2003
Women Playwrights Series (WPS) Four
free workshop presentations of new plays
by contemporary women writers
In 2003, CSC celebrates eleven years of serving exciting new women
playwrights from around the country! Join us this year and be the
first to hear four new works by dynamic women authors. Let your
voice help shape the play as you interact with the playwright and
cast during the lively audience "talk-back" session. The
WPS is a developmental program dedicated to providing a working
forum for the under-served and unique voice of women writing for
the theatre today.
New
Jersey Playwright Dominique Cieri's play, Last Kiss opens
the WPS series. Set in 1967, Cieri's play explores a time when
the final offensive in Vietnam leaves a small river town in the
Midwest without its young men. Two women and their daughters struggle
to survive the loss of their men and the loss of innocence. Recipient
of a MidAtlantic Arts grant, Cieri is a member of the Dramatists
Guild and teaches playwrighting throughout New York and New Jersey.
In
Heather McCutchen's Sister Week, Sally's big sisters descend on
her home to help her clean the ghosts from her mid-life closet.
This southern comedy reveals that growing up has nothing to do
with age. McCutchen is the recipient of the Kennedy Center's Fund
for New American Plays grant. She is a graduate of the Iowa Playwrights
Workshop and has been a member of New Dramatists since 1991. Her
play, Alabama Rain, published by Dramatic Publishing, has been
performed throughout the country.
In
Jerome Fellow Susan Johnston's Finding the Eye, the embrace
of Latino family touches a young woman who finds herself alone
in New York City - "A dance of dependency to a salsa beat.."
Johnston is a graduate of NYC Tisch, where she received the Harry
Kondoleon Playwriting Award. She is the recipient of an NEA grant
and is currently a Jerome Fellow at The Playwrights' Center of
Mpls.
Admission: FREE
Call for more information: 908-979-0900
REFRESHMENTS!
Also see Women Playwrights Series
program description.
View Another Year's Schedule: [WPS before 2001 not on Web Site]
Daphne Does Dim Sum
