 The Unfortunates Professional Equity Play April 13-29, 2012 |
Dumporama
Wed., Apr. 13, 2011 / 7:30pm
Sitnik Theatre of the Lackland Center
Be a part of the creative process!
 Cheri Magid, playwright |
The Centenary Stage Company Women Playwrights Series continues this month with a deliciously modern urban tale by Cheri Magid called Dumporama, which will be presented on Wed., Apr. 13 @ 7:30 PM in the David and Carol Lackland Center on the campus of Centenary College in Hackettstown.
The Play
When busy NewYork newlyweds find themselves oversubscribed to an endless stream of social obligations, their efforts to carve out time for themselves set off a series of madcap events and remarkable revelations about the fast-paced times we live in.
The Director
Dumporama will be directed by Mikaela Kafka.
Location:
This WPS event will take place in the Sitnik Theatre of
the Lackland Center on the campus of Centenary College. Directions
About the Playwright
Cheri's Magid's plays, which include The Virtues of Raw Oysters, The Tavern Wench, Dumporama,, Manna, The
Reluctant Dragon, and The Ghost of Enoch Charlton have been seen at New Georges, The New Group, The Women's
Project, Keen Company, Rattlestick, The Slipper Room, Vital Theatre Company, La Mama, Makor, Abingdon Theatre Company, The
Lark and the West Bank Theatre all in New York, Centenary Stage in New Jersey, M.Y.E Productions in Los Angeles, South Coast
Repertory in Costa Mesa, CA, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The University of Iowa, and Calvin College in Michigan. She
is currently writing the musical The
Christmas Windows of 1937, commissioned by producer/director Jackson Gay. South Coast commissioned her play et al;
as well as an adaptation of the children's story The
Reluctant Dragon. The Keen Company commissioned her children's play The Ghost of Enoch Charlton, which, along
with Manna, has been published by Playscripts. Excerpts of Manna are also included in The Best Stage Scenes
of 2009 published by Smith and Kraus. Pretty Things Press published the Cliffs
of Moher in 2006. Cheri's erotic story She Grinds Her Own Coffee is published in Cleis Press' anthology Hide
and Seek. Her erotica writing is profiled here:
http://www.askmattandtamsen.com/index.php/blog/article/cheri_magid_author/Marie.
Lydia, or the Girl at the Wheel, Cheri's radio play about the earliest days of burlesque, aired on National Public Radio and her short story Yeah, We Got That, was featured on Playboy Radio. She wrote the screenplay Story of D, about the real story behind the writing of the famous sadomasochistic novel Story of O, for Nicole Kidman and adapted the book Heart of the Game for film producer Richard Wiener (Any Given Sunday).. Her short film Carnophobia is in post-production and her short films hot yoga and She Grinds Her Own Coffee will shoot this year. Cheri is currently a member of the Dorothy L. Strelsin Writers' Group at Primary Stages. She served as New Dramatists’ Literary Director from 1995-1999 and was the New York Creative Executive for Wildwood Productions, Robert Redford’s film company, from 1999-2001.
[Cheri Magrid on Facebook]
Reservations / Pricing
Free and open to the public!
Admission to the Women Playwrights Series is by donation, and reservations are requested for all events. For reservations,
a schedule of events and information, contact the Centenary Stage Company at 908-979-0900, or see our Women
Playwrights Series page.
About Women Playwrights Series
The
CSC Women Playwrights Series is dedicated to providing a working forum
for the unique and underserved voice of women writing for the theater today. The Series offers emerging playwrights a chance
to work with professional directors and actors in a short rehearsal period, followed by a staged reading of the work in front
of a live audience, with audience feedback and discussion.
Each presentation features:
- Staged reading of the work
- Lively "talk-backs" with the playwright and cast following the performance
- Refreshments for all
Now celebrating its 20th year, the Series features the finalists in the Centenary Stage Company Susan Glaspell contest, which offers the winner further development support worth $30,000 in a full production on the CSC professional Equity main-stage, as well as a cash payment to the author.
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