The Free & Fair Playwright Festival
At the Bethany Arts Community
Playwrights Gabrielle Fox and K. Lorrel Manning have created an evening of fake “playwrights/candidates” along with loads of fake news, misinformation and theatre that will delight and inspire you!
Will you get to vote for your favorite fake playwright at the end of the reading? Who knows but you’ll have a great time at this one-of-a-kind event!
You’ll also get the opportunity to meet leaders and organizations from your community
Cast & Creative
(in alphabetical order)
Stavros Adamides
Mark McCarthy, Free & Fair Playwright Festival
Stavros Adamides is a Hudson Valley based Actor with over 20 years of experience in theater, film, web series, and the like. In real life, Stavros works in Supported Employment for an agency dedicated to helping adults with developmental disabilities lead the lives they choose.
Kristin Battersby
Morgan Wilder, Free & Fair Playwright Festival
Kristin Battersby is a SAG actor, playwright, and director residing in Beacon, NY. She is so excited to be part of this amazing cast! Credits include Shakespeare: Unplugged (VIOLA/ DIANA) with Powerhouse Theater, Pride and Prejudice (LIZZY BENNET) with County Players Falls Theater, and Much Ado About Nothing with the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival (FEMALE SWING). She can be seen on screen in Searchlight’s Theater Camp, and Hallmark’s A Christmas Spectacular. Her short plays have been produced at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival and the 2023 Glass Ceiling Breakers Festival.
Jessica Bonds
Stage Directions
Jessica W. Bonds is an actress, burgeoning playwright, and director who finds profound release in embodying characters. Her versatile repertoire includes student workshops, online plays, staged readings, commercials, and films like Invisible Shark and Murder by The Lake. Notable roles include Cornelia Rain Barton in Paule Cuffe In Search of A New Land, Jaques in As You Like It, Birdie Johnson in The Execution of Helen Raye Fowler, and co-writer/performer of Gladys Day- The Love and Lives. Recently featured in Glass Ceiling Breakers' Without Color, she also performed her monologue Kindred in WCT's That's Not All She Wrote. She is honored to be a part of this creative adventure.
Elizabeth Brewster
Dorothy Anthony, Free & Fair Playwright Festival
Elizabeth lives in NYC. Her body of work includes improv, stage, television, commercials, print work, voice-overs and film. She played Dolly in Latte Love YOU.S.A. T.V. appearances include New Amsterdam S5, Law & Order & Harlem. She's the voice of Sarah, in the radio drama Brother, Mine. She has also worked as an audience coordinator on The Murphy Brown Show (2018) & for numerous awards shows like The Time 100 Gala, The Daytime Sports Emmys, The Espys, The Tonys, The Soul Train Awards & MTV’s VMAs. Follow her on Social: Instagram: the.elizabeth.brewster Facebook: Elizabeth Tucker Brewster
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Adrian D. Cameron
Projection Design
Adrian D. Cameron is a Brooklyn-based theater/performance/media artist and technologist with over twenty years of experience in a diversity of creative fields, including media design, theater, performance art, sound design, and computational creativity. He is an alumnus of Brooklyn College’s Performance & Interactive Media Arts MFA program, and as the Founder/Bureau Chief of Irrational Robot Bureau, he presented numerous original experimental theater productions in Seattle, WA.. His most recent work explores the creative applications of both established and emergent technologies and their intersections with live performance. adriandcameron.com
Scott Faubel
Fred Samuels, We Need Porn
Scott has just finished performing in GoJo Clan Productions’ Hello, I Must Be Going in Ossining and will next appear this fall in Sherlock Holmes: The Brook Street Mysteries, a joint venture by M&M Productions and the Red Monkey Theater Group, at the Lyndhurst mansion in Tarrytown. A retired newspaper man, he's been kicking around in theater in Westchester, Putnam and Fairfield counties for some 45 years and this is his second gig with Theatre Revolution. His wife, Terry Hanson, is a costumer and sits on the GoJo Clan board.
Gabrielle Fox
Producer/Writer/Director Free & Fair Playwright Festival, The History of Carol
Gabrielle Fox (she/her) is an award-winning playwright. Her play The Home was presented in the La MaMa New Playwright Marathon and won multiple awards in the Planet Connections Theatre Festivity including Best Playwright and Production. 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 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, she wrote and produced the films Liberty Speaks and Welcome to Theatre directed by Emmy Award Winner Annetta Marion. She teaches playwriting at SUNY Westchester. She is a proud member of The Dramatists Guild.
Maiysha Jones Reilly
Ella Jameson, We Need Porn
Maiysha has performed with many theater groups in Westchester and Rockland County. Some of her favorite roles have been Lena/Francine in Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris, Taylor in Stick Fly by Lydia R. Diamond, Mayme in Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage, and Alanna in Night Vision by Dominique Morisseau. I am grateful to be a part of the Theatre Revolution!"
Lourdes Laifer
Blanca Cortez, Free & Fair Playwright Festival
Lourdes Laifer (she/her) is delighted to be a part of the Free and Fair Playwright Festival. She has appeared in various productions over the years including: Nunsense (Philipstown Depot Theatre), Rip Van Winkle (HVSF), Living Closely (The Middle Company) and Diminished Capacity (YCP). Film/TV credits include Furlough, Do Unto Others and All My Children. Many thanks to Gabrielle Fox for the privilege of breathing life into this character and being a part of impactful theater. Lourdes also has a life coaching practice Cultivating Confidence & Calm through which she helps women build back self-belief, overcome obstacle, shrink their suffering and live a life full of flourishing.
Todd Londagin
Musician
Todd Londagin, a founding member of the Flying Neutrinos has been singing, playing trombone and dancing the occasional soft-shoe since he was 7 years old. Home-schooled and with no formal musical training, Todd honed his skills busking around the world in a family band, and listening to his biggest influences like Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, early Sinatra and New Orleans traditional jazz, Londagin has been in the New York area since the early ‘90s touring and making records with the Neutrinos, and playing private events large and small with his own group. He has two recordings, “Introducing Todd Londagin” (2002) and “Look Out for Love” (2014). He can be found playing with his group in the Hudson Valley, New York City and touring the world with the Hot Sardines.
K. Lorrel Manning
Writer, Model Activist, We Need Porn
K. Lorrel Manning is an award-winning writer, director, actor, and musician who works in both theatre and film. His solo show, Lost...Found, recently had its international debut at the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. His short film The Red Shoe, recently won the Hearts, Minds & Souls Grand Prize Award at the 2024 Rhode Island International Film Festival. He is currently prepping his second narrative feature film, Sheila & The Punk Rock. Manning has an MFA in Film from Columbia University and a BFA in Drama from the University of Georgia. He currently teaches filmmaking, screenwriting and advanced acting at Sarah Lawrence College.
Chasity Perez
Kara, Model Activist
Chasity Perez is an Ossining resident who earned a BA in Theater from Lehman College. She has acted in roles in Joe Carlisle’s The Return of the Incredible Shrinking Man; Seussical the Musical; Samuel Harp’s Paul Cuffe: In Search of New Land; Sarah Bracey White's Something To Remember Him By 𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘛𝘰 𝘙𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘏𝘪𝘮 𝘉𝘺; Misha T. Sinclair's The Execution of Helen Fowler; and Beauty and the Beast. She has also played a role in an independent film and hopes to venture more into the film world. She is very excited to be part of this play.
Julia Schonberg
Carol, The History of Carol
Julia Schonberg (she/her) is an actor, theatre maker, applied theatre artist, educator, and arts worker. Julia received her BFA in Theatre Arts from Boston University and her MA in Applied Theatre from CUNY's School of Professional Studies. Julia has worked both on and offstage with NY based companies: The Barrow Group, Houses on the Moon, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Superhero Clubhouse, The Bushwick Starr, Brave New World Repertory Theatre, Columbia Stages, and River's Edge Theatre Co. She is a Co-Founder and Company Member of The Neighborhood Theatre Project. Julia is the Community Engagement & Outreach Coordinator at Bethany Arts Community. juliaschonberg.com, theneighborhoodtheatreproject.org
Dameon Reilly
Eddie Booker, Free & Fair Playwright Festival
Dameon has performed in multiple shows in the Westchester area. His most recent performance was Albert/Kevin Clyborne Park. Some of his other roles have been, A Raisin in the Sun (Walter Lee), Stick Fly( Flip), and Ezra in Night Vision. Dameon is grateful to be working with the Theatre Revolution.