3 Girls Theatre focuses on women, new works
Lee Brady has been a professor, a theater critic, an actor, theater director and producer.
By the end of the meal, they had a plan to start a theater company that would soon become a reality.
In addition to staging original plays, the group holds staged readings through its monthly Salon Series; promotes the creation of new short plays by lesbians and youth through, respectively, its LezWrites! and Girlwrights programs; and from the very beginning has produced the New Works Festival that brings together all of 3 Girls Theatre’s initiatives and more for a weeklong theater extravaganza.
“The festival was almost immediate, because we didn’t want a vanity theater,” says Brady.
“Women and the Body Politic” is the theme of the fifth annual, admission-free New Works Festival, Monday, Aug. 22- Aug. 28, at Thick House in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill.
“LezWrites!, Girlwrights, and Reprorights!,” featuring short plays on the subject of choice, are all slotted into the festival, as is Women Are the Body Politic!
The Late Night With 3GT Show (Just Not Really Late), an evening emceed by Debi Durst that will include a short play, “A Voter’s Song,” by Brady and Suze Allen; audience improv; the 3 Girls Band; and more.
Brady, along with Robin Bradford, was chosen by an independent committee from the 2016 Salon Series to do a staged reading of her comedy “Country Matters.”
The San Francisco wife wants to travel to Scotland to attend Edinburgh’s Fringe Festival, and her husband is a teacher whose work will keep him in the Bay Area.
The Scottish wife wants to stay in San Francisco, where she has a son and a new grandchild, while she hires a nanny for the baby.
The Scotsman says, ‘Well, it might work, because we’re past all the passionate entanglement period in our lives.’
“It’s a fun play,” adds Brady, a playwright so prolific that she even wrote three short plays to take back to a recent family reunion in Tulsa, Okla.