AIRPLAY

Coni Koepfinger hosts today's Air Play. With Interview of Amy Oesreicher. Plus Highlights from Amy's Live Performance.

Amy Oestreicher is a PTSD peer-to-peer specialist, artist, author, writer for Huffington Post, speaker for TEDx and RAINN, health advocate, survivor, award-winning actress, and playwright, sharing the lessons learned from trauma through her writing, mixed media art, performance and inspirational speaking. As the creator of "Gutless & Grateful," her BroadwayWorld-nominated one-woman autobiographical musical, she's toured theatres nationwide, along with a program combining mental health advocacy, sexual assault awareness and Broadway Theatre for college campuses and international conferences. Her original, full-length drama, Imprints, premiered at the NYC Producer's Club in May 2016, exploring how trauma affects the family as well as the individual. To celebrate her own “beautiful detour”, Amy created the #LoveMyDetour campaign, to help others cope in the face of unexpected events. "Detourism" is also the subject of her TEDx and upcoming book, My Beautiful Detour, available December 2017. As Eastern Regional Recipient of Convatec’s Great Comebacks Award, she's spoken to hundreds of healthcare professionals at national WOCN conferences, and her presentations on diversity, leadership and trauma have been featured at National Mental Health America Conference, New England Educational Opportunity Association's 40 Anniversary Conference, and have been keynotes at the Pacific Rim Conference of Diversity and Disability in Hawaii, the Eating Recovery Foundation First Annual Benefit in Colorado. She's contributed to over 70 notable online and print publications, and her story has appeared on NBC's TODAY, CBS, Cosmopolitan, among others. Learn more: amyoes.com and support her work at patreon.com/amyo. Amy is currently participating as a playwright and performance artist in the National Musical Theatre Institute at the world-renowned Eugene O'Neill Theater Center.
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Amy Oestreicher

Actress, Artist, Playwright, Author, Speaker, Survivor, and Detourist


Huffington Post Columnist, TEDx, Great Comebacks Recipient

SheSource Expert Featured in Cosmopolitan, & NBC's TODAY

*Celebrating Life's Beautiful Detours Through Creative PTSD Education & Mental Health Programming*

Award-Winning Musical Gutless & Grateful: See '17 NYC Dates

Social Media Channels)

In this week's Airplay, host Coni Koepfinger brings on the very talented and acclaimed actress, director Nell Teare, live from LA to discuss her new book DRAWING ON THE DIVINE. In this unusual new text Koepfinger probes the very essence of creativity and Teare follows her logic and takes it even one step further into the realm of human consciousness.

"Within the complement of painting and prose, Coni shows us eternity through the ephemeral bond of two sisters."--Nell Teare, LA director

This book is a tribute to the author's sister, Mickey, who paintings and drawings inspire the poetry and prose that lead us into the investigation of process.

"When art inspires words, there is a transformation within the juxtaposition. The combination of word and image in DRAWING ON THE DIVINE lingers past the page." --
Mara Mills, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Arts

December 2016 In the Crib "The Chosen Ones" by Ashley Partin
A tender monologue through the eyes of an orange at market day in the Trastevere Area in Rome, Italy
Hosted By Trish Ayers

Bio: Trish Ayers is an award winning playwright with play readings and productions across the United States and Japan including at Live Girls!, Hedgerow Theatre, Iowa State University, Berea College, and Manhattan Theatre Source. She is resident playwright for Mountain Spirit Puppets and Berea Arena Theater. Her plays have been published in the anthology “Scenes From the Common Wealth: Short Plays and Monologues by Kentucky Women” and the online journal, “Wordgathering.” Ayers has received three Kentucky Foundation for Women (KFW) grants, placed four time in the Appalachian Writers Association Josefina Niggli Playwriting contest, Best Play of “Ten Minute Madness VII” at North Park Vaudeville Theatre, and is the recipient of the 2011 Sallie Bingham Award from the KFW. She is a member of Dramatists Guild, participant in 365 Women in a Year* and is the founder and director of Kentucky Women Playwrights Seminar**.

Today's Airplay - "Hot Summer in the City"
Was penned by one of resident playwrights-Shirley King
Hosted by Coni Koepfinger
Cast: Christy Donahue, Frank Rescue, Robert Rhodes, Rachel Love

It's 1944. Will the City of Dreams grant fame and fortune to an actress from Springfield?
CHARACTERS
JOSIE –- in Hollywood, hoping for a movie career.
GILLY CRANDALL –- good at passing on tips, when it’s to his advantage. DIRECTOR –- needs to wrap up this movie -- now!
GABRIEL –- making his first Hollywood film.

HOT SUMMER IN THE CITY was produced by Nylon Fusion Theatre Company and directed by Wendy Mae Shelton for THIS ROUND’S ON US: Time Travel 1930’s-40’s, at The Gene Frankel Theater in NYC.

Coni Koepfinger Hosts and Christy Donahue Reads on Todays Presentation of AUTHENTICITY.

Shirley King's plays have been performed in the US, Korea, The UK, Canada and Scotland. In 2015 eighteen of her plays and monologues were selected for productions or readings. Four were published. Fifteen of her plays and monologues have been selected this year.

Shirley is a member of the Dramatists Guild and The International Center for Women Playwrights.

Coni Koepfinger hosts today's Air Play. With Interview of Amy Oesreicher. Plus a reading of Amy's Play by Christy Donahue.

Amy Oestreicher is a PTSD peer-to-peer specialist, artist, author, writer for Huffington Post, speaker for TEDx and RAINN, health advocate, survivor, award-winning actress, and playwright, sharing the lessons learned from trauma through her writing, mixed media art, performance and inspirational speaking. As the creator of "Gutless & Grateful," her BroadwayWorld-nominated one-woman autobiographical musical, she's toured theatres nationwide, along with a program combining mental health advocacy, sexual assault awareness and Broadway Theatre for college campuses and international conferences. Her original, full-length drama, Imprints, premiered at the NYC Producer's Club in May 2016, exploring how trauma affects the family as well as the individual. To celebrate her own “beautiful detour”, Amy created the #LoveMyDetour campaign, to help others cope in the face of unexpected events. "Detourism" is also the subject of her TEDx and upcoming book, My Beautiful Detour, available December 2017. As Eastern Regional Recipient of Convatec’s Great Comebacks Award, she's spoken to hundreds of healthcare professionals at national WOCN conferences, and her presentations on diversity, leadership and trauma have been featured at National Mental Health America Conference, New England Educational Opportunity Association's 40 Anniversary Conference, and have been keynotes at the Pacific Rim Conference of Diversity and Disability in Hawaii, the Eating Recovery Foundation First Annual Benefit in Colorado. She's contributed to over 70 notable online and print publications, and her story has appeared on NBC's TODAY, CBS, Cosmopolitan, among others. Learn more: amyoes.com and support her work at patreon.com/amyo. Amy is currently participating as a playwright and performance artist in the National Musical Theatre Institute at the world-renowned Eugene O'Neill Theater Center.
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Amy Oestreicher

Actress, Artist, Playwright, Author, Speaker, Survivor, and Detourist


Huffington Post Columnist, TEDx, Great Comebacks Recipient

SheSource Expert Featured in Cosmopolitan, & NBC's TODAY

*Celebrating Life's Beautiful Detours Through Creative PTSD Education & Mental Health Programming*

Award-Winning Musical Gutless & Grateful: See '17 NYC Dates

Social Media Channels)

Coni Koepfinger Hosts AirPlay. Today's Presentation: Revision Of Time. Read by Susan Skosko. Robert Rhodes joins Coni in a discussion of time prior to the reading.

Fireflies who live only a fortnight dare not waste time finding love.
- Coni
Cast: Christy Donahue : Frank J Schiavone : Coni Koepfinger

Shirley King's plays have been performed in the US, Canada, The UK and Korea. In 2015 eighteen of her plays and monologues were selected for production or staged readings. In 2016 twelve of her plays and monologues have been selected.

For this Halloween Season Robert Rhodes Reads " An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" Introduction by Coni Koepfinger.

Airplay Presents The Therapist by Coni Koepfinger, Played by Susan Skosko Plus a discussion of Mental Health and the Theater. With Science Advisor Robert Rhodes