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This Saturday, May 18, I will have three different plays produced in three different cities on the same day.

A Call to Conscience Interactive Theater for Social Change (C2C) and Bread & Roses Missouri is producing my short play The Immaculate Contraception with five other Plays About Public Health in the second half of their Social Justice Shorts Play Festival at the Greenfinch Theater and Dive in St. Louis. Two performances:

  • Saturday, May 18, at 7:30 p.m.

  • Sunday, May 19, at 4:00 p.m.

B3 Theater of Phoenix is producing my short play All Sales Final with nine other plays in its 7th Festival of Shorts at Scottsdale Neighborhood Arts Place (SNAP) in Scottsdale, Arizona. Six performances:

  • Friday, May 17, at 7:00 p.m.

  • Saturday, May 18, at 2:00 p.m.

  • Saturday, May 18, at 7:00 p.m.

  • Friday, May 24, at 7:00 p.m.

  • Saturday, May 25, at 2:00 p.m.

  • Saturday, May 25, at 2:00 p.m.

The Phillips’ Mill Community Association is producing my short play Trite and True as part of its musical comedy cabaret show, The Mill’s Guide to the Best Vacation Ever! at the Phillips’ Mill in New Hope, Pennsylvania. Four performances:

  • Wednesday, May 15, at 7:30 p.m.

  • Thursday, May 16, at 7:30 p.m.

  • Friday, May 17, at 7:30 p.m.

  • Saturday, May 18, at 7:30 p.m.

The St. Louis Actors’ Studio has selected my short play Trite and True from hundreds of scripts as a semifinalist in the LaBute New Theater Festival.

A Call to Conscience Interactive Theater for Social Change (C2C) and Bread & Roses Missouri will be producing my short play The Immaculate Contraception as part of their 2024 Social Justice Shorts Play Festival, taking place May 17 to 19 at the Greenfinch Theater and Dive in St. Louis.

B3 Theater of Phoenix will be producing my short play All Sales Final with nine other plays in its 7th Festival of Shorts in May.

B3 Theater of Phoenix, Arizona, has selected my short play All Sales Final as a finalist for its 7th Festival of Shorts.

The performance of my short play Trite and True in the 2024 Downtown Urban Arts Festival at Theatre Row has been scheduled for June 13, time TBD.

The Vidalia Theatre Company of Atlanta will be producing my short play All Sales Final as part of its Summer Harvest 2024 festival in June.

My short play Trite and True has been selected for production, along with 15 other plays, in the 2024 Downtown Urban Arts Festival, this June at Theatre Row Off-Broadway.

About

Playwright Jane M. Lee lives and writes in New York City.  Her work has been performed across the United States and in Canada, Hong Kong, and London.  Her short play Family Emergency was praised for “fus[ing] the hostility of a Jerry Springer program with the warmth and irony of an O. Henry story.”  She was a semifinalist for Chisa Hutchinson’s Signpost Fellowship for writers of color.  Her play Closet Space won the College of Charleston’s Todd McNerney National Playwriting Award.

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