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Each collection has its own story. Click any title or image below to explore.
Including One Bold Voice
Donaghy’s craft approach treats the monologue as a gem laid out on velvet, a play within a play, a delicious aside to be savored. I know I will be working from this text in my own writing instruction and look forward to having Donaghy’s practical, practiced, and professional guide by my side.
~Patricia Cregan Navarra. Adjunct Professor, Writing Studies, Hofstra University
Filled with genuine warmth and humor, Donaghy’s look at female friendships – told over six decades – reminds us that there is no greater power on earth than the love of a family we find and choose for ourselves.
~Ellen O’Brien. Playwright. Journalist.
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Including Gift of an Orange
In a good play nothing goes the way you think it will, and all you can hope for is to be spellbound for however long the action continues and to walk out unsure of what you are feeling but knowing you are feeling something. This play delivers on all counts.
~Sue Harrison. Wicked Local. Gatehouse News Service.
Gift of an Orange. Produced by New Urban Theatre Laboratory. Director Jackie Davis. OSHUN-Dayenne C. Bryan Walters. JAKE-James Bocock.
Including Proverbs
Like Tony Kushner writing Angels in America – and you know he is the only man who could write that – when something is this well done you sit there and say ‘Of course!’
~Mark Bly. Dramaturg. Educator. Author.
Joanie & Freddie on Valentine’s Day. Produced by Playhouse 44. Director Jennifer Valentine. JOANIE-Lucy Loveland. FREDDIE-Jaden Levitt.
Including An Invitation to My Circus
A Seduction inspired by actor and artist Sheryl Sutton.
In the circus and in acting, there are intersections of sanity and craving. In the best of that disquiet Sheryl wants to lift the veil to truth, so you can waft in your desires yet still question them, to occupy that space with her. Will you be seduced?
Jingle of a Moment. Ramapo New Play Festival. Director Megan Milko. HANNAH-Kelly Blake.
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Tinged with magic and awash in lyricism, The Quadroon and the Dove explores how race and privilege can control our destiny, often with tragic consequences, a theme as cogent for our time as it was for the New Orleans of 1840.
~William Handelman, MD. New York City Audience Member
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