Susan Kathryn Hefti's AMERICAN DAMES Selected for Play Reading Festival in NYC!

We are delighted to announce that Susan Kathryn Hefti's AMERICAN DAMES (or...Waiting for Dolley), the 2011-2012 Harold Clurman Playwright-in-Residence Competition Finalist, has been selected for The Stella Adler Studio's 2012 New Play Reading Festival!

As part of the festival, the Playwrights Division of The Stella Adler Studio of Acting and the Harold Clurman Laboratory Theater will be producing the first-ever staged reading of AMERICAN DAMES this spring!

For reservations and details about this very special play reading, please visit The Stella Adler Studio's Facebook Events Page.

Harold Clurman Finalist Susan Kathryn Hefti's New Play to Have Reading at The Stella Adler Studio

The Stella Adler Studio Playwrights Division - which is affiliated with NYU's Tisch School of the Arts - will produce the first of two readings of 2011-2012 Harold Clurman Playwright-in-Residence competition Finalist Susan Kathryn Hefti's newest full-length play AMERICAN DAMES (or...Waiting for Dolley) on Thursday, October 13, 2011 at The Studio.

As the initial step in the play development process, this first reading will be closed to the public. The second reading - a fully-staged reading produced by The Stella Adler Studio's Playwrights Division - will be open to the public and we hope to see you all there. As soon as the fully-staged reading is scheduled, we'll be sure to post the date so you can mark your calendars in advance.    

To learn more about Susan Kathryn Hefti or to make a tax-deductible contribution to The Emerging American Artist's Fund, please visit her website or simply click on this link. Thank you for your continued interest in the work of this emerging American playwright.

We hope to see you all at the theater for the fully-staged public reading of AMERICAN DAMES (or...Waiting for Dolley) - and we'll be sure to post the details as soon as we set a date!

Susan Kathryn Hefti Named Finalist For 2011-2012 Harold Clurman Playwright-in-Residence Competition

Susan Kathryn Hefti has been named Finalist for the 2011-2012 Harold Clurman Playwright-in-Residence competition at The Stella Adler Studio.

The Studio's Playwrights Division - which is affiliated with NYU's Tisch School of the Arts - will produce two readings of Hefti’s newest full-length play American Dames (or…Waiting For Dolley) which explores the ever-changing social, political and cultural landscape that is America.

The staged reading of Susan Kathryn Hefti's American Dames (or...Waiting For Dolley) will be open to the public so we'll be sure to keep you posted on the dates.

In the meantime, for more information about Susan Kathryn Hefti or to make a tax-deductible contribution to help support the development of this American artist's work, please visit The Emerging American Artist's Fund at Fractured Atlas.

Now You Can Make a Tax-Deductible Contribution to Support the Work of American Playwright Susan Kathryn Hefti

Thanks to the non-profit arts service organization Fractured Atlas, you can now make a tax-deductible contribution to support the continued works of emerging American Playwright Susan Kathryn Hefti. Tax-deductible contributions to The Emerging American Artist's Fund - which benefits exclusively the continued development of works by emerging American Playwright Susan Kathryn Hefti - can be made online by simply clicking on this link.

The Emerging American Artist's Fund is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the purposes of The Emerging American Artist's Fund must be made payable to 'Fractured Atlas' and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.

To read more about the works of emerging American Playwright Susan Kathryn Hefti, please visit her online bio by simply clicking on this link.

Thank you for your continued interest and for your generous support!

The New York Observer's George Gurley Talks with American Playwright Susan Kathryn Hefti About Her Hit Comedy 'Dear Prudence'

Over a casual lunch on the Upper East Side, The New York Observer's George Gurley talked with American Playwright Susan Kathryn Hefti about the world premiere of her hit comedy Dear Prudence.

Their conversation was then translated into The New York Observer's own special dialect (longtime NYO readers will need no supertitles) and memorialized in the paper's legendary Eight Day Week column:

The New York Observer's conversation with Hefti had her phone ringing off the hook for months!

Susan Kathryn Hefti's 'Dear Prudence' Heats Up The Paris Stage This Fall!

Ooh là là! Things are really heating up on the Paris stage this fall: On October 14, 2010, Susan Kathryn Hefti's hit comedy Dear Prudence - which enjoyed an extended run Off-Broadway in 2003 - was back on the boards again in the city of lights!

Translated and produced by the popular French actress Myriam Blanckaert - best known to American audiences for her memorable role as Evelyn the Paris Bookstore owner in the final episodes of Sex and the City - Chere Prudence, a playfully bawdy farce about a lovable nymphomaniac named Prudence, proved a perfect match for the Parisian audience in this exciting staged reading at La Comédie Bastille this fall!

So keep your passports at the ready, as we all may be jetting off to Paris before too long!

Special thanks again (Merci! Merci!) to Ambassador John L. Loeb, Jr. for taking a chance on an unknown playwright by hosting the original Backer's Reading for Dear Prudence in his living room, raising all the money for the original NYC production in just one night!

As Chere Prudence continues to wind its way from page to stage - in preparation for a Paris production - we'll keep you all posted on her very exciting progress!

  

Congratulations again to Myriam and the rest of her marvelous cast on the very exciting staged reading of Chere Prudence in Paris on October 14th: C'est si bon! 

Playwright Susan Kathryn Hefti Nominated to 2010 Nantucket Screenwriters Colony

Nominated to the 2010 Nantucket Screenwriters Colony by acclaimed filmmaker Mitchell Lichtenstein - best known for his films TEETH and HAPPY TEARS - Susan Kathryn Hefti is the author of the screenplays THE POLKA DOT TEA PARTY and SUM LUV KITCHEN.

With Canadian filmmaker Chris Smets, Susan Kathryn Hefti - an American Playwright and active member of the Dramatists Guild - co-authored the screenplay BAD DATES a dark comedy about dating and mating in NYC based on Hefti's original story idea.