Gravidity Creative

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Writer
Ashley Rose Wellman
Ashley Rose Wellman is a Los Angeles playwright and screenwriter who writes plays and pilots about messy, complicated women who make bad decisions while navigating grief and family trauma. Ashley’s plays have received staged readings and productions at Pasadena Playhouse, EST/LA, The Blank Theatre, Antaeus Theatre Company, IAMA Theatre Company, TossPot Productions, Midnight Summit Ensemble, Red Cup Theatre Company, the University of Southern California, the University of Alaska Anchorage, the Great Plains Theatre Commons, the Valdez Theatre Conference, and an international production at Spinning Plates Co. in Melbourne, Australia. She won the 2018-2019 Humanitas PLAY LA Award, and was commissioned with a grant from the Humanitas Foundation to write SHRINES, which was presented by The Echo Theater Company at the Stage Raw/PLAY LA Theatre Festival. She is a two-time Finalist and two-time Semi-Finalist for the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, a Finalist for the Blue Ink Playwriting Award, a Semi-Finalist for the Princess Grace/New Dramatists Award, a Semi-Finalist for the UCROSS / THE BLANK THEATRE Future of Playwriting Award, and a Semi-Finalist for the Screencraft Stage Play Competition. Her play HOT TRAGIC DEAD THING was highlighted on the 2020 Kilroys' List, which spotlights plays written by women, trans, and non-binary writers in American theatre. She is a founding member of the Barelight Writers Project, and a member of the Playwrights Union, the New West Writers Group at EST/LA, and the Antaeus Theatre Company Playwrights Lab. Her pilot script PREDATORY is highly rated on The Black List. Her short script Cordial was recently produced by chap.three productions as an episode of their anthology-style web series “City Kitties”. She received an MFA in Dramatic Writing from the University of Southern California.
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Director
Timothy J Foley
Timothy J. Foley is a writer based in Sacramento. His short plays “Mississippi Motel” and “Flag Decal” were presented at the Ooley Theater by the Artist’s Collective in 2022. His stories and essays have been published in a variety of journals and litmags, including All Hallows, Supernatural Tales, Wormwood, Dark Hollow, and West Marin Review. He was the editor and publisher of the Farallon Review, 2008-2014, and is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild.
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Patricia Schmeltz
Trish is an actor, director, makeup artist, and property mistress. She has been acting since a very early age. She has an AA in Theatre Arts, and a BS in Business with a minor in Religion and Philosophy. She has studied at San Francisco State University, American River College and Sierra College. After an adventure in the business world, Trish has returned to theatre with a passion. She has acted in shows at SFSU, ARC, Sierra College, Free Fall Stage, TAAC, Resurrection Theatre, Theatre One, and Chautauqua Playhouse where she was on the board for seven years. Most recently she did an original show playing various roles at Theatre One - “Green Room Confidential”, she played Amanda in Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie” at Chautauqua Playhouse. She has directed several children’s shows including “The Velveteen Rabbit”, “Santa’s Christmas Caper”, and “Secret Garden”. For their main stage she has directed “Sherlock Holmes and the Ladies in Distress”, “The Odd Couple” and “Perfect Murder” and most recently “Exit, Pursued by a Bear” which closed in February 2024. Trish’s passion for the “story” and how we connect to that as humans will always be something she wants to share with others. Trish thanks her husband for always supporting her dream of storytelling.

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