Margery Kreitman
LEZWRITES! is a project of 3Girls Theatre Company that produces readings and performances of short works by lesbian, bi and trans playwrights of all races, ethnicities, and ages. This year’s selections will be curated by a literary panel including 3GT Resident Playwright and Producer, Margery Kreitman, and playwright and Associate Producer, Mercilee Jenkins, published in The Best American Short Plays 2014-2015, and two special guest curators: Tina D’Elia, an award-winning casting director and solo performer whose shows include The Rita Hayworth of this Generation; and Thao P. Nguyen, author/performer of Fortunate Daughter, named one of the Top 10 Bay Area Plays of 2013.
For each show, LEZWRITES! solicits work by putting out a call for LBT writers to submit short, humorous or dramatic pieces on a specific themes from the viewpoint of the lesbian experience. This enables lesbian writers to become visible as vital and enriching voices in the larger theater community. Nurtures the creative writing and performing talents of lesbians as part of 3Girls Theatre’s mission “to put women’s work on stage, where it belongs!â€
This years reading/performance is on the theme: Radical Hope and The New Resistance
Sunday, August 20th at 7:15pm at Potrero Stage (formerly Thick House, 1695 18th Street, San Francisco 94107
Margery Kreitman is a San Francisco playwright and performer. She is the creator and curator of LEZWRITES! for 3Girls Theatre, where she is a resident playwright. Her solo works, The Boot, A Singular Story, and Soul Stone, were launched at the 3Girls Theatre reading series. Margery’s other solo works include Home Plates (Dean Goodman Choice Awards), Thirty Years Later, Phenomenal Dread of Intimacy, Mug Shots, Payday at Pukalani (A Maui Fringe Festival winer) and Bouncing. Her most recent solo work, Kicking Facebook, was a finalist in 3Girls Theatre’s 2015 Salon Series, and was recently performed at the 2016 Fringe Festival, and in January, 2017 at The Marsh in the Marsh Rising series. The One for All Solo Artists Festival, YES to Everything Theater Series, and most recently at the 2016 United Solo Theatre Festival, New York City. She has taught Theater Arts extensively, including ACT’s Young Conservatory, The Academy of Art University, and The New Conservatory Theater Center. For more information on Margery Kreitman, visit her website, www.margeryk.com
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