HIT HOUSE - Performed Reading Series
Wednesday, November 20 - 7:00 PM
An evening of short works. Five Playwrights -- Two Directors -- One Cast

Debbie Broshi (Sweet and Sour) relocated to Philipstown after a long career as a comedian and a comedy writer for stage, TV, and radio in Israel. She had a few one act comedies in the Aery's 20/20 festival at the Depot Theater, in Garrison NY. Out of Shape, Don't Lie To Me, and Kousa Mahshi, were semifinalists, Doorstep Revelations, and Well Balanced were finalists.

Katharine McNair (Waiting for Gal Gadot) is a writer and director. Her stage work has been featured in the Fresh Fruit Festival, Lower East Side Festival of the Arts, Paper Kraine Productions Showcases, and at Micro Theater CLE in Cleveland, Ohio. Her short film was an official selection at film festivals in Austria, England, Germany and Uruguay. A member of Irish American Writers & Artists, she holds an MFA in Creative Writing from The City College of New York and resides in New York City. @kikivandee

Kristy Lin Billuni (Generation Sex) writes plays about queer triumph and proud outcasts. With roots in sex work, queer activism, and sex ed, she has earned her living for twenty years as The Sexy Grammarian, teacher of bold, free, turned-on writers. Kristy’s prized stage credits include productions at an HIV clinic in the Castro and a leather bar in Chelsea. She lives with her heroic social worker wife in San Francisco.

Rob Barron (The Rookie) is a Playwright, Director, Actor and Teacher. As a Playwright, he is the author of twelve produced plays and musicals, including The Lemony Snicket Project; Excavation (Dayton Playhouse; Jewelbox Theatre in Oklahoma); The Road to Washington, and 5/31/89: The Flood (The Mountain Playhouse); 1919: A Baseball Opera (Ensemble Studio Theatre); Ferdinand the Bull (Theatreworks USA), which he wrote with Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez, the authors of Avenue Q; and a new musical version of The Phantom of the Opera, which enjoyed five national tours. Several of his plays have also been semi-finalists at the National Playwrights Conference; and two of his brand-new plays are If Football Was More Like Theatre, and JoeB. He has directed premieres of new work at the Yale Rep, the Philadelphia Festival Theatre for New Plays, the Actors Studio in New York City, the White River Theatre Festival in Vermont, the Marin Theatre in California, Theatreworks in Colorado, and the Iowa Playwrights Festival, among others. Rob is an Actor/Director member of the Actors Studio; a founding member of the Monday Theatre Lab in Newburgh; a Theatre Professor; and a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, Brown University and the Phillips Exeter Academy.

Marjorie Lewit (Little Boxes) is a director and writer with work ranging from theatre and film to music videos and documentaries. In NYC, she worked with Another Urban Riff, State of Play Productions and Theatre 68, writing one-acts and directing short films. As Associate Artistic Director of Defiance Theatre Company in California, she was nominated for three Valley Theatre Awards and co-wrote and directed A Completely Unauthorized David Lynch Christmas Carol (2017). Other work includes directing Group: PTSD Stories (2017), Talking Trees (2018) and F*ck Fiction (2018) and co-writing Alley of Misfits (2021) that premiered at Loft Ensemble. She has directed video shorts for the award-winning Transcendence Theatre Company and several music videos for the 2017 Kleban Award winner Daniel Zaitchik. She is currently writing a Hippo Horror stage play and hosting Nerd Nite Hudson Valley, an educational and entertaining monthly series covering science, tech, gaming, and outerspace.