• AirPlay22 Presents: Mom and Uncle Claude

  • Nov 10 2021
  • Length: 21 mins
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AirPlay22 Presents: Mom and Uncle Claude

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  • Mom and Uncle Claude
    by Coni Koepfinger
    When Mary West returns from college for Thanksgiving break, she finds her mom acting  
    very odd about her dad’s recent disappearance.  At their holiday feast, the girls have a feeling  there could have been foul play. With the help of her older sister Katharine, Mary feels obliged to find out the truth to save the memory of her father’s honor.

    Coni Koepfinger (Playwright) Coni Koepfinger, a 2021 recipient of the Olwen Wymark Award by the Writer's Guild of Great Britain, is currently playwright-in-residence at both Manhattan Rep and Cosmic Orchid and has worked with several other notable NYC companies such as Theatre for the New City, The Secret Theatre, the New York Unfringed Fest, Broadway Bound Festival and Pan Asian Rep. She is a member of the Dramatist Guild, a former board member of the International Centre for Women Playwrights and a chair for the League Professional Theatre Women and currently sits as Media Advisory Board of the Lifeboat Foundation. As a very prolific indie artist, Coni’s work has been published and produced all over the globe. Her newest play “Live from the Bardo: My Dinner with Mary” with legendary director Dan Carter will premiere January 2022 with an AEA Off-Off Broadway showcase at Théater for the New City. 

    Carrie Wesolowski (Director/Mom/Rebecca West) Carrie is an Actor/Director, Host and Singer. whose credits span film, theatre, television and now Zoom. In the past year, projects where Carrie has served as Actor/Director have been finalists in several film festivals--Simon Says in the 1st Playbill VTF Live and in Manhattan Rep's Stories Film Festival. Carrie most recently directed a preview of the opera The Bird Lady at The National Opera Center. Upcoming projects include playing Helen Hayes, in Coni Koepfinger's Live From The Bardo: My Dinner With Mary during a 2-week run in January 2022 at Theatre for the New City (TNC) in NYC in an AEA Off-Off Broadway showcase directed by Dan Carter.

    Marina Rebecca Chan (Mary West) Marina is a Brooklyn-based performer, playwright and producer. A Columbia graduate, drama major, Marina conceived and produced the Asian Americans in Theatre: Art and Activism series at Asia Society and Barnard. She cast, directed and starred in two readings of her play Elizabeth’s Wonderland. Her Zoom staged reading of her play Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, set during Covid was produced by the Little & Fierce Theatre Company last March. You can find out more about Marina 
    @ www.marinachan.com

    Jacqueline Youm (Katherine West) Jacqueline Youm is a Senegalese-American actor, lawyer, and French|English|Spanish teacher. She also coaches mediation and negotiation. She thanks her family & friends for continuously listening to her acting screams and tears. Since the pandemic has started, she has produced, directed, and acted in a myriad of plays and monologues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMP7Wn5hXuo&list=PLcz56rfup6GzQsVH3RDqUedrQucAYCe6e

    James Jerome (Uncle Claude) James Jerome is an actor, stage manager, and writer. James got his start in Pittsburgh; then continued in New York working as an actor on stage, television and film.  He studied at the HB Studio with Uta Hagen.  Currently he is "wrighting" his first full-length play.

    Padmini Sukumaran (Narrator)  Padmini Sukumaran has an English Literature Doctorate and wrote her Dissertation partially on the Shakespearean depiction of the Baroque-Metaphor, "The World is a Stage" in A Midsummer Night's Dream. She has trained in Acting and Musical-Theatre at the HB Studio and The Acting Studio - New York. Padmini also deems that Drama is a beautiful vehicle for channeling our Psychological-Vulnerability: both the light and the dark.
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