Written and performed by Penny Peyser
Directed by Matthew Leavitt and Liza Seneca
Lady Penelope dresses in Elizabethan garb, prefers to speak in iambic pentameter and rhyme, and refuses to leave her house. She sonnetizes, sanitizes, and sings! And she has a secret…
Part of 59E59 Theaters' East to Edinburgh 2024
Penny Peyser (Playwright/Performer) is the author of two sonnets collections – Sonnets From Suburbia: More Candles Than Cake and Sonnets From Suburbia: Romance Dance. (Both available on Amazon). She is a 2018 winner of the Maria Faust Sonnet Contest and a Literary Titan award. Her work has been published in Defenestration, Blood & Bourbon, Lunaris Review, Grand Little Things, Chantwood Magazine, White Ash Literary Magazine and Rats Ass Review – yes there is such a thing – among others.
Matthew Leavitt (Co-director) As an award-winning playwright, Matthew’s most recent play, Sukkot, just premiered at The Skylight Theatre in Los Angeles. Other plays include The $5 Shakespeare Company (LA Times Critic's Choice) and The Boomerang Effect (published by Concord Theatricals), which has enjoyed numerous productions throughout the US and UK. He has been commissioned by LA Opera twice to write the librettos for two new operas, Orpheus and The Wreck of the Miranda in collaboration with classical and film composer Nathan Wang. Directing credits include Hamlet (winner of Best Director of a Play Stage Scene LA Award), Legally Brunette (world premiere – The Garry Marshall Theatre in Los Angeles, 54 Below in NYC), The Scorpion and the Frog: a time killer (world premiere – Hollywood Fringe Festival), Double Play (world premiere – Stephanie Feury Theatre), Barfly Shakespeare (The 6th Act), Twelfth Night (Village Green Productions), The Taming of the Shrew (Village Green Productions), Arrival (Sci-Fest LA), Human History (Sci-Fest LA), and Goes The Weasel (Ammunition Theatre Company).
Liza Seneca (Co-director) appeared as Emma in The 6th Act’s productions of An Evening of Betrayal, Desdemona in Othello, Lillian in The $5 Shakespeare Company, and Mairead in Sukkot. Liza is a member of the renowned Antaeus Company where she received a Lead Actress LADCC nomination for The Caucasian Chalk Circle and an LADCC award as part of the Douglas Theatre, Macbeth at Colorado Shakespeare Festival, and Much Ado About Nothing at Kentucky Shakespeare among many others.
Read more at: www.sonnetsfromsuburbia.com