Newsletter (May 8, 2025)
THE PLAYWRIGHTS' PLEA!
A message from the Short Play LAB Members
The six writers in the Women's Work Short Play LAB want you to know why your $10 donation is so important, and they made a short video just to tell you! Click on the link to hear from Teresa Mella Fogel, Yekta Khaghani, Patricia Lynn, Melissa Maney, Erin Moughon and Seshat Yon’shea Walker.
The goal is to raise $10,000 to support the Meganne George Short Play Festival, August 4-9, which will present the plays that these writers are currently working on.
This year's theme is ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE and each writer has a unique take on it. The scripts are being developed in collaboration with a team of dramaturgs (Catalina Beltran, Melody Brooks, Jenny Greeman, Kristen Kelso, Jennie Reich Litzky and Dani Ortiz) who will then direct the finished plays for the festival. We'll review the next draft this Sunday, and then hear them all read on June 8th to give final notes as a prelude to beginning rehearsals.
The Women's Work LAB is unique in that it not only develops new work in a rigourous environment, but actually produces these plays--all within 6 months!
There is nothing else like it anywhere! And it is free to the writers.
Since 2008, the total number of scripts developed and produced is 86!
We've reached 20% of our goal!
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Jacob Slovak
by Mercedes de Acosta
directed by Sivan Raz
May 20, 2025; 7:00pm
A small New England town finds itself beholden to a Jewish man. A young woman must make a painful decision. Which wins? Love or Hate?
The ON HER SHOULDERS Reading Series returns with an astonishing play about anti-semitism which was produced on Broadway in 1927! Mercedes de Acosta was an American poet, playwright, and novelist, who is now best known for her many lesbian affairs with celebrated Broadway and Hollywood personalities, most famously Greta Garbo. She did not attempt to hide her sexuality; her uncloseted existence was rare and daring in her generation. This play is equally daring, for its time, and sadly even today.
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