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ImageTake five women playwrights, add seven directors and 19 actors (all genders), toss lightly for under two hours and presto, it’s a night of laughter, a few tears, and even some mystery as Theatre Incognita wraps up its inaugural season with 'A Room of Their Own: Plays from 3'rd Floor (1996-2006)'.

Theatre Incognita’s spring 2010 tribute to 3rd Floor Productions concludes with the revival of seven short plays plucked from the women’s playwriting collective’s decade-long repertory. Performances are Fri & Sat at 8 pm and Sun at 4 pm May 14–16 and May 21–23 in the Legacy Foundation Gallery of the Community School of Music and Arts (330 E Martin Luther King Jr Street, one block east of the Ithaca Commons).

A husband worries as his wife keeps disappearing into the attic, three women tell stories and scrabble for a living while their dreams include a mythical beast, two lemmings try to buck the trend, four humans try to keep up appearances after an apocalypse, a woman looks for Amy Lowell… all that the fertile imaginations of these playwrights required for these stories to bloom was “a room of their own”—a third floor studio on the Ithaca Commons.

Playwrights are Natalie deCombray, Kathy Kramer, Judith Pratt, Kit Wainer and Caissa Willmer. Directing the shorts are Pratt, Wainer, Zia Anger, Jesse Bush, Maggie Goldsmith, Ross Haarstad and Maura Stephens.

Three Incognita veterans—Kathy Kramer, Kathryn Russell and KitWainer—join 16 local actors making their Incognita debuts: Payal Ballaya, Brett Bossard, Kim Brown, Sherron Brown, Asia Dillon, Liz Estabrook, Lisa Banlaki Frank, Tessa Friedeborn, Matt Gray, Eileen Hagerty, Kate Halliday, Will Kraz, Doug Lockwood, Tim Perry, Peter Shuman and Emoretta Yang. Collectively they have appeared with the Actors Workshop, Cornell’s Schwartz Center, Cornell Savoyards, Firehouse Theatre, Icarus Theatre ensemble,  Ithaca Shakespeare Company, Kitchen Theatre, WingSpace, Wolf’s Mouth, Womens Works, and many other local theaters.

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