3Girls Theatre Company Presents our 4th Annual New Works Festival at Thick House Theatre
3GT Honors Risky Women: Having Fun and Wreaking Havoc!
ABOUT OUR FESTIVAL EVENTS
STAGED READINGS OF OUR 3GT SALON SERIES FINALISTS:
ENTANGLEMENT by AJ Baker (Aug. 3 @ 7:30 pm; Aug. 8 @ 2:30 pm)
KICKING FACEBOOK by Margery Kreitman (Aug. 4 @ 7:30 pm; Aug. 8 @ 1 pm)
3GT’s core new play development program is the Salon Reading Series, held each year from
January – June. Our resident playwrights – risky women all! –put up new work in a friendly
competition before audiences of 3GT Club members and friends. At the end of the Series, an
independent Selection Committee chooses two plays to go on to the next step: a deeper level
of development at the New Works Festival. Come see two great new plays by women
playwrights on stage at Thick House! We’ve got staged readings of the Salon Series Finalists on
separate nights, or as a double feature on Saturday afternoon (followed by a Champagne
reception celebrating all of our Festival participants).
ALL EVENTS ARE FREE but advance reservations highly recommended. More information and
tickets online at 3girlstheatre.org. Media contact: Lisa Geduldig, lisag@igc.org 415-431-7363
ABOUT THE PLAYS
In her new comedy ENTANGLEMENT, AJ Baker brings us a play about a play about the quantum
mechanics of love. It’s been twenty years since actors Emma and Luke were a couple, but
they’re still connected by a net of loose ends and secrets. When Emma writes a thinly veiled
roman-a-clef of a play and asks Luke to direct her in it, the struggle over who controls the story
of their break-up –and its far-ranging results – becomes just as important as the script itself.
Aided and abetted by Luke’s daughter and Emma’s husband, the former lovers turn Emma’s play
into a backdrop for grappling with how their long-ago choices entangle them in each other’s
lives forever.
The playwright says she was inspired by a subject she keeps coming back to, in her work and her
life: how do we deal with the consequences – however unintended – that our actions have on
other people? In this play, Baker mixes a little bit of behind-the-scenes stage craft with a little
bit of science to explore a variation on this theme.
Directed by Louis Parnell.
For more about ENTANGLEMENT, click here: http://3girlstheatre.org/entanglement-by-ajbaker-2/
KICKING FACEBOOK is a new solo work by Margery Kreitman. After a traumatic breakup with
her long time partner and lover, she turns to the Internet for distraction from all the questions
that haunt her. Distraction rapidly becomes addiction as she searches for dates and potential
mates online, and finds herself wrapped in an ever- growing web of internet loops, jargon, and
videos. Distracted from the world, she succumbs to apps and services that promise to solve all
her intimacy problems. Bouncing from one solution to the next, she’s catapulted back to the
comforts of her home , her computer, and her Facebook. Until one day . . .
Kreitman describes her relationship with the Internet as “love/hate,” and says that of the
reasons she wrote the piece was to understand and communicate from her own experience
what it has been like to manuever in this “oh- so-crazy and wonderful digital world.”
Dramaturgy by Jayne Wenger.
For more about KICKING FACEBOOK, click here: http://3girlstheatre.org/kicking-facebook-bymargery-kreitman-2015-salon-series-finalist/
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHTS
AJ BAKER has had a varied career in the arts as a writer, producer
and visual artist, but in recent years she’s focused her creative
energy on playwriting and theatrical production. Her full-length
plays include: GLICKMAN’S THIRD ACT (semi-finalist , 2011 Bay
Area Playwrights Festival; staged readings ,Brava! for Women in
the Arts (2011), PCSF (2010, 2011), Meadowsweet Dairy (2010));
THE RIGHT THING ( world premiere 2012, Thick House); THE
ANNIVERSARY EFFECT (semi-finalist, 2015 Bay Area Playwrights’
Festival; finalist, 2014 3GT New Works Festival; finalist, Capital
Repertory’s 2014 NEXT ACT! New Play Summit (Albany, NY).
As Producing Artistic Director of 3Girls Theatre, AJ has served as
Executive Producer for four New Works Festivals, overseeing the
production of plays at all stages in the development process since 2012. She’s a proud member
of Dramatists’ Guild, an ongoing participant in the Will Dunne Dramatic Writing Workshops and
a past member of the Board of Directors of PlayGround. From 2007-2008, she produced and
directed the popular monthly nightclub event, Talk Show Live: San Francisco. When she’s not
writing, AJ practices law, plays with her cats and eavesdrops for material in the cafes of North
Beach.
MARGERY KREITMAN is the author of “Please Wait For The Beep”
(Cable Car Award nominee), produced in San Francisco, Los
Angeles and New York City, “Picture Me” (Jane Chambers’
Playwriting Award), produced by Theater Rhino, “Digitally Yours”
– a sketch comedy revue, created and performed with Karen
Hirst, produced by Theater Rhino and The New Conservatory
Theater. She also wrote the comedy, “Sax and the Single Dyke”,
co-produced by Sarah Heartburn Productions and Theater Rhino.
Margery’s solo works include “Home Plates” (‘Dean Goodman
Choice Awards), “Thirty Years Later”, “Phenomenal Dread of
Intimacy”, “Mug Shots” “Payday at Pukalani” (A Maui Fringe Festival winner), “Bouncing”, “A
Singular Story”, “The Boot,” and “Soul Stone.” She has performed her pieces in at various Bay
Area venues including The Marsh, The Exit, CounterPulse, StageWerx, Berkeley Marsh, The New
Conservatory Theater, Noh Space, The Magic Theater, Theater Rhino, Venue 9, The Garage, The
O’Hanlon Center, The Plush Room, The Tides Theater and The Thick House. Her short stories
have appeared in various journals including Pisgah, Rockhurst Review, Gargoyle, Dos Passos
Review, and Clackamas. Her work also appears in the book, Scenes and Monologues for Young
Actors, published by Smith and Kraus. Margery has taught acting, improvisation and playwriting
and was a faculty member at ACT’S Young Conservatory, The Academy of Art University, and
many Bay Area public and private schools. She also taught acting for seniors at the San Bruno
Senor Center and with them created a short screenplay about alcohol abuse and the elderly. It
was made into a film starring members of the acting class and aired on cable TV. Margery was
also the creator and director of Positive Spirit and Visible Proof, two writing and performance
groups for HIV positive young adults. She is currently the curator of 3GT’s LezWrites! – Bay Area
lesbian writers’ short, funny, personal narratives about LBT life.
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About the 3GT New Works Festival: 3GT’s annual New Works Festival represents the very best
of 3GT's work in developing, producing and promoting original work by women playwrights
throughout the year. Each year we choose a theme for the festival to focus our work and help
the community rally around important issues. This year's theme is 3GT Celebrates Risky
Women: Having Fun and Wreaking Havoc! It calls attention to the need for women who break
rules and defy the norm—values embodied by our resident playwrights, company members and
this year's featured community and artistic collaborators.
About 3Girls Theatre Company: 3GT’s mission is to develop, produce and promote new plays
written by San Francisco Bay Area women playwrights. In 2011, San Francisco playwrights Suze
Allen, AJ Baker and Lee Brady decided it was time to stop complaining about the lack of
opportunities for women playwrights in American theater and take action. With fearless
enthusiasm, the three Girls set about recruiting a company of amazing women who shared their
vision to “put women’s work on stage where it belongs.” Today, 3GT’s resident playwrights
collaborate with one another and the larger community to create and support extraordinary
new work by women playwrights through three core programs: the annual New Works Festival.
the intimate Salon Reading Series, and full productions of new plays. 3GT also sponsors
outreach programs that develop new playwrights, empower girls, and nurture LBT playwrights
and performers.