DON’T SEND ME TO THE SEA
written by Catherine Weingarten
Directed By Leslie Kincaid Burby
It’s the 1900s. Marie has “hysteria” and is being “sent to sea.” Can her bff Cassandra help her from a chic fate?
Thursday, September 17 @ 7:00 pm
Open Jar Studios
1601 Broadway - 11th floor
New York, NY 10019
A Workshop Theater Lab Reading - Pay What You Wish with a $20 suggested contribution
Catherine Weingarten is a friendly jewish chick from an obscure area of Pennsylvania! Honors Include: the Scott McPherson Award and the Tennessee Williams Scholarship through the Sewanee Writer’s Conference. She is a new georges affiliated artist and has previously developed her “girly, trashy” work with Dixon Place, The Tank, Less Than Rent, Sam French OOB Short Play Festival, Last Frontier Theater Conference and has been awarded residencies through Bethany Arts Community, The Studios of Key West, Fresh Ground Pepper’s BRB and Monson Arts. Catherine has participated in Art House Production’s INKubator Writer’s Group, New Perspective’s Women’s Work Short Play Lab and The Shelter’s Virtual King Lear project. BA: Bennington College MFA: Ohio University catherine-weingarten.squarespace.com/
Leslie Kincaid Burby - award-winning director, dramaturge, performer. Films Robin Hood, and Mercy recently won multiple awards in Hudson International, AMT, and Inwood Film Festivals. NY Innovative Theatre outstanding director award for Drama Desk nominated production The Navigator (The Workshop Theater) and NY Fringe Overall Excellence award for direction Zamboni. Always delighted to return to her acting roots, Leslie performs frequently with The Workshop Theater and UP Theater. She is a graduate of the Purchase Conservatory of Theatre Arts.