Voices for Healing & Transformation: A New Monologue Showcase

The Journal of Expressive Writing is more than a publication. We aim to be an engaged and supportive community of writers and listeners. Giving our focused attention to each other’s voices, stories and writing is a generous, necessary act of humanity, repair and celebration.

On Wednesday, April 2, 2025 at 7:00pm EST, we will be presenting a showcase of new stage monologues created by Kelly DuMar's Monologue Play Lab.

In writing monologues for the stage, a story begins as words on the page. The next stage of development is to have the monologue performed by an actor in front of an audience. In this monologue showcase, writers who have been developing monologues in Kelly’s play lab will have the chance to see their writing performed by an actor for an audience––you.

Stella Adler called theater the “seeing place”––the place we come to see the truth about our lives and social situation. Oscar Wilde called theater “the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.” And August Wilson was, “fascinated by the idea of an audience as a community of people who gather willingly to bear witness.” We invite you, our audience, to share in making dynamic theater with us, by being present for this showcase of new stage monologues. This intimate and powerful experience is part of the critical page-to-stage development process that all new plays need. Please join us, and share the vitality of your presence and your witness as our much-appreciated audience.

The show is free and open to the public on Zoom.

Featuring monologues by members of Kelly DuMar’s Spring Monologue Play Lab, including:

• Grace Calder
• Pavlina Gatikova
• Shannon Kenny
• Patrick Kenny
• Jane Knox
• Arlene Levenson
• Grace Maselli
• Amanda Springer

About Kelly DuMar

Kelly DuMar is a poet, playwright and workshop facilitator from the Boston area. She’s author of four poetry collections, and her poems and art are published in a variety of literary journals. Kelly’s plays have been published and produced around the US. Kelly has been teaching creative writing in a variety of settings for over four decades, and she facilitates Monologue Writing Play Labs and showcases for the International Women’s Writing Guild and the Transformative Language Arts Network. She produces the Featured Open Mic for the Journal of Expressive Writing. A certified psychodramatist, Kelly also leads expressive arts support groups for psychologists in war zones. She lives in the woods with her family on the Charles River.

Reach her at kellydumar.com

This event is FREE to attend and OPEN TO ALL, but you do need to Pre-Register through eventbrite to get the live Zoom link.