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Send us Fan Mail Writer : Pamela E. Kingsley Pamela Kingsley is an actress and director with more than 200 productions to her credit. A playwright , Pamela's work has been selected by theatres in cities across the U.S. including Buffalo, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Kansas City, New Haven, N. ... She is a member of The Dramatists Guild. Director : Gary Lamb Gary B. Lamb has appeared as an actor i...

Send us Fan Mail Writer : Rom Watson Rom Watson is the author of the full-length plays Image and Likeness , Manifesto of Silence , Pickle Juice , The Norma Conquests : The Three Faces of Norma, My Fair Norma, The Importance of Being Norma; Lying Beneath the Surface and Pinocchio in The Bronx ; the 10-minute plays A Twin Out of Time, The Test , Three Syllables of Shame , Celebrity Death Watch , Per...

Send us Fan Mail The title says it all, good friends Annie and Frannie go to the mall to spend time together and chat about their lives, loves, and everything in between. Writer : Don Goodrum A stage veteran of almost 50 years, Don Goodrum was born in Tennessee and raised in Mississippi, where he got his first taste of the spotlight as The King of the Calendar in his second-grade play. Don moved o...

Send us Fan Mail Funny how saving garbage can lead to a connection across the ages. Writer : Paul Elliott Paul Elliott is an actor, director, and respected television and screenwriter who has written, produced, and/or directed over sixty television shows as well as writing/ producing/ and directing more than fifty theatrical plays including live entertainment spectaculars for theme parks like Disn...

Send us Fan Mail Please join us for a discussion with writer Joni Ravenna, Amir Abdullah, Devereau Chumrau and special guest Kabin Thomas. Beethoven and the Misfortune Cookies was inspired by the firing of Kabin Thomas - a 43-year-old, African American Music Appreciation Professor at The University of Arkansas in 2006 after a white student complained about the use of profanity and a graphic image...

Send us Fan Mail About: Beethoven and the Misfortune Cookies was inspired by the firing of Kabin Thomas, a 43- year-old, African American Music Appreciation Professor at The University of Arkansas in 2006 after a white student complained about the use of profanity and a graphic image depicting a lynching in one of his lessons. This is the story of how he lost himself and then found his way back. P...

Send us Fan Mail ABOUT: Dizzy is a seventy-year-old woman hell-bent on getting her tattoo removed. She and her friends end up in a Tattoo Parlor where she meets the much younger Char, a non-binary tattoo artist. Dizzy and Char spend some time in verbal sparring but end up finding common ground as they recognize the pain that formed each other's SCARS. WRITER: Pamela Kingsley Pamela Kingsley i...

Send us Fan Mail ABOUT What does it mean to accept ourselves, and each other? Friends from the past reconnect in High School in this bittersweet Library conversation. WRITER Rachael Carnes Playwright Rachael Carnes received a 2020 Oregon Literary Fellowship and had more than 50 productions in 2019, across the U.S., U.K., Canada, the Middle East, and Asia. She’s recently developed work at the Willi...

Send us Fan Mail ABOUT: An interracial couple in quarantine seeks peace but is forced to deal with the racial reckoning that surrounds them. WRITER: Mildred Inez Lewis Mildred Inez Lewis writes and directs for film, theater and new media. A member of the Dramatists Guild, she belongs to the Antaeus, Company of Angels, Ensemble Studio Theatre-Los Angeles and Playground-LA playwriting groups. Recent...

Send us Fan Mail ABOUT: This short play addresses the partnership of two women and how that relationship is affected by events in a bar. WRITER: Janis Butler Holm Janice has served as Associate Editor for _Wide Angle_, the film journal. Her prose, poems, and performance pieces have appeared in small-press, national, and international magazines. Her plays have been produced in the U.S., Canada, and...

Send us Fan Mail ABOUT Mead & Stu learn how to talk about sex from penguins. DIRECTOR Jan Swank has produced and directed over 300 theatre productions and appeared in over 100 in his professional career.  He was Managing Artistic Director of three different theatres over 35 years.  His production of The Diviners won four awards, including Best Producer (Director) and the Audience Award at the...

Send us Fan Mail ABOUT How a love story begins over an art show, a snowball fight, and coffee. DIRECTOR Bernadette Armstrong moved to Los Angeles to work in film in the late 1990’s and after her first two films went to festivals she took a short hiatus from writing until she fell in love with small theater. Since 2008 she has had several successful theater projects produced in No Hollywood. Her pl...

Send us Fan Mail ABOUT So many things can happen when one gets into the wrong Uber on a rainy night. DIRECTOR Dennis Gersten WRITER Scott Mullen is a playwright and screenwriter, a two-time winner of Amazon Studios' screenwriting contest, whose thrillers THE SUMMONING and IN BROAD DAYLIGHT aired on TV One.  His short plays have been produced hundreds of times around the world.  An evening of...

Send us Fan Mail ABOUT It’s only an item of clothing…but when Robert seems fascinated by it, storm clouds loom between him and his partner, Greg. DIRECTOR Bernadette Armstrong moved to Los Angeles to work in film in the late 1990’s and after her first two films went to festivals she took a short hiatus from writing until she fell in love with small theater. Since 2008 she has had several successfu...

Send us Fan Mail ABOUT Sofia and Jessica fall in love at Miami University in the early 1080s, graduate from college, and settle down in the country with their daughter until tragedy strikes and the courts get involved. WRITER/DIRECTOR Bernadette Armstrong moved to Los Angeles to work in film in the late 1990’s and after her first two films went to festivals she took a short hiatus from writing unt...

Send us Fan Mail Short story recording of children's book, Olga in My Pocket by Stephen Armstrong tells the story about a little girl who shrinks when she suddenly becomes an orphan.  Support the show Founded by playwright and filmmaker Bernadette Armstrong, Open-Door Playhouse is a Theater Podcast- like the radio dramas of the 1940s and 1950s. The Playhouse launched on September 15, 2020. At...