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Pat’s short humorous play, Hit List, was voted by the audience as best play out of nine at PCSF’s Best Short Plays festival.
Pat was re-elected President of the International Centre for Women Playwrights for 2019-20.
A staged reading of Pat’s full-length play, A Clean, Well-Lighted Park Bench, directed by Suzan Lorraine, was read at the Shelton Theatre, San Francisco.
Pat’s play Appearances was part of the Playwrights’ Center of San Francisco’s 24-Hour Play Festival. (All the plays are produced from scratch within 24 hours!)
Pat’s short play, And So … was part of Flush Ink Productions’ “She Speaks—Women’s Works, Women’s Words” festival in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Pat’s Holiday flash play, Conflicted, was selected for a reading at the Samuel French Film and Theatre Bookshop in Los Angeles.
Pat’s one-minute play City Bench was featured at Playwrights Foundation 5th Annual Flash Play Festival – Fast and Furious, where 40+ Bay Area playwrights participated in performances at the Brava Theater Center.
Pat’s play Blanche and Benny was part of the PCSF Playoffs at the Shelton Theater in San Francisco. Blanche and Benny was also selected for a production at the Community Market in Clintonville, OH. Converted from the play Where is Horatio T. Adams? based on the novella in Mystery Montage, from my first short-story collection. The play centers around food conversation between two foodies: Benny, a gangster, who kidnaps Blanche, a crossword puzzle developer, as collateral for her husband’s gambling debt.
Pat was Associate Producer for the Playwright Foundation’s 39th Annual Playwright Festival in San Francisco.
A Clean Well-Lighted Park Bench was produced in the Playwrights’ Center of San Francisco Sheherezade 15 Festival. The play had its world premier with six performances at the Exit Stage Left Theatre. The play is set in a secluded park late at night when an elderly man sitting on a park bench talking to the moon is approached by a young mugger.
Humpty Dumpty is a commissioned full-length play featuring actors, puppets, and Pat’s original musical score. Developed through staged readings at NYC’s Henry Miller Building, the work reimagines the classic nursery rhyme before and after the fall. This production showcases Pat’s dual mastery as both a playwright and composer.
Simplexity premiered at the PCSF 24-Hour Playwright Festival. This sharp, humorous one-act centers on an art student and a literature student at a campus coffee shop. Directed by Lisa Drostova, the play highlights Pat’s ability to craft character-driven dialogue under intense creative constraints.
The Gatekeeper, a 20-minute humor-fantasy play that revolves around the cemetery of buried human emotions, won 1st place and Critics Choice awards at the Fringe of Marin Playwright Contest in San Rafael, CA. The play also received awards for Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Actress as well as Critics Choice Awards. Feedback included comments such as: creative, forward looking, and great dialogue. The Gatekeeper was also voted as one of the best plays in Fringe of Marin’s twenty-five year history.
