Jilted: A Love Story

by Ilene A. Fischer Arlington, MA

(Screenplay)

In Jilted: A Love Story, Julie and Alice have commitment issues.  When neither of them shows up at the church on their wedding day, their best friends are forced to pick up the pieces.  We follow them as they attend their friends' weddings with different companions, who seem oddly familiar.  In the end, we find them back at their own wedding, "bound" in matrimony.  

A Chicago native, Ilene Fischer graduated from the Players' Workshop of the Second City and high school in the same year. Her stage play Girl Hopping, a comedy about lesbians in West Hollywood (with folk music!), debuted last year in Cambridge, MA. She has written scripts for the video portions of college-level language textbooks and her feature script, Shiva, placed in the top 20% of the prestigious Nicholl Fellowship competition.

Directed by David Zak, the cast includes Cyra K. Polizzi, Kelli Walker, David Besky, Valerie Heckman, Olivia Landa, Catherine Hermes, Annie Cleveland, Beth Richards, Derin Adesida, Lisa Elleseg, Emily Anderson, Chris Yearwood, Jon Persniak, Brandon Rivera and Chasen Hunter Smith. 

Into The Blue

by Kari Morris

Sunnyside, NY

(Stage play) 

Mia has moved to a snow-stranded house to finally find some peace. Her ex-girlfriend' s ghost has moved there first, and peace is the last thing on her mind.  

Kari Morris is a writer, actor, and filmmaker. She can be seen on the film festival circuit in Attackazoids, DEPLOY!, Sweet Virginia, and Two, which she also wrote and executive produced. Two was a recent finalist in the Academy Award-qualifying USA Film Festival, and has played at nine more festivals worldwide.  Kari is a proud member of Actors Equity, and a cum laude graduate of The New School for Drama.  

Directed by Alex St. John, the cast includes Nichole Green, Kalina McCreery, and Debbie Labedz.  

Thin Eggshell Syndrome 

by Trish Cole

St. Mary's City, MI

(Stage play) 

Thin Eggshell Syndrome is a one-act play about a March morning when a grieving couple waits for the migratory return of the osprey to Horseshoe Bend on the St. Mary's River for the nesting season.

Trish Cole is a tomboy poet and playwright whose work has been produced in New York, Chicago, Seattle, and regionally in Maryland. She is the recent recipient of the MCTF Excellence in Original Script Award for her play Butterfly.

Directed by Alex St. John, the cast includes Jill Harman, Erin Thorn, and Debbie Labedz.  

by Carolyn Gage, Portland, ME

(Stage Play)

The Spindleis a children's theatre play for adults! As 13-year-old Doko struggles to rescue her best friend the Princess Beauty from the curse that says she will be pricked by a spindle before her sixteenth birthday, the adults in the play grapple with the denial and superstition that hold the kingdom in a tyrant's thrall.

Carolyn Gage is a lesbian-feminist playwright, performer, director, and activist. The author of nine books on lesbian theatre and 65 plays, musicals, and one-woman shows, she specializes in non-traditional roles for women, especially those reclaiming famous lesbians whose stories have been distorted or erased from history.

Directed by Sonita Surratt, The Spindle features Ariel C. Rubin, Sarah Sapperstein, Samantha Garcia, Michelle McKenzie-Voigt, Sara Kaplan, Pat Parks, Hank Hilbert, Fred Schultz, Lance Newton, Matthew Lloyd, and Will Green.

by Olivia Briggs, New York, NY

(Screenplay)

In Weekend Outing, a closeted, lesbian literary icon must finally choose between telling her New York Italian family who she truly is, or losing the love of her life.

Olivia Briggs is an award-winning screenwriter, playwright, and filmmaker. Her feature documentary, "The Workshop," about a community center's transformational children's theater program in Delaware County, New York, will be premiering this summer at The Art and Soul of the Catskills film festival. Olivia is currently completing a Master of Fine Arts Degree in dramatic writing at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. 

Directed by Sarah Ballema, Weekend Outing features Stephanie Rohr, Lindsay Stock, Shannon Riley, Ashley Preston, Cassandra Schiano, Jenna Manolakes, BJ Stradley, Kevin Anderson, JT Michaels, and Jack Gallagher.

(Please note: PFP replaced the "u" with * in Genderf*ck only to increase the chances of getting this release past internet filters.)

The All-American Genderf*ck Cabaret plays with established gender stereoptypes - tomboy, slut, man-hating lesbian, player, bro, sensitive guy, gay best friend, none-of-the-above - and stirs vigorously. The result is a free-wheeling evening of theater and dance that will have every inch of Mary's Attic rocking!

The All-American Genderf*ck Cabaret features Echaka Agba, Moira Begale-Smith, Becky Blomgren, Britt DeVaney, Toph Enany, AJ Froeber, Amy Geist, Coy Benning Wentworth, and Bill Zimmerman.  Tara Branham, who directed Still Fighting It for PFP's Women's Work Weekend in 2011, returns to direct.

The All-American Genderf*ck Cabaret previews August 10 at 7:15, and opens August 11 at 7:15. Performances thereafter are on Friday and Saturday at 7:15 through September 1. The final week of performances are on Thursday and Friday, September 6 and 7 at 7:15; September 7 is the final performance. All tickets are $20 and are available by calling 1800 838 3006 or by going to www.brownpapertickets.com