The Mother Audio Play script by Lynne Conner
Directed by Lynne Conner
Original music by Peter de Klerk
Recorded at Mind's Eye Productions in South Portland, Maine, and produced by Dagaz Media
Engineering, dialogue editing, and sound design by Karlyn Daigle
Associate Produced by Casey Turner
Script Consultation by Fred Greenhalgh
The Mother Audio Play is held under copyright by Lynne Conner. All rights reserved. The Mother Audio Play project was supported in part by a professional development fund from the College of Arts + Architecture at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
The Cast:
Mary Fraser: The Mother After
Abbie Killeen: The Mother Before
David Pence: The Father
Nolan Ellsworth: The Son
Robbie Harrison: Brendan and the Bad Mom’s Hall of Fame Host
Bess Welden: Brendan’s mother
Richard Sewell: Brendan’s father
Michaela Micalizio: NBC News Anchor
Molly Roberts: Forensic Psychologist
Kim Gordon: Attorney
Casey Turner: NBC Reporter
Fred Greenhalgh: NBC Announcer
Lynne Conner: Narrator
LYNNE CONNER’s The Mother is a 2023 Bay Area Playwrights Festival Semi-finalist and a 2018 and 2019 Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center National Playwright’s Conference Semi-finalist. In 2019 Lynne devised and directed Unsex Me Here, a 45-minute ballet based on four Shakespeare plays commissioned by the Charlotte Ballet’s Innovative Works series. Her play about Rachel Carson, In the Garden of Live Flowers (co-written with Attilio Favorini), won the 2002 Kennedy Center National Playwriting Award and an honorable mention prize in the 2002 Jane Chambers Playwriting Award contest and is published by Dramatic Publishing Company. Nina won the Gemini Theater New Play Festival competition and the Smith College New Play Reading Series and was named a finalist in the Dorothy Silver Playwriting Award and the Oglebay Institute Towngate Theatre Playwriting Contest. American Humbug—a political satire based on P.T. Barnum, George W. Bush and the “New American Century” ideology—received a Creative Heights grant award from the Heinz Endowments in 2007 and was produced by the Three Rivers Arts Festival (AEA special contract). In January 2013 Conner was awarded the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Region I award for Excellence for her original adaptation of Lysistrata at Colby College. She served as the resident playwright for Carnegie Mellon University’s Interactive Theatre Company, a professional troupe performing scripts on workplace and campus life issues, for which she received a Pennsylvania Economy League Learning and Development Award and a College and University Professional Association Innovation Award. As the founding director and resident playwright of the Heinz History Center’s Stages in History professional theatre company from 1996 to 1999, she wrote over fifty one-act plays, monologues and short scenes and received the Pennsylvania Federation of Museums Award of Merit/Outstanding Museum Programs in May 2000. Lynne’s plays and adaptations have been produced and/or presented by: Dramatic Repertory Company (Portland), Charlotte Ballet, Chautauqua Institute, Main Street Theatre (Houston), Theatre-Hikes (Chicago), the Actors’ Guild of Lexington (Kentucky), Gemini Theatre (Pittsburgh), Prime Stage (Pittsburgh), First Flight Theatre Company (New Jersey), Theatre Project (Brunswick, Maine), Carnegie Mellon University, Smith College, William and Mary College, Loyola Marymount, Slippery Rock University, Point Park University and the University of Pittsburgh Repertory Theatre (among others). She is chair of the Department of Theatre at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.