10 Minute Play

"Love ~ The Human Comedy" August 7 -10, 2008 8 pm except Sunday @ 2 pm only A Festival of 6 10-minute Plays For Advance Tickets: 583-1674 or Mad River Chamber of Commerce or email Mature Theme and Language This was a great show! Hopefully we'll do something just like it again!!!
The Plays, The Directors, The Cast Photos by Kitty Werner
“Recuerdo” by Judith Estrine...................... Director: Anne Dillon, Waitsfield Cast: Nina Brennan Zebulon Towne Accidental meeting in airport of former lovers who discover what the treachery of memory and the relentless passage of time can do.
“The Kindling Effect” by Linda Holland Rathkopf.. Director: Vickie Trihy Cast: Linda Iannuzzi, Waitsfield Josh Krushenick, Warren A young wife’s surprising agitation over the disappearance of a patio umbrella puzzles her husband and tries his patience. But as he and the audience soon discover, her distress has a more serious source.
“Sweet Potato Pie(s)” by Nancy Gall-Clayton.......... Director: Henry Erickson Cast: Krista Cheney, St George Francis Moran, Moretown She calls it "a smell," he considers it "an aroma," but ultimately, their blind date isn't a total bust. Breaking bread with a blind date can be dicey.
“First Tier” by Linda Holland Rathkopf.......................... Director: Mitchell Kontoff, Fayston Cast: Mike McHugh, Waitsfield Diana Nordahl, Waitsfield A married couple test the limits of friendship.
“Blockbuster” by Kitty Dubin.......................................... Director: Martin Pincus, Montpelier Cast: Nina Brennan Josh Krushenick, Warren Sparks fly when a man and woman, with very different taste in films, meet at a video store.
“The Joy of Sex” by Kitty Dubin.................................... Director: Linda Iannuzzi of Waitsfield Cast: Andra Kisler, Northfield Carly Boyle, Waitsfield Aidan Nevin, Moretown Married less than a year, a young couple seeks help from an upbeat marriage counselor who's in way over her head.

The Playwrights

Remember 6 Women@60 in 2006? Some of the playwrights are back at it again! They've written 6 short plays on the theme of love and relationships.

Kitty Dubin

Kitty is an award-winning playwright whose productions include Mirrors, The Last Resort, Change of Life, The Day We Met, Dance Like No One’s Watching, and Coming of Age. Her plays have been performed throughout the country. She was recently named Playwright in Residence at the Jewish Ensemble Theatre in West Bloomfield, Michigan where five of her plays have premiered. She will be having a staged reading of her latest play, The Blank Page, at the Performance Network Theatre in Ann Arbor Michigan in late August.

In New York City, Kitty has been a semi-finalist twice as well as a winner in the Turnip Festival of Short Plays and was included in the American Playwright Theatre Festival. An evening of her one acts was also produced by Love Creek Theatre in New York. She received a Jewish Woman in the Arts Award for lifetime achievement in the Detroit Metropolitan area as well as two individual artist grants in playwriting from the Michigan Council of Arts. She has been teaching classes in playwriting at Oakland University for the past eleven years and is a popular speaker at writers’ conferences. Kitty had a wonderful time in Waitsfield with 6 Women @ 60 and is delighted to be back!

Kitty’s play in 6 Women @ 60 was "Mimi and Me

Nancy Gall-Clayton:

Nancy won the Streisand Festival of New Jewish Plays (General Orders No. 11) and the Eileen Heckart Drama for Seniors Competition (Felicity). Just Taking Up Space was a mainstage production at Kentucky Repertory Theatre. Nancy has been a Finalist three times for Actors Theatre of Louisville Heideman Prize. Her work has been supported by Pleiades Theatre Company, the Kentucky Foundation for Women, and the Kentucky Arts Council. She is published by Dramatists Publishing, Meriwether, and Smith & Kraus. She is a member of the Intl Centre for Women Playwrights and Dramatists Guild.

Nancy's play in 6 Women @ 60 was "Felicity's Family Tree"

Judith Estrine

Judith is the author of Pinochle & Roses, which received a NYC Equity showcase, and was short listed, as a teleplay, for the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. Ghost Mommy was a winner of the Renaissance League Festival and received two staged readings at the Dramatists Guild. Nothing Personal, a 10-minute play, was performed at Friars Club in Manhattan and published by Brooklyn Publishing. She & He, which was also performed at the Friars Club, won first place at Nantucket’s Annual Short Play Competition and had staged readings nationally, including in Waitsfield. A short film version of She & He was accepted in the LA International Short Film Festival and has been shown at film festivals nationally. Judith is working with Donna Guthrie, also of 6 Women @ 60 on SilverStreaks, a documentary about older women runners. She is co-author of Midlife: A Manual (Elements Books, USA: Chrysalis Publications, UK), which was translated into several languages and distributed internationally. She is executive editor at the International Longevity-USA nonprofit research center. Judith is a member of the Dramatists Guild. She is delighted to be back in Waitsfield!

Judith's play in 6 Women @ 60 was "She and He"

Linda Holland Rathkopf

Linda was semi-finalist in the 2007 Eileen Heckert Drama for Seniors competition with First Tier. Her plays have been produced in New York, and Who Stole the Mona Lisa? is in the archives in the Louvre, France. Linda’s other genres include short stories and her illustrated children’s book Great Jewish Enjoy-A-Trivia Book for Kids. In addition to theater and writing, Linda is an award-winning fine artist/illustrator. Her fine art has been in galleries throughout the Northeast. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild. Linda's play for 6 Women @ 60 was The Airport Encounter.