Recent Achievements
180 Degree Rule - 2016 Production (Co-written M.E.H. Lewis and Directed by Rachel Edwards Harvith) Babes With Blades Theatre Company at City Lit
Echo - Shakespeare's Sister Semi-Finalist (Top 40 plays), Semi-Finalist National Playwrights Conference Eugene O'Neill
Girl Found - 2016 20% Theatre Company's Refocus: 20/20, 2015 Co-Winner Polarity Ensemble Theatre's Dionysos Cup, Athena - Idle Muse Play Reading Series, Finalist Strange Sun Theater, New York
85 Billion Neurons to Forever produced with Women's Theatre Alliance and Other World Theater's Paragon Fest
All Good Children Go To Heaven - Monologue (Co-written M.E.H. Lewis) published Pioneer Press
180 Degree Rule - 2016 Production (Co-written M.E.H. Lewis and Directed by Rachel Edwards Harvith) Babes With Blades Theatre Company at City Lit
Echo - Shakespeare's Sister Semi-Finalist (Top 40 plays), Semi-Finalist National Playwrights Conference Eugene O'Neill
Girl Found - 2016 20% Theatre Company's Refocus: 20/20, 2015 Co-Winner Polarity Ensemble Theatre's Dionysos Cup, Athena - Idle Muse Play Reading Series, Finalist Strange Sun Theater, New York
85 Billion Neurons to Forever produced with Women's Theatre Alliance and Other World Theater's Paragon Fest
All Good Children Go To Heaven - Monologue (Co-written M.E.H. Lewis) published Pioneer Press
(Co-Winner) Girl Found - Polarity Ensemble Theatre 2015 Dionysos Cup Festival of New Plays!
The four finalist plays have been selected for the 2015 Dionysos Cup Festival of New Plays! Here are the plays and the production team:
And Eat it Too by Aline ...Lathrop
Hutch Pimentel, director and Josh Altman, dramaturg
The Charisma of Flying Saucers by Mary Beth Horner
Rachel Ramirez, director and JD Caudill, dramaturg
Girl Found by Barb Lhota
Mary Rose O’Connor, director and Sarah Laeuchi, dramaturg
Leavings by Gail M Parrish
Helen Young, director and Maggie Carlin, dramaturg
Mary Rose O'Connor is the Festival Producer. Richard Engling is Artistic Director and founder of the Festival. Rachel Ramirez is our Managing Director. The festival is an in-depth development process that includes public workshop readings of the plays at the Greenhouse Theater Center in July.
These were the semi-finalists:
Kid Yesterday by Scott Levy & Daniel Luebbe, To Tread Among Serpents by Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos, In Search of a Love Supreme...a play with Jazz by Marsha Estell, Girl Found by Barb Lhota, Hilda and Mae by Susan Lieberman, Enduring Loves by Zan Skolnick, ...And Eat It Too by Aline Lathrop, Bin by Garin Cycholl, The Charisma of Flying Saucers by Mary Beth Horner, Playing House by Christopher van Der Ark, The Hubble Constant by David Alex and Leavings by Gail M Parrish.
And Eat it Too by Aline ...Lathrop
Hutch Pimentel, director and Josh Altman, dramaturg
The Charisma of Flying Saucers by Mary Beth Horner
Rachel Ramirez, director and JD Caudill, dramaturg
Girl Found by Barb Lhota
Mary Rose O’Connor, director and Sarah Laeuchi, dramaturg
Leavings by Gail M Parrish
Helen Young, director and Maggie Carlin, dramaturg
Mary Rose O'Connor is the Festival Producer. Richard Engling is Artistic Director and founder of the Festival. Rachel Ramirez is our Managing Director. The festival is an in-depth development process that includes public workshop readings of the plays at the Greenhouse Theater Center in July.
These were the semi-finalists:
Kid Yesterday by Scott Levy & Daniel Luebbe, To Tread Among Serpents by Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos, In Search of a Love Supreme...a play with Jazz by Marsha Estell, Girl Found by Barb Lhota, Hilda and Mae by Susan Lieberman, Enduring Loves by Zan Skolnick, ...And Eat It Too by Aline Lathrop, Bin by Garin Cycholl, The Charisma of Flying Saucers by Mary Beth Horner, Playing House by Christopher van Der Ark, The Hubble Constant by David Alex and Leavings by Gail M Parrish.
Emulating Amy - 85 Billion Neurons to Forever
It’s 2053. AMY, a dry-humored neuroscientist with a software background, has taken part in a revolutionary experiment that may change how society defines what it means to be human. AMY, who several years prior, was diagnosed with stage-four colon cancer, has been mapping and uploading her brain to a computer and software system that will emulate her patterns of response, memory, emotions, preferences and even consciousness. Furthermore, this net of microprocessors with AMY’s consciousness are placed in a life-like robotic version of AMY. Her consciousness will work in concert with artificial intelligence to make her a super AMY, with an even higher IQ and better physical strength, senses, and flexibility.
Her wife, JULIA, a doctor, has reluctantly agreed to this experimental research. As much as JULIA doesn’t want to lose her wife to illness and death – to lose their children’s mother - she believes there is something disturbing about the idea of her interacting with a computerized, artificial version of her wife. Emulating Amy asks what it means to be human?
Living Forever (Bloomberg Business)
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Uploading Humanity
Mind Uploading
New York Times
It’s 2053. AMY, a dry-humored neuroscientist with a software background, has taken part in a revolutionary experiment that may change how society defines what it means to be human. AMY, who several years prior, was diagnosed with stage-four colon cancer, has been mapping and uploading her brain to a computer and software system that will emulate her patterns of response, memory, emotions, preferences and even consciousness. Furthermore, this net of microprocessors with AMY’s consciousness are placed in a life-like robotic version of AMY. Her consciousness will work in concert with artificial intelligence to make her a super AMY, with an even higher IQ and better physical strength, senses, and flexibility.
Her wife, JULIA, a doctor, has reluctantly agreed to this experimental research. As much as JULIA doesn’t want to lose her wife to illness and death – to lose their children’s mother - she believes there is something disturbing about the idea of her interacting with a computerized, artificial version of her wife. Emulating Amy asks what it means to be human?
Living Forever (Bloomberg Business)
More articles to check out...
Uploading Humanity
Mind Uploading
New York Times
The Vanished
*Winner of the second annual playwriting competition, Joining Sword & Pen, at Babes With Blades.
Set in 16th-century Spain, The Vanished explores the impact of family ties, societal pressures, and unexpected love on the lives of two sisters: Diana Garcia Diaz and Isabel Garcia Reyes de la Barrera. Clandestine trysts, plots and counterplots, blackmail - and dazzling swordplay!
Set in 16th-century Spain, The Vanished explores the impact of family ties, societal pressures, and unexpected love on the lives of two sisters: Diana Garcia Diaz and Isabel Garcia Reyes de la Barrera. Clandestine trysts, plots and counterplots, blackmail - and dazzling swordplay!
