Women's Voices Play Festival

Mad Cow Theatre presents

August 11 -16, 2020

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1st Annual Women’s Voices Play Festival

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ad Cow Theatre presents the 1st Annual Women’s Voices Festival of new works by emerging and established female-identifying playwrights. Five plays by playwrights from around the U.S. have been selected to participate in a week-long reading series of their unpublished and unproduced new work.

Women’s Voices Roundtable

Tuesday, Aug 11 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.

Featuring the faces and voices behind the plays of the Women’s Voices Play Festival, this event delves into the experiences of female-identifying playwrights at the various stages in their careers. Where we’re at and where we’re going!

Moderated by the talented Arlene Hutton this event will kick-off an exciting week of new play readings and development work.

ARLENE HUTTON is best known as the author of The Nibroc Trilogy, which includes Last Train to Nibroc (New York Drama League Best Play nomination), See Rock City (Spirit of America Award) and Gulf View Drive (LA Weekly and Ovation Award nominations). Regional credits include Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, B Street Theatre, Kitchen Theatre, Echo Theatre, Florida Studio Theatre and Chester Theatre. She is a three-time winner of the Samuel French Short Play Festival and a seven-time finalist for the Actors Theatre of Louisville Ten-Minute Play Contest. Her short plays include 40 Stat. 76, Man in the Basement, and Closing Costs, all for The Barrow Group’s SHORT STUFF, and, for Fast and FAB, Intermission, After Intermission, Vociferation and Mourning Star (written for and performed

by Lynn Cohen). Hutton’s full-length plays and one-acts have been produced at regional theatres and colleges around the country, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, for FringeNYC, and at theatres in NYC and abroad. A member of Ensemble Studio Theatre and an alumna of New Dramatists, Hutton has been a respondent for short plays for KC/ACTF. Her work appears in textbook and best play anthologies and is published

by Samuel French, Playscripts and Dramatists Play Service.

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One Stone by Kathleen Cahill One Stone by Kathleen Cahill Wednesday, Aug 12, 7:00 p.m. $10 suggested donation Registration required A passionate, historically-based love story between two scientists — one who became internationally famous, and one who disappeared in a cloud of depression and mental illness. It is a true story about the sexual, emotional, and intellectual relationship between Albert Einstein and the physicist Mileva Maric — his first wife. It dramatizes the uncredited role she played in Einstein’s great conceptual achievements, and raises questions about how gender affects the success or failure of talent. It is a historical play which leads us to ask if it is any easier for women in science today.

KATHLEEN CAHILL’S awards include three Edgerton Foundation Awards, the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award, two Connecticut Commission on the Arts Playwriting Awards, a Massachusetts Artists Foundation Award, a Rockefeller Grant, a National Endowment for the Arts New American Works Grant, and a Drama League Award. Her play Charm (NNPN Showcase) was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize; The Persian Quarter was nominated for a Steinberg Award (Both published by Dramatic Publishing). Her produced musicals include Friendship of the Sea (North Shore Music Theatre) Dakota Sky; (Olney Theatre) an opera, Clara, two opera/cabarets, A Tale of Two Cities: Paris and Berlin in the Twenties (Maryland Center for the Performing Arts), a comic opera cabaret, Fatal Song (most recently Utah Opera) and Perdida, the Winter’s Tale set in Mexico. (most recently Catholic University, DC and the Grand Theatre, Salt Lake City. Published by Dramatic Publishing.) Her plays include Course 86B in the Catalogue (Salt Lake Acting Company) The Still Time (Georgia Rep/ PorchlightT heatre, Chicago) Women Who Love Science Too Much (Porchlight Theatre and NPR Radio) Joy Forever (Cleveland Public, Firehouse Theatre, Massachusetts) Charm ( National New Play Network Festival, Salt Lake Acting Company premiere, Kitchen Dog Theatre, Dallas; Orlando Shakespeare; Taffety Punk, Washington D.C. among others) The Persian Quarter ( Salt Lake Acting Company, Merrimack Rep.) Harbur Gate, an NNPN commission. (Salt Lake Acting Company, 16thstreet theatre, Chicago) She is Playwright-in-Residence at the Salt Lake Acting Company.

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One Stone by Kathleen Cahill Directed by Denise Gillman Dramaturgy by Meredith Bartmon Albert Einstein............................................................ Jeffrey Todd Parrott * Mileva Maric................................................................Melissa Whitworth Stage Manager........................................................................Cara Pfost DENISE GILLMAN (Director) is an Associate Professor of Directing & Dramatic Literature at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, VA and a Stage Directors and Choreographers Society member. For over two decades, science theater has been a major focus of her teaching, directing and scholarship. She is the first recipient of the Prize for Teaching Innovation from Association of Theater in Higher Education (ATHE) and the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Region IV (Southeast) for her teaching, directing and scholarship on science plays. She launched the science play digital database (scienceplays.org) in 2017 and is the Artistic Director for CNU annual Science Play Festival.

At Mad Cow, she previously directed Mary’s Wedding, Humble Boy, Eurydice, Pericles, Legacy of Light, Collected Stories, Dinner with Friends and Photograph 51.

CARA PFOST (Stage Manager) is a Tampa native who moved to Orlando temporarily in 2016 after graduating from FSU and has never left.

She can usually be found at Universal Orlando Resort stage managing Halloween Horror Nights, Grinchmas, Mardi Gras concerts, and more. Cara also likes to hang out with Opera Orlando when she can and was looking forward to joining them for Fringe before the pandemic. When she’s not working, Cara enjoys cooking, PC gaming, and reading in the house she and her fiancé just bought. She is very excited to help celebrate the works of these amazing women playwrights and to try out virtual stage management!

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One Stone by Kathleen Cahill JEFFREY TODD PARROTT (Albert Einstein), zooming in from Chicago, has been a professional actor for over a decade.

His credits at Mad Cow Theatre include Groucho in Animal Crackers, Huck in Big River, Man 3 in The Big Meal, and Posner in The History Boys. Other credits include: Orlando Shakes, Asolo Repertory, Peninsula Players, and St. Michael Playhouse. He holds a BFA in Music Theatre from Elon University, and is currently pursuing his MFA in Acting from The Theatre School at DePaul University.

He is a proud member of AEA and a proud husband to actress Lisa Egan Woods. BLACK LIVES MATTER.

MELISSA WHITWORTH (Mileva Maric) is excited to be back in this new venture! Mad Cow audiences may remember her from Silent Sky (Henrietta Leavitt), Three Sisters (Olga), 1776 (Thomas Jefferson), or previous Science Play and Cabaret Festivals. Other favorites include How I Learned to Dive (Lil Bit), Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins), and making magic at the parks here in town. melissalouisewhitworth.com

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association

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My Life as You by Laura Rohrman My Life As You by Laura Rohrman Thursday, Aug 13, 7:00 p.m. $10 suggested donation Registration required A psychological comedy that touches on the very core of what troubles young women today: their minds. Thinking that the grass is always greener on the other side, Stella — a young advertising executive — breaks up with her boyfriend, quits her job and decides to “rediscover” herself in a new city. With the help of her friend Diana she moves to Chicago — only to discover that her friend is to become her biggest challenge.

What begins as a friendly competition between roommates turns into a psychological battle of wills of epic proportions. Sparks fly as the two women go to great lengths to become what they think will make them happy: each other.

LAURA ROHRMAN is a New York City playwright who hails from Northern CA. She is the author of several full-length plays including: Reporter Girl (Semi-Finalist O’Neill Festival, Weissberger Award Nominee and Princess Grace Finalist). Her other plays include: My Life As You (Finalist Playwrights First Award) and Hoboken (Hollywood Fringe). Laura’s many one-act plays include: Below 14th and Without, both finalists at the Samuel French Festival short play festival in New York City. MFA: Actors Studio Drama School/New School For Drama. Laura created a program in New York City called Playwriting For Kids where the kids create plays and perform. Laura has a background as an actor and dancer and she directs.

For more info: www.laurarohrman.com

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My Life as You by Laura Rohrman Directed by Monica Long Tamborello Dramaturgy by Andrea Kovich Stella............................................................................... Rachel Comeau Diana............................................................................. Lisa Egan Woods* Max..................................................................................Justin Schneyer Greg....................................................................................... Chris Metz* Stage Manager............................................................... Imani Champion* MONICA LONG TAMBORELLO (Director) is a director, actor, and teaching artist who has worked in the Orlando theatre community for over twenty years. Directing credits include Rapture Blister Burn, Grounded, and A Short History of Nearly Everything (Mad Cow Theatre); After Orlando (ATHE Conference 2019); Othello, Henry V, The Taming of the Shrew, The Winter’s Tale, Macbeth, and Hamlet (TYC/ Orlando Shakes); and Number the Stars, A Little Princess (Young Actors Theatre, Tallahassee). Acting credits include Lena/Leviticus (Orlando Fringe); Olga/You Can’t Take It With You (Mad Cow Theatre); M’Lynn/Steel Magnolias (CFCA); and Dickens by Candlelight (RSC Productions).

IMANI CHAMPION (Stage Manager) is an AEA stage manager and freelance production manager based in NYC. Credits include, Broadway: Grand Horizons, My Fair Lady. Selected Off-Broadway: Nollywood Dreams, The Wrong Man (MCC); Coriolanus, Mobile Unit: The Tempest and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Public Works: Twelfth Night and As You Like It (The Public Theater); Derren Brown: Secret, Marie & Rosetta (Atlantic Theater Company); Morocco & MASS MoCA theatre labs with the Sundance Institute. B.A. Theatre Studies, Montclair State University.

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My Life as You by Laura Rohrman RACHEL COMEAU (Stella) was last seen at Mad Cow Theatre as Melody in Bad Jews.

Past stage credits also include A View From The Bridge, Three Sisters (Mad Cow), The Whale, girl., and The Lieutenant of Inishmore (BethMarshallPresents). She can be seen in the indie film Testament (Amazon) and a television series premiering this fall The Right Stuff (Disney+). She’s trained at Rollins College where she earned her BA in theatre arts, The Stella Adler Studio, and currently takes classes at Class Act Studios in Orlando.

CHRIS METZ (Greg) is thrilled to be returning to Mad Cow (and debuting virtually) after appearing in Once and Animal Crackers.

Previous credits include Peter and The Starcatcher and Peter Pan (freeFall Theatre), The Merry Wives of Windsor, Pluto, and The Taming of the Shrew (Orlando Shakes), as well as performances at Orlando Rep, Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Orlando, and Orlando International Fringe Festival. TV: Impractical

Jokers. Chris is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. For my mother.

JUSTIN SCHNEYER (Max) is thrilled to work again with Mad Cow Theatre. He previously worked as an actor and host of the 2020 digital Science Play Festival. Other Central Florida credits include John Hinckley Jr. in Assassins (Studio Theatre at Tierra Del Sol), Phallius in a reading of No Need for Trojans (Winter Park Playhouse), and Margaret Meade in Hair (Theatre South Playhouse). He is an actor with Capone’s Dinner Show, The Titanic Dinner Show, and Michelee Puppets. He has worked at Artspot Educational Theatre, and a joint collaboration with City Theatre and Azamara Club Cruises. A graduate of Florida Atlantic University with a performance BFA, Justin is also an accomplished stage manager.

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My Life as You by Laura Rohrman LISA EGAN WOODS (Diana) is thrilled to be back at Mad Cow where she previously stage-managed Big River. Acting credits include productions at: The Night Shift NYC, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Theatre at Monmouth, Maples Repertory The-

atre, and Actors Guild of Lexington.

Lisa’s award winning one woman play Thread and Bone premiered at the Chicago Fringe Festival in 2018.

She holds an MFA in Acting from the Asolo Conservatory/FSU, is a graduate of The Second City Conservatory Chicago, and is a proud member of Actor’s Equity Association. She lives in Chicago with her husband, actor Jeffrey Todd Parrott. BLACK LIVES MATTER.

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association

We wish to express our gratitude to the Performers’ Unions: ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION AMERICAN GUILD OF MUSICAL ARTISTS AMERICAN GUILD OF VARIETY ARTISTS SAG-AFTRA

through Theatre Authority, Inc. for their cooperation in permitting the Artists to appear on this program.

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Mountain Law by Melissa Leilani Larson Mountain Law by Melissa Leilani Larson Friday, Aug 14, 7:00 p.m. $10 suggested donation Registration required In the fall of 1850, Tamson English was alone with three young children on the Western frontier for more than a year. Haunted by guilt over an extramarital affair, Tamson convinces herself that God has trapped her in the wilderness as a punishment for her sins. When she prays for a reprieve, an old friend appears at her door — but it’s hard to know whether his coming is a miracle or a curse.

MELISSA LEILANI LARSON is an award-winning Filipino American playwright and screenwriter whose work has been seen on four continents.

Plays: Bitter Lemon, The Post Office, Sweetheart Come, Martyrs’ Crossing, Persuasion, Priode and Prejudice Little Happy Secrets, Pilot Program, The Edible Complex, Mountain Law and the book for the musical The Weaver of Raveloe. Her commission to adapt Kelly Barnhill’s The Girl Who Drank the Moon for Utah Valley University premiered in November 2019 and enjoyed a sold-out run. Feature films: Jane and Emma and Freetown (Ghana Movie Award, Best Screenplay). Mel was honored as the youngest person ever to receive 2018 Smith-Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters. She is a 3-time winner of the Association for Mormon Letters Drama award, an O’Neill semi finalist and a Trustus Playwrights Festival finalist. Other honors include IRAM Best New Play, an NEA production grant, 2 SL City Weekly Best of Utah Arts awards, the Mayhew Playwriting award and the Lewis National Playwriting Contest for Women prize. Mel is a member of the Plan-B Playwrights Lab and presently serves as the Dramatists Guild Regional Rep for Utah. MFA, Iowa Playwrights Workshop.

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Mountain Law by Melissa Leilani Larson Directed by India Marie Paul Dramaturgy by Meredith Bartmon Tamson............................................................................... Brittany Halen * James...............................................................................Shonn McCloud * Howard...............................................................................James Berkley * Stage Manager........................................................................ Cara Pfost INDIA MARIE PAUL (Director) is the founder of Hello Out There Productions which was created at the beginning of the 2020 Covid 19 pandemic to keep artists collaborating and storytelling. She is a graduate of The New School for Drama, MFA Directing program and was an Asolo Repertory Theatre Directing Fellow for the 2018-2019 season. Her work has been seen at Asolo/FSU Conservatory, 54 Below, Ensemble Studio Theatre, NYU, American Opera Projects, On Her Shoulders, NYITFF, and Urbanite Theatre. www.indiamariepaul.com CARA PFOST (Stage Manager) is a Tampa native who moved to Orlando temporarily in 2016 after graduating from FSU and has never left.

She can usually be found at Universal Orlando Resort stage managing Halloween Horror Nights, Grinchmas, Mardi Gras concerts, and more. Cara also likes to hang out with Opera Orlando when she can and was looking forward to joining them for Fringe before the pandemic. When she’s not working, Cara enjoys cooking, PC gaming, and reading in the house she and her fiancé just bought. She is very excited to help celebrate the works of these amazing women playwrights and to try out virtual stage management!

BRITTANY HALEN (Tamson) is ecstatic to return to Mad Cow Theatre after appearing as Shelby in The Spitfire Grill and as Reza in Once!

Selected Credits — TheatreZone: Me and My Girl (Sally) George M! (Josie Cohan) Queensbury Theatre: Sideshow (Dance Captain/Auntie/ Venus), Elf (Dance Captain), Alley Theatre: Around The World in 80

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Mountain Law by Melissa Leilani Larson Days (Live Music and Sound/Violinist), TUTS: Rocky Horror (Dance Captain), Reefer Madness (Ensemble), Yankee Doodle Dandy (Ensemble), White Christmas (Ensemble), Guys and Dolls (Hot Box Girl), Urban Cowboy (Ensemble/Violinist) Stages Repertory Theatre: Mack and Mabel (Mae Busch/Violinist) Failure; A Love Story (Jenny June Fail), Mainstreet Theatre: Civil War Christmas (Raz/Violinist). BrittanyHalen.com SHONN MCCLOUD (James) is no stranger to the stages of Mad Cow Theatre and he is thrilled to return for the Women’s Voices Festival! Notable Central Florida theatre credits: Ragtime (Coalhouse) — St. Luke’s theatre & Titusville Playhouse, Once On This Island (Agwe) — Theatre West End, Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Ken) — Winter Park Playhouse & Mad Cow, Annie (Daddy Warbucks) — Garden Theatre, Beauty and the Beast (Beast) — St. Luke’s Theater, You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown (Schroeder)— Winter Park Playhouse, Man of La Mancha (Anselmo) — Orlando Shakes, Evita (Ensemble) — Orlando Shakes, Dreamgirls (Ensemble) Mad Cow.

JAMES BERKLEY (Howard) credits include the original Broadway production of Miss Saigon and the first national tours of Starlight Express (Hashamoto), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Dan), Annie Get Your Gun (Tommy u/s) and Dreamgirls (Swing). Other Credits: Walt Disney World Finding Nemo The Musical, The Spirit of Pocahontas and Tarzan Rocks!, Universal Orlando The Beetlejuice Graveyard Review (Wolfman), Sea World, Elmo and the Bookaneers (Pirate Captain) Palm Beach Dramaworks, 1776 (Sherman/McNair), The Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Beauty and the Beast (Table/Ensemble), Florida Studio Theatre, The Haunted Hotel (Various), Titusville Playhouse, Alhambra Theatre, The Mark Two Dinner Theatre The King and I (King, Kralahome, Lun Tha), The Full Monty (Horse) and Jesus Christ Superstar (Herod), Theatre West End IF/THEN (Stephen), The Mark Two Dinner Theatre, La Cage Aux Folles (Chantal) and The Footlight Theatre, Naked Boys Singing (James). Jamesberkley.com

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sapience by Diana Burbano Sapience by Diana Burbano Saturday, Aug 15, 7:00 p.m. $10 suggested donation Registration required Primatologist Dr Elsa Abello is on the autism spectrum, and has successfully hidden this fact from the world for her entire career. She is working with an orangutan named Wookie, whom she hopes to prove is capable of speaking human language. Elsa’s 12 year old nephew, A.J., is also on the Autism spectrum. He is “locked in” and completely non-verbal. When A.J. and Wookie joyously discover that they can communicate with one other, Elsa’s carefully constructed, science-based worldview is blown apart, and she is forced to drop the mask of seeming normalcy she has worn her whole life.

DIANA BURBANO, a Colombian immigrant, is an Equity actor, a playwright and a teaching artist at South Coast Repertory and Breath of Fire Latina Theatre Ensemble. Diana’s plays focus on female protagonists and social issues. Written work includes Policarpa (Living Room at the Blank 2018, Oregon Shakespeare Festival Brown Swan lab 2017), Fabulous Monsters (Latinx Play Festival, San Diego Rep 2017), Caliban’s Island (2017 Headwaters New Play Festival), Enemy|Flint which premiered in April at Rio Hondo College, and Linda, (in English and in Spanish), which has been seen all over the world. She was a writer on “Señor Plummer’s Final Fiesta”. As an actor she originated the roles of Ama de Casa in the Spanish version of Menopause the Musical, Thumb in Imagine, and Ana Guerrero in Jose Cruz Gonzales’ Long Road Today/El Largo Camino de Hoy at South Coast Repertory. She was in Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Latinx Play Project 2016 cohort. www.dianaburbano.com

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sapience by Diana Burbano Directed by Cynthia Beckert Dramaturgy by Andrea Kovich Elsa.................................................................................. Alina Alcantara* Wookie..........................................................................Melanie Whipple* AJ..................................................................................... Devan Seaman Miri.......................................................................................Jennifer Coe Jason.................................................................................David McElroy* Stage Manager............................................................... Imani Champion * CYNTHIA BECKERT (Director) has performed in four seasons’ worth of plays at Mad Cow Theatre, including The God Game, Grounded, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, Rapture Blister Burn, Top Girls,and Men on Boats. In addition to acting, Cynthia directed five short plays in the recent Science PlayFest. She also led workshops for Mad Cow’s She Speaks program, designed to empower girls and young women to use their voices. Cynthia has taught acting, theatrical movement, and gender swapping, and was the period dance and movement instructor for A Noise Within Theatre Company’s Camp Shakespeare in Los Angeles.

She earned an MA in Theatre from FSU, and an MFA in Acting from UC Irvine.

IMANI CHAMPION (Stage Manager) is an AEA stage manager and freelance production manager based in NYC. Credits include, Broadway: Grand Horizons, My Fair Lady. Selected Off-Broadway: Nollywood Dreams, The Wrong Man (MCC); Coriolanus, Mobile Unit: The Tempest and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Public Works: Twelfth Night and As You Like It (The Public Theater); Derren Brown: Secret, Marie & Rosetta (Atlantic Theater Company); Morocco & MASS MoCA theatre labs with the Sundance Institute. B.A. Theatre Studies, Montclair State University.

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sapience by Diana Burbano ALINA ALCANTARA (Elsa) is a New York native of Dominican heritage, who has lived in Florida for most of her life. Recent credits include Elodia in the upcoming movie The Charm Of Love, Adriane in the children’s films Independence Day at the Museum and Presidents Day at the Museum, Mom in Jack & the Beanstalk and Abuela Claudia in In The Heights — both at Orlando Shakes. She is also a performer at the Walt Disney World Resort, and prior to that, had a recurring role as Celestina Warbeck at Universal Orlando. Member of Actors Equity.

JENNIFER COE (Miri) is excited to return to Mad Cow, where she previously appeared in Fade. Other past credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Helena), Julia and Roselo (Julia), Much Ado About Nothing (Beatrice), Fiddler on the Roof (Tzeitel), Dancing at Lughnasa (Rose), The Lion in Winter (Alais), Kindertransport (Faith), A Palm Tree in a Rose Garden (Lila), Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

(Nina), Romeo and Juliet (Benvolio), and The Merchant of Venice (Jessica). She can also be seen in commercials for Walt Disney World and Universal Studios. Much love and gratitude to S and R for their boundless love and support.

DAVID A. MCELROY (Jason) is an actor, playwright, and director.

Jack Kerouac End of the Road, written with Steve A. Rowell, has had productions throughout the U.S. Coming up the 23rd year of his A One Man A Christmas Carol. He has written and performed: Oscar Wilde’s DeProfundis, The Dream of Charles Hosmer Morse and The Waterhouse Ghost. David appeared as Dicky in A Time to Go Walking, at the Dangerous Theatre in Sanford.

He was a frazzled professor in the short film Clown College, Supreme Court Judge Robert Jackson in a PBS docudrama The Groveland Four, and a deranged killer in the short film: Hunter. David is the Co-Founder of Southern Winds Theatre. He is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

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sapience by Diana Burbano DEVAN SEAMAN (AJ) is a local Orlando actor who previously appeared at Mad Cow Theatre in Rapture, Blister, Burn and the 2019 Science Play Festival reading of Incognito.

She is thrilled to perform in the first Women’s Voices Play Festival! She performs regularly at Universal Studios and SAK Comedy Lab.

MELANIE WHIPPLE (Wookie) is a professional actor and voice over artist. Favorite roles include: Hedda in Hedda Gabler, Odette in The Cortez Method, Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Lotty in Enchanted April. She is a long time performer at Disney and Universal stages. She received her degree in theatre from the Pennsylvania State University. Proud member of Actor’s Equity Association.

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association

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As I Was Not As I Am by Alice Hakvaag As I Was Not As I Am by Alice Hakvaag

Sunday, Aug 16, 3:00 p.m. $10 suggested donation Registration required

Laurel is sick. Her roommates want her to get better.

How do you help someone who can’t afford health insurance? Does it involve setting a car on fire?

As I Was, Not As I Am is mainly about queer roommates, headaches, clubbing, upstairs neighbors, fire, and washing machines; but it’s also about love: the kind that would make you do anything for each other.

ALICE HAKVAAG is a queer playwright, director, and actor based in Philadelphia, PA. She holds a BA in Theater from Temple University, was a recipient of the Kunal Nayyar Scholarship Award in 2018, and is a proud Ring of Keys member. Her short play, Atrytone, premiered at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival in 2019, and has gone on to be produced through Mal-Adjusted Theatre Company in 2020. Other works have gone through Elephant Room Production’s new play workshop series, Elephant Ears Reading Series, as well as the End of Play initiative through Dramatists Guild and the 24 Hour Play’s readings. When she isn’t writing, she’s probably doing something else in theatre, and when she isn’t doing that, she’s playing Dungeons and Dragons.

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As I Was Not As I Am by Alice Hakvaag Directed by Tara Kromer Dramaturgy by Meredith Bartmon Laurel.................................................................................Mandi Jo John* Melissa..................................................................................Julie Snyder Zarya................................................................................. Fabiola Rivera Jeanine................................................................................. Stevie Davis Stage Manager............................................................. Rantea Thompson TARA KROMER (Director) Recent Directing credits include: Violet (Garden Theatre), It Shoulda Been You (Studio Theatre Tierra Del Sol), The Super Variety Match Bonus Round, My Pal Bette (Orlando Fringe), Miracle in Bedford Falls, The Giver, A Year with Frog and Toad, Polkadots: The Cool Kids Musical (Orlando Rep), Into the Woods, Little Shop of Horrors, Greater Tuna, Wait Until Dark (Athens Theatre).

Tara is also the props and puppetry designer for Orlando Rep and freelances in directing and sound design. She is a member of AEA and an Associate Member of SDC. For more information about Tara’s work, visit www.tarakromer.com.

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association

RANTEA EMIR THOMPSON (Stage Manager) Graduated from The American Musical and Dramatic Academy and has been seen in various productions and cabarets including “Hairspray” and “Ragtime”. She can also be seen in “The Deuce” on HBO, “Bull” on CBS, and “Quantico” on CBS. Although Rantea continues to perform, she has been working backstage as a producer, writer, stage manager, and director.

She directed and produced her first play “Independence: A Play in Two Acts “ by Lee Blessing and will be producing her second show in 202.

EMIR Productions was made out of her need to find a community that challenges the way people of color are perceived in theatre as well as help people who grew up humble, like her, to not give up on their dreams. Follow her for more updates on Instagram @ranteat and @emirproductions.

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As I Was Not As I Am by Alice Hakvaag STEVIE JAE DAVIS (Jeanine) (They/Them) is a Queer, Non-Binary actor, collaborator and playwright.

They graduated from Temple University for Acting in 2018. Prior to Quarantine they were a part of the developmental readings of Off-Broadway bound Musicals 10 Days in a Madhouse and Maxa: The Maddest Woman in the World.

They have been involved in quite a few readings and virtual productions throughout quarantine including the Socially Isolated Reading Series and the Going Viral Festival.

They split their time between NYC and Philadelphia. In Philadelphia they are co-founder of an all queer/ trans theater company, Theater Oblivion!

MANDI JO JOHN (Laurel) is a Florida native and graduate of the University of Central Florida Conservatory of Theatre, Mandi Jo has traveled the world performing theatre and opera. Now a new mom and an artist advocate, Mandi Jo is now focused on amplifying the

voices of black women in entertainment through her organization Black Theatre Girl Magic. Past credits include Urinetown, Guys and Dolls, and Doubt.

FABIOLA RIVERA (Zarya) is super excited to be working with Mad Cow once again! She has worked for both Universal Studios Orlando and Walt Disney World in the shows Sing It! and Awesome Mix Live! Some of her favorite theatre roles include: Adela in La casa de Bernarda Alba (Mad Cow Theatre); Carla in In the Heights; Jill in Equus; and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet. Fabiola would like to thank her friends for supporting and loving her unconditionally and her roommates for not getting sick of her just yet throughout this time of quarantine. Instagram: @holafabiola JULIE SNYDER (Melissa) is an actor, improviser, and creator residing in New England after ten years in Central Florida. Favorite Roles include: Veronica (God of Carnage — Florida Theatrical Association), Natasha (3

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1st Annual Women’s Voices Play Festival Sisters- MCT), and Judy (Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime — Apollinaire Theatre Company).

When not onstage, Julie performs as a simulation specialist (improvising with digital avatars) for Mursion, Inc-finally proving to her mother that all of those video games were, in fact, vital to her career.www.juliannesnyder.com Thank you to our Dramaturgs for providing valuable support to the playwrights, directors, and actors involved on this project!

MEREDITH BARTMON (Dramaturg) is a Dramaturg and Actor based in Palm Beach County.

What a joy it is to celebrate storytelling with the Women’s Voices Festival and Mad Cow Theatre. I’m so thrilled to be making space for new work during this intense interim normal. Dramaturgy credits include Urbanite Theatre, FIU’s The Greenhouse, Palm Beach Dramaworks, FAU Theatre Lab and Florida Stage.

Meredith is a member of Actors Equity, Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of America, and UK Equity.

She earned her MA from East 15 Acting School in London and her BFA from New World School of the Arts in Miami.

ANDREA KOVICH (Dramaturg) is a Seattle-based freelance dramaturg and writer. She self-identifies as a disabled artist and is passionate about collaborating with traditionally marginalized voices to promote diversity and inclusion. Past projects include production dramaturgy for Book-It Repertory Theatre, Taproot Theatre Company, and Sound Theatre Company. Other projects include curating a staged reading series focused on Deaf and Disabled playwrights, script reader for several new play festivals, and has done new work development for Umbrella Project and The Scratch.

Andrea is a member of LMDA (Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas).

Thank you to our Readers who evaluated 140 plays to help us produce this festival in only two months!

Betsey Maupin, Be Boyd, Cynthia Beckert, Max Pinsky, Sarah Matthews, Bill Boles, Hilary Cooperman, Sarah Whitten, Eric Zivot, Katherine Sanderlin, Howard Vincent Kurtz, Patrick Brezyan, DJ Salisbury, Melyssa Hall, Gemma Waldon

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1st Annual Women’s Voices Play Festival DONORS LIST

Business Circle CORPORATE ANGEL Adirondack Scenery Alternative Dispute Resolution Center of Central Florida Amazon Hose & Rubber Company ArtReach Orlando Baker, Hyatt, Homrich & Lokvic, P.A. in memory of Bob Stonerock Bywater Management Co. Carousel Workshop ClassAct Studios Clear Channel CNL Financial Group Creative Zing Promotion Group Direct One Effective Financial Services Inc.

Florida Theatrical Association Holland & Knight LLP Joanne King Design Kres Chophouse Majors Motors/M Bar MBI Direct Mail Miller’s Hardware Network For Good Odd-o-Ts’ Entertainment in honor of all those who keep us performing!

Orange County Arts & Cultural Affairs Remixed Sleuths Mystery Dinner Theatre, Inc.

State of Florida Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs Ten Thousand Villages of Winter Park Terracon The Burnett Honors College at UCF The Hinsdale Group The Walt Disney Company Foundation The Walt Disney Foundation Walt Disney World Resort Watermark Publishing Group White Wolf Cafe Wow! Works International

Black & White Bash BLACK & WHITE BASH 2020 CORPORATE SPONSORS Godfrey Legal J. Meyers Insurance Agency Mid-Florida Credit Union

ODEIA Theatre Management System The Walt Disney Company WUCF

BLACK & WHITE BASH 2020 DONORS Maria Elena Augustin Lara Baker Wendy Blair Christine Bowen Annalise Carty Laurie Clark Aurora DeMarco Mary Dunleavy Eileen Dworkin Meredith Egan Anna Eskamani Gloria Gladieux Biff Godfrey

Kathy Godfrey Tom Hurst Arlene Hutton Florian Jentsch Kathy Koons Leland Krause Susan Ledlow David W Lowe Alison Lunsford James Lussier Elizabeth Maupin Barbara Maxwell Mitzi Maxwell

Charlotte McCormick Audrey McGowen Denise Meneghelli Whitney Morse James Mullen Donna Mylrea Lauren Nelson Linnea Nelson Jennafer Newberry Terry Olson Lenore Roland Catherine Rothe Nicole Sargent

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Mike Schneider Alan Sheppard Judith Stern Ronald T Hirsch Michael Tedesco Alan Wilson Angela Withers Karel Wright Ariel Zambrano

Family and Individual THE HOLSTEIN HERITAGE SOCIETY

Sandy Neubarth PLATINUM $25,000 AND UP

Anonymous

Holland & Knight

GOLD CIRCLE $10,000 – $24,999

Michael Schneider Dr. Joseph & Susan Warren

Anonymous Frank Doherty Shelby Norwich SILVER CIRCLE $9,999 – $5,999

Mary Kelsh Judith Thompson Lee & Wendy Zehngebot

Pamela Aniello Margaret Jane Brownlee Michael & Jennifer Coleman

PRODUCER’S CIRCLE $2,500 – $4,999 Anonymous Leslie Boles Universal Orlando

Kerby Pickens John Rigsby

Steve Rivers Rafael Torres

DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE $1,000 – $2,499 Sheryl Batchelder Minter Byrd Steven Clawson Jeffrey Cohen Austin Commercial Ann H. Cook Addition Financial Thomas & Kathleen Gillman Kathy & Biff Godfrey

Jim & Freddi Goodrich Michael Haddad Dan Hitt Dean Johnson Charline Kennedy Elizabeth Maupin Susan McKenna Janet Mechlin William Newkirk

Jane Oatway John O’Brien Deede Sharpe & John Parker Deborah Randall Kimberly Sterling Joan & Joel Strickland L. Karenna Senors Nancy Hutson & Pat Williams

ARTIST’S CIRCLE $500 – $999 Norman & Donna Abramson Kay Allen Sheila Arnold Maria-Elena Augustin Marc & Jill Craddock Brenda Dalman & Rudi Moerck

The Walt Disney Company Foundation James Lussier Benevity Community Impact Fund Deena Breed Jan Bowman Jerry Burnley

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Karen Castelloes Brian Chambers Robert Dipboye Rosemary DuRocher Rosemary Gates The Hance Family David & Nancy Harvey

ARTIST’S CIRCLE $500 – $999 (continued) Georgiana Havill John Horn Libby Jackson Bette Jore Robert & Judith Kemp Susan Ledlow David Lowe Joann Marks Barbara Maxwell Thomas Ouellette

George Poelker & Judy sBlack David Piatt Lenore Roland Alison Royle Maria Rubin Kristina Kise Rygwalski Melanie Sylvan Sachs Lindsay Siebert Kathleen & John Simpson Barbara J. Smith

Dennis Sobeck Kimberly Sutton Sigrid Tiedtke Trudy Wild Daniel Wise Leighton Yates Edward Zissman

ARTIST’S CIRCLE $500 – $999 Norman & Donna Abramson Kay Allen Sheila Arnold Maria-Elena Augustin Marc & Jill Craddock Brenda Dalman & Rudi Moerck The Walt Disney Company Foundation James Lussier Benevity Community Impact Fund

Deena Breed Jan Bowman Jerry Burnley Karen Castelloes Brian Chambers Robert Dipboye Rosemary DuRocher Rosemary Gates The Hance Family David & Nancy Harvey Georgiana Havill John Horn Libby Jackson Bette Jore

Robert & Judith Kemp Susan Ledlow David Lowe Joann Marks Barbara Maxwell Thomas Ouellette George Poelker & Judy Black David Piatt Lenore Roland Alison Royle Maria Rubin Kristina Kise Rygwalski Melanie Sylvan Sachs

Lindsay Siebert Kathleen & John Simpson Barbara J. Smith Dennis Sobeck Kimberly Sutton Sigrid Tiedtke Trudy Wild Daniel Wise Leighton Yates Edward Zissman

James Lussier Ken & Trisha Margeson James Mullen Christy Mullins & Polly Purgason Robert & Marianne Murphy Jimmie Leonard Raughton Russ Reader

Nancy Sabetini John Simpson Annemmarie Smith Cynthia Schleier Stacia Wake Robert Zollinger

HOLY COW $250 – $499 Robin Baab Hohman Dr. Cori Baill Barbara Blake Louise Cook Earl Crittenden Judy Doyle & Bob Shaw in Memory of Katie Doyle Robert Galano Edward Gilbert

Patrick Hanna Stephen & Ruth Ann Heller Margaret Hickson Ron Hirsch & Betty Reid Erica Johnson Jeffrey & Rebecca Junod Penilope Krain Gordon Lange K.H. Loo

Listing in the program for $250+ donations Listing reflects donations from August 17, 2018 through July 30,2020.

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