The League of Professional Theatre Women hosts

30 Plays Celebrate 30 Years

to commemorate the League's 30th anniversary

The third in our series:

JACKSON HEIGHTS, 3AM

Curated by Jenny Lyn Bader

A drag queen tussles with a fan; an Indian livery cab driver falls in love with an Ecuadoran baker;  an enslaved sex worker plans her escape; a deranged man rages against his landlady’s dog; a closeted cop meets his date’s father. Gambling, matchmaking, mangoes, insomnia and the ER – worlds collide in Jackson Heights, 3AM.

Conceived and directed by Ari Laura Kreith, collaboratively written by Jenny Lyn Bader,

J. Stephen Brantley, Ed Cardona Jr., Les Hunter, Tom Miller, Melisa Tien and Joy Tomasko,  the play is a multi-lingual, multi-cultural collage of intriguing, interconnected stories, staged fluidly and minimally. One League member's review of the production:  it's, “Why we got into theatre in the first place.” Theatremania called it “a sheer delight from beginning to end.”

For a performance of the play in the neighborhood that is its subject, an intrepid group of League members met up on a snowy Saturday and were rewarded with a theatrical treat.  Thanks to curator, Jenny Lyn Bader’s invitation, we learned that Jackson Heights is a quick subway ride on an E, F, R or 7 train, parking is easy, the Theatre 167 venue, warm and inviting. The play moves to Queens Playhouse for its final week.

Cast: Roberto Araujo, Varin Ayala*, Farah Bala*, Cynthia Bastidas, Rajesh Bose*, J. Stephen Brantley, Arlene Chico-Lugo*, Ross DeGraw*, Nick Fehlinger, Marcelino Feliciano, Kevin Hoffman, John P. Keller*, Alex Kip, Ephraim Lopez*, Neal Mayer*, Nina Mehta*, Sergey Nagorny, Flor De Liz Perez*, Indika Senanayake*, Josie Whittlesey* and Shivantha Wijesinha.

For more information, visit queenstheatre.org or theatre167.org.

*members: Actors’ Equity Association. AEA approved showcase



Friday, January 20
matinee reading of Woman on the Bridge, 
by Julia Pascal 

Julia Pascal (third from left) gathers with other League members following the London reading of her new play, WOMAN on the BRIDGE. The reading was the League's second event in its series  

30 Plays Celebrate 30 Years, a year long celebration of the League of Professional Theatre Women's 30th anniversary. The reading was followed by a lively talkback.