Reply to: Margie Semilof <[email protected]>

Newburgh Fringe Festival (October 2026)

The Event - Newburgh Fringe Festival offers performing arts from Newburgh and
across the Hudson Valley. The festival encompasses original theater, existing plays
with a new take, plays that have never been staged, full length, short form,
sketches, standup, and anything else that falls under performing arts.
Newburgh Fringe Festival is presented by Safe Harbors of the Hudson in
partnership with Hit House Creative.

Seeking two female actors for a staged reading of a 60-minute, dramatic comedy,
Thea’s Window to the World, by Margie Semilof.

About the play - Thea’s Window to the World is an intergenerational play that
explores identity. Thea’s slip in the shower transforms her from an active and
independent, 80-year-old golf champ with opinions on everything, to an invalid
with a feral cat hiding under her bed. Ophelia is a broke, gender-queer, twentysomething,
former college wrestler with a rather large dragonfly tattooed on her
neck. They couldn't be more alike.

About the actors -

Thea - CIS WF, 70+ Thea is a woman accustomed to speaking her own mind.
A booming voice filled with confidence, but also fear and uncertainty.

Ophelia - NB, F any race, 20ish. An impatient and frustrated young woman
anxious for social change. Tats? Metal? Bring it on!

Times/dates/venue - All TBD. Rehearsal and tech dates will be flexible and also
TBD. The Newburgh Fringe Festival is the weekend of October 16-18 (Friday,
Saturday, Sunday). An honorarium will be provided.

Send email and headshot, please, to [email protected].