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Fractured Fairytales Opening Weekend

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Festival@First8: Fractured Fairytales, is opening this weekend at Theatre@First, Unity Somerville, 6 William Street, Somerville, MA.

“Theatre@First’s summer one-acts return with nine fresh takes on familiar tales from new playwrights around the world, including two local writers. Don’t miss a night of princes and princesses, witches and animals, magic and laughter, and the occasional monster under the bed. Tickets: $12-$15″

Including a new production of My Monster and Me, written by yours truly!

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The Barbara Newhall Follett Project

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Where in the world in Natalie Osborne? She’s back up in sunny Vermont working on a new theatre piece! The Barbara Newhall Follett Project is a devised work based off of the life and writings of Barbara Newhall Follett. Barbara was a writer and a child prodigy who published her first book at the age of twelve. The House Without Windows received raved reviews by critics and readers alike. After her father left the family, Barbara and her mother became destitute. Barbara continued writing, but none of her works were published. At the age of twenty-five, and after a fight with her husband Nick, Barbara left her home with 30 dollars and a notebook. She was never seen again.

Throughout Barbara’s work, there is a theme of escaping into nature and the imagination. In our work, we’ve tried to balance both aspects of Barbara’s life, the real and the fantastic, the romantic and the mundane.

We’ll be presenting the piece July 10th, 2015, at 6:30pm on Bennington’s Campus. The event is free and all are welcome!

THE ENSEMBLE:

Christina Roussos

Jennifer Lane

Megan Hill

Natalie Osborne

Molly Kirshner

Patrick Harret Marshall

For more on the project visit:

http://reasonsforleavingblog.tumblr.com/tagged/BNFProject

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7 Steps for Achieving Gender Parity in Theatre

Check out this awesome article by WomenArts executive director Martha Richards in American Theatre Magazine!

“We have proven that gender discrimination is a persistent problem in theatre; now we need to figure out how to fix it. As we look at the field, we can see that women all over the world are trying to address this issue with various strategies. What would happen if we could find a way to coordinate these efforts and maximize their impact? Could we reach a tipping point where the barriers for women theatre artists would finally come crashing down?”

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Stories from the Gurukalam

Tonight, I will be performing Stories from the Gurukalam, a 15 minute solo piece about Kattaikkuttu performers. I’m very excited to present this play, which is an accumulation of my work at Bennington in both theatre and anthropology. The piece will be performed as part of the Solo Performance Class showings, starting at 7 in Margot Tenney theatre at Bennington College. I also wanted to take this opportunity to give a thank you to everyone who has made this work possible, my friends and mentors at the Kattaikkuttu Gurukalam, the faculty in both the drama and anthropology departments, and my fellow performers in the Solo Performance class. I’ve very excited to be presenting this work as my last performance at Bennington College.

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365 Women a Year Video

If you missed NOplays first production in collaboration with 365 Women a Year, then you’re in luck! Here’s a video of the event. The reading series took place on March 27th in the Bennington College Student Center and features the work of four new plays by Bennington Students and Alumni. Enjoy!

Special thanks to HowlRound and NiteCorp for making the livestream possible. Be sure to check out videos of the other play reading events that were a part of 365 Women A Year’s first festival in the HowlRound archive.