Join us for an evening of short amusing plays by local playwrights and discussion over wine and cheese.

The Playwrights Collaborative is coming back with their first reading of the post-Covid era.

Free admission, no registration required.

The Playwrights

MARILYN BENNETT is a playwright and actor in the Washington, DC area.  Her play, Man on the Street, won the Baltimore Playwrights Festival award for best play in 2017, and received Honorable Mention in the Dominion Stage Playwriting Competition in 2020.  Her one-act play, Aunt Eleanor, was featured in the Prince William Little Theare New Play Festival in 2021,  and was a finalist in the Little Theatre of Alexandria One Act Competion in 2020.  Her one-act play, The Prophecy, was the winning play in Thunderous Productions’ One-Act Festival in 2015.  Her 10 minute play, Rosalie, was performed at the Capitol Fringe Festival in 2016.  As an actor, Marilyn has been seen in numerous DC area theatres.  She studied acting at the Studio Theatre Acting Conservatory and the Shakespeare Theatre.

CAROL ANNE DOUGLAS has had six novels published. Her most recent, Choosing Yellowstone, won the Florida Writers Association’s 2023 award for best LGBTQ novel. Eight of her 10-minute plays were read as part of Playwrights’ Collaborative’s presentations at the Kennedy Center’s Page to Stage. Her full-length play Gertrude: Queen of Denmark was read at a Playwrights’ Collaborative reading at the Writer’s Center. She is working on another long play and another novel. She lives in the District of Columbia and winters in Florida.

LENNY LEVY retired several years ago from working as a mild-mannered Federal employee. As he left work each night, he slipped into the closest telephone booth, when one was available, and morphed into a creative force writing plays, movie scripts (five full length and two shorts completed), song lyrics (several songs on the streaming services) and poetry. Several of Lenny’s plays have been performed and one won a contest. He has also edited several movie scripts, plays and books for other writers. To hone his skills, Lenny has acted on stage, appeared in independent films, and performed as a standup comic.

CATHERINE O’CONNOR has directed numerous new play readings and participated in the Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage Festival as playwright, director, and producer. Her work has been published in a Smith & Kraus collection and performed at the Actors’ Center, Theater Alliance Hothouse Series, the One-Minute Play Festival, The Sort-of-Jane-Austen Reading Series of the Washington Shakespeare Company, and the Tavern Stage (DC);  Love Creek Productions (NY); the Subversive Theatre Collective (Buffalo, NY.)

DWANE STARLIN is a professional Actor-Performer-Musician as well as licensed tour guide.  Member of Bugles Across America.