| Thursday Jun 25, 2015 8:00 PM - Saturday Jul 11, 2015 8:00 PM | $10.00 |
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Loud and Unladylike
Loud and Unladylike is a staged reading festival featuring new plays by local playwrights Rachel Bublitz, Claire Rice, and Tracy Held Potter about historically significant, but lesser known women. These are women who have transcended the stereotype of what it means to be a 'lady'. There will be two staged readings of each play with re-writes in between.
"A is for Adeline" inspired by the life of Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, written by Tracy Held Potter, directed by Rebecca Ennals (June 25th and July 9th)
"The Effects of Ultraviolet Light" inspired by the life of Roger Arliner Young, written by Claire Ann Rice, directed by Ellery Schaar (June 26th and July 11th)
"Code Name: Brass Rose" inspired by the life of Nancy Wake, written by Rachel Bublitz, directed by Melinda Marks (June 27th and July 10th)
They are real people, women who have left their mark on history, through their contributions to the arts, sciences, politics, war, civil rights, and beyond. Their stories are not intended as museum pieces or propaganda, but as explorations of heartbreak and celebration, determination and failure, redemption and sacrifice. These women were not perfect, but were human beings with flaws, struggles, and strengths that deserve to be better known, and stories that deserve to be heard.
Loud and Unladylike was founded by Rachel Bublitz, Tracy Held Potter, and Claire Rice. Each year it will feature new plays by women playwrights, starting in 2015 with three plays by the founders.
Rachel's play will focus on New Zealand-born Nancy Wake, who was a British agent during WWII, a courier for the French Resistance, and a member of the Baker Street Irregulars - a British espionage and sabotage organization during the war.
Tracy's play will focus on Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, who was an American poet and writer of books for girls which espoused a traditional view of gender roles.
Claire's play will focus on Roger Arliner Young, who broke many barriers as the first African American woman to earn a doctoral degree in zoology. Young spent years caring for her invalid mother, while struggling to balance her own scientific career at the same time.
Rachel Bublitz is an internationally produced playwright. She founded the 31 Plays in 31 Days Project, is a Youth Ambassador for the Dramatists Guild of America, and has been a member of the PlayGround Writers' Pool since 2013. Her full length play The Fantasy Club was produced by All Terrain Theater in downtown San Francisco. Her short plays have been produced by Subversive Theatre Collective, San Jose Rep's Emerging Artist Lab (SJReal), Wily West Productions, Playwright's Center of San Francisco, Unity Stage Company, Playwrights Foundation, The One-Minute Play Festival, as well as many others. Rachel has been commissioned by both Custom Made Theatre Company and The San Francisco Olympians Festival. Her play My Body was published in The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2014. She is currently pursing an MA in English as well as an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. When Rachel isn't writing, she's chasing after her two viking-like children.
Tracy Held Potter writes for both the stage and screen. She founded All Terrain Theater, runs Play Cafe, and co-founded 31 Plays in 31 Days. Her work has been produced by the Bay One-Acts Festival, SF Fringe Festival (Best of Fringe 2013), All Terrain Theater, and the Opera Theater Pittsburgh (aria "Newbie Sally"). She won multiple awards for staged readings of her plays at Monday Night PlayGround. Her screenplay "Science Fair the Musical" won a prize from the Alfred P. Sloan Screenwriting Competition at Carnegie Mellon University, and her web series "Merritt Squad" is currently in production. She is a Dramatic Writing MFA candidate at Carnegie Mellon with Rob Handel.
Claire Rice is a playwright and director. She has worked with Thunderbird Theatre Company, No Nude Men, Three Wise Monkeys, PianoFight, AtmosTheatre, Wiley West Productions, San Francisco Theater Pub, San Francisco Olympians Theatre Festival, Custom Made Theatre Company, DIVAFest and is co-founder of Ann Marie Productions. She recently directed Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them by Christopher Durang for Custom Made Theatre and is currently directing Kristin Hersh's Rat Girl adapted for the stage by Stuart Bousel for DIVAfest. Her plays include Sex in the Next Room, Woman Come Down, The Carmine Lie, It Ain't Me, Water Line, Demeter's Daughter, Pride and Succubus and Ares and Eris. Claire graduated from Eastern New Mexico University with a BFA in Performance. before moving to San Francisco to earn her MFA in Playwriting from SF State. She lives and works in San Francisco with her wonderful husband.
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156 Eddy Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
United States
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