Join us for a joyful celebration of Local Playwright Nancy Rose Ostinato!

For Whiskey Theatre Factory’s first EVER in-person production, we are producing six wonderful short plays by Nancy Rose Ostinato. One night only!

Featured plays:

  • The Meeting of the Muses - The Creative Process sparks a debate with itself during a most unusual gathering.

  • Would You Rather…? - Things get real when beating boredom is the name of the game.

  • The Hallmark of a Good Relationship - Can a formulaic approach to romance really work?

  • Checked Baggage - A TSA agent tries to prevent a passenger from carrying a heavy load on board the aircraft.

  • Picking Something Up at the Market - A shopper has to choose whether to buy into something she thought she had given up.

  • Who’s Grace Kelly? - A couple's divide over pop culture develops into a deeper look at their age-gap relationship.

Artistic Team:

OVERALL PRODUCTION:

Playwright: Nancy Rose Ostinato

Producers: Bethany Dickens Assaf (also: dramaturgy) and Charis Watler (also: prop designer), for Whiskey Theatre Factory

Stage Manager: Sara Jacobson; Assistant Stage Manager: Josh Cassady

Costumer: Kimberly Murray-Patel, with assistance from Durell Brown

Graphic Designer: Bet Tauscher

Patron Support: Taylor Byerly

Social Media: Jodi Antenor

Host: Kate O’Claire

SHOW TEAMS:

  • The Meeting of the Muses, directed by Gabriella Headley: featuring Bethany Dickens Assaf, Christina Griffith, Juliana Lind, Emily Lupfer & Charis Watler;

  • Would You Rather…?, directed by Jason Porrata: featuring Jodi Antenor & Taylor Byerly;

  • The Hallmark of a Good Relationship, directed by Arius West: featuring Manuel Solis-Bauza & Charis Watler;

  • Checked Baggage, directed by Durell Brown: featuring Ian Gray & Christina Griffith;

  • Picking Something Up at the Market, directed by Charis Watler, assisted by Bet Tauscher: featuring Bethany Dickens Assaf & Jason Porrata;

  • Who’s Grace Kelly?, directed by Gabriella Headley: featuring Ian Gray & Kimberly Murray-Patel.

A MASSIVE thank-you to Central Florida Community Arts for providing rehearsal space!

About the Playwright

Nancy Rose Ostinato is honored and thrilled to become an Artistic Associate with Whiskey Theatre Factory. Nancy first got involved with WTF by participating in their One-Minute Virtual Play Competition and was later commissioned to write a monologue, Join the Club, for WTF’s “Broad Strokes: An evening of monologues and plays exploring what it means to be a woman in America". She has been a Central Florida playwright for four years, a delightful surprise and unexpected passion discovered when she took a short playwriting class on a whim. She was even more surprised when the first two short plays she wrote were both selected in an international competition, one as a semi-finalist and the other as a finalist published in the anthology STAGE IT! 2: Thirty 10-Minute Plays. Other notable productions include plays produced by the Snowdance Comedy Festival, Gi60 Houston, Playwrights’ Round Table, the Breakthrough Theatre Company, Valencia College, Lauderdale-by-the-Sea Seaside Players, Femuscripts, Fantasy Theatre Factory (Miami), and The Fragmented Festival (a virtual theatre festival). Nancy is published in several Chicken Soup for the Soul books, including Chicken Soup for the Soul: Be You: 101 Stories of Affirmation, Determination and Female Empowerment (2021), which tells the story of her play Leave a Message in a new piece entitled “Still Leaving a Message”. Nancy holds a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University, had a career in mental health, and will always be, first and foremost, the mother of Michael and Morgan.