'The Surrogate' to be performed in Women's Playwright Series

HACKETTSTOWN — Fans of television’s Modern Family will love "The Surrogate", by Patricia Cotter, which will be the final presentation of the 2016 Women Playwrights Series at the Centenary Stage Company, on Wednesday, April 27th at 7:30 p.m. in the Lackland Center.
A smart, funny play about what we can ask of our friends, our parents and spouses, and whether we’ll get any of our important life decisions right, "The Surrogate" was a runner up in the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference this year.
Emmy Award and Ovation Award-winning playwright, Patricia Cotter is the recipient of the American Academy of Arts Letters, Richard Rodgers Award for musical theater. Her plays include "Rules of Comedy", performed by Humana Festival of New American Plays, "The Anthropology Section" and "Rules of Comedy" performed by The Actors Theatre of Louisville. Her musicals (librettist/adaptations) include "Rocket Science: A Musical and the Break-Up Notebook: A Musical." Cotter adapted "Mulan, Jr." for Disney Theatrical.
She won The LA Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Production in 2013 for "Justin Love". She is currently writing a new musical with composer Lori Scarlett, "Ladykillers", which they developed at the Rhinebeck Writer’s Retreat. She is a member of the Playground Writers Pool, where she received the 2014 June Anne Baker Prize and commission which honors the top female playwright representing a gifted new comedic or political voice for the stage. She is a 2016 Playwrights Foundation Resident Playwright.
"The Surrogate" will be directed by Molly Noble. Noble is a company member of Playground — The Bay Area’s Leading Playwright Incubator, and also serves on the Theatre faculty at College of Marin Fine Arts. She is the founder of Porchlight Theatre Company, which was a beloved and award-winning theatre company located in Marin in the San Francisco Bay Area.