LADY PLAYS
UNSTAGED READING SERIES
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Join us for an evening discovering new work by college-aged female playwrights. We have invited 3 female playwrights and female directors to produce a series of "un-staged readings" at The Irondale Center, which will be live recorded for the Lady Plays Podcast.
Through its production of Double Falsehood, Letter of Marque Theater Co. has teamed up with Lady Plays Podcast (produced by Kate O'Phalen and Lynde Rosario" to provide a platform to foster dialogue to end rape culture, continue the discussion for a culture of consent, and engage new audiences to build strategic partnerships and artistic collaborations. |
MONDAY, MARCH 21 @ 7:30pm | THE IRONDALE CENTER
POST TRAUMATIC SUPER DELIGHTFUL by Antonia Lassar
Directed by Angela Dumlao
Performed by Antonia Lassar
Can there be laughter in the healing process after sexual assault?
Post Traumatic Super Delightful is a solo-clown look at the college sexual assault crisis. Created by Antonia Lassar, the play weaves together the lives of survivors, perpetrators, and bystanders into the story of how a community struggles to heal after assault. Read more about the play here
Play - Post Traumatic Super Delightful
Playwright / Solo Performer - Antonia Lassar
Director - Angela Dumlao
Co-producer - Kate O'Phalen (Lady Plays Podcast)
Sound technician - Chris Gillard (Sound Haus Audio)
Playwright / Solo Performer - Antonia Lassar
Director - Angela Dumlao
Co-producer - Kate O'Phalen (Lady Plays Podcast)
Sound technician - Chris Gillard (Sound Haus Audio)
MONDAY, MARCH 28 @ 7:30PM | THE IRONDALE CENTER
PULL OF THE MOON by Paige Zubel
Directed by Leese Walker
Performed by Terry Greiss, Meredith Cody and Jordan Rosin
Play: Pull of the Moon
Playwright: Paige Zubel
Director: Leese Walker
Co-producer: Kate O'Phalen (Lady Plays)
Sound Technician: Chris Gillard (Sound Haus Audio)
Playwright: Paige Zubel
Director: Leese Walker
Co-producer: Kate O'Phalen (Lady Plays)
Sound Technician: Chris Gillard (Sound Haus Audio)
Director Leese Walker founded Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble in 1997 to create politically-charged, original works that blur the lines between jazz, theater and modern dance. Leese has performed at Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Washington D.C.s Goethe Institut amongst many more. She has been featured on Radio France, NPR, German Public Radio and U.S. television. Leese is the recipient of the 2011 BAX Arts Educator Award, the 2010 Arts Presenters Emerging Leaders Scholarship, and the 2004 APPEX Fellowship in Ubud, Bali. |
Paige Zubel is a performer and writer from Houston, TX studying Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Houston. Winner of the Wellesley Book Award, and a theatre award for "Best Ensemble" for Eurydice, her plays have been staged in Scotland for the Glasgay Festival and Houston at the Alley. Having established her own theatre company with her peers since her junior year, she plans to further her education in NYC or Chicago after receiving her BFA from UH. |
MONDAY, APRIL 4 @ 7:30PM | THE IRONDALE CENTER
ASKING FOR IT by Ellen Elizabeth Steves
Directed by Danya Taymor
ASKING FOR IT explores how a rape victim must relive their experience over and over, until they are no longer considered "people", but "entertainment" for the institutions put in place to protect them.
Play: Asking For It
Playwright: Ellen Elizabeth Steves Director: Danya Taymor Producer: Kate O'Phalen (Lady Plays), Lynde Rosario (Lady Plays) Sound Technician: Chris Gillard (Sound Haus Audio) Performed by: Meredith Cody, Kate O'Phalen, Ben Peterson, Jeff Kissam, and Marie Karcher. |
Director, Danya Taymor is originally from Palo Alto, California and studied theater and global health at Duke University where she graduated with highest distinction. There she directed Closer, The Shape of Things, and Stop Kiss. She received a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and spent the summer of 2009 in Medellín, Colombia. For her honors thesis she created and directed an original play called You, Me, and the Devil, which she wrote based on her time spent in Medellín conducting research and making short documentaries. Since moving to New York she has worked on and off Broadway, assisted Darko Tresnjak and Selina Cartmell on The Merchant of Venice and The Broken Heart at Theatre for a New Audience, and participated in workshops with Peter Brook, Andrew Wade and members of Théâtre du Complicité.
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TUNE IN TO THE PODCAST!
Lady Plays Podcast features new plays by female playwrights and provides a platform for female storytellers to have their voices heard. The idea is to offer a recording of an “un-staged” reading of the play and air it online, which lets theatre lovers indulge in theatre whenever and wherever they wish. Each episode employs a different female director and highlights plays of varying lengths, styles, and genres.
Letter of Marque is committed to creating adventurous performance works through a collaborative ensemble process. We believe in the relevance of theatre as an artistic response to pressing issues. Letter of Marque seeks to advance the theatrical art form by cultivating a diverse audience, present compelling performances, and inspire meaningful dialogue around societal change
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