Glass Ceiling Breakers Short Play & Film Festival
June 6, 7 & 8 at the Philipstown Depot Theatre
Meet the GCB2025 Playwrights

Rofa Abayon
The Unwanted
Rofa Abayon is an actor and playwright based in New York. Throughout her journey with the Howard Meyer Acting Program Summer Workshop, she has acted in and written several plays, and she also created and performed in the 2015 Fall "Writers-in-Performance" program at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center. Since launching her acting career in 2013, Rofa has been part of numerous theater productions, working with groups like Axial Theatre, Westchester Collaborative Theatre, Gojo Clan, and the Aery Festival. She is excited to be a part of Glass Ceiling Breakers 2025!

Jessica W Bonds
Peregrination
Jessica W. Bonds is an actress, playwright, and director passionate about storytelling. She co-wrote and performed in Gladys Day – The Love and Lives and showcased her monologue Kindred in WCT’s That’s Not All She Wrote. Her work includes student workshops, online plays, staged readings, commercials, and films like Invisible Shark and Murder by The Lake. Notable roles include Cornelia Rain Barton (Paule Cuffe In Search of A New Land), Jaques (As You Like It), and Birdie Johnson (The Execution of Helen Raye Fowler). She is thrilled to debut her play Peregrination with Glass Ceiling Breakers.

Meghan Covington
The Makeout Session
Meghan Covington is a NY based actor, playwright, and producer. Her most notable acting work has taken place regionally on the stages of The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Co, The Shakespeare Theatre, Round House Theatre, Theatre J, Olney Theatre in Washington DC. In NYC she has performed at Theatre for the New City and The Brick. Her plays have been featured by Breath of Fire Theatre Co, Musco Arts Center, The Tank, and River's Edge Theatre Co. Meghan has a BFA in theatre from Virginia Commonwealth University, and she currently serves as the Artistic Director and Board President of River's Edge Theatre Company (@Riversedgetheatreco on IG and https://www.riversedgetheatre.com/ online).

Gabrielle Fox
Artistic Integrity
Gabrielle Fox is an award-winning playwright and filmmaker. Awards include Best Playwright and Production for The Home in PCTF. She won the 914Inc. Women in Business Award for her work as Founder and Artistic Director of Theatre Revolution. She wrote, directed and produced the award-winning short film Father Daughter Dance and Welcome to Theatre. Her work has been included in online journals and print anthologies including The Best New Ten Minute Plays 2021 and We/US Monologues for the Gender Minority. She is founder and producer of Glass Ceiling Breakers, the first women’s playwright & film festival in the Hudson Valley.
She teaches playwriting at SUNY Westchester. She is a proud member of The Dramatists Guild www.gabriellefoxwrites.com www.theatrerevolution.org

Lori M. Myers
A Stand-Up Guy
Lori M. Myers is an award-winning writer, actor, director and playwright whose plays have been staged internationally and across the US and Canada. She is the creator/producer of That's (Not) All She Wrote, a play-within-a-play women's playwright festival presented at Westchester Collaborative Theater and Theater for the New City in NYC. Lori's play "Civil Disobedience," a re-imagining of the January 6 insurrection, was performed at Axial Theater, and her play "Ruthie Lives Here" is included in Best 10-Minute Plays 2025. She is a Dramatists Guild member and an adjunct professor at several colleges in the region.