In the Lounge Necessary Exposure: Panel Discussion Curated by Jody Christopherson

About This Show

As part of Dixon Place presents Necessary Exposure: The Female Playwright Project, Necessary Exposure installation creator/photographer Jody Christopherson curates a free panel in the Dixon Place Lounge on parity, representation & activism.

Necessary Exposure: The Female Playwright Project is a series of portrait & sound installations that bring visibility to playwrights who identify as female. Through portraits & podcasts, we bring awareness to what remains to be widely seen & heard. Patrons are invited to download fully sound designed podcast recordings of writers & actors performing excerpts of their plays. Patrons can listen to each podcast while viewing the corresponding portrait. Click here to listen to Podcasts.

Panelists will include Ludovica Villar-Hauser, Libby Emmons, playwright Jenny Lynn Bader (League of Professional Theater Women, Theater 167), director & professor Erin Mee (This is Not a Theater Company, Ferry Play), & dramaturg & journalist Martha Wade Steketee, co-author of The Count, who wrote about Necessary Exposure for HowlRound.

About the Panelists

Jenny Lyn Bader is a playwright and author whose plays include In Flight (Turn to Flesh Productions), Mona Lisa Speaks (Core Ensemble), and None of the Above (New Georges). One-acts include Worldness (Humana Festival of New American Plays) and Miss America (NY Int’l Fringe, “Best of Fringe” selection). She co-founded Theatre 167 — recipient of the 2015 Caffe Cino Award from the NY Innovative Theatre Foundation — where she co-authored all three plays in The Jackson Heights Trilogy as well as I Like to Be Here (New Ohio Theatre), and The Church of Why Not (Randall Wreghitt New Producer Endowment Award)and, as Artistic Producer, co-produced several world premieres. A Harvard graduate, she serves on the board of the League of Professional Theatre Women.

Libby Emmons‘ plays include I Am Not an Allegory (these are people i know) (upcoming Under Saint Marks, March 2016, NYC); How to Sell Your Gang Rape Baby for Parts (Festival of the Offensive, NYC 2014, winner “Most Offensive”), Radio Mara Mara (FringeNYC 2013), Zeropia (Clubbed Thumb Biennial Commission 2009), The Girls from Afar (East/West Players, LA, 2010), “Soft Little Song Like Doves,” (upcoming Best Short Plays, 2015, Smith & Krause), “Animal/Animal,” (Best Short Plays, 2013, Smith & Krause), & many more. Co-founder short play series Sticky (upcoming Lovecraft Bar, April 2016, NYC). Graduate of Sarah Lawrence College & Columbia University School of the Arts. Libby blogs the story of her life: li88yinc.com, and lives in Brooklyn with her husband, son, and very mean cat.

Erin B. Mee has directed productions at the Public Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, SoHo Rep, HERE, The Magic Theatre, and The Guthrie Theater in the United States, and with Sopanam in India. She is the founding artistic director of This Is Not A Theatre Company, for whom she has directed Pool Play (in a swimming pool), A Serious BanquetReadymade CabaretFerry Play, a smartphone play, and Versailles 2015. She is the author of Theatre of Roots: Redirecting the Modern Indian Stage, co-editor of Antigone on the Contemporary World Stage, and has written numerous articles for TDRTheatre JournalAmerican Theatre Magazine, and other journals and books. She is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, and is a Usual Suspect at New York Theater Workshop. She is Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow of Dramatic Literature at NYU.

Ludovica Villar-Hauser  has directed a wide range of plays​, among them: the Off-Broadway premiere of “Final Analysis” by Otho Eskin at the The Signature Theatre; the premiere of Gregory Murphy’s “The Countess” which ran Off-Broadway for 634 performances and whose West End production she also directed; the Off-Broadway premiere of “Leaves of Glass” by English playwright Philip Ridley; “As It Is In Heaven” by Arlene Hutton at The Cherry Lane Theatre; “The Brightness of Heaven” and “Living Arrangements” by Laura Pedersen. Recently, “The Brightness of Heaven,” retitled “For Heaven’s Sake!” went on to play in Buffalo, NY and is organizing a tour in the near future.

In the New York theatre industry, Ludovica is one of the few women to have owned and operated her own theatre – The Greenwich Street Theatre – which she ran for seventeen years. Along side her directorial career, Ludovica is founder and President of VH Theatrical Development Foundation (www.vhtdfoundation.org). In 2009 she founded Works by Women (www.worksbywomen.org), a non-profit venture to promote Broadway and Off-Broadway productions written, directed, produced or designed by women. Ludovica is a recipient of NYWA’s Galaxy Award, and has served on the Board of the League of Professional Theatre Women since 2009. http://www.ludovicavillarhauser.com

Martha Wade Steketee has worked as a court researcher, policy analyst, editor, theater critic and dramaturg. She has been member of and nominator for theater awards committees in Chicago (Joseph Jefferson Awards) and New York (Drama Desk) and is a current member of American Theatre Critics Association, Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas and League of Professional Theatre Women. Contributor to several theater publications including Chance MagazineHowlRoundTDF Stages, and Dramatics. Her blog Urban Excavations focuses on live performance and film. Steketee lives in New York City.

Wednesday, Jan. 20 at 7:30pm

Free Admission

Estimated Runtime
60 minutes

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