Other productions of Pipeline plays —
The Best Worst That Can Happen
Aldersgate Community Theater, Alexandria, Virginia
July 8 - 24, 2022
Heartwarming ‘Best Worst That Can Happen’ premieres at Aldersgate Church Community Theater
DC Theater Arts
July 10,2022
by Linda Kinney
Aldersgate Church Community Theater’s world premiere of Jean Koppen’s The Best Worst That Can Happen is a must-see for delightful and heartwarming theater. The play focuses on the relationship between a mother and daughter as the daughter navigates the loss of her mother’s memory. The mother worries about her daughter’s career and love life. The mother, Margie, is a retired theater teacher who likes to act out conversations and conflict with her book author daughter, Joanna.
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It’s My Party!
Echo THeatre, Dallas, SeptEmber 17 - October 10, 2021 LIve!
October 11 - 17, 2021 streaming
Photo by Zoë Kerr
REVIEW: RSVP fast to Echo Theatre’s ‘Party’
DallasVoice
September 28, 2021
by Rich Lopez
Being in the middle of some frightening new laws here in Texas that wage war on women and increase voting barriers, Echo Theatre reminds that those fights have been long fought. In the regional premiere of Ann Timmons’ It’s My Party! that tells the story of women’s fight to vote, history reminds that justice wins, but not without turbulence. If anyone’s feeling beaten by today’s recent legislation, Echo Theatre’s newest production can inspire and ignite.
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NEWS
Upcoming Productions
Ann Timmons’ newly commissioned play, Beyond the Yellow Wallpaper, a new historical drama about feminist author and social reformer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, will have its World Premiere at Echo Theatre, Dallas May 9 - 25.
Upcoming Readings
Crystal Adaway’s The Wish has won Dominion Stage's (Arlington, Virginia) 4th Annual Playwright Competition in the One-Act Play category. A reading will be held soon. Check back for details
Nicole Burton's play about adoption reunion, Swimming Up the Sun, will receive two staged readings at the New Art City Theatre Festival in Ventura, California on April 25, 2024. More info here.
RECENT PRODUCTIONS
Jean Koppen’s play The Best Worst That Can Happen was recently produced by COM Theatre at College of the Mainland in Texas City, TX, and received special recognition from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF). The winning actors will go on to compete at the regional level! Bravo!
Jean Koppen's play Between Corn and Warren Buffet, written in honor of Pipeline Playwrights' Nebraska donors for last year's March Matchness, was performed by Broom Street Theatre in Madison, Wisconsin as part of their "Our Home States" production July 21- August 12.
Recent Readings
Crystal Adaway’s new play, To Be Still, had a developmental reading on Zoom on Monday, October 23, directed by Catherine Tripp.
Ann Timmons’ play Becoming Calvin had a community reading on October 22 at First Presbyterian Church in the City of New York, presented by Art at First.
Ida v. Frances: The Very Public Feud of Ida B. Wells and Frances Willard, a new one-act by Ann Timmons, had a staged reading as part of the Creatives Create: Bending the Arc Toward Justice celebration at First Presbyterian Church in the City of New York on May 21st.
Around the Snake Turn by Patricia Connelly, one of ten plays selected for development in 2022-2023 by the Baltimore Playwrights Festival, was read on Wednesday, May 10th at Spotlighters Theatre in Baltimore. Directed by Belle Gaskin-Burr.
Crystal Adaway’s monologue Wait was be read as part of Some1 Speaking, a program of Hear Me Out Monologues on Zoom June 5.
Other NEWS FroM PIPELINE PLAYWRIGHTS
Jean Koppen’s play Unfocused, first presented by Pipeline Playwrights, is now published and available for purchasing and licensing by Next Stage Press! It will be on the shelf at NYC’s storied Drama Book Shop in May, 2024.
Grace’s monologue from Jean Koppen’s recently produced play Unprotected will be published in Smith & Krauss’ Best Women’s Stage Monologues for 2023.
Jean Koppen's Got a Light? presented by Pipeline Playwrights at the 2018 Capital Fringe Festival is published in Smith & Kraus' Best Ten-Minute Plays 2022. The compilation is available for purchase on Amazon.
Jean Koppen’s play The Best Worst That Can Happen, presented in Pipeline's 2019 reading series, is now published and licensed by Next Stage Press! Copies are available for purchase here.
Nicole Burton's novel about the Sixties, Adamson's 1969, is now available in audiobook at Amazon.com, Audible.com, Kobo.com, and many library formats including Overdrive. Adamson's 1969 was awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2019 Eric Hoffer Book Awards under the General Fiction category.
Monologues from Ann Timmons' A Very Present Presence (Zoom World Premiere, June 2021) and Crystal Adaway’s The Wish are published in the volume She Persisted: Monologues from New Plays by Women over 40, published by Applause Books.
