Our Brief (Political) Encounters Playwrights:
Join us in getting to know the playwrights of our first ten-minute play festival, Brief (Political) Encounters.
Playwright: TS Hawkins; #SuiteReality
TS Hawkins is an international author and performance poet. She recently completed a residency with the Irondale Ensemble and the New York Police Department (NYPD) using theater techniques as a re-training tool for officers. Her publications include: Sugar Lumps and Black Eye Blues, Confectionately Yours, Mahogany Nectar, Lil Blaek Book: all the long stories short, The Hotel Haikus, and The Secret Life of Wonder: a prologue in G. For more detailed information, visit. www.tspoetics.com
Playwright: Daniella Vinitski Mooney; Estragon's Boot
Daniella Vinitski Mooney's works have been professionally workshopped and produced by the Mid-America Theatre Conference, FUSION Theatre (“The Seven”), The Corner Cone Playhouse (Best Comedy), Judith Shakespeare (forthcoming), The Independent Actor’s Theatre (featured playwright), and the Philadelphia Dramatists’ Center in collaboration with Iron Age Theatre, as well as published and adapted for film and course curriculum. Estragon’s Boot was most recently accepted for production at the Mildred’s Umbrella Theatre’s 2017 festival of short plays, MUSEUM OF DYSFUNCTION, which marks her third collaboration with an American Theatre Wing recognized company for excellence. Daniella’s playwriting was also recently featured through Cambridge University Press, who describes her work as “lovely, lyrical, and thought-provoking.” Please visit at daniellavinitski.com.
Playwright: Jeremy Gable; Motion Capture
Jeremy Gable is an England-born, Idaho-bred, Philadelphia-based playwright. He is the Resident Playwright for Sam Tower + Ensemble, was a Core Playwright with InterAct Theatre Company, and is a proud alumnus of The Foundry: A Philadelphia Emerging Playwrights Lab. His work has been seen at the Great Plains Theatre Conference, Philadelphia Theatre Company, InterAct Theatre Company, Theatre Exile, Azuka Theatre, and FringeArts. He was also a finalist for the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, the Terrence McNally New Play Award, and InterAct Theatre's 20/20 Commission. Tonight's play Motion Capture was a finalist for Actor's Theatre of Louisville's Heideman Award. Up next: A reading of Watch Me Jump at Theatre Exile on March 13th. More information can be found at JeremyGable.com.
Playwright: L.D. Napier; “The Second Sex,” otherwise called “The Pussy Protest Play”
L.D. Napier writes in many forms including screenplays, plays, essays, and a first novel. In 2008, Napier wrote, directed, and co-produced a play at La MaMa in New York City called “The G Word: For Those Born Later” as a fundraiser for schools and a women’s center in Darfur.
L.D. has just completed her first children’s book. She is inspired to write multicultural children’s books with girls and women as the heroines to create more widespread role models for her daughter.
L.D. has taught creative, non-fiction narrative, screenwriting, and directing at various Universities and has taught playwriting to inner-city students. L.D. Napier taught writing for a semester at Soledad maximum-security prison in California.
L.D.’s goal in playwriting is to continue to write plays with a loud voice to echo the screams of the times
and a point of view of which George Bernard Shaw and Langston Hughes would be proud.
L.D. has just completed her first children’s book. She is inspired to write multicultural children’s books with girls and women as the heroines to create more widespread role models for her daughter.
L.D. has taught creative, non-fiction narrative, screenwriting, and directing at various Universities and has taught playwriting to inner-city students. L.D. Napier taught writing for a semester at Soledad maximum-security prison in California.
L.D.’s goal in playwriting is to continue to write plays with a loud voice to echo the screams of the times
and a point of view of which George Bernard Shaw and Langston Hughes would be proud.
Playwright: Greg T. Nanni; Burn the Witch
Greg Nanni is a playwright, comic book writer, and marketer living in the Philadelphia area. He is the Co-Founder and Co-Moderator of the PDC Playwrights' Happy Hour. He is the Co-Writer of the Youtube Series Bar-N-Tavern. His One Act plays have been featured in 24 Hour Festivals and Readings throughout the Greater Philadelphia Area, and have been produced nation-wide. For more: gregnanni.com
Playwright: Julie Zaffarano; Pizza Rolls & Palin
Julie Zaffarano is an emerging playwright in the Philadelphia area. Her play, The PlayMakers, was named the Winner in the 2016 What If? Productions Annual Playwrights Festival and is scheduled to be produced in Charleston, June 2017. Recent readings: A Work in Progress Theatre, Baltimore; “Readings at the Drake” PlayPenn series (Wilma Theatre, Philadelphia); Philadelphia Dramatists Center (PDC) Playwrights Showcase; Cloverdale Playhouse “Page to Stage Contest, PDC Reading Series. Other recognition: Honorable Mention, Ohio State University New Play Fest; Finalist, Villanova University 2016 Sue Winge Playwriting Competition; Finalist for the Strange Sun Theatre Greenhouse 2016; and Semi-Finalist for Actors Theatre of Charlotte Nuvoices. Short works have been produced by South Street Players, Plays & Players, and ReVamp Collective. Julie holds two Masters Degrees: MA in Classical Studies and an MS in Organization Science from Villanova University.
Playwright: Alex Dremann; Grilling the Octopus
Alex Dremann studied playwriting at USC and has had over 300 productions of his short plays. Evenings of his collected short plays include: “Slap Happy” (Madlab Theatre, Columbus, OH), “B-Sides, Rarities and Unreleased Tracks” (City Theatre, Wilmington, DE) and “13 Lemonade Ave.” (Secret Room Theatre, Philadelphia, PA). Full lengths include: “Split Pea Pod” (The Brick Playhouse), “Postcoital Variations” (Philadelphia Theatre Workshop) and “The :nv:s:ble Play” (Philadelphia Theatre Workshop, Madlab Theatre & Theatre of NOTE)
