Only ONE more performance of #itownys festival of shorts! Show starts at 2PM today (4/21) St Mary’s High School, Lancaster. Tickets $15/general; $10/senior, students.

Tickets available at the door! Come see 9 extraordinary plays with performances by extraordinary actors! You do NOT want to miss this show (and we’d be sad if you did, so there’s that)!

See you there! #inclusivetheaterofwny#inclusionrevolution#festivalofshorts

Artwork by Alan Deacon

DISABILITY REPRESENTATION – EDFC2024

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Bella Poynton (she/her) (On Rooftops and Rowboats) is a playwright, director, actor, and theater scholar. Her creative work has been published with Samuel French at Concord Theatricals and can be seen in The Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2019, The Best American Short Plays 2018-2019, The Weirdest Plays of 2020, WE-US: Monologues for Gender Minority Characters, and Clockhouse. Her scholarly work has been published in Comparative Drama, Theatre/Practice, Texas Theatre Journal, Global Performance Studies, and Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism. Her plays have been produced and developed at Alleyway Theatre, The Great Plains Theatre Festival, Road Less Traveled Productions, 3rd Act Theatre Company, Oklahoma City University, Antaeus Theatre Company, Otherworld Theatre, MadLab Theatre, Theatre Viscera, and the Pittsburgh New Works Festival, and Post-Industrial Productions, among many others. Poynton is a co-chair of the Playwriting Symposium at the Mid America Theatre Conference, and the director of the Playwrights Wing at First Look Buffalo Theatre Company. Upcoming projects: The AI at Delphi (First Look Buffalo), Prelude to a Kiss (Director, Bellissima), Mergers & Integrations at Buffalo Quickies (Alleyway), and 20,000 Leagues (Otherworld Theatre), MFA, Iowa Playwrights Workshop; PhD, SUNY Buffalo.

J.B. Stone (he/they) (The Golden Girls Convention) is a Neurodivergent/Autistic teaching artist, spoken word poet, writer, playwright, and critic from Brooklyn, NY now residing in Buffalo, NY. He serves as the Founding EIC/Reviews Editor at Variety Pack and reads flash fiction for Split Lip Magazine. J.B.’s writing and performances have appeared or are forthcoming in Write About Now, The Buffalo News, Hawaii Pacific Review, The Citron Review, Reunion: The Dallas Review, Los Angeles Review, Rain Taxi, Flash Fiction Magazine, Flashback Fiction, Atlas and Alice, among other spaces. He’s featured, and competed in poetry slams across the U.S. & Canada, and qualified for a third year in a row, to represent Buffalo’s Pure Ink Poetry at the Southern Fried Poetry Slam Festival, one of the largest regional poetry slams in North America. You can find more of J.B.’s work at jb-stone.com, and can follow their chaos on twitter @JB_StoneTruth or on Instagram @benjamin.jared. Having contributed to ART WNY’s production of When World’s Collide, an unique theatrical interpretation of A Christmas Carol, This will be J.B.’s debut play-written production

Scriptly speaking, Allison Fradkin delights in applying her Women’s & Gender Studies education, courtesy of SUNY Purchase, to the creation of stories that (sur)pass the Bechdel Test and enlist their characters in a caricature of the idiocies and intricacies of insidious isms. Elsewhere in New York, her work has been presented by Buffalo Writers’ Theater, New Ambassadors Theatre Company, Penn Yan Theatre Company, Rosendale Theatre, and Foothills Arts Council. Allison’s auxiliary activities include vintage shopping, volunteering, and tending to her thespian tendencies.

Justin Karcher (Building Balanced Men in Buffalo) (Twitter: @justin_karcher, Bluesky: justinkarcher.bsky.social) is a Best of the Net- and Pushcart-nominated poet and playwright born and raised in Buffalo, NY. He is the author of several books, including Tailgating at the Gates of Hell (Ghost City Press, 2015). Recent playwriting credits include The Birth of Santa (American Repertory Theater of WNY) and “The Buffalo Bills Need Our Help” (Alleyway Theatre). Check out his website, https://www.justinkarcherauthor.com.