Brenna Horner (left) and Mary Myers (right) read The Wilting Point, May 20, 2022, at Keegan Theatre in Washington, D.C.
Rebecca Reinhardt Roy (in loving memory, 1978-2021), After Eleven, Capital Fringe Festival 2015, Washington, D.C.
After Eleven is a one-woman play that investigates a mother’s journey in dealing with her son’s mental illness and life at the edge of uncontrollable violence. Told through the eyes of Jude Temper, a 9-11 Pentagon widow and mother to Matty, a boy with mental illness, After Eleven investigates how systematic failures in our social, educational, health and judicial systems overburden parents and fail to prevent tragedies like Sandy Hook from happening. As Jude tries to protect her son, Matty, from inevitable failure, After Eleven examines the burdens that unsupported parents face in trying to love and adequately nurture a child with severe mental illness.
Pooja Chawla and Fatima Razi, What It Means to Choke, WomXn on Fire Festival 2019,
Keegan Theatre, Washington, D.C.
What It Means to Choke is a 10-minute play that investigates the healing power of love in the aftermath of trauma. The story follows two sisters, Mariana and Lucia, as Mariana struggles to recover from a school shooting that claimed the lives of half her kindergarten class. As older and younger sister find their caregiving roles reversed, they return to childhood memories as a reminder of the love that has always kept them close.
“A strong sense of power dynamics in this work relationship and a great, sly feel for dialogue.”
Bianca Lipford, Little Wars, WomXn on Fire Festival 2020, Keegan Theatre, Washington, D.C.
Little Wars is a full-length play that follows two ambitious women at an advertising agency who have twenty-four hours to save their jobs and the agency. As they attempt to develop a campaign for the largest women's shapewear company, they find themselves absorbed in conflicts of power, feminism, sexuality, and commerce.
“Relentless, Powerful ★★★★★”
Graziella Jackson is a Brazilian-American playwright based in Washington, D.C. She is pictured here (center) with (from left) Linda Bard and Bianca Lipford, cast of the staged reading of Little Wars, held August 26, 2019 at Keegan Theatre in Washingon, D.C. Little Wars was an official selection for full production in Keegan’s 2020 WomXn on Fire Festival, held March 11-15, 2020 (full run canceled due to COVID).
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Full-length works include The Wilting Point (cycle one of The Elements Plays), Little Wars, and After Eleven. The Wilting Point is showing April 13-30, 2023, at Keegan Theatre in Washington, D.C., with staged readings of cycles two through four April 10, 17, and 24.
Ten-minute plays include Ten, What it Means to Choke, Loggerheads, Palm, and The Timberman and the Yule. They have been produced by Source Festival, Keegan Theatre, and Rorschach Theatre in Washington, D.C.
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Experimental works include five one-minute plays developed for the 2015, 2016, and 2017 D.C. One Minute Play Festivals (1MPF) and a spoken word commission developed for Word Dance Theatre as part of its 2016 performance, Chambers of the Heart.
