’s Theatre, Miami Beach Community Theatre, Quest Theatre and Institute of West Palm Beach, Florida, Prairie Players Youth Theatre, (Iowa), Phoenix Theatre of Harlingen, Texas, and Enrichment Works, (L.A.). 

 

Her poem, Walls can be read on the social justice pages of Artists for Peace, Justice and Civil Liberties at www.taparts.org. 

 

Mary Alice lives with her family in Woodstock, New York.

 

Mary’s play, Revisited, was performed from the second floor of a parking garage, and on the sidewalk for AJS III.

 

Lynda Martens

 

Lynda has been playing around with acting and directing in London and area community theatres for three years.  In 2007 she ventured into writing, and wrote her first play, "Naked in the Kitchen", which won best original script at the 2007 London-One-Act-Festival.  The same play will receive a staged reading as part of Theatre One's 'Emerging Voices' promising playwrights program in Nanaimo, B.C., and a full professional production as part of Theatre Aurora's Playwright's of Spring Festival, both in April, 2008.   Both "Naked" and her second play "Fear of Angels" received nominations for best original script at London's 2007 Brickenden awards. 

 

Lynda is honoured to be included as a part of the She Speaks' showcase of women writers.  She is a member of ICWP.

 

Linda’s play, Just For Me, was read in She Speaks 2008.

 

Kristine McGovern

 

Kristine McGovern graduated from the University of Colorado with a degree in philosophy and spent 20 years as a print journalist. Her first short play, “Waiting for the Ice Cream Man,” was selected for the Playwrights’ Showcase of the Western Region in 2004. Since then, her short works have been performed at the Short Attention Span Festival, The Frankenstein Experiment, and the Palm Springs National Short Play Festival. Several short scripts also were selected for the Katrina Project, a Readers’ Theater collaboration to benefit victims of Hurricane Katrina.

 

As a recovering journalist, Kristine enjoys the freedom of playwriting and being able to make up quotes as needed. She now edits books from her Centennial, Colo., home, which she shares with her husband, two horses, a German shepherd, five barn cats, and Lily, a diabolical goat that soon may appear in the Free category on Craigslist.

 

Her son, Matt, is a college freshman majoring in history.   Kristine was delighted to be part of the Asphalt Jungle Shorts.

 

Kristine’s play, For Want Of A Shoe, was performed at the Delta Inn, in AJS II.

 

Josh Mcilvain

 

Josh McIlvain is pleased to be making his Kitchener debut, and to be a part of an innovative evening!

 

He is from Philadelphia, currently lives in New York City, and recently traveled to Greenland.

 

He is a playwright, editor, and the songwriter/frontman for the band Sexcop.

 

 

Josh’s plays,  Modern Dance & Bench Play, were both performed in AJS III.  One with a writhing actor on the wheelchair ramp in front of the City Hall, and another in the Rum Runner – Walper Terrace.

 

Jennifer Munday was in Burlington – she normally lives in Australia, and because she was, we had the privelege to work with her in She Speaks, as well as Asphalt Jungle Shorts II.  Sh  has only recently braved the art of playwriting with some very small pieces and a larger work that is the product of her doctoral research on 'adapting the novel for live performance', VitaBrevis.  Her Masters research and earlier professional performance work centered around creating performances in unusual places - her performing group, Elbow Room's last work was Tom's Women, by Geoffrey Sykes – a series of female monologues based on the paintings of an Australian artist, Tom Roberts.  Her works also explore and include aspects of technology.