2018

TALES / TRIFLES (2018 draft) 

TRIFLES by Susan Glaspell

TALES FROM A MIDWESTERN MURDER adapted by Tricia McDermott from the reporting of Susan Glaspell

Directed by Tricia McDermott

Dramaturgy by Elizabeth Bojzsa

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2015-2017 - Airmid took a short hiatus and pivot our work back into New York City

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2014

ILLUSION by Mercedes de Acosta

Directed by Jean Randich
Dramaturgy by Lorien Reese

 

TRIFLES by Susan Glaspell, with TALES FROM A MIDWESTERN MURDER 
adapted by Tricia McDermott from the reporting of Susan Glaspell

Directed by Tricia McDermott

Dramaturgy by Nancee Moes; Elizabeth Bojzsa

Guest Scholar: Dr. Sherry Engle, Borough of Manhattan Community College

 

HER SOUL by Ameilia Pincherle Rosselli

Directed by Tricia McDermott

Dramaturgy by Don Rebar

Guest Scholar: Stanislao Pugliese, Hofstra University 

 

BARNES RAISING: AN EVENING OF ONE-ACTS BY DJUNA BARNES

Directed by Tricia McDermott

Dramaturgy by Elizabeth Bojsza

Guest Speaker: George Wallace, Writer in Residence, Walt Whitman Birthplace

 

2013

THE NIGHT OF JANUARY 16TH by Ayn Rand

Directed by Tricia McDermott

 

2011
A LITLE BETRAYAL AMONG FRIENDS by Caridad Svich - World Premiere

freely adapted & translated from Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor's comedy La Traicion en la amistad 
Directed by Tricia McDermott
Set Design by Tymberley Whitesel
Costumes by Brooke Cohen
Sound Design by Spencer Batho 
Stage Manager: Melissa Troxler 

 

THE PRINCESS WHO NEVER LAUGHED by Kate Freiligrath-Kroeker - Part of the Airmid Family Series
Directed by Ellen Distasi
Set Design by Jenna Lyons 
Costumes by Brooke Cohen 
Festival Marketing Associate: Cornelia Hanes 

2010
THREE CORNERED MOON by Gertrude Tonkonogy 
Directed by Tricia McDermott
Set Design by Tymberley Whitesel
Costumes by Sherry Kfare 
Dramaturgy by Elyse Yulo 
Assistant Director: Kaley Sullivan
Stage Manager: Melissa Troxler 

SNICKERTY NICK & THE GIANT by Julia Ellesworth Ford  - Part of the Airmid Family Series
Directed by Laura Konsin
Costumes by Sherry Kfare

 

2009
THE EMPEROR OF THE MOON by Aphra Behn, Adapted & Composed by John Franceschina – A World Premiere
Directed and Choreographed by Tricia McDermott
Music Direction by S. Cosmo Mallardi
Set Design by Tymberley Whitesel
Costumes by Olga Mills
Lighting by Deborah Constantine
Fight Choreography by Monica Russell 
Dramaturgy by Angie Balsamo

THE SILVER THREAD by Constance D’Arcy MacKay - Part of the Airmid Family Series
Adapted by Catherine Pressimone
Directed by Laura Konsin
Costumes by Olga Mills 
Dramaturgy by Catherine Pressimone
Original Music composed by Will Aronson 
Puppetry Consultants and Construction by Mikey Denis and Colin Fisher
Presented in partnership with Target

 

2008
MRS. PECK'S PUDDING by Eliza Follen – Part of the Airmid Family Series
Directed by Tricia McDermott
Dramaturgy by Angie Balsamo

 

CELEBRATING SUFFRAGE: TWO SHORT COMEDIES
Directed by Tricia McDermott
Dramaturgy by Catherine Pressimone
"How the Vote was Won" by Cicely Hamilton and Christopher St. John 
"A Chat with Mrs. Chicky" by Evelyn Glover
 

Honored during this event: Carol A. Quirk, Babylon Town Clark, Patricia A. Eddington, NY State Assemblywoman,
and Hillary Rodham Clinton, United States Senator.

A QUESTION OF MEMORY by Michael Field (Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper) 
Directed by Tricia McDermott
Dramaturgy by Maxine Kern

 

QUID PRO QUO
by Catherine Gore 
Winner of London's Haymarket Prize
Directed by Tricia McDermott
Dramaturgy by Angie Balsamo and Catherine Pressimone

RACHEL by Angelina Weld Grimke

Directed by Nicole Watson

Dramaturgy by Catherine Pressimone 

MAKING A SCENE... Women Playwrights, Words in Action written and adapted by Mary Guzzy 
conceived and directed by Tricia McDermott

2007
MISS LULU BETT by Zona Gale

Directed by Mary Catherine Burke
Dramaturgy by Angie Balsamo and Catherine Pressimone

 

THE MORALITY OF MRS DULSKA by Gabriela Zapolska

Translated by Teresa Murjas
Directed by Tricia McDermott 
Dramaturgy by Catherine Pressimone

 

DULCITIUS and SAPIENTIA, Two short plays by Hrotswitha of Gandersheim
Directed by Jean Randich

 

SIR PATIENT FANCY by Aphra Behn

Directed by Melanie Sutherland 
Dramaturgy by Catherine Pressimone

 

2006
A MAN’S WORLD by Rachel Crothers

Directed by Tricia McDermott
Dramaturgy by Angie Balsamo

 

THE FAIR AMERICANS by Mary Carr Clarke

Directed by Tricia McDermott
Dramaturgy by Angie Balsamo

 

A LITTLE BETRAYAL AMONG FRIENDS (first publi reading; translation commissioned by Airmid 2001)
from Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor’s La traicion en la amistad 

a free adaptation by Caridad Svich

Directed by Jean Randich

2005
MAKING A SCENE… WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS’ WORDS IN ACTION
written and adapted by Mary Guzzy 
Conceived and directed by Tricia McDermott

2004
SWETNAM THE WOMAN HATER by Anonymous

Directed by Cristina Vaccaro and Tricia McDermott

 

2001
TRUE WOMEN by Anne Charlotte Leffler Edgren

Directed by Tricia McDermott