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Episode 142: Laura Maria Censabella, Playwright

January 25, 2019 by Julie Harris Oliver in Diversity, entertainment, Film & TV, hollywood, WGA, women, Writers, business, activism, human rights, Politics, daytime drama, Immigration, theatre

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This is my month for playwrights, and today I have another very special episode with playwright Laura Maria Censabella. She wrote the play, Paradise which was commissioned by Ensemble Studio Theatre and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and was a runner-up for the 2016 Saroyan/Paul Playwriting Prize for Human Rights. And lucky for us in LA, the West Coast premiere of Paradise, presented by Viola Davis’ and Julius Tennon’s  JuVee Productions and American Oasis,  is opening at the Odyssey Theatre, January 26th at 8pm and running through February 17th. You can get tickets at www.plays411.com/paradise.

Laura is an award winning playwright, a daytime Emmy winning screenwriter and teaches
playwriting and new play development at the New School for Drama, where she has been honored with the Distinguished University-Wide Teaching Award. She graduated from Yale University and is currently writing the screenplay for Paradise.

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January 25, 2019 /Julie Harris Oliver
writer, WGA, women writers, daytime, women in theatre, female playwright
Diversity, entertainment, Film & TV, hollywood, WGA, women, Writers, business, activism, human rights, Politics, daytime drama, Immigration, theatre
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Mary and her son Kyle

Episode 20: Mary O'Leary, Producer

November 08, 2016 by Julie Harris Oliver in entertainment, Film & TV, hollywood, WGA, DGA, women, daytime drama, soap opera

Mary is an award-winning Producer of General Hospital and The Young & The Restless. She was also nominated several times for Guiding Light, Another World and One Life to Live. Seven Emmy’s, people, seven. This woman knows how to run a Soap.

Interestingly, while nonchalantly rising in the ranks of daytime dramas, she also developed and produced a series of one-man shows with Jonathan Frid, of Dark Shadows fame.

As it turns out, asking for what you want and sharing your intentions can actually open doors, good mothering goes a long way, and having the arts in high school really can make all the difference. And the world of daytime drama moves very fast…

 

November 08, 2016 /Julie Harris Oliver
Soaps, women, gender, television, daytime, drama
entertainment, Film & TV, hollywood, WGA, DGA, women, daytime drama, soap opera
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