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ICWP BUSINESS
The Annual Meeting 2007 was held on
an online forum At the meeting we set about to establish the new Board of
Trustees. The elections were held at the online meeting in May of 2007. THE
ICWP Inc. BOARD OF TRUSTEES as of June
2007 President: Vice-President:
Vice-President: Geralyn
Horton
Secretary:
Literary Manager & Director of
Outreach Emily
Cicchini AUSTIN,
Membership Secretary Marie-Jeanne
Pense Director of Outreach Lucia
Verona Members at
Large Rachel
Rubin Ladutke
(publisher of Seasons) Tanja Pineda (Public
Relations) Terri
Febuary Naranjargal
Khaskhuu Board
Biographies PADDY
GILLARD-BENTLEY Paddy Gillard-Bentley has been
active in most aspects of theatre since she was in her first play, Time Out
For Ginger (her mum was four months pregnant with her). She is a playwright/producer. She has had a
full length play, Shaking the Dew from the Lilies produced in both She was in Writer's Bloc, a
playwright's group affiliated with Theatre & Company for four years. She is the founder and Artistic Director of
Flush Ink Productions, a company active in Ontario known for its exciting
street theatre event, Asphalt Jungle Shorts.
Paddy lives in KRISTEN LAZARIAN PLAYWRITING: Full length plays: Push, Love Like Blue,
Inviting Karma, Between You & Me, Janey Meet Janey, Heads or Tails.
Short play collections include: Sophisticated Barflies &
Other Short Plays and many others.
Publications include Best Stage Scenes 1999 and the Laguna Review. RELATED ACTIVITIES: ICWP member since
1997, member of the Dramatist Guild, the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights,
and the Armenian Dramatic Arts Alliance, Published freelance writer, theatre
critic, and editor, Worked for Leadership America as editor of publications
and helped develop a magazine for women in business. BACKGROUND & OTHER FUN
FACTS: Native of Southern California, residing in EDUCATION: BA in English & Communication Studies, GERALYN (G.L.) HORTON I've written and directed and
acted in plays for longer than I care to recall-- mostly
in church basements. After a working life that included jobs
from acting teacher to waitress to museum guide to trolley operator to a
decade as an adjunct college English/study skills Instructor, I'm now
enjoying the Useful nonprofit ‘jobs’ have
included being advisor to a UU church youth group
and membership on the Worship Committee; various low- level political
activities such as poll watching, petition circulating and envelope stuffing;
20 plus years of board membership and programming for the Boston writers¹
group Playwright¹s Platform, about 10 years on the production committee for
its annual Festival, and maintaining PP¹s early web site-- which has improved
a lot since I turned it over to somebody who is better at it than I
am! For ICWP
I have womanned tables at WPI
conferences and helped to organize Boston¹s Hur-rah!
mini conference. I've written somewhere between 50
and 100 plays since my first full length, written when I was 14. While
finishing college in Unit II. My writing career
high point may have been the summer of 1990, when my play set in a Boston
abortion clinic, ‘Under Siege’ (aka ‘Choices’) was
picked for the Sundance Lab, and I rubbed shoulders with Robert Redford and
the ‘emerging’ Tony Kushner. Acting high points include an
abundance of premieres. Besides the American premieres of Rona Munro's
"Bold Girls", Marina Carr's "Portia Coughlan" Liz Lockhead's
"Perfect Days", and Robin Soans’ ‘Talking
To Terrorists²-- all at the SuganTheatre-- I¹ve
appeared in dozens-- maybe hundreds-- of new plays written by colleagues
stretching back to my college days, including an Edinburgh Fringe stint
in "Martha Mitchell", a musical monologue about Watergate written
for me by Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro in 1987.
We¹ve revived it and are touring it again: booking suggestions welcome! Dozens of my play scripts--
most of them workshopped at Playwrights' Platform
-- are published on a web site at <www.stagepage.info,
along with over 150 free monologues for actors. Through the Web,I¹ve had productions in In terms of service to ICWP, I¹m better at limited-term tasks than regular
recurring duties that require a well-regulated work life. I tend to
lose track of time. How did it get to be June already? Is
this really 2006???? JENNI MUNDAY I am an Australian performing
artist, and create work for my performing group, Elbow Room. When I say, my performing group, that
happens to be those friends and colleagues I gather to create specific
projects. The works are usually
multimedia drama performances for non-traditional venues - like the last
piece was created mostly to tour to I have written a couple of
short plays, but only a couple have been
performed. I am completing my doctoral
study "Adapting the novel for live
performance" which includes the adaptation of the novel Vita Brevis by Jostein Gaarder. I'm on the academic staff at KIT WAINER Theater I am a founding member of 3rd
Floor Productions, a women’s playwriting and producing group in Ithaca, NY,
and one of 2 humans in an ever changing group of politically incorrect and
pharmaceutically impaired puppets (PIPS).
Though I haven’t ventured out of state yet, my short plays have been
produced in a number of cities in Finance Here’s how it began: fresh out
of high school, I went to the EMILY CICCHINI Emily is an award-winning
writer of over 20 plays and scripts (Austin Critic's Table Award, B. Iden Payne Award, The New Harmony Project, Nicholl Fellowship finalist), and has been published through
Dramatic. Her work has been seen at Bloomington Playwright's Project, BoarsHead: Michigan
Public Theatre, Capitol City Playhouse, The Cleveland Play House,
Florida Studio Theatre, Frontera @ Hyde Park
Theatre, The Pollyanna Theatre Company (where she is playwright in
residence), The State/Live Oak Theatre, and She was a James A. Michener Fellow at the MARIE-JEANNE PENSE WRITING: Musicals, young adult drama, full-length,
one-acts. One production in 2005. ICWP: Member since
2004. Membership Director since 2005. OTHER ORGANIZATIONS: Girlfriends Unlimited (non-profit
organization), ASCAP, Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI). (Hopefully Dramatists Guild soon). SKILLS: Writing, editing. PREVIOUS CAREER: Restaurant Manager, customer service. SPECIAL INTERESTS: I have a strong passion for Massage Therapy
(getting my license soon). CURRENT PROJECTS: Musicals
(two full-length). FAMILY: Married 10 years; 3 children(daughter-8,
son-6, son-4); pet parakeet (Little Bits) LUCIA
The
book of plays “Grand Hotel Europa” was awarded the
playwriting prize of the Bucharest Writers’ Association for the year 2000. Elected
last year president of the playwriting and theatrical criticism section of
the Bucharest Writers’ Association (for a 4 year term). Member
of ICWP since January 2006, elected member of Board
in May 2006. Other
interests and skills: travel, gastronomy, web design, music, politics, social
policies (not necessarily in this
order) RACHEL RUBIN LADUTKE BACKGROUND: Native of -
M.A. in Theatre from CUNY/Hunter College, 2000, -
B.A. in English Dramatic Literature/Theatre from -
National Theatre Institute -
Eugene O’Neill RELATED
ACTIVITIES Editor,
INSIGHT FOR PLAYWRIGHTS, a monthly marketing newsletter ICWP Board
Member since 2000 - Membership Director (2000-2004), Membership
Secretary (2004-2006), now Member at Large, Editor of SEASONS quarterly
newsletter Founder/Artistic
Director of TwinFish Productions, a non-profit -
Full length plays: GRACE NOTES, THE BELLES OF THE MILL, CLARY’S EXODUS,
THE UNDERSTANDING KATHY COUDLE KING Born in Kathy has written close to
forty plays. Seven were commissioned
by nonprofit organizations, and she has enjoyed productions of her work at
both academic and medical conferences.. Her work has been performed in 12
states. In 2006, her full-length play
“St. Bette’s” was named a finalist for the Sienna College Play Development
contest, a semi-finalist for the ATHE new play
readings. In 2007, “Trees” benefitted from development at Publications include “Judith
& Janey” in the literary journal, Sojourn, and
“Thick Thighs Anonymous,” in Smith & Kraus’s 222 in 2 minutes (2005),
and “Cookie” in Women’s Monologues Vol. II, (Merriweather
Press, forthcoming, 2007). Kathy is
also the author of the novel Wannabe (Creative Arts Book Co.;
Berkeley, 2000), and has written a number of screenplays which have earned
her a number of awards in nationally recognized contests, including a
semi-finalist nod for the prestigious Nicholl’s and
Chesterfield fellowships. Kathy believes in the power of
theatre to reach audiences on a variety of issues. To this end she has worked with youth
writing a play for the ARC’ Sib Shop, as well as a local community violence
organization in addressing issues of stalking and domestic violence. In 2004, she co-founded the ND Playwrights’ Co-op
as a way to nurture and support other playwrights living in the state of NARANJARGAL KHASKHUU Special note. MARGARET ‘MAGS’ McSEVENEY Leaving
us, but not gone, is Margaret McSeveney. She has been gears behind ICWP for many years.
She has been a member of the list since 1998, and an ICWP member since 1999.
She was the main List Administrator from 2002 - 2005. She joined the board in 2000, and has
worked diligently to make ICWP the wonderful
organization it is. She has held the
positions - Secretary, Director of Communications and Interim
Vice-President. She was also ICWP Seasons Newsletter publisher, web-team member,
database maintainer, chair-education committee, Administrator – Member and
Event Manager and attended International Women Playwrights Conferences in I can't
even mention the board members she has guided and taught since her
involvement, but The Board of Trustees, and the Membership of ICWP is thrilled to know they always have Mags as a Mags, you
have been a vital force in creating something wonderful here. I am so grateful for you, and on behalf of
the Board of Trustees, the Membership and everyone on the list who has been
helped by you, or learned valuable things from you... Thank
you! In
addition we have the services of Laura
Henry (non-board member), who converts to HTML and publishes the
Newsletter on the ICWP website. Sandra Hosking has been wonderful in keeping up the contact
list. I can’t tell you how often I
refer to those emails to find someone.
Sarah Bewley did a great job as the List Administrator. Thank you to all of you for your past and continued
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