Back in the DC Area!

Happy 2007, everyone!

Life is good, and I'm back in the DC area. (Again... I know; I can't even keep up with me!) :) I'm rehearsing Harold Pinter's The Lover with Rep Stage in Columbia, MD as part of their show Two by Pinter, which will open on Feb. 2! For tix and more info, go to http://www.repstage.org/current.html.

It's a very cool show; hopefully very funny and very bizarre. It's a two-hander, just me & Mr. Nigel Reed (with a brief cameo by Mr. Bill Largess!) The other play, The Collection, features Bill, Tim Pabon, Bolton Marsh, and Peggy Yates, and promises to be wonderful, as well. The whole evening is about two hours and runs weekends through the month of February. I hope you can make it!

For those of you who missed the reading of my new play Carol's Christmas in December, it was absolutely amazing! We had about 65 people there (!), and the response was overwhelmingly positive; I'm still getting feedback forms... everyone loved it! My cast (pictured above) was incredible (L to R): Barbara Pinolini, Lee Mikeska Gardner, Rachel Fowler, (me), Lise Bruneau, Christopher Scheeren, and Tom Stephens. Now I'm sending it around the country, entering it in contests and contacting potential producers... if you know anyone who might be interested (or if you'd like to read it), let me know!

I'm still really busy, coaching in NYC on Sundays and Mondays; I'll be in NYC during the weekdays in February (while performing in MD on the weekends), so if your New Year's resolution was to dust off some monologues and you want to work, let me know!

My other big news, if I haven't told you yet, is that Jack and I got engaged at the end of 2006! No date yet, but I'll keep you informed.

AND... to all my DC friends, I'd love to see you while I'm down here! Email me at marni@marnipenning.com or call my cell if you've got that number... I'm free weekday nights until the end of January.

As a side note/non-sequitur, if you're into gardening, my sister Rebecca is looking for gardeners who want to show off their handiwork on a new blog she's setting up. Email me and I'll put you in touch with her!

I hope you all are recovering from your holidays and are enjoying our freakishly warm January; health and happiness to all in 2007! Let's all make our dreams come true this year!!!
Love to you all,
Marni

PS: If you're looking for a writing class in NYC, I highly recommend my friend Joanna Parson's "Writing for Performance" workshop which is just about to start; her feedback has been invaluable! jtparson@yahoo.com