Monday May 23, 2022 at 7PM

An innovative evening of true and almost true stories…

Westbeth Community Room

155 Bank St
New York, NY 10014
enter through courtyard

MASKS REQUIRED:

WRITERS

Karen Ludwig
KAREN LUDWIG performs, directs and teaches in New York and L.A. Her B’way credits include Prelude to a Kiss with Steve Guttenberg and John Randolph, Broadway Bound with Joan Rivers, The Devils with Anne Bancroft, The Bacchae with Irene Pappas and many plays at the Public Theater. She was a member of Andre Gregory’s Manhattan Project for two years and performed The Seagull and Wallace Shawn’s Our Late Night with the Company throughout the United States and Europe.
Her first film was Woody Allen’s Manhattan, (Meryl Streep’s lover) and her most recent is That Awkward Moment with Zach Efron. She teaches at The New School for Drama and the HB Studio in NYC.

Dawn D’Arcy
Dawn is an actor, writer, bass player and thrilled to be a new grandma to Etta. She is in love with each of the women in this group and plans to marry them all in the very near future.

Joyce Aaron
Oboe winner for Acting in a play Acrobatics co written by Luna Tarlo. Original member of The Open Theater, directed by Joseph Chaikin. Premiered America Hurrah by Jean Claude Van Itallie in New York and at The Royal Court Theater in London. Lived and worked with Sam Shepard on many of his early plays.

Nancy Gabor
Theater Director, Acting Teacher:
Open Theater, Director – The War in Heaven with Joseph Chaikin,
Master Teacher – Princeton University, and the Amsterdam Theater School, Holland.
Director – On-site production Lost and Found, by Paul Binnerts at Westbeth.
Offering the popular You’re Never Too Old to Play story telling and improvisation workshop for seniors that recently played to great acclaim at Little Island, New York in July 2021

Joan Hall
Joan Hall who won the Miriam Chaikin Writing Foundation Award in 2018, is a pioneer in the field of collage and assemblage illustration. Her work has appeared on covers of Time magazine, and in The New York Times. Hall’s collages and assemblages have been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide, including the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Museo Tamayo in Mexico City.

Christina Maile
Her work reflecting her West Indian and Dayak heritage, she has received grants from Pollock-Krasner and Joan Mitchell Foundation, as well as two Miriam Chaikin Foundation Writing Awards. Her landscape architectural work was featured in Garden Design Magazine. She was the co-founder playwright of the Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective. She accepts Dawn’s marriage proposal but only if its an open marriage.

Diane Spodarek
Diane Spodarek is a Canadian-American artist and writer with a background in the visual and performing arts. She is the recipient of artist’s fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, Creative New Zealand, and the Michigan Council for the Arts.

Dale Soules
is an American actress known for starring in The Messenger, Sesame Street, and for portraying Frieda Berlin in Orange Is the New Black from 2014 to 2019. She appeared in the original production of Hair in the role of Jeannie.