Plays By Vanda - Playwright

Still Photos
(aka Why'd Ya Make Me Wear This, Joe?)

CHARLOTTE (CHARLIE) KELLEY/O'BRIEN
	At the opening of the play, “Charlie” is eighteen. Five years later in Act 2, she is twenty-three.

JOE O'BRIEN
	At the opening of the play, Joe, Charlie’s boyfriend, is eighteen. In Act 2, as Charlie’s husband, he has been touched by the war he fought.

AUBRA WESTGATE
	At the opening of the play, Aubra is twenty-seven years old.

PHILIP ATWOOD
	At the opening of the play, Philip is twenty-eight years old. In Act I, he is Aubra’s fiancé and in Act 2, he is her husband.

GRANDMA
	Grandma occupies the present dimension of the play.

EMILY
	Emily, Grandma’s granddaughter, also occupies the present dimension of the play. She’s a curious pre-teen.

Synopsis

Still Photos is a 1940’s love story, that just happens to be about two women. Aubra is a housebound, Fifth Avenue opera diva, whose career collapsed when she was crippled in the polio epidemic of 1931. Charlie is a modern day “Rosie the Riveter,” whose job as a projectionist at the Flatbush Cinema fuels her dreams of becoming a movie producer. Charlie’s fiancé arranges for Charlie to take care of Aubra, while he and Aubra’s fiancé go off to fight in the Second World War. While the men are away the two women fall in love. The war soon ends and they both must decide between their love for each other and their responsibilities to their men. They don’t know that they are being haunted by the future.

Honors and Awards

Winner	Celebration Theatre's New Play Contest	2007
Winner	Curve Magazine's Lesbian Theatre Award	2006
Nominated	Susan Smith Blackburn Award	2006
Winner	Ashland New Plays Festival	2006
Honorable Mention	Writers Digest Contest	2006
Received	Brown Foundation Production Grant	2006
Finalist	Panowski Playwriting Award	2006
Finalist	Reva Shriner Contest	2005
Semi-Finalist	Cherry Lane Alternative Mentorship Program	2005
Semi-Finalist	Play Labs, Playwrights’ Center	2005
Semi-Finalist	O’Neill Playwriting Conference	2005
Short listed	Soho Rep Playwright-Director Lab	2005

Production History

Point of Contention Theatre Company, Chicago - Scheduled Production in June, 2008
Celebration Theatre, Los Angeles - July, 2007
Fresh Fruit Festival, New York - July, 2006 (workshop production)

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