Christine Stoddard's "Mi Abuela, Queen of Nightmares" Play Premiere

Wed Jun 15 2022 at 07:00 pm to Sun Jun 26 2022 at 05:00 pm

Gene Frankel Theatre | New York

Quail Bell Press & Productions
Publisher/HostQuail Bell Press & Productions
Christine Stoddard's "Mi Abuela, Queen of Nightmares" Play Premiere Maya, a young Salvadoran-American, navigates trauma and family mythology through magic and folklore as she comes of age in Phoenix, Arizona.
About this Event

An earlier version of "Mi Abuela, Queen of Nightmares" won a national playwriting competition held by Table Work Press in 2019 and was published in the book (2020). The play is based upon the 2018 Semiperfect Press chapbook of poems by the same name.

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About the playwright/director:

Christine Stoddard is a writer, director, actress, and multi-hyphenated artist. Recent plays as writer/director include "My Favorite Sex Toy," "Hashtag Mountain Girl," "Clowns & Otters," "Forget Fairytales," and "Cyber Cinderella" at the Broadway Comedy Club and Greenwich Village Comedy Club. Selected theater credits include stagings and readings at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Theater Alliance at the Anacostia Playhouse, the Riant Theatre, and Theater for the New City, among others. Her first feature film is , which most recently screened at Stuart Cinema in Brooklyn on May 14, 2022. It can also be screened on Vimeo On Demand. Christine has written several books, including Heaven Is a Photograph, Desert Fox by the Sea, Naomi & The Reckoning, Water for the Cactus Woman, and others. She was the first-ever artist-in-residence at Lenox Hill Neighborhood House in Manhattan and an AnkhLave Arts Alliance fellow at the Queens Botanical Garden. A graduate of VCUarts, she earned her MFA in interdisciplinary art practice from The City College of New York. Find out more about her work at www.worldofchristinestoddard.com. Instagram/Twitter: @stoddardsays

About Quail Bell Press & Productions:

Quail Bell Press & Productions is a woman-owned creative studio and the parent of Quail Bell Magazine and various other arts, media & entertainment projects. Founded by writer, director, and multi-hyphenated artist Christine Stoddard, Quail Bell is based in Brooklyn, NY. Find out more at QuailBell.com.

Event Venue

Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street, New York, United States

Tickets

USD 40.00

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