We’re delighted to continue our Featured Artist Series here at Bliss Street Studios with Jeff Barker, our artist for the month of November. When I [Colette] think of individuals I’m thankful for, Jeff is one of the first who comes to mind. He was my professor and mentor during my college years, and is someone [...]
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Monthly Monologues: July
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Female Monologue from Two Thumbs Up “Don’t you walk out on me! I just proposed to you.. . . .” Female Monologue from Two Thumbs Up Two Thumbs Up full text Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itSubscribe to the comments on this post
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Monthly Monologues: June
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Female Monologue from The Matthew Portraits ” . . . I could walk around this campus naked and it wouldn’t occur to any of these guys that I might be a sexual being. They’d just think I was being “natural” or something. . . “ Here’s the sixth in a 2010 monthly series of monologues. [...]
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Monthly Monologues: May
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Male Monologue from Two Thumbs Up “. . . Now I’m sorry to shock you like that and I’m sorry to have to tie you up, but I didn’t see that there was another way. . . .” Male Monologue from Two Thumbs Up Two Thumbs Up full text Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on [...]
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Sticky
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I’m excited to announce that my short play “Police Tape” is being performed in a set of ten-minute plays in the “Sticky” series at the Bowery Poetry Club this Friday. I’d love to see you there. Here’s the details: Blue Box Productions presents Sticky* 10-minute bar plays & music Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery between [...]
Save the Date, Two Thumbs Up
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I’m excited to invite you to come to a free reading of my play Two Thumbs Up. This play is a pretty big departure in style for me from other pieces of mine you may have seen—total comedy this time without any redeeming social message. The reading is being sponsored by the New School for [...]
Opening the Curtain on Playwright Gender
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I attended Emily Glassberg Sands’ presentation of her thesis research and findings on gender discrimination against female playwrights last night. Short summary: The bar is set higher for female playwrights than for male playwrights. Slides from her presentation are available here: http://aneconomiceye.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/earlier-this-evening/opening-the-curtain-on-playwright-gender_-sands_-june-22/ The findings are discouraging–but I’m not switching to a male pen name yet. Hoping [...]
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