The Road Theatre Company invites you to join us for a staged reading of Jennie Webb’s Not Cake on Monday, November 6th, 2023 at 7:30 PM. The reading is a suggested donation of $15

Playwright: Jennie Webb

Director: Margaret Shigeko Starbuck

Featuring: Blaire Chandler.

Set in 1924 and 2024, Not Cake is the story of a singular woman in a multi-cultural Los Angeles neighborhood who’s determined to use her gifts to help other women. But after 100+ years of fighting for change, doesn’t she deserve a break? Not Cake is a new play about privilege and class, appropriation and agency.

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
Jennie Webb is a Los Angeles-based playwright and dramaturg with works produced locally by Inkwell Theater, Rogue Machine Theatre, EST/LA, Santa Monica Rep, Virginia Avenue Project, Theatre of NOTE and La Jolla Playhouse’s WOW Festival as well as in Canada, the UK, India, Iran, Iceland and at colleges/universities. Her plays have been presented by Great Plains Theatre Conferences, The Playwrights’ Center, Moving Arts MADlab, Blank Theatre, Playground-LA, Climate Change Theatre Action, Rogue Artist Ensemble’s Rogue Lab, Road Theatre Summer Playwrights Festivals & inaugural “Under Construction” Group, and published by Heinemann Press, Smith & Kraus, Next Stage Press and ICWP. National recognition includes Finalist (O’Neill Playwrights Conference, Gulfshore Playhouse, City Theatre) and Semi-Finalist (O’Neill, PlayPenn, Athena Project, Trustus) nods; she is the recipient of Max K. Lerner Playwriting Fellowships and a WIT Red Carpet Award. Member: the Playwrights Union, EST/LA, Honor Roll!, Dramatists Guild; co-founder: LA Female Playwrights Initiative (LAFPI). jenniewebbsite.com