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Playwrights' Theatre
of East Hampton
founded by Mitzi and Perry Pazer
A series for theater lovers and artists that focuses on the written and spoken word and where the audience can mingle with playwrights, actors, and directors in a casual setting.
Upcoming Performances
(more 2024 peformances coming soon!)
Past Performances
Shirley Chisholm-Unbossed and Unbowed Shirley Chisholm - Unbossed and Unbowed wix:image://v1/45ab9b_a4f5df0eff804f659014a37698f88096~mv2.jpg/IG-Mrs.Chisholm.jpg#originWidth=1159&originHeight=1500 Fri 03/14/25 @ 10:00AM & 7:30PM Unbossed & Unbowed is an immersive and interactive solo show about the 1st African-American woman to run for ... {"nodes":[{"style":{},"id":"1epva1103","nodes":[{"type":"TEXT","id":","nodes":[],"textData":{"text":"Shirley Chisholm: Unbossed and Unbowed","decorations":[]}}],"headingData":{"level":2,"textStyle":{"textAlignment":"AUTO"},"indentation":0},"type":"HEADING"},{"type":"PARAGRAPH","id":"82e7o279","nodes":[],"paragraphData":{}},{"type":"HEADING","id":"foo","nodes":[{"type":"TEXT","id":","nodes":[],"textData":{"text":"Friday, March 14, 2025 @ 10:00 AM & 7:30 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Ingrid has been touring\n“Unbossed & Unbowed” across the country with the hope that this largely unheard story will enlighten audiences and inspire them to take action that will bring about positive change.\n(unbossedunbowed.com)\n\nIngrid Griffith’s one-woman show, Shirley Chisholm: Unbossed & Unbowed, won Outstanding Playwriting Award at the Hear Her Call Caribbean American Women’s Playwriting Festival\n(2020). She received a Danny Glover Power of Dream Award (2022), a Guyana Cultural Award\nfor her work’s originality, scope, impact, influence, and her pioneering spirit (2023). Shirley Chisholm: Unbossed & Unbowed was winner of the 2023 Suzi Bass Award, Atlanta’s professional theater awards, for Outstanding Production about Social Justice (produced by Out of Hand Theater in Atlanta, GA) and Ingrid Griffith was a 2023 Suzi Bass Award Nominee for Outstanding Principal Performer in a Play.\n\nIngrid Griffith is also known for her award-winning solo show, Demerara Gold, a Guyanese girl’s coming-to-America story that addresses what she and her family gained and lost.\n(demeraragoldtheshow.com).\n\nIngrid has been in off-broadway and regional stage productions in classical and contemporary\nroles. Some of her favorites are: Lady Reveller in The Basset Table by Susanna Centlivre, Mrs. Muller in John Patrick Shanley's “Doubt”, Hedda Gabler in Henrik Ibsen's \"Hedda Gabler”, Ruth Younger in Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun”, Mama Nadi in “Ruined” by Lynn Nottage and Elaine Brown in Anna Deavere Smith’s “Twilight: Los Angeles”. She is delighted to be collaborating with the team at LTV to share Shirley Chisholm’s story during the current election season. And to be celebrating Shirley Chisholm this year, her Centennial Anniversary\n(November 30, 1924).","slug":"45ab9b_e1a22a27513b4a39a0a60cb1476e5d42~mv2.jpg","alt":","src":"wix:image://v1/45ab9b_e1a22a27513b4a39a0a60cb1476e5d42~mv2.jpg/INGRID%2520GRIFFITH%252C%2520SAG%252FAFTRA%253B%2520DRAMATISTS%2520GUILD.jpg#originWidth=1013&originHeight=1500","title":"INGRID GRIFFITH, SAG/AFTRA; DRAMATISTS GUILD","type":"image","settings":{"width":1013,"height":1500,"focalPoint":[0.5,0.5]}}]
The Playwrights' Theatre was founded in East Hampton in 1992 by producer and Springs resident Mitzi Pazer from The Roundabout Theatre Company along with her husband, attorney Perry Pazer. They started the series at LTV where it operated every summer for 10 years before shifting to the John Drew Theater at Guild Hall for another ten seasons. Incredible stars took part: Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson, Judd Hirsch, Estelle Parsons, Dianne Wiest, Peter Boyle, Jack Klugman, Mercedes Ruehl, Tovah Feldshuh and Charles Durning among countless others. Playwrights' Theatre gave a chance for East Hampton audiences to meet and mingle with these luminaries in a relaxed setting where process and dialogue were encouraged with great talkbacks and informal garden receptions. The emphasis was on the written and spoken word, with playwrights being selected by Mitzi and afforded a remarkable, focused and hospitable workshop in which to hear and shape their developing plays. When Michael Clark invited the producer Josh Gladstone to join the team at LTV in early 2023, Gladstone reached out to the Pazers with an invitation, and sure enough the Pazers responded, excited to see their legacy of 30 years reignited and reimagined for a new generation of East Hampton theater lovers and artists. LTV is proud to welcome The Playwrights' Theatre back home to Studio 3 in Wainscott, where the work of the Pazers will continue, offering creative opportunities to theater-makers to develop their voices and imaginations throughout the year.
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