Hosted by Coni Koepfinger. Guests Cindy Cooper and Lisa Pelikan.

Cindy Cooper is an award-winning playwright, journalist and author. Her plays have been produced in New York at Primary Stages, the Women’s Project, Wings, Museum of Tolerance, Art and Work Ensemble, New Circle Theatre Company, and elsewhere, and in Chicago, Minneapolis, L.A. Montreal, Jerusalem, Budapest and more. Reviews of Running on Glass last year called the writing “extraordinary” and said “storytelling is, indeed, the mode of Cooper’s script.” Cindy has won awards from Pen and Brush, the Samuel French Play Festival, Malibu International, and is a two-time Jerome Fellow. She is also the author of eight books, including Mockery of Justice, made into a CBS-TV movie; her articles have appeared in Ms., The Nation, Glamour, National Law Journal and more. She lives in New York City. You can read more at her website, cyncooperwriter.net.
Lisa Pelikan, Director
Lisa recently directed Cindy Cooper’s Heaven Scent, Ed Valentine’s Walk With Bright
Candles, Christopher Goutman’s For Your Love, and Lori Goodman’s New Leaf with the
New Circle Theatre Company. With the Ensemble Studio Theatre she directed Julia
Specht’s Our Love Story Is Not Very Interesting. She received the ADA Best Director
Award for her direction of ‘night, Mother for which both her actors were nominated and
one received the Best Actress Award with the Interact Theatre Company. As an actor,
Lisa made her feature film debut as the young 'Julia' in Fred Zinnemann's Julia sharing
the title role with Vanessa Redgrave, her television debut as the ingénue in the Hallmark
Hall of Fame production of The Country Girl with Jason Robards and Shirley Knight,
and her theatrical debut starring as 'Wendla' in Spring's Awakening with the Circle
Repertory Theatre. In New York City, Lisa also starred in the world premieres of
Panache, (winning the ADA Award for Best Actress in a Comedy), Jim Leonard's The
Diviners, and Arthur Miller’s The American Clock. If you have further curiosities about
Lisa’s career, you can visit her website at www.lisapelikan.com
(Wendla is pronounced with a “V” – “Vendla”)