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An elderly and hard-of-hearing couple is visited by the Grim Reaper, complete with the usual accouterments of hood, scythe, and imminent death.They mistake him for (variously) a magazine salesman, a Jehovah’sWitness, a Weight Watchers associate, a shepherd (due to the “shepherd’s thingy” he carries), an escort service representative, a car salesman, and a gangster hit man, but offer him oatmeal cookies and tea as they continue to misunderstand everything he says. In total frustration, the Grim Reaper gives up, wishes them a long life, and departs.Bios –Claude Isbell Claude started out as a child actor, doing both TV commercials and theater from the age of 4. He and his sister did model work as well al over NYC. Appearing in the New York Times magazine and many others. He was a musician and songwriter in NYC, before going into business. After studying acting with teachers such as Austin Pendleton he has recently gotten the Theater and Film bug back, and is making a Web Series called CYRUS that is in pre-produc

Hosted by Coni Koepfinger and Brandy ChapmanJoan Kane (director/producer/dramaturg/writer/actor) is the founding Artistic Director of Ego Actus.Selected workJoan Kane directed Sycorax at HERE, Play Nice! at 59e59 theaters, I Know What Boys Want at Theatre Row, Six Characters in Search of an Author in Oslo, Norway and Kafka’s Belinda in Prague. She also directed both Safe and what do you mean at 59e59 theaters and in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, getting four star reviews for each.Awards and honorsJoan was awarded Best Director in the 2016 United Solo Festival where she has directed six pieces. Joan was named lone of the 2011 People of the Year in honor of her contributions to the NY theatre scene and inducted to the Indie Theatre Hall of Fame by nytheatre.com. Her shows have been nominated for 61 awards, winning 21Selected other workJoan has also directed plays and readings at the Lark, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Urban Stages, Workshop Theater, Nylon Fusion, Articulate Theatre, Abingdon Theatre, Oberon Theatre

A play about choices, knowledge, and being careful what you ask for.Bios –Claude IsbellClaude started out as a child actor, doing both TV commercials and theater from the age of 4. He and his sister did model work as well al over NYC. Appearing in the New York Times magazine and many others. He was a musician and songwriter in NYC, before going into business. After studying acting with teachers such as Austin Pendleton he has recently gotten the Theater and Film bug back, and is making a Web Series called CYRUS that is in pre-production. During the Strawberry One-Act Festival his “Making-Of” film garnered him a “Best Director” nomination.Brandy ChapmanBrandy is from Kentucky and currently producing in Florida as an actor. Recent credits include South Pacific, and Harvey during the 90th season at Francis Wilson Playhouse. Christy DonahueChristy’s acting credits span traditional theater, interactive dinner theater, commercial and film work, and staged readings - in person, online, and via livestream.Timothy Reg

SYNOPSIS:Gerald Thomson, an ex-stuntman in his early 70s, is now the special client of a hospital facility, in Calabria region, South Italy. He is in a wheelchair, as a result of a work accident. Louis, his son, flies from N.Y. to Calanzaro in order to bring his father home--not only because he’s getting married, but also because the medical care in the Italian hospital is rather poor. Gerald stubbornly refuses to get back home.The funny, yet dramatic conflict which arises between the two, reaches a climax when Gerald tells Louis that he is not his biological father. A series of small unfortunate events takes place, culminating with an accident, when Louis kills Maria, his dad’s much younger and beautiful friend. Taking advantage of the fact that Gerald’s brain seems to have been a bit affected lately, Louis calls in the accident, telling the hospital’s personnel that his father is the one who killed Maria.SHORT BIOS:Joe Anania (Gerald Thomson) Joe Anania is a NYC-based actor who was trained as an acting teac

udging Quits by Trish AyersHosted by Coni Koepfinger and Christy DonahueCarrie Wesolowski: Carrie is a NYC-based actor, director, host, and singer who has appeared in numerous off-Broadway, community theatre, independent film productions, television and international news programs. She hosted “Movie Talk Show” for three years. Carrie’s latest project is directing and acting in Coni Koepfinger’s “Simon Says, “ a finalist in Playbill VTF Live: https://vtf.live/simon-says/ Carrie is happy to be reading “Betty” —Trish Ayer’s character of Betty trying to help anyone in need clearly resonated with Carrie when reading the script. CHRISTY DONAHUE: Christy is excited, as always, to be performing with AirPlay. Her credits include traditional theater, interactive dinner theater, and some screen work.TIMOTHY REGAN: A regular with the AirPlay 2020 Players. Previous Airplay credits include Unspoken Acts, Down With Kindle, and Going Up

When Tony decides to rid his new house of evil spirits Beth thinks he’s overreacting, but in the end they join forces to drive those spirits away. Christy Bio:Christy is always happy to perform Shirley King's works; Previous credits include Annette in God of Carnage and Karen in Dinner With Friends, Elvira in Blithe Spirit.Tim's Bio: Tim is happy to be back on Airplay with another piece by Shirley King. Previous Airplay credits include Unspoken Acts, Down With Kindle, and Going UpHosted by Coni Koepfinger and Christy Donahue

Promises, by Shirley King, is about love, memories, believing in something, and honoring those you love - human and any living thing. Actor/Co Host: Christy DonahueHost: ConiKoepfinger

KINGDOM COME is a bold new musical by Joe Izen and Coni Koepfinger that peers deep into the heart of humanity and sees through time into a new vision, a look into the light, where the reflection of all life is love. Set in a dystopian future, TED, the world's first transhuman, falls in love with boss Livia. This prompts him to question the very purpose of life and finds something might be missing.BIOS:NARRATOR - BYRON SAUNDERS Byron C. Saunders is an Arts Management Consultant / Actor / Director / Producer / Historian working as an independent Arts Management Consultant for over 40 years assisting artists and arts organizations with grants administration, fund development, marketing, public relations, event planning, capacity growth and development with extensive experience in managing and raising funds for an organization’s budget. TED - the world's first fully human-computer hybrid is JAMES SCHEIDER James Scheider is an actor-musician, music director, and composer/arranger currently residing in Manhattan.

Creator and cohost of AirPlay and Determined Women, Coni’s works have been published and performed all over the globe.Tonight’s play “Josie in the Bardo” was conceived as a commission in 2019 for The Voire Dire Project at Cosmic Orchid Theatre and produced by Liz Amadio, Artistic Director. It’s most recent performance was at the Broadway Bound Festival on 42nd St, directed by GlenoraBlackshire.“Josie in the Bardo” looks deep into reincarnation trying to uncover its purpose and process.Our director and narrator tonight is :Byron C. Saunders - Arts Management Consultant / Actor / Director / Producer / Historian…working as an independent Arts Management Consultant…for over 40 years assisting artists and arts organizations with grants administration, fund development, marketing, public relations, event planning, capacity growth and development with extensive experience in managing and raising funds for an organization’s budget.My experiences have included CEO for professional theater companies, museums, and an ar

Hosted by Coni Koepfinger and Christy Donahue: Nancy Rhodes (Stage Director, writer, and educator) stages a wide range of musicals, operas and plays in the U.S.A, Europe and Asia. She directed The Astronaut’s Tale at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, BAM Fisher; staged the world premiere of Tartuffe for San Francisco Opera, and Virgil Thomson’s opera Lord Byron at Alice Tully Hall.As Artistic Director & co-founder of Encompass Theatre, specializing in new music drama & American opera, she staged over 65 works including Gertrude Stein/Virgil Thomson’s The Mother of Us All, (about Susan B. Anthony), Blitzstein’s Regina, Britten’s Phaedra, and Only Heaven by Ricky Ian Gordon and Langston Hughes. Her production of The Diary of Anne Frank was nominated for an Artistic Achievement Award and played to over four thousand people on tour at Cleveland Opera. She recently directed the world premiere of Anna Christie, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Eugene O'Neill; and the Cast Album was released by Broad

Deb knows women can change our country. Will she cooperate with Jack and give him the assistance he needs?Shirley King's plays and monologues have been produced in the US, The UK, Canada, Scotland and Korea. She is a member of The Dramatists Guild and The International Center for Women Playwrights.Actors:Christy Donahue: Christy’s acting credits span traditional theater, interactive dinner theater, commercial and film work, and staged readings - in person, online, and via livestream. When not acting Christy enjoys other creative pathways, such as mixed media, collage art, and wreath making.An animal advocate, she has 2 rescue cats and a rescue dog and loves being home with them and her husband.Timothy Regan: A graduate of Kean University, has done several Airplay readings and is always excited to return. You may have heard him last in Coni Koepfinger's “Unspoken Acts” and In Shirley King’s “Down with the Kindle!“.Tonight we are dedicating our showTo Pat McBennett .who left us. Our deepest sympathies to our co

Revolution, An Artistic Explosion is an exploration of what it means to be an artist and what happens when different forms come together and try to make their voices heard.JESSICA ‘JES’ WASHINGTON is a New York City based actress, dancer, and writer; born and raised in Memphis, TN. She has a true love for storytelling. She is currently receiving her MFA at the Actors Studio Drama School in New York City. Theater credits: Lena in ​Who Will Sing For Lena​, a one-woman show with huge acclaim; performed along the east coast. Awards include: Best Lead Actress in a Drama (3x), People’s Choice, Best Overall Production, winner of AACT National Festival 2019. Procne in ​Love of the Nightingale​, Francine/Lena in ​Clybourne Park​, forwarding an EMACT nomination: Best Supporting Actress in a Drama. Independent film credits: Riley (lead) in feature ​Uprising​, Ealey in action short ​MAAT​ (lead), Jasmine in ​Even​, and Young Belinda Royale in ​Half the History: Belinda Royale Story​. Voice Over credits: Isabelle Powell i

Cindy Cooper is an award-winning playwright, journalist and author. Her plays have been produced in New York at Primary Stages, the Women’s Project, Wings, Museum of Tolerance, Art and Work Ensemble, New Circle Theatre Company, and elsewhere, and in Chicago, Minneapolis, L.A. Montreal, Jerusalem, Budapest and more. Reviews of Running on Glass last year called the writing “extraordinary” and said “storytelling is, indeed, the mode of Cooper’s script.” Cindy has won awards from Pen and Brush, the Samuel French Play Festival, Malibu International, and is a two-time Jerome Fellow. She is also the author of eight books, including Mockery of Justice, made into a CBS-TV movie; her articles have appeared in Ms., The Nation, Glamour, National Law Journal and more. She lives in New York City. You can read more at her website, cyncooperwriter.net.Lisa Pelikan, director, recently directed Cindy Cooper’s Heaven Scent, Ed Valentine’s Walk With Bright Candles, Christopher Goutman’s For Your Love, and Lori Goodman’s New Leaf

Hosted by Coni Koepfinger. Guests Cindy Cooper and Lisa Pelikan.Cindy Cooper is an award-winning playwright, journalist and author. Her plays have been produced in New York at Primary Stages, the Women’s Project, Wings, Museum of Tolerance, Art and Work Ensemble, New Circle Theatre Company, and elsewhere, and in Chicago, Minneapolis, L.A. Montreal, Jerusalem, Budapest and more. Reviews of Running on Glass last year called the writing “extraordinary” and said “storytelling is, indeed, the mode of Cooper’s script.” Cindy has won awards from Pen and Brush, the Samuel French Play Festival, Malibu International, and is a two-time Jerome Fellow. She is also the author of eight books, including Mockery of Justice, made into a CBS-TV movie; her articles have appeared in Ms., The Nation, Glamour, National Law Journal and more. She lives in New York City. You can read more at her website, cyncooperwriter.net.Lisa Pelikan, DirectorLisa recently directed Cindy Cooper’s Heaven Scent, Ed Valentine’s Walk With BrightCandles

Will Kate and Duck Man rescue books from an insidious mob determined to destroy them?Shirley King's plays and monologues have been produced in the US, The UK, Canada, Scotland and Korea. She is a member of The Dramatists Guild and The International Center for Women Playwrights.Tonight play has two actors .. returning actors actually from previous AirPlay works..Christy Donahue: Acting is a lifelong love for Christy, who first stepped onstage at age 11. She has been blessed to be on stage performing traditional theater many times, as well as performing in interactive dinner theater, some commercial and film work, and of course staged readings, in person, online, and via live-stream. She is a big fan of Shirley King and is happy to be performing another of her works.Timothy Regan: A graduate of Kean University, has done several Airplay readings and is always excited to return. You may have heard him last in Coni Koepfinger's Father as Dale. Hope you enjoy tonight's reading of Down with the Kindle!-Timothy Regan

Sideshow by Coni Koepfinger :Koepfinger’s SIDESHOW opened in 1996 as a finalist in the “Upstairs Théatre New Play “ Contest; it was revived in 2015 in the New York “Unfringed Festival “ ... please join me as we welcome the Chicago cast of “Koepfinger’s Sideshow “ under the direction of Andrew J PondSynopsis: When a child has complications, every parent must make a choice. When family drama, self-doubt and medical and spiritual options seem to collide, will the couple accept advice from someone they know or a being from another dimension?Bio’s:Christopher John Grella is happy to be involved in such a unique play. Past projects have included: The Winter's Tale, 4x2, Change the Night Owl, Midsummer Night's Dream, Psycho Beach Party, Lady Macbeth, Emma, Unmatched, The Masque of the Red Death and Pride & Prejudice.Jessica Lauren Fisher is a founding member and the casting director for Eclectic Full Contact Theatre. She has performed throughout the Chicago and Indiana area in theatre, musicals, and opera playin

A farcical intergalactic play in one-actPenned by Sophia RommaABOUT THE PLAYThe Virus Corazón is causing chaos among the human population. This stoic and unruly viral infection infiltrates all those who show the ability to covet, to love and entraps those who possess the deep and insatiable desire to fornicate. Three outcasts have been weeded out to populate a new planet, called the Voon. These soon to be Vonanians are to be reformed and purged for their transgressions of depicting feelings and falling in and out of love. These natural human emotions deriving from the ardent passion and amorous adventures, which have particularly imbued the lives of these three slightly off-kilter but ardent fugitives and pariahs—are no longer desirable emotions and land all those who portray a propensity for showing feelings in the penitentiary or the psychiatric ward—as well as in freezers or in bathroom urinals. As punitive measures in the spirit of reformation. These outsiders are mandated to be beheaded by the guilloti

"When a lonely trucker stumbles into a church to ask for God's forgiveness, he finds compassion and mercy for his wornout wretched soul... but when justice comes to call, he learns that there can never mercy for someone like him, only condemnation."Tonight's play will Read by Timothy Regan as Dale Joe Izen as Fr. Frank and Christy Donahue as the Narrator / the Young Girl and the Judge.

This play is about navigating your way in the world and figuring out how to survive and thrive while being true to yourself. Sometimes it involves compromise, other times it means not choosing the safe option and instead following your path to what makes you truly happy.ACTOR: CHRISTY DONAHUE

Coni Koepfinger presents PLAYING HOUSE Read by Mary Ellen Ashley. ©2018 by Coni Koepfinger THE LEGACY OF BELLA ABZUG JULY 24, 1920 – MARCH 31, 1998