Trish Ayers
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Writing For Social Change
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Contact Trish at mail4trish@earthlink.net
Trish is a published award winning playwright (Associate member
of the Dramatists Guild of America, Inc.) whose plays have toured throughout the U.S. and Japan. Her works have been presented as staged readings and/or full productions at Hedgerow Theatre, Live Girls!, Lexington Children's Theatre, Berea College, Iowa State University, The University of Louisville and Western Illinois University. As a recipient of a 2006 KFW Art Meets Activism grant she created and led a playwriting seminar for Kentucky women writers which will continue in 2008. Her plays have been recognized the past four years in the Josefina Niggli Playwriting Awards sponsored by The Appalachian Writers Association.
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On March 10th Trish's breast cancer play LUMPs had a reading by the McCready Writers, residents living in McCready Manor, an assisted living community in Richmond, KY. It was great fun and everyone was moved.
Trish was interviewed for the March issue of the online journal www.Wordgathering.com; the journal includes creative writing by those with disabilities, or features articles dealing with those issues. Check out the interview at http://www.wordgathering.com/issue5/interviews/ayers.html.
A scene from LUMPs in included in this issue:
Trish is pleased to have had the opportunity to interview well-known Berea writer Sidney Saylor Farr on the recent release of her memoir, My Appalachia. The interview will appear in the Spring issue of Appalachian Journal: http://www.appjournal.appstate.edu/.
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APPLICATION FOR 2008-09 KENTUCKY WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS' SEMINAR
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