About This Show
The Looking Glass Theatre’s Writer/Director Forum is part of the company’s mission to reflect life on the stage with truth and theatricality while exploring a female vision/aesthetic. The festival is held twice a year at The Looking Glass Theatre. This year’s spring festival features the work of 10 emerging female directors tackling both classic and new works. Throughout the four-week festival, directors will present a wide range of styles, from the classic prose of Shakespeare to a new work by Melissa Fendell, Dick ‘n Spooner, which follows the lives of one sitcom-perfect couple’s quest for happiness in the form of eternal popularity.
The full performance schedule is as follows:
Week 1 May 25-28
Medea by Euirpides, Directed by Candace O’Neil Cihocki
A modern and even creepier version of the tragic Greek tale of a woman scorned and the revenge that will be taken. A show not for the faint of heart.
Hollywood Lights by Suzanne Wesley, Directed by Emily Plumb
Hollywood Lights is an unpredictable evening where the lines between what we expect from horror, and how we actually experience it, are blurred.
Week 1 Assistant Director: Maureen Rogalski
Week 2 June 8-11
Population Growth by Aoise Stratford, Directed by Nikki Rothenberg
Dating is awkward. The exponential growth of the world’s population is really not helping things.
Muncie & Mayhem in ‘Tea and Rats’ by Laylage Courie, Directed by Rose Ginsberg
Two best friends/enemies engage in an impassioned battle of wits and domestic prowess, as they struggle with an infestation of strangely scholarly rodents.
Aquarium by Lila Rose Kaplan, Directed by Aliza Shane
It’s the story of wondrous and strange creatures – a fishy family of high achievers. In here, to keep from drowning in gourmet algae and filtered water, all you can do is write.
Week 2 Assistant Director: Erin Winebark
Week 3 June 15-18
Things That Go Hump in the Night by Peggy Dougherty, Directed by Ain Rashida Sykes
Phyllis just wants her night, but being a single mother, she is torn between the child and the man who makes her feel like a woman.
Richard III by William Shakespeare, Directed by Kelly Haydon
Revenge is sweet…and highly entertaining! A ragged band of outlaw thespians gleefully perform the famous hunchback’s violent campaign to win the crown of England.
Week 3 Assistant Director: Sarah Nerboso
Week 4 June 22-25
The Patriot by Kate Marks, Directed by Tzipora Kaplan
Peace! Peace! Peace on Earth! …or not.
Dick ‘n Spooner by Melissa Fendell, Directed by Jill Landaker
This satire follows the lives of one sitcom-perfect couple’s quest for happiness in the form of eternal popularity.
Swimming the Ocean by Kate McNickle, Directed by Elizabeth Sturrus
Two sisters struggle against the current that pulls Gai toward the future, Becca to the past. Gai must decide between the love of a simple man or her sister and their childhood memories together.
Week 4 Assistant Directors: Laurie Vázquez, Lisa Kadsan
Casts Include: Francile Albright, Enid Cortes, Carolyn Demisch, Drummond Doroski, Sofia Dubrawsky, Rob Esris, Leigh Feldpausch, Dain Geist, Lara Gold, Dayna Graber, Robert Grossman, Annette Guarrasi, M. Alan Haley, Tara Henderson, Erin Holmes, Kelly Hummert, Don Jeanes, Lane Keogh, Sarah Kozinn, April Grace Lowe, Lauren Maxwell, Katie Mazzola, Tom McCartan, Jennifer Mello, Carolyn Morrison, Heidi Neidymyer, Christie Oakes, Glenn Peters*, Kirsta Peterson, Patrick Pizzolorusso, Gretchen Poulos, Candice Renee, Andrew Rothkin, Aaron Sandler, Josh Silverman, Scott Simpson, Frank Tamburin, Shane Wallis, Bradley Wells, Akilah Williams, Lindsay Wolf, Rob Yang and Nick Zelletz.
Appropriate For Ages: 14 and up