Women Of Off-Off-Broadway: Spotlight On – Robin Rice Lichtig
by Karen Tortora-Lee on December 8, 2010
A few weeks ago I was honored to be able to sit on a panel of women brought together by Monica Bauer to discuss the specific challenges (and joys!) of being a woman in the Off-Off Broadway community. My fellow panelists were from many different paths, but we all came together with the same spirit and goal – to color an area of the larger picture with our own story in order to present a richer canvas to the audience.
Our discussion was lively, energetic, informative and surprisingly fun. Since I was the only one of the bunch with an actual tool to preserve what had happened that evening (this website you see before you) I offered to turn our discussion into a web series for posterity. Over the next few weeks I’ll feature a different, amazing Woman of Off-Off Broadway who will share her journey with us all.
Kicking us off this week is playwright Robin Rice Lichtig. The author of over 40 plays, including 12 full lengths, Lichtig’s plays have been produced worldwide. She is currently working on an autobiographical play (SUKI LIVINGSTON OPENS LIKE A PARACHUTE), a play about the Victorian photographer Alice Austen, and a puppet theatrical to be produced in a Manhattan park next summer. PLAY NICE! will have a New York premiere in May. SEARCHING FOR A NEW SUN will have a New York workshop and/or premiere next spring following a reading in Berlin.
