TCTON Staged Reading

ALISA MATLOVSKY (Director) is a New York-based theater director.  Since moving from a career in film, she has focused on new play development and creating original theater pieces, often from found text and interviews.  She is a recipient of a CAC Grant for her most recent work, 474 Days, which uses interviews to examine the experience of front-line workers during the early days of the pandemic in New York.  Alisa is on the Board of LPTW and is amember of SDC, DGA, and NYWFT.

Jennifer Joy Pawlitschek (she/her), Playwright. Jennifer is a New York City-based writer, performer, comic and director, with a passion for science. Her recent solo show, The Chaos Theory of Now, has played at Dixon Place and Theatre for the New City to rave reviews. Her previous solo show, The Physics of Love, a romantic comedy based on the scientific history of the universe, has toured all over the country. She was invited by NASA and the Library of Congress to perform at their Symposium on Astrobiology in September 2017. Her work also includes a podcast series, Where Science Meets Art, which currently takes its inspiration from evolution.

Jennifer is the Artistic Director of the eco-performing troupe, The SciArt6.  Their work includes puppet shows on food justice, an immersive performance piece on the ecological history of Manhattan, and sketch comedy raising awareness about climate change. She has also done standup with a science twist, at clubs such as New York Comedy Club, Broadway Comedy Club, Ochi’s at Comix and others Jennifer’s work has been featured at Highways (Santa Monica); Emerging Artists’ Theatre, Laurie Beechman Theatre, Wow Café and Theatre, and Fresh Fruit Festival (New York City); Jon Sims Center, The Marsh, Josie’s Cabaret and Red Dora’s Café (San Francisco) and at conferences such as the Association of Environmental Sciences and Studies, and the Western Regional Conference. Her college performance tour has included Scripps College, Rochester Institute of Technology, University of Redlands, University of Connecticut, College of Staten Island, SUNY Potsdam, SUNY Plattsburgh, Alfred University, Indiana University Pittsburgh, University of Northern Iowa, and more. Her commissions include, for the Inter-Religious EcoJustice Network of Connecticut, a play called Awake, which explores communities of faith and climate change. She is also an accomplished actor, having worked with the Los Angeles Women’s Shakespeare Company, San Francisco Shakespeare Company, Emerging Artists’ Theatre (New York City), Teatro Vision (San Jose). One of her commercials is featured in Fox Television’s World’s Sexiest Commercials, and she has appeared in several films. She received her MFA in Drama from UC Irvine.