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All of Dubin's works mix comedy
and drama, and the six short pieces
represent a continuum of humor.
Directed by Geoffrey Sherman, win-
ner of the 1999 Detroit Free Press
Best Director Award, the play includes
two actresses who have been in earlier
performances of Dubin's scripts.
Henrietta Hermelin, who portrays
the manicurist, a waitress and the
nursing home patient, has done JET
staged readings of Dubin's works in
progress. Robin Lewis, who did a
Dubin monologue for a University of
Detroit Mercy production, appears as
the woman in the video store, the
nursing home volunteer and the
young wife visiting a marriage coun-
selor.
The playwright is pleased that two
of the short pieces already have been
honored in professional compe-
tition. Mimi and Me won third
prize in last year's New York
City 15-Minute Play-writing
Festival, and this year, Tough As
Nails was selected as a semifi-
nalist in the same competition.
Funding for The Day We Met is furnished in
"My plays are very contem-
part by a Hudson's Project Imagine Grant, one
porary with a right-now feeling
of six grants the department store is awarding
about them," explains Dubin,
this year. The Jewish Ensemble Theatre (JET)
who has written Jewish charac-
is the only Jewish organization receiving a
ters into her pieces. "The old
stipend from the chain in the year 2000.
lady in the nursing home
"I am delighted that Hudson's Project
comes across as Jewish through
Imagine is sponsoring a group of new plays by
her language and perspective.
a local award-winning playwright, Kitty
The couple meeting through a
Dubin," says Scott Ferguson, Hudson's regional
newspaper ad placed that ad in
JET Receives
Imagine Grant
The Jewish News."
Dubin, who teaches play
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director. "Our partnership will provide an
enjoyable experience for theater-goers of all
ages.
Hudson's Project Imagine is a multiyear
and sponsorship initiative
igiving
community
g
writing at Oakland University,
gave up her career as a psy-
chotherapist last year. While
she's happy to be more fully
immersed in writing, she also
feels that her experience listening to
people — and hearing what they're
really saying — provided a good train-
ing ground for writing dialogue.
"I think the short play as a theater
form has been neglected, and it's been
fascinating to work with six that have
the same theme," says Sherman, who
has enjoyed a 30-year stage career
-including time as artistic director of
Meadow Brook Theatre.
"Short plays force an economy of
style to communicate heartfelt and
essential comments about humanity.
In that way, each one can be very
effective."
Just as exploring one theme was
unplanned, so was Dubin's entry into
the world of theater.
"I was at Wayne State University
pursuing a master's degree in
English, and I took a course in play-
an economy of style
to communicate
heartfelt and
essential comments
,,
about umanity.
* Director Geoffrey Sher ma!