Centre Stage Podcast #14 with Deena Ronayne

Centre Stage Podcast #16 - Hortense Gerardo

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 California, San Diego and her works have been performed nationally and internationally, including: LaMama Experimental Theatre, the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Boston, the International Performance Art Festival, the Performance Mix Festival, The Fence, and the Nuit Blanche Festival, Toronto

For more information go to: www.hortensegerardo.com

Past works of note

THE MEDFIELD ANTHOLOGY – June 4, 5, and 11, 2020, produced by the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) and the Cultural Alliance of Medfield on the video platform ZOOM during the Covid Pandemic.

THE SAUNA PLAYS – March 20^, 2020 produced by ARDNA in Oslo, Norway with funding from the Mass Cultural Council. This production was cancelled due to the Covid Pandemic.

PAINLESS – June 18 – 30, 2021, produced by Speakeasy Stage as part of the Boston Project Resilience.

Works to look out for

MIDDLETON HEIGHTS in Concord, MA March 31 – April 23, 2023

https://freedomsway.org/event/middleton-heights-world-premiere/2023-04-02/

GLACIAL INCANTATIONS for the Without Walls Festival produced by La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego on April 27- 30, 2023

THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF directed by Jessica Ernst and produced by Sleeping Weasel Theater as part of the Boston Theater Marathon on May 7, 2023.

See the Author Online
Website: www.hortensegerardo.com

Twitter - @hfgerardo

Web page where plays can be found: https://newplayexchange.org/users/261/hortense-gerardo

Hortense was interviewed by Dr Jennifer Munday, Charles Sturt University, Australia.

Centre Stage Podcast #15 - Joanna Pickering

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.

Joanna Pickering is an award-winning British playwright and actress based in US. Her plays have sold out in NYC, Paris and London, and are stocked in The Drama Book Shop in NYC.

Past works of note:

Cat and Mouse, Beach Break, Sylvie and Sly (trilogy Truth, Lies and Deception)

Upcoming works to note

Bad Victims, Misty and Rover, Don’t Harm The Animals.

Joanna online...

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/joannapickering

Web page where plays can be found:

https://www.nextstagepress.com/truth-lies-and-deception/

Joanna was interviewed by Dr Jennifer Munday, Charles Sturt University, Australia.

Centre Stage Podcast #14 with Deena Ronayne

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/hardlyworkingpromotions

Twitterhttps://twitter.com/HardlyWorkingPr

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hardlyworkingpromotions/

Find Deena's plays:
https://newplayexchange.org/plays/1526482/triple-bypass

Centre Stage Podcast #13 with Lou Beckett

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 new audio play, tells the story of two young women who decide their town needs a statue of a woman.

Lou's Online Pages

Website: https://www.loubeckett.com/

Facebook Page @loubeckett.playwright
Twitter: @loubeckett4

Instagram: loubeckett_

Amazon Author page https://www.amazon.co.uk/Radio-Play-Bletchley-Girls-WW2/dp/B08K5Y7831

Buy the Audio On Audible

Spotify

ICWP Member URL

Centre Stage Podcast #12 with Kari Ann Owen

Jenni Munday interviews Kari Ann Owen and Kari reads from two of her works.

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 disabled computer scientist and his service dog, dot.com, and their conquest of prejudice, produced and awarded playwrighting and directors’ prize at Dominical University, San Rafael, CA.

Websites
https://wildhorse.sparkdisk.com/

THEATRE ENGAGE

https://kariannowenandtheatreengage.vpweb.com/