Good things happen to Insight subscribers!

Here are some recent productions, publications, and honors that have been won by INSIGHT subscribers:

Woman in the Drum by JudyLee Oliva is now a Finalist in the Lamia Ink One Page Play Contest, and received a staged reading in NYC and publication in the Magazine, both in January 2001. Her one act play, Crow on the Cradle, was named as a Finalist in the Buntville Crew Awards 2000 - in the Prix Hors Pair Competition for best play under 15 pages.

Crystal by Fred Rohan Vargas was performed in NYC in Janaury.

Michael Bettencourt had two plays performed in January at the Ritalin Readings, produced by The Theatre Cooperative of Boston, MA: Everything's Jake (directed by Lesley Chapman) and Booger (directed by Brendan Hughes.) In February, he has two scheduled script-in-hand readings: A Question of Color at the Central Square branch of the Cambridge Public Library, and Homeward Bound (co-authored with his wife, Maria-Beatriz Alvarez) at the Boston Women on Top Festival. On March 1, Translation opens at the Buffalo Ensemble Theatre in Buffalo, NY (where it won the theatre's Eric Bentley New Play Competition.) In August, Playwrights Forum of Memphis, TN will do Dancing at the Revolution, his play about Emma Goldman.

Robin Rice Lichtig's Play Nice! Was onstage at the Cleveland Public Theatre's New Plays Festival in January.

The Luminous Group Theater Company is producing Imp of the Perverse by subscriber Tami Canaday at the Pantheon Theater in New York City.

Subscriber Bob Lehan has had his Three Fables (Aesop adaptations) published by Pioneer Drama Service. This August the Three Fables were produced by Impulse Theatre in Palenville, NY.

JudyLee Oliva's play On the Showroom Floor received a staged reading by the New Georges in NYC in November. Also, her musical Te Ata was selected as the winner of the Five Tribes Great American Musical. She received a $10,000 cash award at a ceremony at the Five Tribes Museum in Muskogee, Oklahoma.

The Grassy Knoll by Michael Cookson won first place in the Green Theater Company’s 2000 play contest. Cookson found out about the contest in Market Insight!

The Looking Glass Theatre in NYC will be producing Grace Notes by MI subscriber Rachel Rubin Ladutke November 30-December 3. Her play Clary’s Exodus will be given a premiere staged reading on December 11 at New Jersey Repertory Company.

Robin Rice Lichtig has had several recent successes. Her play Grannie Bird will be produced by Pulse Ensemble Theatre in NYC. Exposed (four related one-acts) will be produced by Expanded Arts in NYC, and a reading of Play Nice will be presented by New Georges, also in NYC.