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"POSTPARTUM" by Jillian Blevins. Directed by Jonathan Cook. Performed by Marian Thibodeau and Matt Hoffman.
POSTPARTUM: The Mother had a baby a month ago. Her Husband knows something is wrong. And the baby monitor keeps making these weird noises...
Written by Jillian Blevins
Directed by Jonathan Cook
Performed by Marian Thibodeau as "Mother" and Matt Hoffman as "Husband".
Intro/Outro music: JK/47
About the writer: Jillian Blevins is a playwright and theatre artist whose short plays have been performed in Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, New Haven CT, Providence RI, Portland ME, and New York City. In 2020/21, she conceived and produced 'Digital Dionysia', a six-week online new works festival which featured her plays 'Izzy at Zoom Therapy' and 'Be The Bacchae' along with 24 other new plays from around the globe. In the summer of 2023, her one-act ‘The Bed Trick’ was a participating play in Valdez Alaska’s Last Frontier Theatre Conference, and her 10-minute Jewish sci-fi comedy ‘Space Laser, in Space!’ was a finalist at the Samuel French Off Off Broadway New Play Festival. Her queer historical dramedy, 'Romeo & Her Sister' will premiere in June 2024 at the New Hampshire Theatre Project, closing their season and in celebration of Pride Month. Proud member of the Dramatists Guild.
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Voice Actor
Marian Thibodeau is an actor and singer currently residing in Augusta, GA. She is a mom of two young girls but enjoys pursuing her love of acting when she can. She was most recently seen on stage playing Cayly in Kingdumb, which was the first live-recorded episode for the podcast, Gather by the Ghost Light. She also had the privilege of playing Sandra/Florence in Le Chat Noir’s sold out run of The Play that Goes Wrong. Along with podcasts and live theater, Marian has been involved in a handful of short films that you find on YouTube, or, hear her in numerous episodes on the Gather by the Ghost Light podcast.
Playwright
Jillian Blevins is a playwright and theatre artist from New England whose short plays have been performed across the country. Her 10-minute Jewish sci-fi comedy ‘Space Laser, in Space!’ was a finalist at last year’s Samuel French Off Off Broadway New Play Festival. This summer, two of her full length plays inspired by women from history will have their world premieres—Romeo & Her Sister, a dramedy about queer Victorian actress Charlotte Cushman, will run in Portsmouth New Hampshire, and Mere Waters, a magical-realist drama inspired by Holocaust survivor Dr. Gisella Perl, will play at the Connelly Theatre in the East Village as part of the SheNYC Festival.
