Notes from the Frontlines: Nine Monologues

Notes from the Frontlines:
Nine Monologues
Directed by Alan Lutwin

A diverse group of new monologues exploring the outer edges of human experience.

WHERE:
Steamer Firehouse Gallery
117 Main St.
2nd Floor
Ossining, NY 10562

WHEN:
Fri. June 17th at 8pm
Sat. June 18th at 8pm *
Sun. June 19th at 3pm**
**Included a talk-back with the audience

*Sat. June 18th at 8pm was a mixer performance in conjunction with Ossining's Village Arts Committee.

Alan Lutwin, President Westchester Collaborative Theater

Ask Zsuzsanna by C.J. Ehrlich, performed by Sharon Rowe
Single Motherhood at 50. A psychotherapist explains how she handles the stress of living in NYC while raising her newly adopted daughter, River Apple.

Funhouse Mirror by Pat O'Neill, performed by Tim Harbolic
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single candy bar (or lack thereof).

The Galaxy by Jeff Edrich, performed by James Leeper
An old cowboy finds his love returns in the form of a message he wrote many years before.

Good Company by Joe McDonald, performed by Lynne Foster
An elderly woman "riding the rails" heading for California muses about past memories.

Monologue Pedagogue by Keith Whalen, performed by Cathy Schaeffer
A community college theater professor gives feedback on her students' unusual monologues.

Palmas by Ward James Riley, performed by Michelle Concha
Someone, somewhere, is watching over you.

The Pitch by Carol Mark performed by Jon Barb
A down-and-out marketing man makes one last attempt to turn things around.

Sparks by Evelyn Mertens, performed by Julie Griffin
A chronically disappointed woman discovers an unorthodox source of satisfaction.

Stranger Danger by Misha Sinclair, performed by Dianne Roxy Pennington
Sometimes the danger isn't the stranger, but who or what you're running from.

Jeff Edrich

Jeff Edrich was born in Brooklyn NY, grew up in Matawan NJ, and left home to finish High School in Los Angeles. He served a mission for two years in Austria and Germany, and studied at Brigham Young University, receiving a BA in film and television production. He returned to New York to begin a freelance career as a video technician, and later as a sound person, for network, corporate and documentary film productions. He began writing in 2010 and self-published “Dream of Broken Feathers” in 2012 and “When The Sun Touched The River” in 2015. He is currently finishing a third book of poetry and short stories and currently resides in Mohegan Lake NY.

Carol Mark

Carol is a proud member of the WCT and has studied playwriting under playwrights Tony Howarth and Crystal Skillman. Her play Shadows and Light was recently a part of the 2016 WCT’s Living Arts Event. She would like to thank the WCT for providing playwrights and actors opportunities to work on their craft.

C.J. Ehrlich

C.J. Ehrlich’s award-winning one-acts have been performed in many states, notably of undress and panic, around the US and on five continents, and are published by Heuer, Smith & Kraus, and Applause. Her scifi time travel comedy ZANE TO GATE 69 recently (or perhaps will) enjoyed a five-week run in San Antonio, and her farce THE CUPCAKE CONSPIRACY: “Terrorism is Easy. Marriage is Complicated” (co-written with Philip Kaplan) is now available for licensing. A proud member of the Westchester Collaborative Theatre, C.J. lists among her greatest achievements teaching her sons the fine art of the spit take. Please visit at CJ-Ehrlich.com.

Evelyn Mertens

Evelyn Mertens has had plays and monologues produced through Westchester Collaborative Theater (WCT); Axial Theatre’s Life on Earth, Twisted Valentines 2015 and 2016, Gaslight Tango and Performance and Monologue Workshops; the Irvington Town Hall Theatre’s Stage Door Readings, the 20/20 Aery Theatre Festival where she was a finalist in 2015; and Manhattan Rep. She has studied acting at Axial Theatre through the master classes of Howard Meyer’s Acting Program, Circle in the Square and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. A PR specialist and writer, she holds an M.A. in creative writing from Brown University and a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College.

Pat O'Neill

Pat O'Neill is a human being (totally, trust me on this) with WCT. Sometimes he plays pretend on a grand scale, and sometimes he can be found stringing words together into sentences to tell odd stories about the human condition. He wants to thank his family for their support, WCT for the opportunity, and countless vending machine ‘incidents’ for the inspiration.

Ward James Riley

Ward James Riley, Member WCT, Member Dramatists Guild, Member SAG-AFTRA – author of the screenplay for the award-winning short film MY LETTER TO THE WORLD, winner of WCT’s Best Play and Audience Choice Awards for his play FORGET ABOUT ME, and thankful that actress Michelle Concha Herko was available to perform in PALMAS, which was originally written with her in mind.

Joseph P. McDonald

Joseph P. McDonald, Playwright, has written more than 30 plays, many of which have been produced Off-Off Broadway in NYC. McDonald=s libretto for the musical adaptation of AA TALE OF TWO CITIES@ received a LORT production at the Helen Hayes Performing Arts Center in Nyack, NY. Currently in progress is an original musical based on Rasputin and the Romanovs, a sequel to Moby Dick, entitled “THIS NARROW SCUTTLE”, and “TETE a TETE”, a play about the after-life of two men executed in France in 1977.

Misha Sinclair

Misha Lawrence is a budding playwright who has studied under Howard Meyer and Tony Howarth at the Axial Theater in Pleasantville, NY. In her pursuit to understand the actors method Misha studied acting with Bruce Ornstein at the Acting Workshop in NYC; she has also performed in Howard Meyer’s Axial Theatre production ‘Angels and Visions and have had her plays performed at the Axial theater. Presently, Misha attends the Westchester Collaborative Theater lab directed by Alan Lutwin where her plays as well as those of others are read and critiqued by actors, directors, playwrights and professionals within this industry. She works in the information technology field (I.T.) until her dream of being a well known playwright is realized.