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), the
company continues to grow and expand, ever holding true to its original
mission. To that end, the company has produced eleven 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 17 years, the festivals
have touched on such subjects as breast cancer, menopause, infidelity, love,
incest, AIDS, rape, and children.
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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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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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©2012, Potluck Productions
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