Monday, June 12 at 7:30 PM 

Susan Lynskey is thrilled to celebrate a decade with WWIT, collaborating with longtime dearest friend Karen Berman, the wonderful group of WWIT creatives (as actor, director and co-artistic director) and is delighted to be reading the words of WWIT playwright/cofounder Sidra Rausch with beloved artist-friends Ms. Twyford, Mr. Currier, and Mr. Britton, and Mr. Redmond. Lynskey’s work has garnered multiple Helen Hayes nominations for Outstanding Lead/ Supporting Actress and Outstanding Acting Ensemble, The DCTS Audience Choice Award and Individual Artist Awards from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Susan is a DCCAH 2023 Artist Fellowship award winner.  She has recently appeared twice Off-Broadway and has an extensive roster of regional productions; DC, and its extraordinary theatre community, are her Artistic home. Susan just finished a tour-de-force run as ‘Gloria’ in Gloria: A Life, at Theater J, portraying feminist activist-author Gloria Steinem, (attended by Ms. Steinem herself, Eleanor Holmes-Norton and Justice Sonia Sotomayor opening night)—an important feminist work by Emily Mann which uplifts and celebrates the women’s movement, Steinem, Flo Kennedy, Dorothy Pittman-Hughes, Bella Abzug and others and their dedication to women’s rights and the fight for equality. Lynskey is dedicated to new work development that centers womxn’s voices, our contributions to the past and present and work that paves a way for future art and artistry.

Actor/director Holly Twyford has performed in close to eighty productions in many of the acclaimed theaters in and around Washington Metro Area, including Arena Stage, Shakespeare Theater, Studio Theatre and Woolly Mammoth Theatre to name a few. She will be appearing in A Woolly Mammoth/Wilma Theatre co-production this fall, entitled My Mama and the Full-Scale Invasion by Sasha Denisova. Ms. Twyford has been nominated for multiple Helen Hayes awards and is a four-time recipient for Outstanding Actress. She was honored with Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Emery Battis Award for Acting Excellence for her portrayal of Anna in Harold Pinter’s Old Times. Ms. Twyford is proud to be a Lunt-Fontanne Fellow, a member of the Studio Theatre’s Cabinet, and a Ford’s Theatre Associate Artist. Her credits include commercials, voiceovers, educational and training films, TV and several independent films. Ms. Twyford is proud to be a resident of Washington, D.C.

Terrence Currier was a resident Actor and Assoc. Artistic Director  at Charles Playhouse, Boston; a resident actor at Poet's Theater, Cambridge Mass; and Washington's Arena Stage (18 years).  He appeared on Broadway in the revival of Damn Yankees for three years and has been seen in numerous films, soaps and commercials. He was a Professor of Dramatic Arts at Harvard and Brandeis Universities.

Lawrence Redmond has performed in over 150 productions during his artistic career in Washington, Theatregoers have seen him at Arena Stage, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Signature Theatre, Round House Theatre, Studio Theatre, Olney Theatre Center, Theatre J, Metro Stage, and the Folger Theatre. He has performed on National Tour in Guys and Dolls, at Cincinnati Playhouse in The Park, Cleveland Playhouse, and The Human Race Theatre. He is a nine-time Helen Hayes Award nominee,  receiving the Award for Kit Gill in No Way to Treat a Lady and Lenny in The Rink, both at Signature Theatre. A multiple recipient of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Individual Artist Fellowship, he is a recipient of the Theatre Lobby’s Mary Goldwater Award and the Anderson-Hopkins Award for Theatre Excellence, an award to theatre artists who have concentrated their creative energies in the Washington Metro area over a decade.  

Frank Britton most recently appeared as the Belize/Roy Cohn understudy in Arena Stage’s “Angels In America, Part One: Millennium Approaches”; “Our Town” at Baltimore Center Stage, and “P. Nokio: A Hip Hop Musical” at Imagination Stage. He’s appeared at many local theatres including Arena Stage, Studio Theatre, Round House Theatre, Avant Bard Theatre (company member), Adventure Theatre, SCENA Theatre, 1st Stage, Constellation Theatre Company, and Rorschach Theatre (company member), among many others, and regionally including La MaMa ETC (off-off Broadway), Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, and Milwaukee Repertory Theater. In 2018, he earned the Helen Hayes Award (The Robert Prosky Award for Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Play—Helen) for his performance in “Jesus Hopped The ‘A’ Train” at 1st Stage. Many, many thanks to Karen, Laurie, and WWIT. For Sidra Rausch.