The Looking Glass Spring 2007 Writer/Director Forum

The Looking Glass Spring 2007 Writer/Director Forum is a festival of workshop productions of plays featuring new writers and directors. The 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 fourteen emerging female directors tackling both classic and new works. Throughout the four-week festival, directors present a wide range of styles, from new adaptations of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew and Moliére’s The Imaginary Invalid to new works such as Spitting Distance by Dina Gregory and Li’l Heroes by Stephanie Timm.

Forum Audience Awards – weekly and overall, voted for by audience members – will be given for Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Production.

The full performance schedule is as follows:

WEEK 1 – JUNE 7-10
Assistant Director/Stage Manager: Audrey Neddermann
Spitting Distance by Dina Gregory, directed by Emily Gipson
her only customer… by Celia McBride, directed by Chanda Calentine
Out of My Head, A Musical Revue – Book by Kirstin A. Guenther, Music and Lyrics by Ryan Scott Oliver, directed by Nikki Rothenberg

WEEK 2 – JUNE 14-17
Assistant Director/Stage Managers: Marie Darden & Norah Turnham
Li’l Heroes by Stephanie Timm, directed by Jacquelyn Honeybourne
The White Whale by Ruth Tyndall Baker, directed by Maureen Rogalski
The Rover by Aphra Behn, directed by Emily Plumb

WEEK 3 – JUNE 21-24
Assistant Director/Stage Managers: Natalie Golonka & Carly Hirschberg
Fortune Cookie Smash by Isabella Russell-Ides, directed by Rachel Klein
The Apple Tree by Dianna A. Lewis, directed by Erin Winebark
Second Sunday by Jen Klein, directed by Elizabeth Sturrus
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare, adapted and directed by Rose Ginsberg

WEEK 4 – JUNE 28-JULY 1
Assistant Director/Stage Managers: Katrina Foy & Leigh Hile
Meetmarket.com by Anne Dichele, directed by Mariana Carbonell
After Moravia by Dina Ross, directed by Danya Nardi
Untitled – Written and directed by Julia Martin
The Imaginary Invalid by Molière, adapted and directed by Aliza Shane

Casts Include: Maria Alegre, Alejandra Ambrosi, Musa Bacon, Ilana Becker, Paul Bettys, Alicia Blasingame, Ayelet Blumberg, Jenifer Borntrager, Jenny Boyd, Marian Brock, Jenn Browne, Stephanie Bush, Brian Cade, Adam Coggins, Andrea Coleman, Megan Cooper, Tynan Craycraft, Elizabeth Delhagen, Mark Doherty, Marti Etheridge, Tony Flohr, Jenn Foster, Curt Foy, Connor Fux, Lori Gardner*, Nova Gerlach, Andrew Giarolo, Dayna Grayber, Rebecca Hackett, Kyle Haggerty, Katie Hartman, Alexander Hedquist, Paul Herbig, Allison Hiroto, Talia Jackson , Gregory Jacobs-Roseman, Chris Jansen, Joe Kolbow, Nick Leonard, Roger Lirtsman, Sierra Marcks, Emily Marro, Samantha Mason, Blake Merriman, Emma Myers, Hank Offinger, Jennifer Pawlitschek, Graham Powell, Matt Raines, Tyler Ramage, Benjamin Ray, Matthew Rini, Anne Roser, Matthew Roth, Leah Rudick, Aaron Sandler, Ben Sargent, Maryann Schaub, Drew Schuffman, Adam Shatarsky, Anika Solveig, David Spear, Richard Spierenburg, Dominic Tancredi, Jason Thomson, Sean Toohey , Megan Tusing , Chris von Hoffman, Laura Wiese, Chris Wild, William Wilson, and Ashley Young.
* Appears courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association