Reading: House Beautiful in the The Hyman S. and Freda Bernstein Library, Washington DCJCC
Reading: House Beautiful by Liz Maestri
Friday, November 22, 2013 at 2pm Tickets: $5/person- Purchase online or available at the door
Synopsis: In a decaying town, one lone house still stands. Inside, three generations of a family weather the end of an era.
Maestri's current one-act in development, House Beautiful, demonstrates her clear sense of what interests her as a playwright. “My work is often influenced by a fascination with things supernatural and found in nature.” She was impressed by last year’s Locally Grown festival, remarking “Locally Grown is an important, exciting, and highly visible program…DC is my home, and I’m deeply connected to the city in most ways, so I look forward to becoming a more active player in my artistic home-base.”
Liz Maestri represents the next generation of playwrights that Theater J looks forward to cultivating. Maestri studied playwriting with the “24 With 5” Collective at New Dramatists in NY, and received her B.A. in Theater from the University of Maryland (College Park Scholars in the Arts; Theatre Patrons Award winner).
Liz’s plays include Owl Moon, (world premiere Taffety Punk Theatre Company); Somersaulting (workshop presentation at The Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage and The Artists’ Bloc Downtown Series); Tinderbox (ReActs series/Forum Theatre); Fallbeil (Great Plains Theatre Conference, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Young Artist Program grant); and multi-disciplinary collaborations The Pressure Cooker for the 2012 Source Festival (Creative Communities Fund) and Genesis with E.M.P. Collective.
Presented as part of the Locally Grown: Community Supported Art Festival