The first show in our 2007 "sUBVERsIVE sHORTs" Showcase
 LINDSAY
by Monica Raymond
Directed by Lara Haberberger*
Starring Heather
Fangsrud*
ABOUT THE PLAY.
"Lindsay" is a ten-minute one-woman black
comedy told from the perspective of the younger sister of a woman accused of
crimes that sounds suspiciously like those committed at Abu Graib
Prison. It's the sort of subject that you would never expect to work as
a comedy, but playwright Monica Raymond's biting tongue-in-cheek humor turns this painful issue
into a riotously funny monologue.
"Lindsay" was originally produced at the
New York City and Montreal Infringement Festivals in 2005. ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT.
Cambridge, Massachusetts resident Monica Raymond's
plays include THE OWL GIRL (Clauder Prize Gold Medal 2006), SAFE
HOUSE (Panelists Choice Award, Last Frontier Theater Conference; O'Neill
Finalist), FASTER (O'Neill finalist), CRECHE (Boston Playwrights
Platform prize; published in Dramatic Publishing's anthology 35 in 10), TOAST
(Devanaughn Theater, 2006, directed by Ted Kazanoff), NOVICES (Centastage
Salon Series) and HIJAB (Boston Theatre Marathon, Boston Playwrights
Platform, the Vital Theater (NYC), Samuel French Festival, and as
part of "Occupied Territories: Palestinian- and Jewish-American Plays
about the Middle East" at Boston Playwrights Theatre.)
Since she received her MFA in theater/playwriting from
Smith in 2000, she has had close to fifty productions and staged readings of
her work. Raymond hosted a panel
"Making Theatre about Palestine/Israel" at the 2005 Conference of
the Association for Theater in Higher Education, and toured as a performer in
"An Olive on the Seder Plate," a play by and for American Jews about
human rights in Israel/Palestine. She has performed her own work at Mobius,
the Museum School, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts, where she was part of
Joe Chaikin's "Disability Project." She has taught creative writing
at Harvard, Northeastern, and the Boston Museum School, and served on the
Management Committee of Women Playwrights International.
ABOUT THE CAST.
Heather Fangsrud* ("Tammy Lee")
One of Subversive Theatre's newest members, Heather Fangsrud's Buffalo theatre credits include the
Vagina Monologues, also DOS LESBOS and RAMONA AND JULIET with the Brazen-Faced
Varlets. She has previously performed in Rochester, NY, Baltimore, MD, and
Washington, D.C. Look for her in the upcoming MIDSUMMER DYKE'S DREAM,
again with the Brazen-Faced Varlets, at the Infringement Festival this summer.
This production marks Heather's first time working with
Subversive Theatre. ABOUT THE DIRECTOR.
 Lara
Haberberger*
Another one of Subversive Theatre's newest members, Lara is very excited to be making Buffalo directing debut
with Subversive Theatre. Selected directing credits include
Glen Mas’s THE BIRTH OF FLIGHT for the Kennedy Center’s Prelude
Festival, Thorton Wilder’s THE HAPPY JOURNEY FROM TRENTON TO CAMDEN
for a PBS special on the playwright, LE BOURGEOIS AVANT-GARDE as her
MFA directing thesis at the Catholic University of America (winner of the
Gilbert V. Harkte directing award) and served as the assistant director for
Repstage’s production of Richard Greenburg’s THE DAZZLE winner of the
Helen Hayes' (Washington DC equivalent’s to the Arties held at the Kennedy
Center) Award for Best Directing.
Lara also recently performed in Subversive Theatre's staged
reading of SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER for May Day 2007.
* = indicates members of the Subversive Theatre
Collective
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