AMERICAN DAMES is 2012 Julie Harris Playwriting Award Semi-Finalist

Emerging Playwright Susan Kathryn Hefti

We are delighted to announce that Susan Kathryn Hefti's new play AMERICAN DAMES, or Waiting for Dolley has been selected as a Semi-Finalist for the 2012 Julie Harris Playwriting Award Contest hosted by the Beverly Hills Theatre Guild (BHTG)!

Thrilled that the BHTG chose AMERICAN DAMES for this tremendous honor, Hefti hopes the recognition will lead to even more opportunities for the further development of her new play.

Thanks again to everybody who came out to the Stella Adler Studio's New Play Reading Festival to hear AMERICAN DAMES read in front of an audience for the very first time on April 11th!

We'll be sure to keep you all posted on the continued development of AMERICAN DAMES, or Waiting for Dolley  and we hope to see you soon!

To learn more about the work of this

emerging American playwright, please visit Susan Kathryn Hefti's online bio here.  

 

Susan Kathryn Hefti's AMERICAN DAMES is a Big Hit @ Harold Clurman Laboratory Theater's 2012 Play-Reading Festival!

Standing-Room-Only for Emerging Playwright Susan Kathryn Hefti's

AMERICAN DAMES, or Waiting for Dolley at Stella Adler Studio

Thanks to everyone who came out to hear the first-ever public reading of Susan Kathryn Hefti's AMERICAN DAMES, or...Waiting for Dolley - the 2011-2012 Harold Clurman Playwright-in-Residence Competition Finalist - in the 2012 Harold Clurman Playwrights Division's New Play Reading Festival at the Stella Adler Studio this past Wednesday, April 11th!

 

The evening was a huge success with a smashing turn-out and an audience so pumped, the energy in the room was truly electric!

And we're so very grateful for all the wonderful theater lovers who made the time to come out to hear this brand new play, AMERICAN DAMES, or...Waiting for Dolley, in this very special reading produced by the Stella Adler Studio and the Harold Clurman Laboratory Theater Company!

 

As we continue to move forward in the play development process, we’ll be sure to keep you posted on the progress of AMERICAN DAMES, or…Waiting for Dolley - the 2011-2012 Harold Clurman Playwright-in-Residence Competition Finalist - written by Susan Kathryn Hefti.

Thanks again for being there at the starting line! We hope to see you all again for the next leg of this very exciting journey!

Waiting for…

Dolley Madison, circa 1815-17

Susan Kathryn Hefti's AMERICAN DAMES picked for Stella Adler's 2012 Play Reading Festival!

Susan Kathryn Hefti's AMERICAN DAMES, or...Waiting for Dolley - the 2011-2012 Harold Clurman Playwright-in-Residence Competition Finalist - has been selected for The Stella Adler Studio's 2012 New Play Reading Festival!

As part of the festival, the Playwrights Division of The Stella Adler Studio of Acting and the Harold Clurman Laboratory Theater will be producing the first-ever staged reading of AMERICAN DAMES this spring!


For details and play synopsis, please visit The Stella Adler Studio's Facebook Events Page.