ICWP Events

Boston - March 3 - March 15

Readings and Events Boston March 3rd - March 15th

Women's History Month
Celebrations of Women Playwrights

Women Playwrights in the Spotlight during March 2007

The International Centre for Women Playwrights, (ICWP) dedicated to increasing the attention paid to women's lives and women's voices on stages across the world, is sponsoring a series of Celebrations in March during Women's History Month.

Listen to Geralyn Horton's Podcast ICWP Celebration

Along with play readings in New York City and Bucharest, there will be five ICWP sponsored Celebrations held in the Boston area between March 3 and March 15. The ICWP held a previous Woman Playwrights event here: Boston Her-Rah! 2003. Pictures and programmes from 2003 are on line at
http://www.netspace.org/~icwp/her-rah2003.html#boston

Currently only 16% of plays produced in the USA are written by women, though they now make up the majority of the students in play writing courses. Scripts in hand, women are knocking on stage doors everywhere!

PLAYWRIGHTS: Boston-area writers featured during March celebrations include: Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro, Ludmilla Anselm, Marika Barnett, Leslie Dillen, Kelly DuMar, Rae Edelson, Deborah Fortson, Beverly Scott Gidron, Kirsten Greenridge, Hortense Gerardo, Laura Harrington, Geralyn Horton, Holly Jensen, Ginger Lazarus, Amy Merrill, Jacqui Parker, Gail Phaneuf, Regina Eliot Ramsay, Monica Raymond, Phyllis Rittner, Lois Roach, Lee Roscoe, Joyce Van Dyke, Cynthia Wands, Debra Wise, Eliza Wyatt., et. al. This sampling only skims the surface of the local pool of dedicated writers.

The Five ICWP sponsored events are:

1) Saturday March 3, 7:00 pm
"Celebration of Women's Voices" Festival
Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre at Wellesley College. Free.

Wellesley Summer Theatre hosts eight short plays by local women writers who are members of Playwrights' Platform. A get-acquainted reception at 7pm will be followed by staged readings at 7:30. At 9:15 Nora Hussey, head of the theatre department at Wellesley and Artistic Director of the WST, will moderate a panel discussion with Boston-area directors Michelle Aguillon, Jerry Bisantz, Rose Carlson, Lisa Rafferty, and Nancy Curran Willis.

Kelly DuMar

CONTACT: Kelly DuMar, Diarydoor@aol.com Web links:
http://www.wellesleysummertheatre.com
http://www.netspace.org/~icwp/boston2007.html - march3
http://www.playwrightsplatform.org
Or call 617-876-0108

2) Thursday March 8, 7:00 pm
Celebration of Monologues by Women
Boston Playwrights' Theatre 949 Comm. Ave. Boston MA Free.

Joan Faber at the keyboard will provide a Musical Prologue as people gather; then MC Victoria Marsh will introduce some of Boston's best actors (e.g. Nancy Carroll, Naheem Allah, Rena Baskin) and directors (e.g. Daniel Gidron, Ted Kazanoff, June Lewin) presenting 1-5 minute monologues by 16 local writers. This Celebration-- demonstrating the wealth of fresh material available to actors who reach out to use the work of their writing colleagues-- will be topped off by a post show Party.

CONTACTS: Rosanna Alfaro at (617) 491- 6018 alfaros@comcast.net
Amy Merrill at (617) 876 0108 ammerril@aol.com
Directions and Parking: visit http://www.bu.edu/bpt/directions

3) Saturday March 10, 10:00 am
Women's History Month Celebration of Writing and Reading
Central Square Library, Pearl St. Cambridge, MA. Free.

A morning writers’ workshop on "Topical Theatre"-- using items clipped from the news, a dash of improvisation, and free wheeling free association-- will be followed at 11:30am by staged readings of short plays and scenes with a talkback. This event is a good opportunity for women who are interested in play writing but not connected with a group or theatre to come and make some connections.

CONTACT: Geralyn Horton at (617) 630-9704 g.l.horton@mindspring.com

4) Saturday March 10, 6:00 pm
Women of Influence
Yamawaki Arts & Cultural Center
Lasell College, Newton MA , Inc. Free

"Women of Influence -- 23 artists consider the women who have shaped their lives", an interdisciplinary art event curated by Steve Fishcher, will open at 6 pm with a viewing of visual art and an artists' reception. The 7:30 production of "The Rosewater of Dona Felicidad" will be followed by a talkback with author and ICWP member Hortense Gerardo.

CONTACT: For more information and directions go to: http://www.digitalfisch.com/women.html

5) Thursday March 15, 7.00 p.m
ICWP WHM Celebration of Women Playwrights
Brighton Branch, Boston Public Library.
40 Academy Hill Road, Brighton, MA. Free.

Readings of short plays and scenes by local women writers will be followed by a question and answer session with the authors and actors

CONTACTS: Library 617-782-6032 or g.l.horton@mindspring.com

PHOTOGRAPHS Available - contact g.l.horton@mindspring.com

ICWP CONTACT: G.L. Horton, Vice President, at g.l.horton@mindspring.com
http://www.stagepage.info

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Bucharest, 26 March 2007

International Centre for Women Playwrights

Celebrates International Women's Day

BUCHAREST, ROMANIA

PROGRAMME
(rescheduled)

26 March 2007
Mirrors Room, at the Writers Union, Bucharest

Hosted by the Playwrights Club

Reading of "The Statue of Liberty"
by Olga Delia Mateescu.

Olga Delia Mateescu is a prominent Playwright & actor in Film, Stage, and TV.

Below are some of her Credits as listed on Cinemagia - a Romanian film website

Vocea inimii (Serial TV) (2006)
Vocea inimii (TV Series)

Secretul Mariei (Serial TV) (2005) - Otilia
Secretul Mariei (TV Series)

Colierul de turcoaze (1985)
Colierul de turcoaze

Misterele Bucurestilor (1983)
Misterele Bucurestilor

Asteptand un tren (1982)
Asteptand un tren

Tata de duminica (1975)
Tata de duminica

Cercul magic (1975)
Cercul magic

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Kitchener, Ontario March 8

Celebrates International Womens Day with
She Speaks
Staged readings of short plays
and excerpts from longer plays
Thursday March 8
8pm
The Registry Theatre
122 Frederick St.
Kitchener, Ontario

The evening features the writing of:
Shirley Barrie
Lea Daniel
Francine Dick
Paddy Gillard-Bentley
Grace Kary
Tamara Knezic &
Jenny Mundy

Entrance is by donation. Donations will be divided between the ICWP and Anselma House which provides emergency shelter and services for abused women and their children.

For more information contact Paddy Gillard-Bentley paddy@skyedragon.com or visit the She Speaks web site.

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New York, March 9th & 23rd

International Centre for Women Playwrights

Celebrates International Women's Day

New York, USA

PROGRAMME

Friday, March 9th
6.30 pm
The Dramatists Guild
1501 Broadway, Suite 710, New York City, USA

Readings are followed by a reception.

Dramatist Guild Members

THE THERAPEUTIC HOUR by Guy Glass
WINDOWS by Judith Pratt
BLOOD SISTERS by Robin Rice Lichtig
SHORT-TERM AFFAIRS by Donna Spector

THE UNDERSTANDING by Rachel Rubin Ladutke
CALAMITY JANE SENDS A MESSAGE TO HER DAUGHTER by Carolyn Gage
THE MIRACULOUS DAY QUARTET by Mary Steelsmith
PIKE by Terri Febuary

* * * * * * * * *

Friday, March 23rd
6.30 pm
The Arthur Seelen Theatre
within the Drama Bookshop
250 West 40th Street, New York City, USA

Readings are followed by a Reception.

THE SOME OF ALL PARTS by Mrinalini Kamath
WHY D'YA MAKE ME WEAR THIS, JOE? by Vanda
CASUALTIES by Sandra Dempsey
HURRICANE IN A GLASS by Kimberly Pritchard-Ramirez

FLYING BLIND by Kathleen Warnock
OVERCHARGED BRICKS by Emily Cicchini
EVEN THE DIRT BLEEDS DOWN HERE by Carolyn Nur Wistrand
MARTHA MITCHELL by Rosanna Yamigawa Alfaro

Note from the organiser, Rachel Rubin Ladutke

On behalf of the N.Y. ICWP readings committee, I am pleased to
announce the programs for the "ICWP Celebrates International Women's Day" readings in New York City.

We received 70 scripts from 30 member playwrights located in four different countries! Every script we received was read "blind" (with no knowledge of the author's identity) and given careful attention by at least two readers (sometimes as many as five!)

Read the article in Back Stage about the event.

Read an interview with Rachel Rubin Ladutke in the Weehawken Reporter

Listen to G.L.Horton's podcast interview with Rachel Rubin Ladutke at Stage Page

Rachel Rubin Ladutke
icwpmem@rachelwrites.com

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Columbus, Ohio March 8th

Columbus Ohio
Celebrates
International Women's Day

Five short plays by women writers will mark International Women's Day, March 8, at Gallery 202 in Westerville, Ohio, in the United States.

Organized by the Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute of The Ohio State University, all the playwrights are represented in the Institute's archives.

Dr. Alan Woods, the Institute's Director, Dr. Katherine Burkman, Emerita Professor of English at Ohio State, and Dr. Beth Kattelman, the Institute's Associate Curator, will co-direct the readings.

All five plays look at women and their relationships.

Toronto playwright Shirley Barrie's Audience explores the appeal of experimental theatre through a married couple's relationship, while Vicki Cheatwood, from Garland, Texas , examines the end of a long-term relationship in her The Last Time Cooper Took Midge Fishing.

Salt Lake City writer Elaine Jarvik's couple, in Dead Right, re-examine their marriage as the wife contemplates how she might be presented in her obituary. And Gerry Sanseviero, a playwright from New York City , presents sisters coping with age while trying to get served before a Broadway matinee in Matinee Lunch.

Katherine Burkman, in Geraldine and Jacob, plays with a woman obsessed with gambling, and what both enables and results from her passion with the slots.

The free staged reading starts at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 8th, at Gallery 202, 38 N. State Street in Westerville .

Marking International Women's Day, the Columbus area reading is one of many staged readings taking place internationally and recognized by the International Center for Women Playwrights.

International Women's Day dates back to 1909, and has been celebrated on March 8th since 1919. It has been recognized by the United Nations as a key support for the UN Charter's 1945 call for gender equality as a fundamental right.

For more information on the readings, see www.osureadings.blogspot.com , or contact the Lawrence and Lee Institute at 1/614/292-6614.

For additional information Gallery 202 and its programs, see www.gallery202online.com or call 1/614-890-8202

Read the article at thisweeknews.com

More information on Shirley Barrie at http://www3.sympatico.ca/sbarrie.kchubb/plays/index.htm
for more on Vicki Cheatwood, check out http://home.earthlink.net/~vcc2112/data/index.htm
Gerry Sanseviero's webpage is http://gerrysanseviero.com/

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Mesa Arizona, 10 March 2007

Mesa, Arizona, USA
Celebrates
International Women's Day

Venue

Arizona Women's Theatre Company.
7610 E. McDonald Drive, Suite J
Scottsdale Arizona
480-607-7107

A one-day event
Speakers, Readings, Workshops

Saturday March 10, 2007

REFRESHMENTS
Breakfast: coffee, juice and doughnuts
Lunch will be provided.

Programme:

9.00 am Sign in of readers and speakers

9.15 Greeting to all by coordinator

9.20-10.30 First script readings

10.45 Speaker: Francesca Sanders
Topic: "Writer's Nightmare: How to feel inspired under pressure" (questions from audience to follow)

11.20-12.20 Afternoon script readings begin


12.30-1.30 Break for lunch

1.40-2.20 Afternoon script readings continue

2.30 Speaker: Adrienne Perry
Topic: "Headlines and History: using famous events/people as inspiration for writing" (questions from audience to follow)

5 pm Closing

Admission by donation. Proceeds to benefit ICWP and YWCA of Arizona.

For more information about the readings contact Marie-Jeanne

For more information about the speakers: click here

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Cambridge ICWP Celebrations

Celebration of Women’s Writing and Readings    -   Free.
One of 5 local Women's History Month events sponsored by
The International Centre for Women Playwrights

Saturday March 10th     10:00 am-2pm.  info 617-630-9704
Central  Square Library,   45 Pearl Street,   Cambridge, MA. 

10:00  FREE WORKSHOP on WRITING FROM THE NEWS with Clauder Gold Medalist Monica Raymond &  Geralyn Horton.  Using news items & free wheeling free association to create scenes and monologues.

11:45 am STAGED READINGS of SHORT PLAYS
                and scenes by local and ICWP women writers:
Debra Wise performing Faith in an excerpt from her play "States of Grace"; about author Grace Paley.

Cynthia Wand’s "The American Woman"; about Shakespeare scholar Delia Bacon: with Rena Baskin & David Rothauser.

Joyce Van Dyke's "Not My Real Mother"; a legendary meeting between Tennessee Williams and Mother Teresa: with Robert Bonotto & G. Horton.

Lee Roscoe's  "Mobile"; a piece of art comes to life; with Sean David Bennett and Peter White.   Monologue "Hunting Life"; man and prey.

Monica Raymond's  "The Biopsy";  a sister’s reaction to a test for breast cancer.  Directed by Victoria Marsh.

Rae Edelson's scene from "Surf Casting", older man, younger woman on Nantucket explore need and loss: with Ted Kazanoff  & Rena Baskin. 

TALKBACK and REFRESHMENTS to follow the readings.  This event is a good opportunity for women who are interested in play writing but not connected with a group or theatre to come make connections.  Men welcome.

Wellesley ICWP Celebration

~   Our Voices Together  ~

An Evening of Play Readings
by Women Members of Playwrights' Platform

As part of the International Centre for Women Playwrights' March Celebrations

Hosted by
Wellesley Summer Theatre
Ruth Nagel Jones Theater
Wellesley College

7:00 Cheese/cracker reception in Lobby
7:30 Readings begin
9:00 Director's panel & discussion of plays

Actors from the Playwrights' Platform Acting Ensemble (and others)
will perform short plays or scenes by:

Kelly DuMar, Clay
Hortense Gerardo, The Dress Rehearsal
Holly Jensen, Stripped (An excerpt)
Ludmilla Anselm, Three Friends
Gail Phaneuf, New Tricks
Regina Eliot Ramsay, The Perfect Stranger
Phyllis Rittner, Breeding Season
Marika Barnett, Chekhov and Pinter Take a Pause

The Directors' Panel      Professor Norah Hussey, who heads the theatre department at Wellesley College and is Artistic Director of the Wellesley Summer Theatre, will moderate the panel and talk-backs

Panel Members: Rose Carlson (Devanaughn Theatre) Nora Hussey   (Wellesley Summer Theatre)      Nancy Curran Willis (Freelance Director, formerly with Gloucester Stage Company & Boston Theatre Works )  Jerry Bisantz (Playwrights' Platform/Image Theater)Lisa Rafferty (Freelance Director, Producer MOMologues productions)