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‘I Got Sick Then I Got Better’ at Canadian Conference
Jenny will perform I Got Sick Then I Got Better at the 8th Canadian Conference on Ovarian Cancer Research on May 15. The conference is in Niagara Falls, Ontario, and runs through May 17. To register for the conference, visit the CCOCR website.
Sponsored by Ovarian Cancer Canada. Preceded by a short reception from 17:00-17:30.
I Got Sick Then I Got Better is a comic riff on one woman’s adventures after falling down the medical rabbit hole. Diagnosed with and treated for ovarian cancer in 2005, writer and performer Jenny Allen (The New Yorker, The New York Times) tells her story of the harrowing tailspin she took following her diagnosis, combining biting humor with searing emotion in a witty, bittersweet monologue that limns the personal and family collateral damage a life-threatening illness brings.
Web series: All Downhill From Here
ALL DOWNHILL FROM HERE is a mockumentary style Web Series written by and starring real-life sisters Brooke Adams (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Days of Heaven, The Dead Zone) and Lynne Adams (Guiding Light), based on characters they created for the feature film Made Up, directed by Tony Shalhoub. In ALL DOWNHILL FROM HERE, aging sisters “Kate and Elizabeth James” come together on Martha’s Vineyard for one final movie project. Featuring guest stars Treat Williams, Griffin Dunne and others.
Here’s Brooke Adams writing about the series in the Huffington Post.
Watch the available episodes at http://alldownhillfromhere.tv/ and stay tuned for Jenny’s hilarious turn as Tony Shalhoub’s ex-wife.
NOT CONSTANTINOPLE at Vineyard Playhouse
See Jenny Allen in the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse production of NOT CONSTANTINOPLE, a new play by Arnie Reisman directed by MJ Bruder Munafo.
“An elderly couple settles into the Witness Protection Program in a gated community in Boca Raton. The husband unwittingly befriends a hit man with a contract on him. But when the husband develops Alzheimer’s, the hit man develops a conscience: why kill a guy who won’t even know his own name soon? Time to send another hit man – a woman with an MBA. Yes, this is a dark comedy.”
Runs through June 20. Buy tickets and get more details.
Jenny in Richmond, Virginia
Jenny performed I GOT SICK THEN I GOT BETTER on March 30, 2015 at The Woman’s Club in Richmond, Virginia.
Jenny in Nova Scotia
Don’t miss the Canadian premiere of the excellent one woman show by Jenny Allen about her experience with ovarian cancer.
Date: Tuesday September 30
Time: Reception 6:15pm — Dinner/Show: 7:00pm
Venue: Casino Nova Scotia, Schooner Room, 1983 Upper Water St, Halifax
Emcee: Costas Halavrezos
Guest Speaker: Dr. Barbara Vanderhyden, Corinne Boyer Chair in Ovarian Cancer Research, University of Ottawa presenting remarks on ovarian cancer research advances
Tickets
Includes the reception and 3 course dinner with wine and the show performance
Proceeds from the event go towards research into ovarian cancer prevention, early detection and treatment.
Single – $250*
Table of 10 – $2500*
Jenny goes to West Virginia
Jenny will perform in Wheeling, West Virginia for the Women’s Club Wheeling on October 17, 2014. Check here for more details.
Jenny to receive Award
Jenny will receive an award at the 2014 ACHIEVEMENT AWARD DINNER DANCE for THE VARADI OVARIAN INITIATIVE FOR CANCER EDUCATION AND THE DR. MARILYN VARADI AND CHARLES RUDY OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH PROGRAM.
DINNER: SEPTEMBER 16, 2014
PLACE: ENGINEERS COUNTRY CLUB, ROSLYN, NY
GUESTS OF HONOR: Dr. Max Gomez (CBS Broadcast Journalist), Dr. Peter Dottino (Director, Mt. Sinai Gynecology/Oncology), Jenny Allen (Playwright and author)
ENTERTAINMENT: SHIRLEY ALSTON REEVES OF THE SHIRELLES (ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME)
Jenny at the Vineyard Playhouse
This summer, Jenny performed in staged readings of three new plays as part of the Monday Night Specials series at the Vineyard Playhouse.
77% by Rinne Groff
NOT CONSTANTINOPLE by Arnie Reisman
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE GYNECOLOGIC ONCOLOGY UNIT AT MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER OF NEW YORK CITY by Halley Feiffer.
More details about the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse.
Jenny in Deb Margolin’s new play, TURQUOISE
See Jenny in TURQUOISE.
TURQUOISE is a disruption-of-memory play. Exploring the interconnectedness of everything through disruption, this intergenerational comedy examines seven lives across a spectrum: a couple married 71 years; a middle-aged concert pianist with a brain injury and his loving day nurse; and two 15-year-old boys trying to figure their way through a timeless set of adolescent passions.
About The Artist
Deb Margolin is a playwright, actor and past founding member of Split Britches Theater Company. She is the author of ten full-length solo performance pieces, which she has toured throughout the United States, and is the recipient of a 1999-2000 OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance. Her play Imagining Madoff was nominated in 2012 for the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play in Washington, DC. Deb is currently an Associate Professor in Yale University’s undergraduate Theater Studies Program. In 2008 she was honored to accept the Helen Merrill Distinguished Playwright Award, and is a proud member of New Dramatists. Deb lives in New Jersey, which she denies.
June 13, 14, 20 & 21 at 7:30pm
Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie Street
$17 in advance
$20 at the door
$15 students & seniors
‘I Got Sick Then I Got Better’ at the National Ovarian Cancer Coalition Conference
Jenny performed her show, I Got Sick Then I Got Better, on March 6 in Las Vegas, Nevada on the opening Gala Night of the National Ovarian Cancer Coalition’s 2014 conference. More information on the conference.
