“Wildly entertaining” one special evening – two great shows by the “incredible storytellers” Jennifer Rawlings and Lisa Faith Phillips with Ellen Mandel on piano.
Award-winning writer, performer, filmmaker, Jennifer Rawlings, presents her hilarious new show AFTER THE WAR, COMES THE DISHES, True Stories from the Front Line and the Home Front.
Award-winning writer and performer Lisa Faith Phillips is developing a new show of comedy and song LESSONS I LEARNED FROM JOBS NOT ON MY RESUME (Version 1.0). Laugh out loud at the lessons from working as a stripper, performing phone sex, being a back-up dancer for Bette Midler and Mick Jagger, a night in jail and being sued for her comedy musical, 71/2 Habits of Highly Effective Mistresses.
The marvelous composer and songwriter Ellen Mandel on piano.
Jennifer Rawlings has appeared on TV, in the film “I AM BATTLE COMIC” and in three TEDx talks. Using her humor as a way to tackle serious subject matter, she was named as one of the “21 Change makers of the 21st Century” by Women’s E News. She has performed entertaining the troops in over 350 military shows in dozens of countries including Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti, Bosnia. Jennifer’s powerful directorial debut: “Forgotten Voices: Women in Bosnia” received critical acclaim and screened at film festivals worldwide. prompted her award-winning solo show “I ONLY SMOKE IN WAR ZONES “. Jennifer Rawlings.com
Lisa Faith Phillips: On her Linked-in resume, Lisa admits to working on Wall Street, in publishing at Time Warner, Hachette and Random House, where she was Vice President and General Manager, at the Council on Foreign Relations, and the China-US Women’s Foundation. Lisa has written and performed solo and two-person shows in NY, DC’s Capital Fringe Festival, Dublin and the Edinburg Fringe Festival. Her two plays At All Times and All-Nude College-Girl Revue had sold out runs in New York. She is currently studying music theory at Juilliard and has just finished her first novel Love in the Russian Tea Room. Lisafaithphillips.com
Ellen Mandel has written many songs to poems by E.E. Cummings, Seamus Heaney, W.B. Yeats, and others, and music for over 90 plays. She’s released six song CDs and a theater music collection, and received many best music nominations for her theater work. Her songs have been performed all over the USA, and in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Germany. The Royal Conservatory of Toronto and Trinity College of London have published her songs. Ellen just completed a 14-song cycle inspired by Edward Hopper’s paintings. ellenmandel.com
Performers: Jennifer Rawlings, Lisa Faith Phillips, and Ellen Mandel
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