Lot's Wife by Albi Gorn
March 3 to 25, 2017
WCT Performance Space
23 Water Street
Ossining, NY
Lot's Wife is based on the Biblical tale of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, with echoes of the Holocaust, Lot and his family desperately try to find ten devout souls to prevent the destruction of their home. Along the way they discover that the power of faith can have dire consequences, and that survival can exact its own disastrous repercussions.
Leavened with humor and humanity, Lot's Wife is a unique channeling of a troubled family, that is both timeless and topical.
March 3 to 25, 2017
WCT Performance Space
23 Water Street
Ossining, NY
Lot's Wife is based on the Biblical tale of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, with echoes of the Holocaust, Lot and his family desperately try to find ten devout souls to prevent the destruction of their home. Along the way they discover that the power of faith can have dire consequences, and that survival can exact its own disastrous repercussions.
Leavened with humor and humanity, Lot's Wife is a unique channeling of a troubled family, that is both timeless and topical.
Playwright, Albi Gorn
Albi has been writing plays for 25 years. His plays have been produced all over the United States, England and Mexico and have won numerous playwriting contests and festivals. Productions include: Hello, I Must Be Going (2000 Theatre Conspiracy Annual New Play Contest); To Know Him (2002 Dorothy Silver Playwriting Competition); Double Date (2003 TANYS Festival); Verbatim (2004 FirstStage One-Act Play Contest and 2005 Dubuque Fine Arts Players National One-Act Playwriting Competition); It's About Forgiveness (2005 Havemeyer One-Act Play Festival, The 2006 Winter Strawberry One-Act Festival, The 2013 20/20 Festival, 2015 TANYS Festival); The Rub (2004 French Festival finalist; 2007 Strawberry Festival finalist); Gornisht (2009 AACT National Festival Finalist); Dearth of a Salesman (2009 TANYS Festival); Paradise Enow (2014 TANYS Festival). It’s About Forgiveness was a finalist in the 2014 All England Theatre Festival. Albi is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Westchester Collaborative Theater and Axial Theatre. His plays, songs and short stories may all be viewed or listened to at albigorn.com.
Director, Karina Ramsey
Karina Ramsey is the Executive Producer of Westchester Collaborative Theater and a local resident in Ossining. She has directed several productions for WCT including numerous staged readings and the 2015 Living Art Event.
Starring WCT Actors ...
Michelle Daneshvar, Justina Dieck, Jason Fineberg, Julie Griffin, Donna James,
Jessica Hickey, Kurt Lauer, Pat O’Neill, Ron Schnittker and Ralph Vandamme.
Michelle Daneshvar recently performed in WCT's reading of Unintended Consequences where she played roles in both A Waltz Without Turns and Question Mark and looks forward to continuing working with the WCT in the future
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Justina Dieck previously performed as Martha Cox in High School Musical, Ensemble in Oliver, Mrs.Mayor in Seussical and Iago in Aladdin. She is a seventh grader at John Jay Middle School and loves to play basketball, cross country and read as many books as possible
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Jason Fineberg has appeared as both an actor and backstage crew in the Ossining High School Drama department since his sophomore year. This past summer he and other Ossining Drama students, participated in the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland where he played Erysichthon in Metamorphoses.
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Julie Griffin is a graduate of the Goodman School of Drama at DePaul University in Chicago. She has been performing Improv for the past 27 years and now teaches it at Theater O in Ossining, where her students make her laugh everyday! She is also having a ball doing Voice Over work. She loves the color green and takes pride in her animal noises (particularly the chicken).
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Jessica Hickey is currently a sophomore at Ossining High School. She has been involved in numerous productions with the Ossining High School Drama Club, including Metamorphoses which was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this past summer in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Donna James, a WCT veteran, recently performed as Karinda in High Contrast (WCT) and as Shelia in Cable Situation both written by Pat O'Connor. A favorite role was playing Sadie Delany in Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters First 100 Years, an African-American educator and civil rights pioneer who lived to be 109-years-old in Mt. Vernon, NY (M&M Production).
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Kurt Lauer has appeared in Tri-State area productions of Grapes of Wrath, The Lion in Winter, Midsummer Night's Dream, Amadeus, The Crucible, Rumors, Scapin, Beyond Therapy, The Boy Who Fell Into A Book, Angels In America, Room Service, On The Twentieth Century, Man of La Mancha; and in award winning original one acts by playwrights Albi Gorn, Ric Siler, James Whalen, Karen Quinn-Panzer, and Ed Friedman among others.
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Pat O'Neill was most recently seen performing horrible solo numbers in the shower, and before that as Ernie in the YCP production of Rumors. He was also a tree once and looks back upon it as a highly formative experience in his theatre career.
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Ron Schnittker most recently performed as W.T. Bass in Time to Kill (Elmwood Playhouse), Uncle Ray in The Movable Feast (Shades Repertory Theater) Eddie Fain in Forget About Me (WCT). Sheriff Heck Tate in To Kill a Mockingbird (Philipstown Depot Theatre)
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Ralph Vandamme performed as Nick Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream, for which he received the award for Meest Beloftevolle Acteur (Best New Actor) from the Academie voor Podiumkunsten. He is an exchange student at Ossining High School, where he performed as Ali in his first English language play, Rowing to America.
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Stage Manager, Julia LaVerde
Julia LaVerde last worked on WCT's reading of LARDO, the 2016 Living Art Event, and 2014's production of Forget About Me. She works as a stage manager for various companies throughout Westchester including Actors Conservatory Theater. In her alternate life Julia freelances with communications, web and graphic design, and wedding coordination, among other things, but feels especially at home creating for and working on the stage.