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River Readings | a curated evening of play readings

January 27, 2024 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

$25

Saturday, January 27
South Presbyterian Church
343 Broadway, Dobbs Ferry, NY
7:30PM, doors open 7:00PM

Tickets: $25

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RiverArts presents River Readings ~a curated evening of play readings.

Three contemporary playwrights share selected scenes from plays in progress. Experience new scripts on their journey of development read by talented actors, with a discussion to follow. Themes recommended for ages 16+.

Amina Henry Interstate
Interstate tells a story about family and change. In the play, Red, a single flight attendant, takes her children on a cross country road trip. This trip sets in motion events that will either destroy this family or make them stronger.

Peggy Stafford Ambulette: a non emergency vehicle
Ambulette is a memory play that unfolds inside a moving non-emergency vehicle, a beach on the south side of Long Island, and a cemetery where people used to have picnics. It’s a journey of friendship, grief and remembrance.

Melisa Tien Disrupted
In the male-dominated tech arena, two women join forces to create a first-of-its-kind app—one that tracks the menstrual cycle—and form a partnership that is tested to its limits.

Produced by Lauren Orkus

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MEET THE PLAYWRIGHTS

Amina Henry
Interstate
Amina Henry is a Brooklyn-based playwright. Productions include: The Animals, Ducklings, Hunter John and Jane and The Johnsons, all at JACK (Brooklyn, NY), P.S. produced by Ars Nova (New York, NY), Little Rapes at Long Island University (The New Group), Nothing, Nothing at HERO Theatre (Los Angeles, CA), The Great Novel at New Light Theater, Happily Ever at Brooklyn College, and Bully at Interrobang Theater (Baltimore, MD), Clubbed Thumbs 2019 Winterworks, and SUNY Purchase, among other venues. Her work has been produced, developed by and/or presented by: The New Group, Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, The Flea, Page 73, Project Y Theatre, National Black Theater, Dixon Place, The Brooklyn Generator, The Brick, Oregon Shakespeare Festival  (Ashland, OR), Kitchen Dog Theater (Dallas, TX), HERE Arts Center, and the cell. She is a 2020 recipient of the Sarah Verdone Writing Award and is an affiliate artist of New Georges. She is a member of the Women's Project 2022-2024 Lab. 
Peggy Strafford
Ambulette: a non emergency vehicle
Peggy Stafford is a Brooklyn-based playwright. Her plays include EVERYTHING IS HERE (Clubbed Thumb/PHTS, Vineyard Reading Series),16 WORDS OR LESS (Clubbed Thumb Summerworks 2016, The Kilroy’s 2014, 2015), MOTEL CHERRY (Clubbed Thumb/New Georges, Huffington Post’s Top TenPlays of 2012), JEWEL CASKET (New Georges/Dixon Place). Her work has also been developed and produced at theatres including Soho Rep, Women’s Project, Playwrights Horizon, Two River, Page73, Bottom’s Dream, HERE, Annex Theatre, Circle X, On The Boards, and Seattle Children’s Theatre. A MacDowell Fellow and affiliated artist at New Georges and Clubbed Thumb Theatre, Peggy is chair of the Playwriting Program at SUNY Purchase. 
Melisa Tien
Disrupted
Melisa Tien is a playwright and librettist invested in making formally unconventional, socially relevant, and emotionally evocative work. A resident of New Dramatists, she’s the author of the plays BEST LIFE (JACK, 2021), YELLOW CARD RED CARD (ICE FACTORY, 2017), THE BOYD SHOW, and FAMILIUM VULGARE and librettist of the operas FOREVER (Washington National Opera, 2024), THE BIG SWIM (Houston Grand Opera/Asia Society Texas Center, 2024), FAMILY HEIRLOOM (Experiments in Opera, 2024), SONG OF THE NIGHTINGALE (On Site Opera/Arts Brookfield, 2023), and THE BEEHIVE (University of Northern Iowa, 2023). She’s been published in the anthologies Theater Artists Making Theatre With No Theater (Tripwire Harlot Press, 2020) and Modern Music for New Singers: 21st Century American Art Songs (North Star Music, 2021). She’s currently a librettist for the American Opera Project’s Composers & the Voice program and a member of Washington National Opera’s American Opera Initiative.  

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Date:
January 27, 2024
Time:
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Cost:
$25
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Organizer

RiverArts
Email
info@riverarts.org
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Venue

South Church
343 Broadway
Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522 United States + Google Map
Phone
914.693.0473
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