December 15th-18th at 8PM 2011 as part of the
Looking Glass Theatre's Writer/Director Forum.
Looking Glass Theatre's Writer/Director Forum.
HE SAYS HIS NAME IS JOHN is a frightening tale of young doctor who faces an all too familiar enemy.
Written by Laura Rohrman
Directed by Ashley Marie Scoles
With:
Caitlin Morris, Hazen Cuyler and Josiah Laubenstein
For more information/tickets check out the Looking Glass Theatre's Website at www.lookingglasstheatrenyc.com
422 West 57th Street
New York, NY 10019
(212) 307-9467
Written by Laura Rohrman
Directed by Ashley Marie Scoles
With:
Caitlin Morris, Hazen Cuyler and Josiah Laubenstein
For more information/tickets check out the Looking Glass Theatre's Website at www.lookingglasstheatrenyc.com
422 West 57th Street
New York, NY 10019
(212) 307-9467
Questions? Contact us at: nonirohr@gmail.com
He Says His Name Is John will be presented in an evening with three other one-acts written and directed by women.
Performances: Friday, June 3rd at 8:45 pm;
Sunday, June 5th at 4:00 pm;
and Sunday, June 12 at 8:00 pm
Sunday, June 5th at 4:00 pm;
and Sunday, June 12 at 8:00 pm
Reporter Girl is Laura Rohrman’s full-length play about the first female syndicated cartoonist Dale Messick, who created the famous cartoon strip Brenda Starr Reporter in 1940. Directed by Erica Gould (world premiere of Neil LaBute’s autobahn), the play weaves together a narrative spanning four decades of real family history, actual cartoon strip plot-lines and characters and fantasy to paint a vivid portrait of a creator, a woman and a mother.
Reporter Girl starts out with a sexy re-imagining of Dale’s life in the 1940’s just as her career was taking off and follows her through the decades as she broke through countless barriers and paved the way not just for other female cartoonists who followed her, but also for women in all professions around the world. Brenda Starr -- her sexy heroine -- was a woman in her own right who didn’t live by the rules society imposed on women in the 40s and 50s when the majority of women stayed at home, balancing the family and the kids while their husbands went on conquering the world.
Yet this trailblazing came at a steep price. Reporter Girl examines what creativity and mold-breaking meant for Dale and her own family, her daughter and granddaughter, and what she may have given up to get what she always wanted. Love, betrayal, misogyny, the blurring of the line between fantasy and reality -- this play has it all.
Reporter Girl is a Weissberger Award nominee, a Princess Grace and O’Neil Finalist among other award and citations. Laura Rohrman, the playwright, is the maternal granddaughter of Dale Messick.
Reporter Girl will perform Friday, June 3rd at 8:45pm; Sunday, June 5th at 4:00pm and Sunday, June 12th at 8:00pm as part of The Comic Book Theater Festival at The Brick Theater.
Tickets ($10) may be purchased online at www.bricktheater.com or by calling 866-811-4111.
Brick Theater
575 Metropolitan Avenue
between Union Avenue and Lorimer Street
Brooklyn, NY[ Map ]
Reporter Girl starts out with a sexy re-imagining of Dale’s life in the 1940’s just as her career was taking off and follows her through the decades as she broke through countless barriers and paved the way not just for other female cartoonists who followed her, but also for women in all professions around the world. Brenda Starr -- her sexy heroine -- was a woman in her own right who didn’t live by the rules society imposed on women in the 40s and 50s when the majority of women stayed at home, balancing the family and the kids while their husbands went on conquering the world.
Yet this trailblazing came at a steep price. Reporter Girl examines what creativity and mold-breaking meant for Dale and her own family, her daughter and granddaughter, and what she may have given up to get what she always wanted. Love, betrayal, misogyny, the blurring of the line between fantasy and reality -- this play has it all.
Reporter Girl is a Weissberger Award nominee, a Princess Grace and O’Neil Finalist among other award and citations. Laura Rohrman, the playwright, is the maternal granddaughter of Dale Messick.
Reporter Girl will perform Friday, June 3rd at 8:45pm; Sunday, June 5th at 4:00pm and Sunday, June 12th at 8:00pm as part of The Comic Book Theater Festival at The Brick Theater.
Tickets ($10) may be purchased online at www.bricktheater.com or by calling 866-811-4111.
Brick Theater
575 Metropolitan Avenue
between Union Avenue and Lorimer Street
Brooklyn, NY[ Map ]
Questions? Contact me at: nonirohr@gmail.com
The Waverly Writers Collective Present a workshop of Reporter Girl
as part of The Comic Book Theater Festival, June 2 – July 1, 2011
at the Brick Theater (575 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
as part of The Comic Book Theater Festival, June 2 – July 1, 2011
at the Brick Theater (575 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
Brenda Starr image ©Tribune Media Services, Inc.
8:00 PM, November 10th, 2010
THE WAVERLY WRITERS COLLECTIVE is pleased to announce its upcoming production of “A DELIGHTFUL NIGHT OF SOCIAL ROMANCE” — an evening of short plays presented as staged readings with some songs written by its members. The theme is celebrating the holidays with a twist.
“A DELIGHTFUL NIGHT OF SOCIAL ROMANCE” includes staged readings of two new one-act comedies by Laura Rohrman and one new one-act play written by Aurin Squire. Two new songs will also be presented, including “The Face Book” song written and performed by SARA ADLER.
In Laura Rohrman’s “Geisha School” directed by LI MURILLO, girls go wild online and off when studying to be Geishas in New York City.
“Cyberia” By Aurin Squire, directed by BRIAN HANSCOM goes into the deep blue mist of e-love, e-trade, and e-scape.
Laura Rohrman’s “How Don Draper Saved Christmas,” directed by MICHELLE PACE, might remind you of why you love Mad Men and Santa.
The performances are free. Manhattan Theatre Source suggests a donation of $10.00. For reservations please call 866-811-4111.
Manhattan Theatre Source
177 MacDougal Street, corner 8th street
New York, NY
http://theatresource.org/now_playing.php
“A DELIGHTFUL NIGHT OF SOCIAL ROMANCE” includes staged readings of two new one-act comedies by Laura Rohrman and one new one-act play written by Aurin Squire. Two new songs will also be presented, including “The Face Book” song written and performed by SARA ADLER.
In Laura Rohrman’s “Geisha School” directed by LI MURILLO, girls go wild online and off when studying to be Geishas in New York City.
“Cyberia” By Aurin Squire, directed by BRIAN HANSCOM goes into the deep blue mist of e-love, e-trade, and e-scape.
Laura Rohrman’s “How Don Draper Saved Christmas,” directed by MICHELLE PACE, might remind you of why you love Mad Men and Santa.
The performances are free. Manhattan Theatre Source suggests a donation of $10.00. For reservations please call 866-811-4111.
Manhattan Theatre Source
177 MacDougal Street, corner 8th street
New York, NY
http://theatresource.org/now_playing.php
Questions? Contact us at: nonirohr@gmail.com
The Waverly Writers Collective To Present A Delightful Night Of
Social Romance — a benefit for Manhattan Theatre Source
Social Romance — a benefit for Manhattan Theatre Source
6:00PM, Friday October 8th, 2010
HOBOKEN is a dark, psychological love story about Erica, a
lost actress on the wrong track and Jack, an Irish immigrant
with some very dark secrets. The play travels on many levels — addiction, love, dependency — and is both funny and
scary. This is a play about needing people to hold us together, no matter what they do to us in return.
RSVP at
nonirohr@gmail.com
The Dramatist Guild of America
The Frederick Loewe Room
1501 Broadway , Suite 701
New York, NY
RSVP at
nonirohr@gmail.com
The Dramatist Guild of America
The Frederick Loewe Room
1501 Broadway , Suite 701
New York, NY
Questions? Contact us at: nonirohr@gmail.com
The Dramatist Guild's Friday Night Footlight Series
a reading of Hoboken by Laura Rohrman
a reading of Hoboken by Laura Rohrman
May 10th, 11th and 12th, 2009
Waverly Writers & Wanderlust Productions with the Playground Development Series at Manhttan Theatre Source are pleased to announce the upcoming production of “FEMME FEAST”, a veritable feast of women playwrights, directors and actors, dancers, and musicians.
Performances are:
May 10th at 3:00 pm, and May 11th and 12th at 8:00 pm.
All tickets are $15.
For reservations please call
Ovation tix at: (212) 501.4751 or
order online: Order tickets
The Manhattan Theatre Source is located at
177 MacDougal Street,
between 8th Street and Waverly Place.
“FEMME FEAST” includes six new theatre pieces by women writers. In LACONIA KOERNER'S “TRUTH OR DARE”, directed by KATIE CARTER, two women consider labels and attraction during a seductive game of truth or dare. Women with surprising secret identities discuss marriage in LAURA ROHRMAN'S hilarious “MONSTERS BALL”, directed by MICHELE PACE. Playwright BEKAH BRUNSTETTER takes the audience on a train ride of her quarter-life crisis in “CONNECTICUT”, directed by MICHELLE BOSSY. Sisters contemplate a trip the zoo in “PANDA”, written by LISA EBERSOLE and directed by MICHELLE BOSSY. In “SENSES”, written and directed by LARA GOLD, two women deal with loss and remembrance with a pair of contrasting monologues. Writer and performer KEISHA ZOLLAR presents her whacky, original take on Martha Stewart with her very own “MARFA STUART SHOW”, directed by LARA GOLD, a ghetto way to get food in your tummy. Included with these theatre pieces will be a dramatic Butoh dance by STACEY LYNN, as well as musical guests Nikki and Irena.
Performances are:
May 10th at 3:00 pm, and May 11th and 12th at 8:00 pm.
All tickets are $15.
For reservations please call
Ovation tix at: (212) 501.4751 or
order online: Order tickets
The Manhattan Theatre Source is located at
177 MacDougal Street,
between 8th Street and Waverly Place.
“FEMME FEAST” includes six new theatre pieces by women writers. In LACONIA KOERNER'S “TRUTH OR DARE”, directed by KATIE CARTER, two women consider labels and attraction during a seductive game of truth or dare. Women with surprising secret identities discuss marriage in LAURA ROHRMAN'S hilarious “MONSTERS BALL”, directed by MICHELE PACE. Playwright BEKAH BRUNSTETTER takes the audience on a train ride of her quarter-life crisis in “CONNECTICUT”, directed by MICHELLE BOSSY. Sisters contemplate a trip the zoo in “PANDA”, written by LISA EBERSOLE and directed by MICHELLE BOSSY. In “SENSES”, written and directed by LARA GOLD, two women deal with loss and remembrance with a pair of contrasting monologues. Writer and performer KEISHA ZOLLAR presents her whacky, original take on Martha Stewart with her very own “MARFA STUART SHOW”, directed by LARA GOLD, a ghetto way to get food in your tummy. Included with these theatre pieces will be a dramatic Butoh dance by STACEY LYNN, as well as musical guests Nikki and Irena.
Questions? Visit nonirohr@gmail.com
Waverly Writers & Wanderlust Productions Present “Femme Feast”
June 4th-7th, 2009
"Without" a 2004 Samuel French Finalist will be presented as part of the Looking Glass Theatre's Writer/Director Forum June 4th-7th 2009.
422 West 57th Street
New York, NY 10019
(between 9th and 10th Avenues)
(212) 307-9467
For more info, visit The Looking Glass Theater website
422 West 57th Street
New York, NY 10019
(between 9th and 10th Avenues)
(212) 307-9467
For more info, visit The Looking Glass Theater website
Questions? Visit nonirohr@gmail.com
Looking Glass Theatre's Writer/Director Forum
