PASSING PARADES…OR THE CASE OF THE SOLE SURVIVING SUFFRAGIST
I’ve taken up the cause and am joining the League of Professional Theatre Women at Jefferson Market Library for a reading of Fengar Gael’s new play. You’ll find me in the lead role of Lydia/Lily, an idealistic young woman who undergoes a radical transformation after a bomb shatters the lives of marchers gathered to celebrate the centennial of women’s suffrage.
I am finding it very apt to be performing this piece at the Jefferson Market Library, the site of of the former Women’s House of Detention in Manhattan. I am thinking about the many women who were imprisoned there on the yet endless road to equality, and I am grateful. December 11, 6pm.
Meghann with Co-Star Nathaniel Jackson on an Ithacan adventure. It’s true what they say, Ithaca really is gorges.
I headed to Ithaca, NY to continue the development of Elizabeth Seldin’s film “Pattern Interrupt”. I had been developing the role of Taylor in the film from it’s very first living room reading as an original play and then in development again at the barn of the Eugene O’Neill Center and now through it’s new life imagined on camera on a retreat in the wilds of Ithaca, NY. Stay tuned as the web of relationships, healing, and transitions play out while a hurricane descends, leaving these twenty somethings trapped in a Brooklyn apartment to reckon with it all. The wealth of relationships in this story and deeply complex characters are beginning to shift from a feature into an episodic and I am thrilled to be along for the ride.
I perform in Krista Knight's short play "Barbed-wire Minute" with Veronique Jean-Marie directed by Abigail Hirsch as part of Everyday Inferno Theatre Company's "If on a Winter's Night...".
“If on a Winter’s Night…” is an annual evening of performance, community, charity, fundraising, and frivolity. The night features fully-staged readings of new plays all directed by women, a raffle with awesome prizes, and a donation drive of menstrual products to donate to vulnerable communities. The evening serves as a fundraiser for Everyday Inferno's 2018 season, "Going Home" and is in partnership with RACKET: Periods Without Shame.
It is a night that brings together the Everyday Inferno community, new friends, and activism, and it is my absolute favorite event of the year.
I’ll be at Access Theatre in an excerpt from Owen Panettieri's "Meaningful Conversations" for Darkroom Series 15 produced by New Light Theatre Project.
I play "Lydia" in Owen Panettieri's "Meaningful Conversations". Myself, Amy Jo Jackson, and Evan Maltby will be performing a scene from Owen's play directed by Anaïs Koivisto as part of Darkroom Series 15 produced by New Light Theatre Project. Tickets are free with a suggested donation of $5. Join everyone at Access Theatre for a nice little art party featuring excerpts of new work from invited artists in the indie theatre community. Complete with music and revelry. Playing Thursday January 18th and Friday January 19th 8pm at Access Theatre
Just around the corner is my stage-debut as a lamp. I have the immense pleasure of bringing another one of Reina Hardy’s characters to life as "Only" in her new play Glassheart with Everyday Inferno Theatre Company opening at Access Theater on October 20th.
Imagine this tale as old as time, but Beauty never showed up. Centuries after the curse, the Beast and his last remaining magical servant (Only, played by me) are holed up in a ramshackle apartment, managed by a mysterious landlady with a suspicious taste for gingerbread. When an eligible maiden moves in next door, "happily ever after" feels agonizingly within reach, but we all know that in fairytales, nothing is exactly as it seems. Full of humor, magic, and belief in the life-altering power of love, Glassheart is a witty and decidedly adult take on a classic tale that explores the space between light and dark, and the sacrifices we make in search of an ordinary life.
