I've been preparing for two upcoming auditions, and they couldn't be more different from one another. There's the African American play in Berkeley where I may have to sing like a bad version of Abbey Lincoln coming up, and tomorrow it's across the Bay, to audition for the play, "The Beebo Brinko Chronicles," and a quick read/skim tells me it's all about women conflicted about their sexuality, there's a lot of talking, a bit of physical edginess, and it takes place in the Village in New York, and I could possibly get to play a tough novelist. Well, if I can't get published, methinks, at least I could play one who has!
Author Kate Moira Ryan, it turns out, has a blog, too, and here's her profile:
"Kate Moira Ryan is a playwright who lives in the Brooklyn Heights section of Brooklyn. Her play, based on Ann Bannon's bestselling pulp novels from the 1950's, THE BEEBO BRINKER CHRONICLES written with Linda S. Chapman recently finished a commercial run at 37 Arts and will be opening in San Francisco in 2009. It won the 2008 GLAAD Media Award. Her other play, 25 QUESTIONS FOR A JEWISH MOTHER written with and for Judy Gold ran off-Broadway for a year. It won the 2007 GLAAD Media Award for best play and it was nominated for a Drama Desk (best actress). It is currently on a nationwide tour. A book based on the play was released by Hyperion/Voice this May and was nominated for a Quill Award in the category of humor..."
This is one impressive playwright...another profile at Playscripts, Inc., says Ms. Moynihan "is an alumna of New Dramatists and has received residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, and the Edward Albee Foundations. She was recently awarded a fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation by the Ensemble Studio Theatre as well as an Arnold Weinberger Fellowship to the University of Cincinnati, and two fellowships to New Play Festival in Russia from the Center for International Theatre Development. She was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and received the Joe Calloway Award from New Dramatists."
I'm gobsmacked!
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