Hortense Gerardo talks about her plays I SEE YOU, COUNTERPOINT, TOASTING MAN, MIDDLETON HEIGHTS, GLACIAL INCANTATIONS of THE HERAKLES PROJECT and THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF, as well as the PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AWARD from ICWP, the DRAMATIC WRITING AWARD from Mass Cultural Council, the ALFRED P. SLOAN FOUNDATION, and the CHANGEMAKER ANTI-RACIST PEDAGOGY LEARNING COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP at the University of California, San Diego. Hortense is a playwright and anthropologist. She is the Director of the Anthropology, Performance, and Technology  (APT) Program at the University of Californi ..read more

We hear a small excerpt of Joanna Pickering’s new powerful one woman play “Don’t Harm The Animals”  A short version of this chilling new work will now be showcased in the upcoming production of Joanna's latest play Bad Victims collection of stories about women handling violent encounters in unpredictable ways.  Bad Victims runs April 26th, 27th and 28th in its next development production at The Courtyard Theatre in London, UK before announcing its official world premier. We discuss these plays, their themes with Joanna, and the impact they are having on their sold out audiences. &nbs ..read more

We hear excerpts from Deena’s first play “Triple Bypass” and discuss her upcoming second play “The Canonized Club.”  We discussed what inspires her writing it and how she got into playwriting.  Deena lives in South Dakota, USA and is the Founder/Creative Director of Hardly Working Promotions, LLC Past works Triple Bypass: Three Ten Minute Plays About Living for Death & Dying for Life Upcoming works  The Canonized Club: The Curious Lives & Deaths of the Saints Website https://hardlyworkingpromotions.com/about/  Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/hardlyworkingprom ..read more

Lou Beckett discusses her play, Bletchley Girls, accompanied by an excerpt from the audio play. Lou Beckett wrote for the stage until Covid lockdowns inspired the director of her play, Bletchley Girls, to turn it into a radio play and podcast. Since then, the allure of having a legacy for one’s work, as well as the continuing presence of Covid, has meant her subsequent plays have been created for radio/podcast. Pictured: Tthe Bletchley Girls creative team Lou’s other works include Rotten Luck, The Parrot, the Poet, and the Philanderer, and  Forbidden Music. Upcoming works: We Can’t Be, a ..read more

Jenni Munday reads from  Kari Ann’s play and her comedy routine, discussing with Kari Ann what inspired her to write these new works and how she got into playwriting.  Kari Ann Owen is a Missoula, MT playwright. She discusses her comedy routine about Dr. Fauci’s loving lost-lost brother in the Mafia, and her play, Fighting It!, about courageous men and women during the New York Covid Pandemic lockdown. Her plays are published and produced in the USA. Examples of past works: “Bernie Madoff in Hell”, San Francisco Fringe Festival “Modern Life”, a series of one act plays about a disable ..read more

Sharon Wallace is the President of ICWP, The International Centre for Women Playwrights. She reads from her play 1967: A Life of its Own. " I was inspired to write the play from a short story based on a personal reflection from my childhood memory of the 1967 Riot in Detroit, Michigan.  I decided to build characters within the riot setting and develop a story within the conflict of the riot. My first experience with playwriting began as an adolescent adapting a story to a play. After that, I got into playwriting at the National Black Theatre in Harlem, New York. In collaboration with ..read more

From NY to LA to Paris - A Passion Pandemic Project becomes a dream production Joanna Pickering tells the wonderful and uplifting pandemic story about how she moved from the USA to Paris, France and ended up with a showcase of her plays being produced in Paris in December 2021.  ..read more

Annie Rachele Lanzillotto is a New York poet, performance artist, actor, director, playwright, songwriter, who has promoted audience participation in hundreds of performances everywhere from street corner mailboxes, to Bronx butcher shops, to the Guggenheim Museum. She reads her entertaining story  Twelve Rabbis Went to a Party, and talks with Jenni Munday about her story writing and performing, and how she is helping herself and others cope with the COVID pandemic. She is the Artistic Director of StreetCry and an ICWP Member. Find out more about her on her website ..read more

My name is LaurA! Force Scruggs and I am a published, produced and commissioned playwright.    I am a Playwright in Residency at Three Cat Productions in Chicago, where I am writing a play about Jane Addams (and the impact of childhood upon her career and her work with children at Chicago's Hull House), which will tentatively be produced in 2022/23 (postponed due to COVID-19).    My play, "Punk Grandpa" (all about being yourself and the value of the grandparent/grandchild relationship) was formerly published by Chicago Dramaworks (before it shut down) and is now published/l ..read more

Christine reads from and then talks about three of her plays:  Dying in Pittsburgh, Fragments of A Witches' Journal, and Old Hippie. Christine Emmert is an actress, playwright and director as well as enthusiastic fan of theatre. Living in the woodlands of eastern Pennsylvania with her husband Richard, she has been in the theatre world for over sixty years. Her work has been performed and read through out the English speaking world. She will be filming her one woman play, FROM OUT THE FIERY FURNACE, next month for the National Parks. This piece has been presented as a story of one wom ..read more