About Potluck
Potluck
Productions was formed in 1995 to create more opportunities for emerging female
playwrights to produce their work. The company’s goal is to produce
an annual festival highlighting the best in new scripts by local (and occasionally
national) female playwrights. The first production, Potluck,
premiered at the Theatre for Young America and was invited for encore presentation
at both Johnson
County Community College and Penn Valley Community College. Since then, Potluck
Productions has produced festivals around the Kansas City metropolitan area.
Under the artistic direction of founders Glendora Davis (actress, puppeteer,
and playwright) and Joyce Slater (story teller, artist, and actress), and with
the recent addition of D. K. Evenson (director, technical director, and actor),
the company continues to grow and expand, ever holding true to its original
mission. To that end, the company has produced ten festivals consisting of
over one hundred short plays and monologues, and has worked with local and
regional directors including Richard Alan Nichols, Jeff Davolt, M. Kate Sinnet,
Barbara Houston Schaeffer, and Philip John Kinen. Over the last ten years,
the festivals have touched on such subjects as breast cancer, menopause,
infidelity, love, incest, AIDS, rape, and children.
 Glendora
Davis has been performing since her unscheduled delivery in
a car on route to the hospital. Her stage credits are numerous and occasionally
she appears in commercials and short films. She holds a degree in theatre
and facilitates puppetry, drama and creative expression workshops. Her
partnership with Joyce Slater began in 1995 when Potluck Productions
was formed to provide opportunities for women playwrights. Plays written
by Glendora that have been a part of Potluck Productions include: Panty
Hose, Mini-Pause, The Last Protest, Big Brother
Skippy, Chocolate Pie, and The Last Song at the Fairplane
Bowling Palace. Glendora’s play Lullaby was a winner
at the Penn Valley College Play Fest and was also given a staged reading
at Johnson County Community College.
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 D.
K. Evenson, a native of Denver, Colorado, has called
Kansas City home for over 20 years since graduating from Baker University.
D.K. is a Requirements Architect for the IT division of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
here in Kansas City, but in his off hours he is a strong advocate of the performing
arts. He is a longtime member of the Olathe Community Theatre Board of Directors
where he focuses his energy on the “business” side of the arts.
In 2003 he was asked to become one of the producers for Potluck Productions.
D.K. has worked with most of the local professional and non-professional theatres
in Kansas City, functioning as director, stage manager, designer, and actor.
Some
of his favorite acting credits include playing in The
Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me, playing Max in Lend Me a Tenor,
and Lord Fancourt Babberly
in Charley’s Aunt. In addition to directing
for Potluck Productions, he directed Talley’s
Folly for
Olathe Community Theatre, Spoon River Anthology for Wyandotte
Players, and The Faker Experience (a weekly radio drama) for
Baker University.
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 Joyce
Slater has been acting since the age of 7, when she played an
angel in a grade school Christmas production. She has continued working
in the theatre and the arts all her life. She is a storyteller, actress,
and pastel artist in the Kansas City area. Her current loves — other
than her husband and her children and her grandchildren — are acting,
storytelling, and painting. She is the former Director of River and
Prairie Storyweavers and the artistic director of Storytelling Celebration.
Keeping a positive outlook
in life is her main goal in every endeavor.
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