Meet the Playwrights of Zoom Fest 2020:

Mike Brannon is a computer programmer by day, and a playwright every other waking moment.  Born and raised in Greensboro, NC, he's had 17 short plays produced over the past 18 months.  He is currently working on his first full-length piece.

Title Featured in Zoom Fest 2020: ​Eliza 2020 and canceled/postponed

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Rishi Chowdhary was born in Mombasa, Kenya to Punjabi parents. He currently lives in Morrisville, North Carolina and brings projects to life for a computer company.  Aside from spending time writing short plays, he enjoys frequenting comedy clubs, theaters, and National Parks.

Title Featured in Zoom Fest 2020: A Plagued Play

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Connie Dinkler was born and raised in Southern West Virginia and currently resides in Salisbury, NC where she runs her private counseling practice. Connie has published several poems and short stories, won two local literary awards, and has had three ten-minute plays produced. Not a Dark and Stormy Night was based on her short story, “Freedom” which was published in 2015. 

Title Featured in Zoom Fest 2020: Not a Dark and Stormy Night

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Judy M. Dove is an educator, director, and playwright in Raleigh. She serves on the Board of Directors as secretary of the North Carolina Theatre Conference and works as Office Administrator of North Raleigh Arts and Creative Theatre (NRACT). She has directed for Raleigh Little Theatre (RLT), Forest Moon Theatre, and NRACT, and has been an adjunct professor in the Meredith College Department of Dance and Theatre. She is the recipient of the NCTC K-12 Theatre Educator Award, the Capital University Alumni Achievement Award, the United Arts Council of Raleigh/Wake County Business Support of the Arts Award in Arts Education, and numerous awards for Excellence in Directing from NCTC. She has written several plays for youth, based on NC history, which have been toured by the RLT Storytellers to Go!

Title Featured in Zoom Fest 2020: ​Where'd You Go?

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Isabel Egbert is a junior theater major at Weaver Academy for the Performing Arts. She has worked as the props designer for In The Red & Brown Water, Ghost the Musical, 33 Variations, and Bring It On! at Weaver. Isabel has worked with Goodly Frame as the Props Head for last year's production of King Lear. Her previous work Icarus Loved won an award of excellence at the 2019 State ITS Festival. She is very excited for everyone to see Subconsciously. It is a beautiful story of modern love in more ways than one.
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Title Featured in Zoom Fest 2020: Subconsciously

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Danielle Fenton’s, Tricks, was produced at the Jewel Box Theater in New York City. She wrote and performed in Symptoms and Inner Armies, Outer Thighs,  which also ran off-Broadway.  Her short plays have been produced regionally, most recently, The Motherlode Of Necessity (part of Illuminated Dresses), at Burning Coal Theater in Raleigh, NC, and Rude Awakening at Raleigh’s Theatre in the Park. Her short, Dare Me, was a winner in Oxford Theater’s Play Festival, produced professionally by Stamford Center for the Arts, and filmed by Movie Baby Productions as a short feature.  She was co-creator of the web series Love Bytes, and her novella-in-progress, Disconnections,  is being made into a podcast serial. Member Dramatists Guild and Actors Equity Association.

Title Featured in Zoom Fest 2020: Leave 'Em Laughing 

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Clinton Festa lives in Greensboro, NC with his wife and children in a house that is gradually becoming a sanctuary for tuxedo cats. He first began writing comedy and cartooning in college for The Cornell Lunatic, his campus humor magazine. He has written two novels - Ancient Canada and The Enchanted Harp. Clinton is a member of the Greensboro Playwrights' Forum and runs an online book drive for prisoners called Sentences Book Donations.

Titles Featured in Zoom Fest 2020: Poltergeist Service Announcement, Marriage Matters, and ​Dr. Melissa's Online Neurosurgery Class

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George Jack is an Associate Professor in the Humanities Department at Saint Augustine’s University in Raleigh. Over the past two decades, he has worked in the Triangle as an actor or director with Burning Coal Theatre, Raleigh Ensemble Players, Theatre in the Park, Honest Pint Theatre, Sweet Tea Shakespeare, Stillwater Theatre, and The African-American Cultural Complex. Back in the early ‘80s, as an undergraduate at The College of William and Mary, George had the good fortune to study with Louis E. Catron and Richard H. Palmer. George wrote several plays which were produced and even won a few awards. George earned an MFA from Louisville, and he will have a PhD from Indiana if he ever gets around to finishing his dissertation. George is very grateful to have this opportunity to have his work performed by Goodly Frame Theatre and he thanks you for being in the audience!

​Title featured in Zoom Fest 2020: A Present for the Present

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Autumn Karen is a North Carolina writer, educator, activist, and actress. She currently serves as an Honors Faculty member at UNC Greensboro, where she teaches ghostwriting. In support of her writing projects, Autumn has appeared on NPR and in the New York Times. Most of her work in the last decade has been as a true ghostwriter, however her compelling first credited book, Mississippi Still Burning: From Hoods to Suits, was published in 2018 and her first fiction novel, Amy Book 1: Swing Sets, will debut this year.

Titles Featured in Zoom Fest 2020: ​Did You Just Take a Swing at Me? and Radio Silence: A Quarantine Romance Story

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Randy Morris graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a degree in Drama and began volunteering as a director for the Greensboro Playwrights’ Forum’s An Evening of Short Plays series. He has directed many of the Forum’s short plays, as well as several full-length plays for the Greensboro City Arts Drama Center (now part of Creative Greensboro). With the encouragement of Forum moderator Stephen Hyers, Randy began writing short plays, eleven of which have been produced by the Playwrights’ Forum. Randy has also written two full-length plays which have yet to be produced: 14th of August, 1936, which is based on a true story, and Anansi and the Story Box, a children’s play based on a West African folk tale. Randy is honored to have one of his plays chosen for the Goodly Frame Theatre’s Zoom Fest 2020. He lives in Greensboro with his lovely wife Barbara and their fat, furry feline, Feebie.

Title featured in Zoom Fest 2020: Tera

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Louis Panzer is a playwright who is extremely grateful for the Greensboro artist community. He would like to thank the Drama Center, Meredith, and the Goodly Frame Theater for the opportunities to keep art alive through this challenging time. Stay strong!

Title Featured in Zoom Fest 2020: HS Data Buddy

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Andrea (Andy) Rassler has been involved in various aspects of theatre all her life. With roots in community theatre, Andy has acted and directed in many venues, both in her home state of Minnesota and in North Carolina. She has held the position of theatre instructor and director at Northwest Cabarrus High School for most of her teaching career. Playwriting began for Andy as a natural outgrowth of acting and directing, and she has seen local, regional, and international productions realized. Her hope is to continue exploring all aspects of theatre, as it is her love. Andy lives in Concord, NC and is married with two children. ​

​Title Featured in Zoom Fest 2020: Father Charlie's Online Confessions

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Shelley Stolaroff Segal is a playwright, performer, and essayist living in Greensboro, North Carolina. My Son, her play about autism and race, premiered in NYC and was performed at the International Civil Rights Museum and on tour. An abbreviated version was presented at TEDx East. The Road to Empathy, her mash-up of My Son and Driving Miss Daisy, was presented at TEDx Greensboro. Segal’s one-woman show, Sidney in Focus, premiered in San Diego and received productions at Curtains Theater in Houston and the Bailiwick in Chicago. Among many, notable production credits include Bliss, a play about marriage, Outing Your Autistic Child, which Segal performed and scored, and Not Strictly Vaudeville, which she performed, choreographed, and scored. Local performances include the one-woman play, Our Lady of Perpetual Donuts, by Jordan Beswick, for the Greensboro Fringe Festival, and the F Word, which she directed, also for Fringe Fest.

Title Featured in Zoom Fest 2020: Love. No Matter What.

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Eric Weil, son of a music teacher from New York City and an artist from Boston, grew up near Cleveland, Ohio. He moved to NC to attend grad school at UNC Greensboro, where he earned MFA and PhD degrees. After 40+ years as an educator, he retired in 2019. His short plays have appeared in theatres in Florida, Illinois, Texas, Massachusetts, and Arizona, in addition to North Carolina. “The Bluebird,” a parody of Poe’s “The Raven,” will be on the NC 10x10 program later this summer in Cary and in Durham. 

Titles Featured in Zoom Fest 2020: ​Why Wouldst Thou Be a Breeder? and We Couldn't Be That Lucky

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