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Open-Door Playhouse presents the audio play of Dolly and Josie Exit A Bar starring Gena Kay as Josie and Bonnie Bailey-Reed as Dolly, and Anonymous as Bartender; written by Wendy Bryan Michaels, and directed by Bernadette Armstrong.

Synopsis for Dolly and Josie Exit A Bar: A woman walks into the same bar she retreats to every night and encounters a strange woman never seen before, sitting at the bar writing in a large book.

Wendy Bryan Michaels (Playwright) is a Los Angeles-based playwright from Miami Beach, Florida.  Her plays have been developed by Santa Monica Playhouse, The All Original
Playwrights Workshop (LA), Tina Alexis Allen (NYC), Area Stage (FL), and Creative Group (FL).
She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights, Female Playwrights Initiative and a writer-in-residence at The Actors Workout Studio. She has received nominations for her comedy writing on the award-winning comedy show, My Sister is So Gay (2016). She is a proud member of the Santa Monica Playhouse’s Writing Collective, a
developmental writer’s lab and new works festival for emerging playwrights of LGBTQ stories.

Bernadette Armstrong (Director) fell in love with small theater and since 2008, she has had
several successful theater projects produced in North Hollywood. Her play, The Reading Group was Pick of the Week by LA Weekly Magazine and in 2017 her play, Simple Lives was
nominated for Outstanding Writing of an Original Play or Musical by the Valley Theater Awards. (She was the only woman nominated.)

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Founded by playwright and filmmaker Bernadette Armstrong, Open-Door Playhouse is a Theater Podcast- like the radio dramas of the 1940s and 1950s. The Playhouse launched on September 15, 2020. At the time, Open-Door Playhouse provided Playwrights, Actors and Directors a creative outlet during the shutdown. Since its inception. Open-Door Playhouse has presented Short and One-Act plays from Playwrights across the country and internationally. In 2021 Open-Door Playhouse received a Communicator Award for Content for the Play Custody and in 2023 the play What’s Prison Like was nominated for a Webby Award in the Crime & Justice Category.

Plays are produced by Bernadette Armstrong, Sound Engineer is David Peters, sound effects are provided by Audio Jungle, and music from Karaoke Version. All plays are recorded at The Oak House Studio in Altadena, CA.

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