Barbara Blumenthal-Ehrlich
Title of Play
Still Life
Date and Place of Reading
July 29, 2009
Manhattan Theatre Club Creative Center
New York City
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Director
Lewis Magruder
Cast
Todd Lawson–Donald
Sherry Skinker–Lydia
Bonna Tek–Stage Directions
Lauren Weisman–The Photographer
Awards/Recognition Post Broad Horizons Development
World Premiere: Forward Flux Theatre, Seattle, WA, 2015
Publication: 2016 Best Stage Monologues, Smith & Kraus
Readings: Theatricum Botanicum, Central Square, Artemisia, GeVa Theatre, Urban Stages, Capital Stage, Long Beach Playhouse
Awards: Israel Baran (winner), O'Neill Theatre Conference (semi-finalist), Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship (semi-Finalist), NuVoices (semi-finalist), Bay Area Playwrights (finalist), Phoenix Theatre (finalist), Landing Theatre (semi-finalist), Centre Stage, Greenville, NC (semi-finalist)
About the Playwright
A 2024 NEA-funded joint commission from Del Webb Center (AZ) and Vivid Stage (NJ). A 2025 recipient of an Individual Artist Grant Fellowship from NJ Council of the Arts. Founding member, NJ’s Swan Dive Theatre Collective, devoted to advancing the work of Women+ artists. Produced off-Broadway, internationally, and nationwide in NYC, Seattle, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, L.A. NYC development at Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage, Rattlestick, Roundabout, Urban Stages; regionally at The Kennedy Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Geva, Victory Gardens, Palm Beach Dramaworks. Winner: Beverly Hills Theatre Guild Julie Harris Playwriting Award, the Israel Baran Award, and a runner up at the Sundance Playwriting Lab, O’Neill
Playwrights Conference, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, the Heideman Award and Princess Grace Fellowship. Other honors: nominated for Edmonton’s Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award, the Susan Smith Blackburn Award and honorable mention, The Kilroy List. Published by Smith & Kraus and Applause.
About the Play
Lydia’s daughter hasn’t returned home since a series of subway bombings in an unnamed city. Now Lydia’s forced to wait for the news with her annoying son-in-law, Donald, and a mysterious millennial photographer who won’t stop following her. A dark comedy about maternal impotence in a terrorist age.