BUSHWHACKED! And Other Short Plays
By Rosemary Foley
March, 2023
Produced in partnership with Theatre Artists Workshop and William Foley
Co-directed by Andrea Lynn Green and Stephanie Hazard
Production Stage Manager: Kristen L. Kingsley*

Rosemary Foley has written over 70 plays, most of them satires and comedies. Her theater career began as an actress in improv theater in Chicago's Second City. In New York her acting continued as a company member of the once notable IRT Theater. Her experience includes Playwrights Horizon to Actors Studio to the fantastic summer of teacher acting to singers of the Metropolitan Opera Studio in Lincoln Center. Her interest turned to her real passion, play writing. Her first play was produced by Joseph Cambell at the Manhattan Theater of the Open Eye. This was followed by her winning first place in an international competition sponsored by the University of Cincinnati. Her plays have been produced and read at Actors theatre of Louisville, Victory Gardens Theatre, Looking Glass Theater, Players Club, Samuel French's Festival of New Plays and winner of the Heideman and Havenmayer awards for best plays. Her short film, "Oh, Promise Me" was chosen for the Big Apple Film Festival in Tribeca and later judged best script in the Mountain Film Festival. She has thoroughly enjoyed having her plays read at Play with Your Food.

 

She won the 2004 Havemeyer award in Greenwich, CT, for Ophelia's Mother. She was also a finalist at the 2004 Samuel French Off-Broadway Festival and a finalist for the Heideman award at the Actor's Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival, Victory Gardens Theatre, West Coast Ensemble Theatre, and Theatre-by-the-Sea. Rosemary was a winner of the International Festival of New Works at University of Cincinnati "Works by Women", which chose her as one of its ten best writers. While her plays are frequently performed in New York, local audiences often get to see them first in Connecticut, at the annual Theatre Artists Workshop Playwright Festival. Rosemary is a member of Dramatist Guild of America.