FESTIVAL WINNER
Enemy of My Enemy
Written and Directed by Mark V. Jones
Everyone has secrets and some skeletons were meant to remain forever hidden in the closet. Four individuals are about to crash together on a course towards healing. Sometimes…“there needs to be a collision to make an impact.”
Cast: Samantha Clay, Tiffany Heard, Anthony Johnson, La'Chris Jordan, Erin Nicole Washington, Megan Weaver
Tene Carter, Samantha Clay
Franceska Lynne
Tene Carter, Samantha Clay
Voted #2 Audience Favorite
Now
Written by Vincent Durham
Directed by Nancy Renee
The short stage play NOW is a glimpse into the lives of three women of 1973. The Women’s Movement along with The National Organization for Women are both in full swing. Each woman, knowingly or not so knowingly, has their own take on the movement, each other, and their roles in life.
Cast: Samantha Clay, Tene Carter, Franceska Lynne
Pictured: Thomas Bell, Jackie Marriott
Voted #3 Audience Favorite
Black Coffee
Written by Deanna Ableser
Directed by Nancy Cheryll Davis
A woman and a man sitting in a coffee shop toy around with the idea of a simple kiss between strangers.
Cast: A. Russell Andrews, Thomas Bell, Jackie Marriott
*This play was double-cast.*
Pictured: Colette Rosario, Richard Warren
Tie - Voted #4 Audience Favorite
Brownies
Written by Elena Naskova
Directed by Raf Mauro
Things turn nasty after Emily bakes brownies for her husband Roger and Roger refuses to have some.
Cast: Colette Rosario, Richard Warren
Pictured: BT Taylor, Barika Croom
Tie - Voted #4 Audience Favorite
Skunky
Written by Julian Olf
Directed by Veronica Thompson
While interviewing for a key position, the glamorous Charlotte charms the boss then transforms herself into an avenging angel.
Cast: Barika Croom, Ray Dennis, Colette Rosario, B.T. Taylor, Veronica Thompson, Megan Weaver
*This play was double-cast.*
Pictured: Alexa Alexander, Jackie Marriott, Aissatou Diallo
At What Price
Written by Cheryl Navo
Directed by Veronica Thompson
Trudi has just been given the news that she has a BRCA1 genetic mutation that gives her a much higher than average chance of developing breast and ovarian cancer. She has just left her doctor’s office where she learned the test results and was given the option of having a bilateral prophylactic mastectomy. While Trudi talks to her husband on the telephone, her logical Left Brain and intuitive Right Brain disagree on the best course of action.
Cast: Alexa Alexander, Aissatou Diallo, Jackie Marriott
Pictured: Megan Weaver
Crisis Line
Written by Dan Borengasser
Directed by Diane Sellers
Trish Foster, a suicidal caller to a crisis line, gets more than empathy and certainly more than she bargained for from volunteer crisis line counselor Sarah Collinsworth.
Cast: Jackie Marriott, Megan Weaver
Pictured: Diane Sellers, Nancy Renee
Freak Out
Written by Charlene A. Donaghy
Directed by Raf Mauro
Three old friends who lived through their tumultuous teens in the 1970s, their blossoming twenties in the 1980s, growing into their own as thirty-somethings in the 1990s, and now, as the decades whisk by at break-neck speed, turning fifty is about change and acceptance...or is it? When one friend holds onto the past, do the others want to bring her into the present for her...or for themselves?
Cast: Nancy Cheryll Davis, Nancy Renee, Diane Sellers
Pictured: Carina Doyle, Diane Sellers
Grave Concerns
Written by George Corbin
Directed by Mark V. Jones
A widow decides to purchase an expensive burial plot next to the grave of her favorite comedian, rather than that of her deceased husband, which leads to a conflict with and ultimately a stronger bond with her daughter.
Cast: Carina Doyle, Diane Sellers, Erin Nicole Washington
*This play was double-cast.*
My Mother in the Mirror
Written by Cynthia Faith Arsenault
Directed by Kim Harrington
A daughter visits her elderly mother in a nursing home. As her mother drifts in and out of lucidity, the daughter struggles to define herself in view of her love of, identification with, and impending loss of her mother.
Cast: Franceska Lynne, Joahn Webb
Pictured: Joahn Webb, Franceska Lynne