SheWRITES: About the Playwrights

2006 SheWRITES Festival Playwrights

Stephanie Fleischmann - Tally Ho

Stephanie Fleischmann is a recent alumnus of New Dramatists, a core member of the Playwrights Center, and 2006/7 HARP resident artist at Here Arts Center. Grants/Awards/Fellowships: N.E.A. Opera/Music-Theater (Far Sea Pharisee, music by Miki Navazio); 2 NYFA fellowships; Tennessee Williams Fellow in Playwriting, Sewanee, University of the South; Whitfield Cook Award (Eloise & Ray, also Village Voice Season Highlight); Frederick Loewe Award (The Hotel Carter, music by Jenny Giering); Pew Charitable Trust Philadelphia Theatre Initiative Project Grant (The Street of Useful Things). Residencies: MacDowell, Hedgebrook, Mabou Mines/Suite, Voice & Vision. Additional works: Red Fly/Blue Bottle, My Name is Vera Cupido; The Wonder-Seeker; Viper; Orpheus (conceived by Kristin Marting, David Morris & Juliet Chia); What the Moon Saw; The World Speed Carnival, and The Polish Doorman.
She has contributed texts to music by Olga Neuwirth: The Cartographer’s Song and ecstaloop, Basel, Berlin, the Aldeburgh Festival and elsewhere. Developed, presented and/or produced in NYC at: HERE Arts Center, New Georges, Interart Development Series, Soho Rep Summer Camp, the Public Theater, P.S. 122, the Knitting Factory, Bric, the Hangar Lab, BACA Downtown, and Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab. And elsewhere at: Empty Space Theater (Seattle), Roadworks (Chicago), Guthrie Lab (Minneapolis), Playwrights Foundation (San Francisco), Act II Playhouse (Ambler, PA), Hollywood Bowl, L.A. Theatreworks, New Theater (Miami). Publication: Play: A Journal of Plays, Playscripts.com, Smith & Krauss, Heinemann, and The Brooklyn Review, Bomb, Parabasis, I, Theatron, Boosey & Hawkes. She teaches at Skidmore College and has taught at Bard and Sewanee. MFA: Brooklyn College, where she studied with Mac Wellman.

Christine Evans - Trojan Barbie

Originally from Australia, Christine Evans has been produced internationally as well as all over America . She was recently a resident playwright at University of San Francisco , where Roberto Varea (director) and the Theater and Social Justice program produced the world premiere of her play, The Doll Hospital (inspired by The Trojan Women) at USF and at Brava! Her beautifully lyric play Slow Falling Bird was presented in the 2003 Bay Area Playwrights Festival and received its premiere production with Crowded Fire Theatre Company in 2005. She has been awarded a Fulbright Award in Visual and Performing Arts, a Macdowell Colony Fellowship, and Brown's 2001 Weston Award (Best Graduate Play). Her other plays include Mothergun, All Souls' Day, My Vicious Angel, Weightless and Pussy Boy. Production credits include Perishable Theatre's International Women's Playwriting Festival (WPF), which Christine won in 2001 and 2002; the Samuel French One-Act Play Festival; the Lincoln Directors' Lab at HERE, NYC; and the Adelaide International Festival of the Arts in 2000, where her play My Vicious Angel was nominated for five literary awards and was also staged at Belvoir St. Theatre (Sydney). Christine holds an MFA (Playwriting) from Brown, where she is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance Studies.

Megan Gogerty - Sig Gotta Do

Megan Gogerty is a playwright, songwriter and teacher. Born, bred and corn fed in Iowa, she earned her MFA in Playwriting from the University of Texas at Austin in 2004. Megan has been a Playwrights' Center Jerome Fellow, and is a grateful recipient of the James A. Michener Playwriting Scholarship and the Ellsworth P. and Virginia Conkle Endowed Scholarship for Drama.

Megan also composes music; her play Love Jerry, features original compositions, and recently toured southern England in association with Dartington College of the Arts in Devon.  It was also performed as part of the main stage season at the University of Texas at Austin, directed by Alexis Chamow, where it earned seven B. Iden Payne Award nominations, including Outstanding Original Script and Outstanding Original Score, and five Austin Critics Table Award nominations, including the David Mark Cohen Award for best new play.

Megan’s ten-minute play RUMPLE SCHMUMPLE has been performed all over the country; it premiered at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC as part of the National American College Theatre Festival in 2003, where she was the winner of Atlanta’s Dad’s Garage Theatre Company 10-Minute Play Residency Award.  RUMPLE SCHMUMPLE is included in Dramatic Publishing Co.’s anthology, THIRTY-FIVE IN TEN, published in 2005.