(Doric Wilson - Mark Finley - Barry Childs)

in association with Out Professionals

presents

Tuesdays at 9:30 pm / October 19, 26, Nov 2, 9, 16 & 23 - 2004

Back row: Holly Sheppard, Bob Cruz, Kelly Fisher, Morry Campbell;

middle row: Mark Finley, Stephanie Deliani; front row: Rebecca Longworth; Anne Ashby.

photo: Doric Wilson

a collection of short plays and monologues by

Linda Eisenstein

directed by Mark Finley and *Rebecca Longworth

original music by Morry Campbell

*Zombie Grrlz from the Crypt

a passionate Goth girl slam-dunks a poetry slam

Magda: Holly Sheppard

*F2F

a seemingly routine F2F stirs the soul of a dispassionate on-line dater

Helena:  Stephanie Deliani

A Rustle of Wings

introduces a mysterious film noir angel with a very personal message

Mira:  Anne Ashby

Jewell:  Kelly Fisher

Shraine:  Mary Louise Mooney

Frankie:  Bob Cruz

Acme Temporary Services

advertises its unique employment opportunities

Bridge:  Stephanie Deliani

Gentrification

a lesbian couple are urban pioneers

Mo:  Liz Davito

Karin:  Mary Louise Mooney

Jordan:  Morry Campbell

*That Was No Lady from the Sea

thwarted desires and repressed emotions erupt in an Ibsen spoof

Bulleta: Liz Davito

Miss Ballestad: Mary Louise Mooney

Ellida: Kelly Fisher

Fanny Arnholm: Anne Ashby

Dr. Wanker:  Bob Cruz

The Stranger:  Holly Sheppard

and Morry Campbell as the Maestro

produced and stage managed by Naomi Shvorin

set by Michael Muccio        costumes by Alicia Andrews

This production is dedicated to Joanna Russ

lesbian novelist, playwright, essayist, s/f genius, author of The Female Man

$10 (plus two drink minimum)

cast

Top L to R: Anne Ashby, Morry Campbell, Bob Cruz, Liz Davito

Bottom L to R: Stephanie Deliani, Kelly Fisher, Mary Louise Mooney, Holly Sheppard

Linda Eisenstein (playwright) is one of this country's most produced lesbian playwrights. Her plays and musicals have been performed throughout the US, and in England, Australia, Canada, South Africa, and the Philippines. She is a three-time recipient of Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowships for Three the Hard Way and her musicals Star Wares: The Next Generation and Discordia (with James Levin). Other prizes include the Gilmore Creek Award (Three the Hard Way), Sappho’s Symposium Competition (The Names of the Beast), an All-England Festival Prize (Marla’s Devotion), Get to the Point Short Play Contest (Revelation 24:12) and the West Coast Ten-Minute Play Competition (A Rustle of Wings). She has been a finalist for the Jane Chambers Competition (Rehearsing Cyrano), the Heideman Award (Higher), and the Midwest Play Competition (The Last Red Wagon Tent Show in the Land). Her short plays and monologues have been widely published in anthologies (Dramatic, Vintage, Penguin, Smith & Kraus, Heinemann, & Meriwether) and journals (Blithe House Quarterly, Anything That Moves, Harrington Lesbian Fiction Quarterly). Linda is a member of the Cleveland Play House Playwrights’ Unit, the Dramatists Guild of America, Inc., ASCAP, and the International Center for Women Playwrights. She lives in Cleveland, Ohio.

Mark Finley (TOSOS II artistic director; director, Acme Temporary Services; Gentrification; A Rustle of Wings) Directing credits for TOSOS II include three Chris Weikel plays: Speaking Parts, Gareth & Lynette and Penny Penniworth; four Doric Wilson plays: A Perfect Relationship (2003 oobr Award), Street Theater and readings of The West Street Gang and Now She Dances!; his adaptation of Young Stowaways in Space; and Kevin Brofsky's Dancing Straight. His own play How Do We Get Her in the Water? opened Movie Lover, a Triple Feature. Mark has directed for Abingdon, Emerging Artists Theatre and NativeAliens, and is a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts.

Rebecca Longworth (director, F2F; That Was No Lady from the Sea; Zombie Grrlz from the Crypt). Directing credits for TOSOS II: a reading of That Was No Lady From the Sea and Zombie Grrlz From the Crypt (Robert Chesley/Jane Chambers Playwright’s Project). Other NYC credits: William Donnelly’s Best Man (Thermodynamic Theater Co.), Olivia Kienzel’s Eliot & Estlin (2003 New York International Fringe Festival), Ellen McLaughlin’s Tongue of a Bird (Woman Seeking… Theater), C.C. Seymour’s Bang! (Surf Reality), and Twelfth Night (the Willful Company). A member of the Willful Company from 2000-2001, and Woman Seeking… Theater from 2001-2004, she is a co-founder of 3Graces Theater Company, which begins its inaugural season on November 4. She is a graduate of Wellesley College and its Shakespeare Society, the USA’s oldest all-female Shakespeare troupe. Rebecca holds an MA in Text & Performance Studies from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and King’s College London, where she directed and choreographed a workshop of Federico García Lorca’s Once Five Years Pass . Rebecca is General Management Associate at New York City Center, producer of the acclaimed City Center Encores! series and the Fall for Dance Festival.

TOSOS II is a member of the New York Innovative Theatre Awards and United Stages

TOSOS II would like to thank City Center; Phil Bond, Thomas Honeck, Lisa Moss and the Duplex staff; Paul Adams, Shay Gines and the EAT (Emerging Artists Theater) family; and Jack Schlegel and Out Professionals. We would also like to acknowledge the attention TOSOS II has received from John Chatterton (oobr); Martin Denton (nytheatre.com); Leonard Jacobs and Back Stage; and the gay press of this city, specifically the people of Gay City News, HX Magazine, the New York Blade, and Next Magazine without whose support we could not exist. (www.tosos2.org)