https://www.bethannpowers.com/about daily 1.0 2026-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62631c0c26910629c9d4c014/c4567332-bafc-469f-8ce5-1c00e7e9d753/37348995_10214028613323020_5489486177343897600_n.jpg About - About Beth Ann Powers is an award-winning playwright, comedian, theater artist, and educator. Accolades include: winner of the Shubert Fendrich Memorial Playwriting Contest, Mary Marlin Fisher Award, and Alphred P. Sloan Compition. Her plays have been produced both in New York City and regionally from Minnesota to Washington, DC. As a comedian she has toured her work to festivals throughout the US and Canda. She is a founding member of Chaps, DC’s first all women sketch team, as well as a long time member of Rails Comedy. She has also performed as a solo artist as part of the annual Solocom festival at the People’s Improv Theater in NYC. Beth Ann holds an MFA in dramatic writing from Carnegie Mellon University, and a BA in theater arts, performance creation from the University of Minnesota. While in undergrad she also helped launch the former theater company, Slap Happy Studios, through which she directed and produced many original, collaboratively generated theater productions from 2015 to 2020. https://www.bethannpowers.com/slaphappystudios daily 0.75 2022-05-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62631c0c26910629c9d4c014/5d628054-a9ae-4f0c-80bd-e4d77cf77dc2/Copy%2Bof%2BIMG_4405.jpg Slap Happy Studios https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62631c0c26910629c9d4c014/173e0494-a6e9-439f-85a9-294fa2ee20ac/MF_35.jpg Slap Happy Studios https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62631c0c26910629c9d4c014/7dd703eb-e63b-40bc-afc8-55045ec8d5e1/MF_58.jpg Slap Happy Studios https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62631c0c26910629c9d4c014/83fe3c61-afb8-495b-a2bf-ad3dd2cabc9c/22553231_1601587816545989_8835687524924157055_o.jpg Slap Happy Studios https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62631c0c26910629c9d4c014/8f72bc84-e13d-41da-b973-d33bb1ce7cf7/postcard+front+final.jpg Slap Happy Studios - The Bechdel Show Co - Writer / Director Inspired by the Bechdel Test, The Bechdel Show is a sketch comedy show that encourages the audience to rethink representations of gender and sexuality while making them howl with laughter! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62631c0c26910629c9d4c014/e9b93208-4ea6-40d4-9ef1-7c5b42395627/2+Fast+2+Shakespeare+Romeo+%26+Juliet.jpg Slap Happy Studios - 2 Fast 2 Shakespeare Director Have you ever seen Shakespeare before and thought, I wish this was faster….and that I was drunk? Well, you're in luck! 2 Fast 2 Shakespeare is just that: fast and drunk. We’ve got drinking games for the audience and drunk actors performing the Bard’s most classic texts in just 1 hour. This is not your 9th grade English class’s Shakespeare, this is Willy Shakes as he was intended to be! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62631c0c26910629c9d4c014/1d41f3cf-3a9b-4b20-a5e5-d8605ccf91c9/Overview+image+footprints.jpg Slap Happy Studios - Footprints Writer / Director A sleepy town is thrown into turmoil when it faces its biggest scandal--an alleged Bigfoot sighting. People of all kinds swarm to the scene. Dissenting viewpoints between the believers and the non-believers plague the town. The race is on as a ragtag team of misfits takes to the woods to find the creature. Footprints blends horror and comedy, playing off of b-movie tropes while simultaneously highlighting the audience’s psychological fear of the unknown and the inherent horror of questioning one’s beliefs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62631c0c26910629c9d4c014/6591181a-95bd-4997-92c1-c20492a2a607/21950063_10211915724102110_1789632908607970331_o.jpg Slap Happy Studios - Punk Rock Sock Director / Lyricist Fun and upbeat with a tinge of drama, Punk Rock Sock teaches us all, that no matter your knit, pattern, or purpose, anyone can be a Punk. https://www.bethannpowers.com/plays daily 0.75 2024-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62631c0c26910629c9d4c014/5627370b-b166-4cb3-b7d1-044591b83197/RG.jpeg Full Length Plays - Make it stand out Photo Credit: Sally Kozminski ⼁ Pictured: Juliana Austin, Brianna Felipe, Phoebe Lloyd, Sofia Power https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62631c0c26910629c9d4c014/cd87bbdb-b374-4e2f-bbc3-b07b595a7d7c/Ace+2.jpg Full Length Plays - Make it stand out Photo Credit: Beth Ann Powers ⼁ Pictured: Isabel Middleton-Watts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62631c0c26910629c9d4c014/bf9c34c7-49cb-4084-a5d7-136332d7d62a/358763568_761937015680729_4798405670959509178_n.jpg Full Length Plays - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.bethannpowers.com/home daily 0.75 2022-04-22 https://www.bethannpowers.com/screen daily 0.75 2024-03-11 https://www.bethannpowers.com/contact daily 0.75 2022-05-16 https://www.bethannpowers.com/plays-1 daily 0.75 2024-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62631c0c26910629c9d4c014/5c153410-aaf0-40be-9384-bd66a17bcf6d/fishtales_poster.jpg Children's Theater - Make it stand out Design credit: David Cooper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62631c0c26910629c9d4c014/be5f7ca2-f1da-4a2a-8513-e26c1df4dc06/224019953_2943104556007305_2410038405765395114_n.jpg Children's Theater - Make it stand out Photo Credit: Jay Freedman