SOMETHING TO SHOUT ABOUT: WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS GETTING PRODUCED

I wish I could also say "right here in River City ..." but not quite yet. However, there are companies in the US who are making it their mission to create equity, and Halcyon Theatre in Chicago is one of them. They are offering a festival of FULL PRODUCTIONS, of five women playwrights this summer. Go here and see: http://www.halcyontheatre.org/mission
This isn't their first year to produce women's plays either, but this year they went out and got five women to write plays inspired by other women's plays (from the past). Who wouldn't love to see that? If you are in or around Chicago, go see. If you can make the trip, go do. If you have funds you can share to support Halcyon's mission, please do that. Support women playwrights however you can, please. Right now, women are being produced only 20% compared to men. We are aiming for 50% by 2020. Anything you can do to support that is much appreciated. Talk to your theatre companies. Let them know you appreciate seeing plays by women, want to see plays by women, then show up when they present plays by women. Women write every kind of play. My last play is "The Godmother." It's about the mob in Kansas City during the Prohibition. In case you thought she was a fairy godmother in a silver coach with white horses. Just saying. Now get outa here you crazy kids.

The Godmother is coming to town!

Okay, I've commited to a staged reading of my new play. The Godmother will have appear in public for the first time at Fertile Ground New Works Festival at Portland Center Stage as part of their Down and Dirty lunchtime series. I've snagged the choice spot at 12:30pm on Saturday January 23rd. We'll likely get only 45 minutes, so be prepared to be left wanting more ... that's only about half a play, but it's a good half. This is a play about the Kansas City mob in the 1920's during Prohibition. Tomboy is running the McCorkle family. She's a young butch lesbian in deep conflict inside and outside the family.