- World Premiere
Written by: Wendy A. Schmidt
Directed by: Jeri Frederickson
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“Maker of Worlds” by Wendy A. Schmidt is crookedly inspired by You
Tube's how-to videos. One woman, played by Amy Gorelow, creates the
world and threatens to destroy it using the few items on stage and her
own body. In the process, she plays other deities, her husband Warren,
and Jim Morrison in a play about creativity, capitalism and the divine
in all of us. Theater for the New City’s Dream Up Festival will
present the play's world premiere September 2 to September 6, 2019.
Jeri Frederickson directs.
The central character is Martha, part Judeo-Christian god and part
Martha Stewart, who has been influenced by absurd demos of how to make
“worlds” with every day household items. She has been scarred by the
fact that 5000 years ago, when she rained fire and brimstone down on
Sodom and Gomorrah, she inadvertently turned her best friend, Edith,
into a pillar of salt. She has never dealt with her pain in a healthy
way, and is now married to an accountant and living a bourgeois life
on Long Island.
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Cabaret Theater
Showtimes:
Monday - September 2 - 6:30pm
Tuesday - September 3 - 9pm
Wednesday - September 4 - 6:30pm
Thursday - September 5 - 6:30pm
Friday - September 6 - 9pm
Saturday - September 7 - 5pm
Running time: Maker of Worlds is 71 Minutes $12.
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Playwright Wendy A. Schmidt from Chicago. Her one-woman play “Maker of
Worlds” was developed at Three Cat Productions in Chicago, with a
workshop production there in December 2018. Her play “Veda in Time”
had a staged reading at La MaMa E.T.C. in 2018. In 2017 she attended
the La MaMa Umbria International Playwrights Retreat with Erik Ehn.
Her full-length farce, “Marvelous Madeleines,” was produced by Three
Cat in 2016. Her plays have been developed in Three Cat’s Chicago New
Work Festival, Chicago Dramatists’ Saturday Series and 20% Theater
Company’s Dark Room Series, among others. Her ten-minute play,
“Tornado Alley,” was a finalist for the 2015 Actors Theatre of
Louisville’s Heideman Award.
Actor Amy Gorelow has been based in Chicago for 13 years, where she
has appeared in “Fiddler On The Roof” (Yente), “Hitler On The Roof”
(Goebbels), “Rosencrantz& Guildenstern Are Dead” (Gertrude), “The
Cherry Orchard” (Ranevskaya), “Play Dates” (Stacey), “Crashing With
Flamingos” (Peg), “Midsummer” (Bottom), “All My Sons” (Lydia), “Six
Dead Queens & an Inflatable Henry” (Katherine of Aragon), “Low Pay?
Don’t Pay!” (Margherita), “Lust, Lies, & Marriage” (Dottore), “Out Of
Order” (Gladys), “Earl the Vampire” (Gretchen) and “Ambition Facing
West” (Marija/Alma). She is an associate member of TUTA and an
Emeritus member of Piccolo Theatre. She studied theatre in North
Carolina, Atlanta, Russia, Cambridge (MA), and Chicago. She is also a
musician and has played upright bass, melodica, guitar, ukulele, and
banjo in other productions. She also directs and teaches.
(amygorelow.com)
Director Jeri Frederickson hails from Chicago, where she is an
ensemble member of Irish Theatre of Chicago, serves as its Literary
Manager and Associate Artistic Director and has directed “In A Little
World Of Our Own” (Midwest Premiere) and several Three Pint Series
staged reading presentations. Other local directing credits include
projects with Three Cat Productions, Whiskey Rebellion, Artemisia, and
Trellis. She directed “Much Ado About Nothing” for a Stone Soup
Shakespeare tour in Southern Illinois. She develops new artists in
Chicago as the Creative Director of literary, movement, and visual
arts at a local Chicago nonprofit for survivors of sexual violence. As
a writer and freelance editor, her writing has been published in print
and online.
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