About Us
Teresa Mella Fogel
Teresa Fogel is a playwright in the second chapter of her life. Her play, “Wedding Day Blues”, was produced at Theatre Artists Workshop New play festival, April 2018. “Speed Dating”, was one of the winners of ICWP’s 3-minute play contest. “Looking for Juliet” was published in the Drama Notebook in Spring 2020, and her full length play Knock! Knock! was a semi-finalist at the Garry Marshall Theatre New Works Festival. Her plays have been performed at Drama Works Theatre in Old Saybrook, from 2021-2023. Teresa is a member of the Dramatists Guild, PWC, International Center for Women Playwrights and the League of Professional Theatre Women. She has attended various playwrighting conferences including Yale, Wesleyan, Cape May Stage and the Kennedy Center Intensive preview. Teresa is currently workshopping her full length play, "Grief" while working on several others. She gets her inspiration from living on the Connecticut shoreline in Old Saybrook and spending time with her husband of 35 years.
Laura Thoma
Laura Thoma is an internationally published playwright and theatremaker originally from Tidewater, Virginia. She started her career as a dancer and choreographer. Laura has developed her work with GreenStage Guilford Live Arts Festival, Cape May Stage, Chestnut Street Playhouse, Eden Prairie Players, Marist College, Chicago Dramatist, Legacy Theatre, and Drama Works Theatre. She was a playwright in residence with The Pawling Theatre Exchange (now CTE) in 2018. Laura is an alum of the National Playwrights Symposium and the Kennedy Center Playwrights Intensive. Her monologue turned short film Me, Myself, and I, which she wrote during the pandemic starring Broadway veteran Erin Stoddard, has garnered awards from film festivals around the globe, including London, Paris, and New York. This year, 2023, Laura attended The Desert Playwrights' Retreat in Palm Springs, CA, had a development workshop and public reading of her play Yours in Words, through GreenStage Guilford, and is a featured playwright in The Bechdel Group's Fall Reading Series in NYC. Laura is a member of AEA, The Dramatist Guild, PWC, and The League of Professional Theatre Women, CT Chapter. Laura lives in Guilford, Connecticut, with her wife and two dogs.
Upcoming Events -2023
January & September: What's on the Page?
January & September: What's on the Page?
January & September: What's on the Page?
These events are primarily private and occasionally by invitation only. They're a part of our development process for one-acts and full-length plays, designed to serve the playwright, text, and artistic team. We hold these at our studio with local actors and playwrights.
December: Works in Progress - Holiday Edition
January & September: What's on the Page?
January & September: What's on the Page?
We're writing Holiday Plays!
Writing a play is a craft that includes multiple revisions and readings to reflect and refine the story in the playwright's head. You and your feedback are an internal part of our process. Join us for an evening of readings featuring two short holiday plays and an interactive discussion with the playwrights.
May: Micro Shorts
January & September: What's on the Page?
May: Micro Shorts
A fun, fast, and entertaining evening of five-minute plays that will not only entertain but leave you thinking!
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