Awards Ceremony & Celebration, October 16, 2019 at Theaterlab. Pictured: Tay Bass as “Christina” left, Rachel Weekley as “Micki.” Photography by John Quilty.
Right: Table Reading, September 10, 2019 at New Perspectives Theatre Company. Pictured: Ashil Lee as “Eden” left, and Tay Bass. Photography by Maya Graffagna.

A black and white building with three shutter windows, and text “BAKERY” in white, against a night sky. A blue transparent rectangle at the top of the building, with text in white reads “you know, that Bakery out in Bensonhurst that don’t got a name…

Original Artwork by “Goddess. Wriply M. Bennet”

Synopsis

Dell and Micki are sisters who work in a bakery. Been working there their whole lives, their mom owns the place. Even though they’re only four years apart, it may as well be 40, they’re that different. Dell is sixteen going on sixty, an old soul struggling to understand why their father died – he definitely didn’t commit suicide, even if that’s what they all say. Micki is twenty going on sixteen, excited to be embarking on a new relationship – even if she ain’t supposed to. No matter, at least Dell’s got Eden, her new friend opening her up to new experiences like blow jobs and alcohol. When Micki chooses her boyfriend over her family, the girls’ lives are twisted into a turmoil neither could’ve ever predicted.

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About the Playwright

Gina Femia (she/her) has written 32 full-length plays which include ALLOND(R)A (Winner: Leah Ryan Prize, Runner-up, Yale Drama Prize), We Are a Masterpiece (Winner: The Doric Wilson Award), The Mermaids’ Parade (Semifinalist, The Relentless Award, Finalist, Princess Grace Award), REBELS TIL DEATH (Reading, Playwrights Horizons), Annie and the Fat Man (Honorable Mention, The Kilroys), THIS HAPPENED ONCE AT THE ROMANCE DEPOT OFF THE I-87 IN WESTCHESTER (Workshop, Youngblood), Super, or, How Clark Graves Learned to Fly (semi-finalist The O’Neill and The Princess Grace Award), For The Love Of (Center Theatre Group’s Block Party, Theatre of NOTE, Original Works Publishing), and The Violet Sisters (Great Plains Theatre Conference). She is the 2019 Writer-in-Residence with Spicy Witch Productions (The Virtuous Fall of the Girls from Our Lady of Sorrows) and is an Alum of EST Youngblood, Pipeline Theatre’s PlayLab and New Georges’ Audrey Residency (Accidental Burlesque).


Gina is a current member of Page 73’s Interstate 73 and Project Y Writers’ Groups. She is a New Georges Affiliated Artist and a New York Madness Company Member, and has received residencies with Page73, Powerhouse, NTI at the O’Neill, SPACE on Ryder Farm, and Fresh Ground Pepper. She is the 2020 recipient of the Otis Guernsey New Voices in the American Theater Award and has been nominated for the Cherry Lane Theatre Mentor Project. MFA, Sarah Lawrence College (Lipkin Prize in Playwrighting).

View Gina’s profile in The Parity Database.

 
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