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Greetings, DCW fans!
I'm so glad to be back! Since we last met in person (November, 2022) and online (December, 2022) we've moved nights, and skipped the first couple of months of 2023!
I was in production with a play in January, and exhausted in February!
But I'm hopping like a bunny in March, and hope you will join us to break in our NEW (last Tuesday of the month!) in the same lovely place: the friendly confines of KGB Bar & Lit Mag, in the lovely and fragrant EVille!
To start off our (slightly belated) 20th year (YES! REALLY!) we're welcoming back an original DCW: Carol Rosenfeld! Carol has read, guest-hosted, and been a truly great friend ever so many times since started, that she's kind of the flagship writer for the series.
In addition, we have audience favorite Andrea Alton, who will charm and amaze us, in her own character, or as one of her alter egos.
We also have for the very first time, Joan Lipkin, who has long been a fan of DCW, TOSOS, and SO MANY of us all! I'm thrilled to finally be putting her behind the podium.
AND...returning to us for the first time in several years is the wonderful Adam Szymkowicz. You couldn't find a nicer guy and better playwright, so it's all the more stupid that the censoring bigots have tried to dogpile him over his wonderful work!
Make no mistake, there's a deep freeze of suppression coming on from the right, and we all need to stand up and speak out!
So join us and loudly proclaim your love for these wonderful writers. And have a drink or three while you're at it.
Much love
Kathleen W.
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Drunken! Careening! Writers!
"Thanks You for Your Patience"
Andrea Alton
Joan Lipkin
Carol Rosenfeld
Adam Szymkowicz
with your hostess, Kathleen Warnock
Tuesday, March 28, 7pm
KGB Bar
85 E. 4th St.
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Andrea Alton
Andrea Alton is a New York City-based actor, writer, producer, and theatre publicist. As a playwright, her plays have been produced across the country and internationally with notable performances in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Florida, and Ireland. In 2015, Andrea won The Doric Wilson Independent Playwright award at The New York Innovative Theatre Awards. Some of Andrea's favorite acting credits include The Chiselers (Emerging Artists Theatre), Big Girl, Little World (FringeNYC), The Strangest Kind of Romance (Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival), Possum Creek (writer/actor - FringeNYC), and Carl & Shelly; Best Friends Forever (co-writer/actor - FringeNYC). She is the co-founder/owner of Alton PR which was formed in 2011. The company specializes in public relations for Off and Off-Off Broadway theatre. IG: @andrea__alton - www.altonprandproduction.com
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Joan Lipkin
Joan Lipkin is one of those multi-hyphenates: a writer, director, educator, producer, social activist and cultural provocateur. And so go her writing interests. Obsessions include climate change, disability, reproductive choice and LGBTQ+ culture, as seen through racial and gender justice lenses. Her work has been produced throughout the US and abroad and is published in numerous anthologies including Best American Short Plays, Amazon All Stars, We/Us and others. She has curated and produced several festivals and series including AC/DC, Women Center Stage and the Briefs Festival of Short LGBTQ+ Plays, and founded the DisAbility Project, one of the first ensembles of its kind in the country. She is featured in “50 Key Figures in Queer US Theatre” (Routledge) and is thrilled to be reading at Kathleen Warnock’s esteemed reading series, Drunken! Careening! Writers! before heading to St Louis to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award on April 3 from the St Louis Theatre Circle and then on to the latest cohort for the Desert Playwrights Retreat in California.
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Carol Rosenfeld
Carol Rosenfeld is an accomplished short fiction writer and poet—though it’s been a while since she participated in a poetry slam. Bywater Books published her first novel, The One That Got Away, described as “A fruit cup in the whole-grain world of literary fiction”. A Juris Doctor (she studied at night school!), she is kept very busy as the voluntary chair of the Publishing Triangle, which has been promoting LGBT literature since 1988. She’s lived in New York since 1976, and can often be found at the opera—she has a growing fascination for Wagner (and quite a few questions, too)
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Adam Szymkowicz
ADAM SZYMKOWICZ’s plays have been produced throughout the U.S., and in twenty other countries. Published plays include Deflowering Waldo, Pretty Theft, Food For Fish, Hearts Like Fists, Incendiary, Clown Bar, The Why Overhead, Adventures of Super Margaret, 7 Ways To Say I Love You, Rare Birds, Marian Or The True Tale of Robin Hood, Kodachrome, Mercy, The Book Store, Old Fashioned Cold Fusion, The Parking Lot, The Night Children, Clown Bar 2, The Wooden Heart, Stockholm Syndrome, 100 Things I Never Said To You, 100 Love Letters I Never Sent and Nerve. His plays are published by Dramatists Play Service, Concord/Samuel French, Playscripts, Broadway Play Publishing, Theatrical Rights Worldwide, Stage Partners and Original Works Publishing, and are featured in numerous Smith and Kraus and Applause books. His monologue book, Small Explosions came out from Applause in 2023. Adam received a Playwright’s Diploma from The Juilliard School's Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program and an MFA from Columbia University where he was the Dean’s Fellow. He has interviewed over 1100 playwrights on his blog. For more, go to www.adamszymkowicz.com.
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Drunken! Careening! Writers! is a reading series based on the proposition
that all readings should be by: 1) Good Writers; 2) Who read their work well;
3) Something in it makes people laugh (nervous laughter counts.)
Since 2004.
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