Jane Shepard(2016)
Jane Shaepard is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker. She wrote the Showtime Original Movie Freak City for which she was nominated for a Writer’s Guild Award. Her plays have been produced across the U.S. and abroad, and a popular collection of her short works “Kickass Plays for Women” appears in print. Three of its plays debuted Off-Broadway this week under the title Commencing.
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