Theater 169: A Woman’s Worth
Set in the Winslow home in 1935, a wife and mother of five is pregnant again, but she is keenly aware that something is very wrong with this pregnancy.
Writer:
Melissa May Curtis
Melissa May Curtis is the playwright. Her play The Deal was warmly received at the 2024 Hollywood Fringe Festival. She starred in the Netflix series Pet Stars.
Melissa May Curtis
Director:
Bernadette Armstrong
Bernadette Armstrong moved to Los Angeles to work in film in the late 1990’s and after her first two films went to festivals she took a short hiatus from writing until she fell in love with small theater. Since 2008 she has had several successful theater projects produced in No Hollywood. Her play The Reading Group was named Pick of the Week by LA Weekly Magazine and in 2017 her play Simple Lives was nominated for Outstanding Writing of an Original Play or Musical by the Valley Theater Awards (the only woman nominated).
Bernadette Armstrong
Actors:
Ayla Rose Barreau as Mary
Ayla Rose Barreau, an LA transplant from New England, has been performing on stage since before she could walk. Ayla most recently played Halina in the Alaska regional touring production of Indecent with Perseverance Theatre. As a SAG-AFTRA actor, Ayla has co-starred on Fox’s Glee and NBC’s Heroes and graced the big screen as Ruby in the award-winning film, The Busker. She is also a member of the SkyPilot Theatre Company. http://www.aylarose.com | @aylarosesays
Ayla Rose Barreau
Gilbert Glenn Brown as James
Gilbert Glenn Brown - His acting credits include the motion pictures; Respect as MLK Jr., Best of Enemies, the forthcoming Long Shadows, Lilly, and All Hail Anastasia to name a few. His television credits include: recurring: TWD: Darryl Dixon, MAYANS MC, BMF, MLK/X, NCIS, Stargirl, General Hospital, Young & the Restless, The Inspectors, The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, Good Behavior, S.W.A.T., Bosch: Legacy and Stranger Things.
His theater credits include: The Mountaintop (Garry Marshall Theatre), Power to the People (LA Philharmonic/Disney Music Hall), Dot (Billie HolidayTheatre/True Colors Theatre), LATW’s national tour of The Mountaintop, When Jazz Had the Blues (CEK Productions/The Matrix Theatre), Harriet Jacobs (Kansas City Rep), Civil War Christmas (Huntington Theatre), TopDog/UnderDog (Seattle Rep/CTG), Spunk (True Colors Theatre Company), The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek (Fountain Theatre), Serial. Black. Face. (Actor’s Express) and Charleston Olio (Goodman Theatre & National Black Theatre Festival).
His writing/producing and directing credits include the short film Half/Off, the web series All in the Timing, musicals Beyond the Obvious and C.H.O.I.C.E.S., and the upcoming series NICU-DC.
Gilbert’s numerous awards and nominations include appearing in the Emmy-winning Proctor & Gamble’s The Talk, NAACP Theatre Awards, Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards, and the Audelco Award. He has also appeared in and voiced several commercials for a variety of clients and several podcasts.
Gilbert Glenn Brown
Omari Williams as Doctor #1
Omari Williams, a Houston native, graduated from the Baylor University Theatre program with a BFA in Theatre Performance. Some recent audio productions he has been a part of are Cyber-o and Women and Guns with Premiere the Play Podcast as well as Rede Me This Riddle and The Thing on the Fourble Board with Quiet Please. He is grateful to be recording another audio play with Open Door Playhouse.
Omari Williams
David Purdham as Doctor #2
As a professional actor and director, David Purdham has worked extensively in theatre on and off Broadway, in many of the great resident theatres in our country(including New York Shakespeare Festival, Roundabout Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Old Globe- San Diego, Yale Repertory Theatre, American Repertory Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival) as well a lot of television and film during the last 45 years. He is a member of NEW AMERICAN THEATRE, and directs The Tempus Theatre Group’s Classical Play reading series (an exploration by professional actors of the evolution of theatre from the Greeks forward.) There is a nice Television Series on HBO - “Winning Time”, in which he plays Larry O’Brien, the commissioner of the NBA.
David Purdham
Sound Production:
Recorded at Oak House Recording Studio in Pasadena, CA with Sound Engineer David Peters.
Sound Editor: David Peters
