Women Playwright Series

The Women Playwright Series (WPS) is back at Centenary Stage, with three exciting new plays by playwrights Jacqueline Goldfinger of Philadelphia, Ruth Kirschner of San Francisco and Alyssa Haddad of Brooklyn.
The playwrights will be in residence for the series, featuring a cast of professional actors and directors, to be presented in the Lackland Center at 7 p.m. on Wednesdays April 10, 17 and 24.
In “Babel” by Jacqueline Goldfinger, prospective parents in a near-future society learn within the first weeks of conception which traits their child will have. Based on these test results, they ar issued a PRE certification that legally guarantees the baby will be a "good" person or not. Without the certification, the child will be limited in what it is allowed to do. Two couples, both early in their pregnancies, collide over what to do with their PRE certification test results. With rapid advances in reproductive technology, modern eugenics is science’s Wild West. The play asks, “What will we do to “civilize” ourselves? And in a twist, a talking stork confronts some existential questions. “Babel” will be presented at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 10, in the Lackland Center.
Playwright Jacqueline Goldfinger co-founded The Foundry @ PlayPenn and Curates Page By Page. She is an Affiliated Artist at New Georges and The Lark. She is a member of the writers’ labs at The Barrow Group and Azuka Theatre. She won the Yale Drama Prize, the Smith Prize, the Generations Award, the Brown Martin Award, the Barrymore Award, and the Philadelphia Critics Award. She was a finalist at the 2018 International Book Awards.
Led by Catherine Rust, the CSC Women Playwrights Series celebrates its 28th year in 2019, having featured the work of more than 78 emerging playwrights in the developmental WPS process.
Admission to the WPS is by donation and reservations are suggested, as seating is often limited. For information and reservations, call the CSC box office at 908-979-0900, or log on to www.centenarystageco.org.
The WPS receives support from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, the NJ State Council on the Arts, The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation, Zonta Club of Morristown, and season sponsor Heath Village. Additional support comes from a Grand Producer grant from the House of the Good Shepard.