Not A Thing

Readings of...

FOUR SHORT SOLO PLAYS
by Chicago Dramatists Women Resident Playwrights of Color
FEATURING Tanya Saracho's Solo Play...


NOT A THING
Directed by Wayne T. Carr

This Saturday, July 12th at 2pm
CHICAGO DRAMATISTS, 1105 W. Chicago
$5 donation


NOT A THING is a semi-autobiographical, memory rendition of a fictionalized retelling of a very...well, let's just say of a...a traumatic experience. It's sort of a comedy. A version of this solo was part of Teatro Luna’s “Solo Tu” in the spring of 2008. TANYA SARACHO is the co-founder and co-artistic director of Teatro Luna: Chicago's All-Latina Theatre. She is the author of the upcoming productions of: “Our Lady of The Underpass” with Teatro Vista, “Kita y Fernanda” at 16th Street Theater, and her newest work, “Jarred: A Hoodoo Comedy” opening this Fall at Chicago Dramatists presented by Teatro Luna and being read this summer at the Goodman's Latino Theatre Festival on August 13th, under Derrick Sanders direction.

BACK TO BEFORE by Resident Playwright Marsha Estell
Trapped by varicose veins, hot flashes, and haunted by her bluesy alter ego,M, a woman longs for a simpler life when all she ever wished for was a big butt! “Back to Before” is an updated excerpt from Marsha Estell’s one woman show “big butt girls and other fantasies,” originally produced by Ripe Mango Productions. MARSHA ESTELL’s play “Heat” received it’s first production at Chicago Dramatists, earning Ms. Estell a Jeff Award nomination for New Work. “Heat” was subsequently produced at the Bloomington Playwrights Project in Bloomington, Indiana, and at ETA Creative Arts foundation in 2006. Recently, she returned to the stage, performing in Wordfest 2008 and “First Breeze of Summer” at Court Theatre.

GIRL TO BE NAMED LATER by Resident Playwright Nambi E. Kelley
Directed by Greg Kolack
After Ooh Child Peach witnesses the murder of her prostitute mother, she begins to assume the personalities of everyone in her family – until the personalities take over. NAMBI E. KELLEY is an award-winning, published, and produced playwright, including projects for the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago and Lincoln Center in New York. Honors include the Institute/Goodman Theatre Fellow 2008 and the LaMama Experimental Theatre International Playwrights Symposium in Spoleto, Italy. Professional affiliations include The Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights, The Playwright’s Center Minneapolis, The Dramatists Guild, and playwright-in-residence with MPAACT.

FOR YOUR INFORMATION by Resident Playwright Tania Richard
A woman engages in a mono-dialogue with the audience as she contemplates whether the desire to hibernate 24/7 is “depression” or a “lifestyle choice” and whether she should leave her apartment in order to get her prescription to Zoloft filled at the drug store across the street. TANIA RICHARD’s plays include “Happy. Go. Lucky.” (American University), “Selecting Memory” (Many Voices Project), “How Far? Too Far?,” “Variations on a Theme,” “tru imagined life” (commission), and “Bitty Danvers’ Family Stump” (commission). Two of her monologues are published by Heneimann.