WAIT!

Gregory Vovos directs Julie Jensen's poignant new comedy WAIT! Wendy Burger (Jen Clifford) searches for her identity as she gets acting tips from Floating Piñata Head (Meg Chamberlain), spiritual challenges from the Greeks, and helps the ever-flamboyant Lu (Randy Rollison) restore the old theatre to its former glory. A small town never seemed so big especially for a girl with one eye on her alcoholic father and the other on the striking O Vixen My Vixen (Marni Task). Witness the moment between the question and the answer, the WAIT! September 26-October 11, Thurs-Sat at 8:00, Sunday at 3:00 at the Cleveland Public Theatre, 6415 Detroit Ave.

WAIT! -About the Playwright and Actors

Playwright Julie Jensen
JULIE JENSEN is the recipient of the Kennedy Center Award for New American Plays (WHITE MONEY), the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Work (THE LOST VEGAS SERIES), the LA Weekly Award for Best New Play (TWO-HEADED), and the McKnight National Playwriting Fellowship (WAIT!). She has won the Mill Mountain Theatre Playwriting Competition three times (TENDER HOOKS, LAST LISTS OF MY MAD MOTHER and TWO-HEADED). Her plays have been produced in London (LOST VEGAS SERIES) and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (LAST LISTS OF MY MAD MOTHER). In this country she has been produced by the Women's Project in New York TWO-HEADED and CHEAT) as well as in theatres nationwide. She has been commissioned by Mark Taper Forum, ASK Theatre Projects, and Kennedy Center, Geva Theatre, and Philadelphia Theatre Company. She has taught playwriting at five different universities, worked in Hollywood as a television writer, and directed the graduate playwriting program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Recently awarded the NEA/TCG Residency Grant, she wrote and premiered WAIT! last spring. Now holding a major grant from the Pew Charitable Trust, she is Resident Playwright at Salt Lake Acting Company writing a play called DUST EATERS. Her work is published by Dramatic Publishing, Dramatists Play Service, and Smith and Kraus.

Actor Meg Chamberlain
MEG CHAMBERLAIN (Modesto, Jenya, Floating Piñata Head) is delighted to be working. She recently rediscovered her love of theater after having been captured by midgets and kept on a small island. Meg spends most of her time at the Beck Center where she warps the minds of the young. Her hobbies are horseback riding, sailing, and body painting. Turn offs - when a guy has like no sense of humor. Thanks to all for their support.

Actor Jennifer Clifford
JENNIFER CLIFFORD (Wendy Burger) is so excited to be a part of TITLEWave's inaugural production. A graduate of Hofstra University in NY, she lived in Los Angeles for 3 years, where she worked for Billy Blanks of Tae Bo fame (yes, she's in the infomercial!!) Since moving back to Cleveland 2 years ago, Jen has performed at the Beck Center (Proposals, Ride Down Mt. Morgan, Parade), at Charenton (Six Degrees of Separation) and with the Cleveland Shakespeare Festival (Henry IV, Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night). Later this fall you can catch her in the new play V-E Day at Dobama.

Actor Randy Rollison
RANDY ROLLISON (Dad, Lu, Hazar) has spent the last 32 years in the theatre, performing in over 200 productions, mostly in New York. At CPT: The Play Master in Summer and Smoke, and Antrobus in The Skin of Our Teeth.

Actor Marni Task
MARNI TASK (O Vixen My Vixen): Who needs New York City for an acting career?? Not Marni Task!! After being here one year Marni has performed in Chamber Music at Tri C, Charge at CPT and now WAIT! WOW! What a year!! When not on stage Marni strives to reduce the drama in her life by practicing and teaching Jivamukti Yoga. (HUH??! whassss dat??) COME ON...say it with me.....JEEVAMOOKTI. It means experience freedom while you are here on earth in your body in this lifetime! (Now that's deep!) Much thanks to mom, dad, friends & yogis for ALL their loving support this last year!!! You are in my heart.