Village Playwrights Announce Spring Lineup

The Village Playwrights have announced their lineup of guests for the spring. The Village Playwrights meet from 8 pm to 10 pm at the LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC. Everyone is welcome.

March 14 --

30 minutes, Marguerite Masse, Peacock Sonata

Marguerite Masse is a former acting student of Stella Adler and New York University School of the Arts. She has worked Off and Off-Off Broadway as an actress with Milan Stitt and Olympia Dukakis. She is a freelance journalist and an advertising copywriter. Marguerite is a beginner playwright who has some published poetry with the International Library of Poetry.

60 minutes, Griselda Steiner, DaVINCI'S NEW WORLD ORDER, a Mafia Don, rise above their gangster status,and become revered politicians in the White House.

Griselda Steiner is a playwright, poet, freelance and screenplay writer. Her plays have been read at The Actors Studio, the Page Torn Salon, the Episcopal Actors Guild andthe Woodstock Fringe. Her poems have been published in literary journals and in Scene4 online. She has shown her poetry DVDs in Westbeth and read at the Cornelia Street Cafe, the Mexican Consulate, the 92nd St. Tribeca Cafe, St. Johns and The Duplex, NYC. Her feature articles have appeared in The Mailer Review, American Theatre Magazine, Parabola, Filmmakers Newsletter and Scene4 online.

March 28 -- 2 hours, Lora Danley, Who Are You Really? -- Dennis and Chad are in the middle of an argument when Joe shows up at their apartment unexpectedly and then refuses to leave.

Lora Danley is a New York City based playwright who originally hails from Virginia. Her work has been performed as part of the Detention Series at the Einhorn School of Performing Arts, the South Street Players, the Players Centre for the Performing Arts, the Manhattan Repertory Theatre, the Midtown International Theatre Festival, the New York Public Library Equity Play Series, and the Park Slope Gallery Players. In 2017 she was a member of the Living Room Theater's New Play Incubator and her full-length play, "Surprise, Surprise" won third place in the Las Vegas Little Theatre's New Works Competition. She is a participant in the Theater Resources Unlimited 2017/2018 Producer Development and Mentorship Program and the Superhero Clubhouse Eco-Theatre Salon and is a member of the Dramatist Guild. When she's not writing, she can be found teaching chemistry, practicing yoga, training for a marathon, or walking around the city with her camera.

April 11 -- 2 hours, Ross Hewitt

Ross Hewitt's survival job (one he is very proud of) is providing and ensuring quality HIV care, his objectives are to continue to work as a theater professional, writing plays, directing and performing. He has a lot of experience as an arts administrator. As an actor and a playwright, he is a founding member of the American Bard Theater Company. His plays "Booties," "Mother knows Best," "The Middle," and "Crossover" were in past Village Playwrights festivals.

April 25 -- 1 hour, Brian Godshall, III Act of Virgin More

Brian R. Godshall has a B.A. in Theater from Penn State University and has written scripts, poems and more in a non-professional capacity. Twice he has been a finalist in the Scriptapalooza TV writing competition which is co-sponsored by the Writers Guild of America. He recently licensed a hip hop song ("The Game Goes Pow!"), which he co-wrote, to a major cable company. His 2 act play entitled "Virgin-More" was presented on the Main Stage at Dixon Place as part of the Hot! Festival in 2015. He had previously placed the one act "Virgin-Whore" in the Lounge as part of the Hot! Festival in 2014.

30 mins., Edmund Miller, "Demonstration: How to Be Gay"

Edmund Miller, Senior Professor at LIU, Post, where he has been the English Chair for the past 18 years, is author of 26 poetry books and chapbooks, most recently, Nature's Nest of Boxes: A Book of Haiku and The Screwdriver's Apprentice. He is also author of a collection of short fiction, many scholarly works, and many plays, some staged multiple times. He is winner of the David Newton Award for excellence in teaching.30 mins. available

May 9 -- 30 mins., L. DeVaughn Nelson

Louis DeVaughn Nelson is a multidisciplinary artist and founder of Hokum Arts. He studied dance and playwriting at DeSales University and Drexel University. Nelson was named Best New Choreographer by Philadelphia City Paper and has been recognized internationally for his theatre, dance and video work that delves into cultural and movement research. Credits Include : The Peekaboo Revue, English Theatre Berlin, The Berlin Music Video Awards, Social Media Week, Tanzbad 4, CTM - Festival for Adventurous Music and Related Arts, CIANT Festival for Film and New Media, Dark Matter Productions NYC, Exquisite Corpse Company NYC, Dixon Place. More info at Facebook : Hokum Arts
1 1/2 hours available

May 23 -- 2 hours, Cayenne Douglass

Cayenne Douglass is a New York City based playwright. Plays include, The Architects of Time (Manhattan Repertory Theater and Village Playwrights) If You See Something...(ESPA Primary Stages, Detention Series and The Big Apple Theatre Festival) The Spare Change of Strange Angels (The Living Room Theater and The Driftwood Players) We All Begin Again (Midtown International Theatre Festival) Oh My - Goodness (New Perspectives Theatre) She's an alumni of The New Perspectives Theater Women's Work Lab and The Living Room Theatre Short Play Lab Incubator. She Attended CalArts School of Theater and graduated from Goddard College with a BA in Individualized studies.

June 13 -- Intensive Playwriting Showcase
June 27 -- Gay Pride Festival of jury selected 10 minute plays
July 11 -- 2 hours, Alex Hermans, Consolas 12 pt -- Seven friends of a young playwright put together compilation of his works to showcase his talent to the rest of the world.

Alex Hermans is a 19 year old college student that attends Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania. Raised in New York, and attended high school in Philidelphia, he is hoping to one day become a professional playwright that will bring about social change through the only way he knows how to: his art. His plays often deal in Mental health advocacy, social justice, and LGBT rights.

The Village Playwrights meet at 8 PM on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month at the LGBT Center, 208 W. 13th Street. Participation is open to all Playwrights and Screenwriters. Beginners are encouraged and helped. "This is a place to speak from the heart. This is a place to find one's voice. This is a place to take risks." For information about attending a Village Playwrights' meeting, call 614-285-2515 or e-mail villageplaywrights@gmail.com.