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We know why WE love professional theatre made in New Jersey. Today we hear why YOU love NJ theatre! #JerseyMadeTheatre

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Introducing our Round 7 NJ Women Playwrights! Meet Jan Balakian! Jan is a Professor of English at Kean University. She received her Ph.D. from Cornell’s, M.A.T. Brown and her B.A. from Bucknell University, where she won writing prizes. Her student play won Cornell’s Prize.

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Introducing our Round 7 NJ Women Playwrights! Meet @1BarbaraBE Barbara Blumenthal-Ehrlich’s full length plays have been produced at the New York International Fringe Festival, off-Broadway Theatre Row (Prod. by Tony-award winner Arielle Tepper Madover), Northern Light & many more

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Introducing our Round 7 NJ Women Playwrights! Meet @Nicole_Pandolfo
Nicole was selected for a 2018 commission with the NJPAC Stage Exchange with Premiere Stages @ Kean University. She is a member of the 2017 Dramatist Guild Fellows and her work has been developed all over NY&NJ

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Introducing our Round 7 NJ Women Playwrights! Meet @ruthzamoyta
In 2016 Ruth wrote her first play, The Caregivers. It won her a 2018 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship and was a semi-finalist for the 2018 Bay Area Playwrights Festival. #meettheartist #newwork

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The NJ Young Playwrights Contest received +425 submissions, the NJ Youth Poet Laureate Contest received 275 poems from 58 different writers & the Jersey Shorts Prose Writing Contest 36 stores from 18 different writers plus the NJ Poetry Out Loud Program had 89 schools register!

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I spy some actors from our SOUNDINGS Series! Check out @DreamcatcherRep's upcoming production "Psychodrama" by Phoebe Farber February 14 - March 3. @NJTheatre

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Check out the future of New Jersey's talent pool! The Rahway High School Advance Theatre class coached by WTNJ's very own Jim Ligon and their classroom teacher Jensyn Modero presented their original work after a 4-week long intensive. We can't wait to see you follow your dreams!

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We are excited to bring you the next in our See Professional Theatre video series on this day we remember Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. #JerseyMadeTheatre This video features @andrew_binger.

#MLK #mlkjr #MLKDay #MLKDay2019 #socialjustice #drama #newplays #justice #injustice

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Thank you Playwrights! Thank you Directors! Thank you Actors! Thank you Audience Members! You all helped develop 15 new plays! #15PlaysIn15Days #SurvivingAndThriving #NewWork #NJTheatreAlliance

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"Five Husbands" follows the trevails of Oliver, owner of a small boutique. Although he is a successful business owner, he prefers to sleep with married men. Like his best friend, Sally, Oliver rejects the notion of marriage. | ROSE HALL 7PM |

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"A Certain Age" examines women’s relationship with the aging process. Four women openly & honestly discuss body image, beauty, dating, & fear. A Certain Age asks why struggle against the absolute? Instead, embrace change & surrender to the positive aspects of aging.

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It’s a Beautiful Wound written & performed by Rich Orloff tells the true story of Rich’s journey in cutting-edge therapy using MDMA (Ecstasy) & psychedelic mushrooms to mend deep psychological wounds.
| ROSE HALL 7PM |

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PT & LXS are 2 high school students who live at in a post Trump future when the world has gone completely virtual. This play will take you on the rollercoaster of their rebellion against cyber reality & their attempt to connect in a real world they have never known |ROSE HALL 7|

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Ever contemplated how Jesus maintained his composure during The Last Supper or how Mary really felt about having two husbands? If you have then this play is for you. With a nod to the Mystery Plays of the 13th Century Barsky’s play will leave you laughing yet thinking.

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Joy, a small town girl with big dreams, tries to make it as a dancer in the brutal and competitive world of NYC. However, her story begins at the end where we see her senselessly murdered. ROSE HALL | MADISON | 7PM

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Maddie, unhappy with her ordinary life, embarks on a quest for happiness with a burglar, punk rocker, a professor who sleeps with his students, a former child star turned self-help guru, and Peter Penguin.
| ROSE HALL 7 PM |

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The Lucky Ones is a funny & moving play about the value and importance of female friendships after the age of 40. Vanessa secretly wishes she possessed Janie’s maturity & stability while Janie is in complete awe of Vanessa’s sense of adventure & abandon | ROSE HALL 7 PM |

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Deadlines are next week!

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Submissions for this year's Caregivers' Stories are due ONE WEEK from today! We've expanded to work with @PremiereStages @WTofNJ
@TheGrowingStage and @georgestreet. Learn more at https://t.co/90ooO6tJaX