Open-Door Playhouse

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Send us Fan Mail Today we bring you our first presentation in our new collaboration series we’ve titled - Across The Pond Theatre , the joining of Open Door Playhouse Theatre , based in Pasadena, California, and Our Kid and Me Productions , based in Oxfordshire, UK. For our first joint effort, we are pleased to present a dramatization of Oscar Wilde's famous supernatural short story, "Th...

Send us Fan Mail Written by Playwright - Emma Lefkowitz Directed by Dennis Gersten. Starring Sue Gisser as (Lenora) and Whitton Frank as (Ella) Recorded at ES Audio Services in Glendale, CA. Recorded and Mixed by Hall Cantrell Sound Editor: Hall Cantrell Support the show Founded by playwright and filmmaker Bernadette Armstrong, Open-Door Playhouse is a Theater Podcast- like the radio dramas of the...

Send us Fan Mail Gun Story Written by Karen Saari Directed by Gary Lee Reed and starring- Goreti da Silva as (Mae) & Eric Kwasnjuk as (Lloyd). Recorded at ES Audio Services in Glendale, CA.  Recorded and Mixed by Hall Cantrell Sound Editor: Hall Cantrell Support the show Founded by playwright and filmmaker Bernadette Armstrong, Open-Door Playhouse is a Theater Podcast- like the radio dramas of...

Send us Fan Mail Writer: Brian C. Petti Brian is a Hudson-Valley, NY-based playwright who has been published and produced in NYC, LA, and Ireland. Cast: Anne Cooper as Woman #1   Anne Cooper, a member of SAG/AFTRA and AEA for over thirty years, has acted under the direction of many talented Film and TV directors. She is in the upcoming movie MARRY ME with Jennifer Lopez. She is a theatre consultan...

Send us Fan Mail Writer: Michael J Moore His books include Highway Twenty , which appeared on the Preliminary Ballot for the Bram Stoker Award, the bestselling post-apocalyptic novel, After the Change, which is used as curriculum at the University of Washington and the psychological thriller, Secret Harbor . His work has received awards, has appeared in various anthologies, journals, newspapers (i...

Send us Fan Mail A funny COVID story from Open-Door Playhouse Founder, Bernadette Armstrong. Bernadette Armstrong Bernadette moved to Los Angeles to work in film in the late 1990s 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 pla...

Send us Fan Mail Story: We’re excited to bring our first play in our 2021 series of plays from the PEN America’s PRISON WRITING PROGRAM, What’s Prison Like? Writer:  Matthew Mendoza Matthew Mendoza has published fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, all from prison! His play Freedom Feather was performed by Rehabilitation Through The Arts at the Brooklyn Book Festival as part of “Break Out 2018: Voices...

Send us Fan Mail Writer:   Gareth Williams Cast: Sue Gisser as Cheryl Sue Gisser is trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, Steppenwolf West, the Groundlings, iOWest, Second City, Antaeus Academy, Theatricum Botanicum, and holds a BFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers. In her professional career, Sue is blessed to seldom work with a director, show, or theatre company o...

Send us Fan Mail Story: Bart, who is seventy, and Tyler, who is twenty-eight, happen to be on the same elevator when it becomes stuck between floors. Bart is concerned that his daughters will think he has gotten lost again and might send him to a retirement community. Tyler does not seem too concerned about anything. In the few minutes, they share in the elevator the two find a unique friendship t...

Send us Fan Mail The Story: For some, Christmas can bring up a lot of issues and when you add children to it, you might have to re-think the whole holiday. Writer: John McDonnell I've done many kinds of writing in a long and varied career, and I am always amazed at the power of words and stories to illuminate and bring joy to our lives. If you get the words right even the humblest catalog cop...

Send us Fan Mail Story: Your grandfather met a demon yesterday, but she's really not that bad. Inspired by Yiddish folktales, my dad's stories, and really good leftovers. Writer: Clare Bierman Japanese/Jewish playwright and lyricist and former cheesemonger. Based in Brooklyn by way of San Francisco and a bunch of farms. Currently a student in NYU's Graduate Musical Theater Writing P...

Send us Fan Mail Story: For some, Christmas can bring up a lot of issues and when you add children to it, you might have to re-think the whole holiday. Writer : Faith de Savigne Faith de Savigne has worked as a theatre critic, arts writer, and columnist. As well as having poems and poetry reviews published in various literary journals, she has completed two Masters Degrees in English Literature (U...

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...