from boston – Our voices together

Contact: Regina Eliot-Ramsay (617) 558-5554
elram0416@comcast.net
Date of Event: May 17, 2008

2nd Annual Our Voices Together Play Festival at Wellesley College features Local Women Playwrights

WELLESLEY, MA: Nine Boston-area women will have their new plays featured in the 2nd Annual Our Voices Together Festival hosted by Wellesley Summer Theatre in the Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre, May 17, 2008 at 7:00 p.m.

This evening of staged readings is co-sponsored by Playwrights’ Platform, Boston and the International Centre for Women Playwrights’ for the purpose of highlighting plays by women. All the playwrights are members of Playwrights’ Platform, a Boston-based cooperative developmental theatre group. Featured playwrights include: Ludmilla Anselm (Boston), Kelly DuMar (Sherborn), Hortense Gerardo (Boston), Geralyn Horton (Newton), Holly Jensen (Providence, RI), Regina Eliot Ramsay (Newton), Phyllis Rittner (Watertown), Ellen Davis Sullivan (Andover), and Lida McGirr (Concord).

Following the plays, playwrights Chris King and Kelly DuMar will moderate a discussion with the audience about the development of the plays as well as how the theatrical culture can be influenced to be more receptive to producing plays by women.
The event was funded by a grant from the International Centre for Women Playwrights

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Web links for more info:
www.wellesleysummertheatre.com
http://www.netspace.org/~icwp/boston2007.html#march3
www.playwrightsplatform.org