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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 in October 2019!
First photo: Roberta Morris as Mable 1, and Damaris Divito as Mable 2 (Femme Fatale)
Second photo: Damaris Divito and Lisa Wang. Both photos by Charley Lerrigo.
“Hit List” was first presented during the 4th annual PCSF PlayOffs in July 2019.
Pat was re-elected President of the International Centre for Women Playwrights for 2019-20.
On April 8, 2019, 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 on July 30, 2017. (All the plays are produced from scratch within 24 hours!) “Appearances” featured Hilda Roe (Sandy), Moshe Goodman (James) and Amanda Lee (Allison).
Pat’s short play, “And So …” was part of Flush Ink Productions’ “She Speaks—Women’s Works, Women’s Words” festival, March 2017, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Pat’s Holiday flash play, “Conflicted,” was selected for a reading at the Samuel French Film and Theatre Bookshop, 7623 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA on December 17, 2016.
Pat’s one-minute play “City Bench” was featured at Playwrights Foundation 5th Annual Flash Play Festival – Fast and Furiouswhere 40+ Bay Area playwrights participated in performances on 12/3/16 and 12/4/16 at the Brava Theater Center, 2481 24th St., SF, CA.
Pat’s play “Blanche and Benny” was part of the PCSF Playoffs at the Shelton Theater in San Francisco on July 31, 2016.
“Blanche and Benny” was also selected for an August 2015 production at the Community Market in Clintonville Ohio. 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, July 2016 in San Francisco.
Preparing for the 25th anniversary gala of the Fringe of Marin, April 2, 2016: “The Gatekeeper” crew.
Ken Solazzo (the Gatekeeper), Marylouise Kidwell (Camille), Suzan Lorraine (director), Patricia L. Morin (playwright)
The Gatekeeper crew, 2012 at the Fringe of Marin.
“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 in December 2015 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.
Playwrights’ Center of San Francisco Presents “Sheherezade’s Last Tales!”
The Sheherezade playbill; actors Brian Levi and Amber Glasgow
Pat’s writing group
THE 2016 THEATRE BAY AREA (TBA) AWARDS CELEBRATION RECIPIENT for OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION OF AN ANTHOLOGY: “Sheherezade’s Last Tales” at Playwrights’ Center of San Francisco (“A Clean, Well Lighted Park Bench” was produced in “Sheherezade”‘s anthology)
Review by Barry David Horwitz – TheatreStorm
This reviewer is a voting member of the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle (SFBATCC)
“Sheherezade’s Last Tales,” a Festival of Original Short Plays from the Playwrights’ Center of San Francisco
In the final play before Intermission, “A Clean, Well-Lighted Park Bench,” Patricia L. Morin offers a startling two-hander, featuring an old man on a park bench named Saul (Brian Levi), and an aggressive Kid (Amber Glasgow) trying to mug him at gunpoint. Saul turns the situation on its head. Hostility tinged with love and longing creeps out of this play of shattered love, which perfectly caps the first half of the evening’s symphony of family conflicts and injustice. Morin successfully melds comedy, satire, and morality. Read full review
“A Clean Well-Lighted Park Bench” was also selected in July for the 2015 New York New Works Theatre Festival to be held at the Times Square Theatre in New York City (not produced).
Humpty Dumpty
“Humpty” 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
Pat Morin’s “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.
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The Gatekeeper
In June 2015, The Gatekeeper was voted as one of the best plays in Fringe of Marin’s twenty-five year history.
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 2012 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.
See Fringe of Marin Flyer (PDF)
The Gatekeeper – World Premiere – 2012 Fringe of Marin
Dominican University Community Players
First place – Best Play – Fringe of Marin 2012 Playwright Contest and Critics’ Choice. Also winner for Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Actress.
