https://www.bethannpowers.com/about daily 1.0 2024-07-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62631c0c26910629c9d4c014/c4567332-bafc-469f-8ce5-1c00e7e9d753/37348995_10214028613323020_5489486177343897600_n.jpg About - About Beth Ann Powers is a playwright, comedian, teaching artists, theater maker, and snarky little rascal. In 2022 her script The Real Girls received the Mary Marlin Fisher Award for most outstanding play. Beth Ann’s work has been produced regionally by theater companies throughout the US and in various festivals including, most recently, Project Y’s WIT festival in NYC. By day, Beth Ann teaches drama and playwrighting classes to young artists and writes/ directs original children’s theater productions for students ages K-8. By night, she performs as a sketch comedian in Washignton, DC, as well as in comedy festivals around the country with her sketch group, Rails Comedy. She also writes and performes her own solo characters, several of which have made lives appearances on the Character’s Welcome youtube channel. Beth Ann holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from Carnegie Mellon Universitym and a BA in Theater Arts, Performance Creation from the University of Minnesota. Additionally, she has trained in television writing at The Comedy Lab with Kim Howard Johnson, and attended sketch and satire classes at IO Theater, Second City Theater, The Institution Theater, and Character’s Welcome. In 2015, Beth Ann helped co-found her own production company Slap Happy Studios, for which she now serves as Artistic Director. 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