Each month The Echo presents a FREE public reading series showcasing both new and established playwrights.

THIS MONTH:

Better

by Jessica Goldberg

Monday May 20 @ 7:30p | The Zephyr Theatre | 7456 Melrose Ave (at Vista)

About the Author:

Jessica’s plays include: Body Politic which was produced at the Echo and nominated for an Ovation Award. Get What You Need, Sex Parasite, Good Thing, Refuge (winner of the 1999 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize), The Hologram Theory, and Stuck.

Jessica is a graduate of NYU’s Dramatic Writing Program and The Juilliard School. She was a Tennessee Williams Fellow at The University of the South, a recipient of The Le Compte de Nouy stipend, the first annual Helen Merrill Award, and a 2,000 Berrilla Kerr Foundation Award. She has been a resident at The O’Neill Playwrights Conference, New River Dramatists, The Missoula Colony and The New Harmony Project. She is a member of The Dramatist Guild and PEN American Center.

Jessica recently finished directing her first feature film adapted from her play Refuge. She has written films for Universal Studios, Liosgate, Warner Brothers, HBO and Focus Features. She has written on the television show Deception, and the upcoming show Camp starring Rachel Griffiths.

Past readings include:

David Lindsay-Abaire’s A Devil Inside

David Linday-Abaire’s Fuddy Meers

David Lindsay-Abaire’s Dotting and Dashing

Todd Alcott’s The User’s Waltz

Tanya Barfields’s Pecan Tan

P.J. Barry’s And Fat Freddy’s Blues

Mike Batistick’s Port Authority Throwdown

Mike Batistick’s Chicken

Neena Beber’s Tommorowland

Neena Beber’s Hard Feelings

Chad Beguelin’s Harbor

Matthew Benjamin & Logan Brown’s Wirehead

Adam Bock’s Thursday

Adam Bock’s The Receptionist

Adam Bock’s The Typographer’s Dream

Carlyle Brown’s The Pool Room

Keith Bunin’s King of Clocks

Rick Cleveland’s Home Grown

Rick Cleveland’s Danny Bouncing

Kevin Crowley’s Disgruntled Employees

Cusi Cram’s Landlocked

Gordon Dahlquist’s The Secret Machine

Bryan Davidson’s War Music

Brian Delaney’s The Onion Game

Joe DiPietro’s Over the River and Through the Woods

Padraic Duffy’s Copy

Padraic Duffy’s Past Time

Fielding Edlow’s Admissions

Julia Edwards’ Family Planning

Napoleon Ellsworth’s Farewell Undertaker

Napoleon Ellsworth’s Hunting for Game

Napoleon Ellsworth’s Wicked Messenger

Herman Daniel Farrell III’s Bedfellows

Kate Fodor’s 100 Saints You Should Know

Amy Freed’s The Psychic Life of Savages

Karl Gajdusek’s Spin

Jessica Goldberg’s Good Thing

Jessica Goldberg’s Get What You Need

Jessica Goldberg’s Body Politic

Jennifer Haley’s Froggy

Steven Haworth’s Fernando

Michael Hollinger’s Incorruptible

Keith Huff’s Harry’s Way

Elroyce D. Jones’ A Thimble of Smoke

Nick Jones & Rachel Shukert’s The Sporting Life

Susan Johnston’s The Bourgeois Willie B.

Bill Leavengood’s 17 Black

Adam LeFevre’s Ethoipian Tooth

Rick Lieberman’s Left on Flatbush

Quincy Long’s Year of the Baby

Quincy Long’s Aux Cops

Heather McCutchen’s Alabama Rain

Wendy MacLeod’s House of Yes

Melanie Marnich’s Cradle of Man

Teri Minksy’s Amazing Frogs & Toads

Wesley Moore’s A Reckoning

Peter Sinn Nachtrieb’s Bob

Kira Obolensky’s The Adventures of Herculina

Kira Obolensky’s Lobster Alice

Riel Paley’s Antiman

Laura Quinn’s The White Album

Adam Rapp’s Finer Noble Gases

Adam Rapp’s Nocturne

Kate Robin’s Anon

Sarah Ruhl’s Dead Man’s Cell Phone

Sarah Ruhl’s Melancholy Play

Sarah Ruhl’s Passion Play

Leah Ryan’s Short Order

Leah Ryan’s Bleach

Jenny Schwartz’s God’s Ear

Red Shuttleworth’s High Plains Fandango

Bernardo Solano’s Wild Life

Bernardo Solano’s Dominion

Richard Strand’s Median Strip

Lucy Thurber’s Where We’re Born

Erin Cressida Wilson’s Hurricane

Paul Zimmerman’s Pigs and Bugs