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2010 JUNE
Included in this collection are monologues by Michael Weems, Dan Roth, Josh McIlvain, Lucy Wang, Lauren Kettler, Tearrance A. Chisholm, J.S. Redling, Debbie Lamedman, Laura Richardson, Carol Anne Seflinger, Marti M. Stocker, Jeffrey Neuman, Thomas M. Kelly, Kim Stinson, Rick Mitchell, Rich Espey, Andrew Biss, Rhea MacCallum, Martha Patterson, Arthur M. Jolly, Connie Wright, David Clark, John Small, Dan Roth, William Arnold, David Patterson, Lynn-Steven Johanson, Thomas M. Kelly, Steven Bergman, Andy Pederson, Mark Lambeck, Dan Roth, Robin Rice Lichtig, Mona Deutsch Miller, Chris Hare, Mike Folie, Leslie Bramm Monologues included in the collection,
"InterJACtions: Monologues at the Heart of Human Nature"
from JAC Publishing www.jacpub.com/Books/interJACtions/interJACtions_Vol.1.htm.
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Two Jewish Writers Spill Russian Secrets,
June 6th MAY 8, 2010 GONE ASTRAY has won the 2010 R. Joyce Whitely Arenafest of new plays, Karamu Theatre, Cleveland, Ohio. Publications: In development @ BMI Lehman Engel Librettists Workshop MY HEART IS THE DRUM My Heart is the Drum is a dramatic musical about Ghana told through the fictional coming of age story of Efua Kuti, a 16-year old girl who defies the Akan culture of her village to become a woman who owns herself. Encouraged by her grandmother’s spirit who tells her that her heart is the drum that her spirit will follow, Efua sets out to clear a path for herself. With determination she faces an ever changing enemy - cultural beliefs about women, opportunities lost in a failing economy, and finally the risk of HIV infection haunting her homeland and soon to overcome her village and herself. BROWN GIRL Based on the journals of Charlotte Forten
a young black educator, the fourth generation of activists in one
of the most prestigious and wealthy families in the free black community
of Philadelphia, Brown Girl tells the story of Charlotte’s
longing, during the Civil War and afterward, to use her natural
teaching talents to inspire and improve her race and the risks she
takes to do it. The musical takes place in South Carolina during
1862 and 1863. In an early Civil War victory, Union troops captured
the South Carolina Sea Islands and the fleeing Confederates left
plantations and slaves behind. The federal government formed a Commission
to send northern teachers to teach the freed slaves and Charlotte
Forten was assigned a position at a school on St. Helena Island.
There she is housed at Oaklands, a nearby plantation abandoned by
its owners and now being kept by the owners’ former slaves.
Most African Americans on the Sea Islands had never met a free black
person and they view Charlotte with suspicion - several of them
require coaxing to wait on her and clean her room. Her "fancy
manners and white-sounding speech" are joked about among the
servants who refer to her as "dat brown girl." An even
bigger challenge is the Gullah dialect the former slaves use which
Charlotte can barely understand. It is soon clear that Charlotte
has more in common with the whites than with her own race and a
momentous task awaits her merely being accepted by the students
she longs to inspire. 2009 This year's thanks to:
Friday, April 17, 2009 at 6:00 pm In 1941, a teen-aged Russian girl aided partisans in challenging both occupying Nazi troops and their collaborators, her own non-Jewish neighbors. There is a common understanding in Russia that a Jew cannot be a hero and that has kept Masha Bruskina’s name and story discounted to this day despite her famous photograph appearing in national textbooks and elsewhere. THE HARVEST was created along with others’ efforts to right this injustice, among them, NY Times reporter, Judith Miller, "DEFIANCE" author, Nechama Tec and Lafayette College President, Daniel Weiss. THE HARVEST is the musical vision of a life struggling against both the Communist conformity that threatened the individual and the actual death posed by Nazi invaders. It is the story of a young woman’s personal struggle for selfhood and transformation. This event is supported in part with funds from Strategic Opportunity Stipends Program through New York Foundation for the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts, administered in Mid-Hudson by Garrison Arts Center. Pre-concert words by Dr. Emil Draitser 2008:
2007: Jennie Redling is one of the 2007 recipients of the JERRY HARRINGTON AWARD FOR CREATIVE EXCELLENCE from the BMI FOUNDATION A new screenplay by Jennie Redling, "Six Candles" explores the legacy of the Holocaust on the children of survivors. Also in development with the BMI Workshop: MY HEART IS A DRUM, a new musical about Ghana, Book and lyrics by Jennie S. Redling and Music by Philip Palmer, a member of the BMI Advanced Composer's Workshop who has studied African drumming technique in Africa and in the United States. Link: BMI project - "My Heart is The Drum" Phillip Palmer received his Bachelor of Music from the Eastman School of Music, where he studied music theory, composition, conducting, and piano. He has also studied drumming in Ghana and and choral music in South Africa. He is particularly interested in using theater to address issues of global poverty and interconnectedness. He is currently a member of the BMI Advanced Musical Theater Writing Workshop and a graduate student at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University, where he is pursuing a master's degree in economic and political development. 2006: "THE HARVEST" WINS GRANT DeeAnn Macomson, composer for THE HARVEST was awarded
The Regional Artists' Project Grant by the North Carolina Arts Council.
The grant will fund a CD of the score and a concert reading of THE
HARVEST, a new musical by Jennie Staniloff-Redling and DeeAnn Macomson. WEDNESDAY NIGHTS AT SQUARE ONE OCTOBER 24 - 6:00 pm: GONE ASTRAY, winner of the 1998 national Stanley Drama Award was read at URBAN STAGES, (See Link) NYC as part of their Monday Night Playreading Series, directed by Cat Parker "MONDAYS AT THE MERC" SMITH & KRAUSE'S New Collection of Monologues for Actors "AUDITION ARSENAL FOR WOMEN IN THEIR 20'S: 101 Monologues by Type, 2 Minutes and Under" and "AUDITION ARSENAL FOR WOMEN IN THEIR 30'S etc." |
