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Rehearsed Reading by Script Readers in association with Park Theatre

Cross Talk

By Maura Campbell

Director I Maura Campbell
Producer I Shenagh Govan

Maura Campbell - Director

Maura Campbell is an award-winning playwright and director whose work has been produced all over the U.S. and abroad. She earned an MFA in Playwriting and a Certificate in New Play Directing from Hollins University where she worked with Robert Moss, founder of Playwright’s Horizons in New York. Moss will direct Campbell’s play, Ouija in January 2018. Recent playwriting awards include Radar Range, 2017 finalist for Todd McNerny Playwriting Prize, Seagull Invasion, finalist for The Getchell Award, and Ouija, finalist for the 2016 Kennedy Center American Theatre Festival, Region IV.

Recent productions include Dreamtime (Maitland Rep, Maitland, Australia), Seagull Invasion (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), Southern Flight (Page to Stage, Roanoke, VA) and Flower Duet (Road Theatre, LA).

A native of Vermont, Campbell taught screenwriting and creative writing at Burlington College for several years and has written and directed and produced several short films and multi-media projects. Campbell is founder of Fugitive Sister Productions, creating feminist fuelled stories for the stage and screen. She resides in Florida and New York City.

Shenagh Govan – Producer

Founder of The Script Readers, Shenagh trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School & has worked extensively in theatre, TV, film & radio. Recent work includes feature film ‘The Man Who Knew Infinity’ with Dev Patel & Jeremy Irons and Madame Rastoil in The Musketeers for BBC. TV film credits include Aunt Gritty in “The Mill on the Floss” with Emily Watson & Bernard Hughes  , Sally Masey in Peter Kosminsky’s “Innocents” with Tim Pigott Smith, Bookish Woman in “Stuart A Life Backwards” with Benedict Cumberbatch & Tom Hardy  and “Summer in The Suburbs” & “The Vascillations of Poppy Carew”. Shenagh’s TV extensive credits  include 8 years as Joy, S.O.C.O in The Bill, episodes of “Murder in Mind”, Sea of Souls, “Holby City”, “Doctors”, “Casualty”, “Midsomer Murders”, “Without Motive”, “Eastenders”, “Taking Liberties, “Dear Dilemma” & “Inside Victor Lewis Smith