Reading of "Milk and Gall" by Mathilde Dratwa

InProximity Theatre Company is happy to present "Milk and Gall" by Mathilde Dratwa, as part of the Project W Theatre Festival's program.

MILK AND GALL

Written by Mathilde Dratwa
Directed by Jen Wineman

Featuring

Rutanya Alda
Julie Asriyan
Brian D. Coats
Carrie Heitman
Irene Sofia Lucio
Aaron Roman Weiner
Guitar and Stage Directions by Jono Wildman

Synopsis

Raising a magnifying glass to the experience of being a new mother under Trump, Milk and Gall  opens as Vera gives birth to a shape-shifting baby on election night. Over the course of one seemingly unending year, tensions mount between Vera and her second-wave feminist mother, she struggles to connect physically with her husband, and her friendship with her Syrian-American best friend Amira falters. A surreal and fragmented play mimicking the experience of sleep-deprived new parents,  Milk and Gall explores the terror of the mundane: Vera is stuck in the world of diapers, breast pumps and padsicles while everyone else she knows is out marching.

Written by Mathilde Dratwa

Mathilde Dratwa is a member of Dorset Theater Festival’s Women Artists Write initiative and of New York Foundation for the Arts’ Immigrant Artist Program, a former co-leader of the FilmShop collective and a two-time Pulitzer Center Grant recipient. Her theater credits include Milk and Gall (Great Plains Theater Conference, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference Semi-Finalist) and Escape from Garden Grove (Last Frontier Theater Conference, Maxim Mazumdar New Play Competition Finalist). She wrote and directed the narrative short films PETA PAN (starring Independent Spirit Award Nominee Nisreen Faour) and ESCAPE FROM GARDEN GROVE (Sundance Channel Shorts Contest Finalist), as well as the web series ALMOST ANONYMOUS (best original concept, NYC WebFest). A seasoned educator, Mathilde is a Master Teaching Artist for Roundabout Theatre Company, the New Victory, the Shakespeare Society and the School of The New York Times. She is the co-founder of Moms-in-Film (SXSW Community Grant, Wee Wagon Project, Free childcare at SXSW and Sundance). Mathilde holds a masters from Drama Centre London as well as a BA and MA from Cambridge University.

Directed by Jen Wineman

Jen Wineman is a Brooklyn-based director/choreographer. New York: Surfer Girl (Animus Theatre); My Heart is in the East (La Mama); Fable (NYMF), The King’s Whore (Walkerspace); F#%king Up Everything (Elektra Theater). Regionally, she has directed at Pittsburgh CLO, Asolo Rep, Playmakers Rep, Virginia Rep, Dorset Theatre Festival, and Tantrum Theater. Up next: Gianmarco Soresi’s new play Less Than 50% at 59E59. Jen recently completed her first film, You Look Amazing, by The Daily Show’s Colleen Werthmann. B.A. Vassar, M.F.A. Yale. www.jenwineman.com

Festival Celebrating Women in Theatre

Project W Theatre Festival is a multi-day reading festival in New York City presenting new plays written, directed, managed and produced exclusively by women. It’s a celebration of women in theatre from both the creative and business fields.

Space for this event was sponsored in part by Sokoloff Arts