Vanessa in Bed
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Vanessa in Bed
Narrated by:
Karla Souza, Gisela Chípe, Annie Golden, Zoë Winters, Socorro Santiago, Carson Elrod
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Diana Grisanti
Getting paid $80,000 to stay in bed for 13 weeks? That sounds like a dream job for Vanessa, one of 12 participants chosen for a bedrest study. Played by Karla Souza (How to Get Away with Murder), Vanessa is looking forward to earning extra money while putting her troubles—her mom’s death, an unplanned pregnancy, and a falling out with her cousin/best friend Brigid (Zoë Winters of Succession)—on pause. Vanessa quickly realizes, however, that she cannot outrun her problems...especially with her legs beginning to atrophy. Written by Audible Emerging Playwright Diana Grisanti, Vanessa in Bed is an inventive, subversive new comedy that explores the courageous choices we all must make for the sake of our own humanity and beyond.
Playwright Diana Grisanti was awarded a commission through the Audible Emerging Playwrights Fund, an initiative dedicated to developing innovative original plays driven by language and voice. As an Audible-commissioned playwright, she received funding and creative support to develop Vanessa in Bed.
This audio play contains strong language and deals with mature themes. Listener discretion advised.
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About the Creator
About the Creator
Diana Grisanti is a playwright and educator whose work has been produced across the country. Her plays include
Enter Ghost. an immersive haunted Hamlet experience (co-written with Steve Moulds, for Kentucky Shakespeare);
Lawbreakers! (a fast and furious history of women’s suffrage) (StageOne Family Theatre);
The Patron Saint of Losing Sleep (Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte);
River City (National New Play Network);
The Starkweather-South High School Physics Club First Annual End-of-Year-Lock-In, or Ghost Party (Cleveland Play House); and the bilingual musicals
The City Dog and the Prairie Dog, Casa Alfonsa, and
The Guava Tree / El Guayabo (co-written with composer Emiliano Messiez for Creede Repertory Theatre). Diana has been a Michener Fellow, a Kentucky Arts Council Fellow, and a Writer in Residence at Vanderbilt University. She teaches playwriting at Ball State University. Chirp chirp! Find out more at dianagrisanti.com.
About the Director
About the Director
Pirronne Yousefzadeh (She/her) is a director, writer, and educator with a passion for new work that centers and uplifts the stories of global majority communities. She has developed and directed work at Playwrights Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, The Public, Soho Rep, Ars Nova, The Kennedy Center, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Geffen Playhouse, and many more. Pirronne is a Usual Suspect at New York Theatre Workshop, a New Georges Affiliated Artist, and a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre. She is an alumna of the 2050 Fellowship at NYTW, Sagal Fellowship at Williamstown, SDC Denham Fellowship, Lincoln Center Directors Lab, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, and Drama League Directors Project. Pirronne was a finalist for the 2020 Zelda Fichandler Award from SDC and is a proud member of the union. MFA, Columbia University. Representation: Ben Izzo at A3 Artists Agency.
About the Performer
About the Performer
Karla Souza is perhaps best known for playing the role of Laurel opposite Viola Davis in ABC’s Emmy Award-winning series
How to Get Away with Murder. Prior, she starred in three of the top-grossing films in history in Mexico:
¿Qué culpa tiene el niño?,
Nosotros Los Nobles, and
Instructions Not Included. She can currently be seen costarring as Marina on ABC’s
Home Economics and starring opposite Jaime Foxx in the worldwide #1 smash hit
Day Shift for Netflix. Most recently, she produced and starred in
La Caída for Amazon Prime Video. The film from award-winning Argentinian director Lucía Puenzo is a searing thriller which tells a story about the complexities of relationships when set against a backdrop where winning is defined as the ultimate dream.
About the Performer
About the Performer
Gisela Chípe, a multi-hyphenate actor-writer-narrator-producer, worked as a producer on the anticipated series
This Boy’s Vida by Joseph Castillo-Midyett, the award-winning
Black?,
Con Dios, and
Graduate (as co-writer). Film/TV acting credits include:
The Unholy,
Awkwafina is Nora from Queens,
FBI,
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and
Manifest. Spanish:
Wasp Network opposite Penélope Cruz,
Bel Canto. Portuguese: Promos for The Olympic Games in Brazil. Gisela recently made her Broadway debut with the comedy
POTUS. Off-Broadway/Regional Theaters: Papermill, Actors Theatre, and The Guthrie, and in
Quixote Nuevo opposite the late Emilio Delgado. Her audiobooks include
Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls,
The Talk, and
Night Vision, among others, with awards for narration of
The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende, and
Velvet Was The Night and
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Gisela creates greater visibility for Black and Brown stories. University of Delaware—PTTP (M.F.A.) Para mi Familia. @giselachipe
About the Performer
About the Performer
Carson Elrod: Broadway:
Peter and The Starcatcher, Reckless, Noises Off. Metropolitan Opera:
The Merry Widow. Off-Broadway:
Twelfth Night, Seize The King (Classical Theatre of Harlem),
The Alchemist (Red Bull Theatre),
The Tempest, Measure for Measure, All's Well That Ends Well (The Public: New York Shakespeare Festival),
The Liar, The Heir Apparent (Classic Stage Company).
Important Hats of the 20th Century, The Explorers Club, Based On A Totally True Story, House, Garden, Comic Potential (Manhattan Theatre Club),
Lives of The Saints, All in the Timing (Primary Stages),
Cavedweller (New York Theatre Workshop). Regional: Williamstown, Yale Rep, American Repertory Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, Shakespeare Theatre DC, Westport Country Playhouse, Denver Center, Shakespeare & Company, Barrington Stage, Tanglewood, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Berkeley Rep. TV:
Evil, The Good Fight, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Medium, 30 Rock. Film:
Wedding Crashers, Kissing Jessica Stein. MFA NYU Grad Acting. Co-founder of Be An #ArtsHero (www.BeAnArtsHero.com) and Arts Workers United.
About the Performer
About the Performer
Annie Golden was discovered by Miloš Forman while on the Bowery fronting a rock band. She was then cast as Jeannie in the 1978 film
Hair.
On the television front, she can currently be seen in the final season of
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Other notable roles include Norma in
Orange Is the New Black for Netflix (for which she received three Screen Actors Guild Awards), the recurring role of Ellie on Fox's series
Filthy Rich, Marjorie in the HBO pilot
Run, and Barbie in
High Maintenance.
Broadway credits include the
Into the Woods revival (Grammy Award winner),
Broadway Bounty Hunter (with book, music, and lyrics by Joe Iconis),
Violet,
Xanadu,
The Full Monty, and
Ah! Wilderness. Annie was Sondheim's original Squeaky Fromme in
Assassins (Playwrights Horizons).
About the Performer
About the Performer
Socorro Santiago: Actor, writer, producer, and designer. Broadway:
The Bacchae at Circle In The Square; Off-Broadway:
Dancing with The Dead (INTAR). Other credits include plays performed at The Public, Delacorte Theatre, Town Hall, Roundabout Theatre, Page 73, NYTW, EST, Here, Clubbed Thumb, Soho, Ma-Yi Theatre, and INTAR, among others. Tours:
Small Mouth Sounds (Director: Rachel Chavkin). Regional: Shakespeare Theatre, ACT, LongWharf, Yale, Hartford, Two River Theatre, Guthrie, The Goodman Theatre , Victory Gardens, Huntington Theatre ( IRNE Nomination), and Sundance Theatre, among others. TV:
What We Do in The Shadows (recurring),
Mozart in the Jungle (recurring),
Chicago P.D.,
Blue Bloods,
Prodigal Son,
Law & Order,
Law & Order: CSI,
Law & Order: SVU,
The Characters, and
All My Children (ALMA award for her work as Isabella Santos), among many. Films: Netflix:
Christmas With You,
iGilbert,
All Good Things,
The Devil’s Advocate,
Vampires vs. the Bronx, and
Widows (Director: Steven McQueen). Podcasts include Next Chapter’s
Henry V and
A Simple Herstory.
About the Performer
About the Performer
Zoë can currently be seen in Marc Turtletaub’s film
Jules, which sold to Bleecker Street and was produced by Big Beach Films. Zoë is best known to TV audiences for her role as Logan Roy’s calculating and confident assistant Kerry on the HBO critical hit
Succession, for which Zoë and the cast received a 2022 SAG Award for Best Drama Ensemble. Highlights of a long and well-respected New York stage resume include
Heroes of the Fourth Turning at Playwrights Horizons (Obie Award, Lucille Lortel Nomination),
White Noise opposite Daveed Diggs at the Public Theatre,
Small Mouth Sounds at the Signature, and Amy Herzog’s beloved play
4000 Miles at Lincoln Center.
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