POLLYANNA!

Adapted by Coni Koepfinger and C. Michael Perry

Based on the novel by Eleanor H. Porter

POLLYANNA! Based on the Eleanor Porter novel The irrepressible young Pollyanna Whittier meets her dour and formidable Aunt Polly Harrington. Neither of their lives have been easy; one by circumstances, the other by choice. Pollyanna, like most heroines of her era has a personality most do not understand at first, but the girl shares her Glad Game with all, including her Aunt. Then Pollyanna herself is challenged with an accident that will test her unique outlook to her very core.

• Cast Size: 6M 5W 6ANY
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

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About the Playwrights

Winner of the 2021 Olwen Wymark Theatre Award by the Writers Guild of Great Britain, Coni Koepfinger is the host of AIRPLAY, a weekly virtual theatre program now in its 12th season that brings the voices of artists, actors, playwrights from all over the world together. Also via new media, Koepfinger created DETERMINED WOMEN, a monthly feature that interviews women who share stories to encourage and inspire. In addition to teaching theatre and composition at prominent universities like Carnegie Mellon and Point Park University, Koepfinger is an internationally published and produced playwright, poet, and librettist. Coni is a Media Advisor for the Lifeboat Foundation who recently published her play, Get the Message in their Visions of the Future anthology 2016; a contributing writer for the Center of Conscious Creativity in LA; a Member of The Dramatists Guild, and ; a former board member of the International Center for Women Playwrights; and the League of Professional Theatre Women. Recent productions include three new powerful pieces with her writing partner Joe Izen: including Eve of Beltane -a fresh look at political corruption in the face of ancient Celtic mythology in the Broadway Bound Festival; Schoolhouse -an ultramodern musical that takes the young victim of a school shooting through a magical journey into an imaginary schoolhouse to find compassion and joy; and the blockbuster, Kingdom Come, where technology meets its match in matchmaking with TED, the world’s first transhuman who falls in love with boss only to reveal a bigger, brighter picture for all humanity, currently in development  in Athens, Greece under the direction of Sia Koskina. Other notable productions include: Garrett, the Blue Giraffe at Pan Asian Rep’s NuWorks; Takin’ It Back a ten-minute play for THE ME TOO PROJECT in Harlem; and Playing House a commissioned one-act about Bella Abzug for the UNTOLD STORIES OF JEWISH WOMEN and Playing Fate in New Blood Series at Theatre for the New City. In 2020 Koepfinger’s work was seen virtually all over, with the new full-length, My Dinner with Mary, streamed live from the legendary Player’s Club NYC; Simon Says in PLAYBILL’S Virtual Theatre Festival 2020;  and Manhattan Rep’s STORIES film competition; The Unusual Chauncy Faust was selected for the Rogue Theatre Festival, Josie in the Bardo will open at The Chain Theatre;  and Auditioning for Eternity, a new metatheatre fantasy co-written with Dan Carter, opening at Theater for the New City.

C. MICHAEL PERRY — Winner of an 1978 Emmy Award and a Best of the West award for his score to the television puppet musical, “CINDERABBIT” on PBS (the Cinderella story with animal characters/puppets) he has been writing, producing, directing and choreographing professional and amateur shows since his late teens. Other “Best Musical” awards have been given to his FAUNTLEROY! and his ANNE WITH AN E: THE GREEN GABLES MUSICAL, as well as ENTERTAINING MARK TWAIN, JEDEDIAH, and CURSES, FOILED AGAIN! His AN ENCHANTED APRIL – THE MUSICAL played Off-Broadway in 2019 to great reviews, but was cut short by Covid-19, 4 months later. His first commissioned work was in 1972 at the age of 18. The musical was written over the next 6 months and produced for a City Festival that ran for the month of August in 1974 near Chicago. He received another commission from a 2001 Olympics venue to create a new musical, HOW THE WEST WAS DONE with Elizabeth Hansen (his Enchanted April partner) which played for 8 weeks during the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics. He has written a total of nearly 75 shows, 40 of which have been produced/published, not mentioned by title here. His musicals have been produced across the USA and Canada, the UK, and elsewhere in Europe, South America, Africa, India, Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong. His musicals POLLYANNA, and THE SHADOW DANCERS, (with Coni Koepfinger) have had industry readings, along with a version of EAST OF THE SUN, WEST OF THE MOON, (with George and Gayanne King). Their STAR OF ISRAEL, COMING HOME, and HEIDI have also had recent workshop productions. He is currently involved in creating the score to PINOCCHIA (a female cousin to Pinocchio) and IMAGINARY BOY (with June Rachelson-Ospa), TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSES (with George and Gayanne King). SARA CREWE: LITTLE PRINCESS and TINKERTOWN! (with Coni Koepfinger) are also in the works. Adaptations of TEMPEST; THE MUSICAL, GREAT EXPECTATIONS and LITTLE MEN (based on the sequel to “Little Women”) are gathering interest. He has taught college courses in adjunct and also spent 13 years teaching Theatre Arts in high school where his program became prominent and award-winning, also being honored as Teacher of the Year in the State. Michael is very excited to join the team at Next Stage Press with Glen Kato premiering the non-musical version of POLLYANNA.