Jeanmarie Simpson Bishop

The script is clever, replete with snide banter befitting a satire of the Bard’s illustrious tragedy. We meet the usual suspects - the upright, the guilty, and the aggrieved - primed to settle a score or two. As they move through various gates and a chaotic mess of random earthly objects, actors are made to piece together a set of uneven stairs, a theatrical metaphor inspired by the work of Polish theater artist Tadeusz Kantor.

The Arizona Theatre Matters' summer festival launches today, with performances continuing through July 31. 

Radically inclusive, ATM Productions has the whole world as a stage by converting their annual Fall Festival to a completely online affair.

A reading of Jeanmarie Simpson's Pineapple and Other Options will be presented on February 8th at 11 a.m. At Metropolitan Arts Institute 1700 N. 7th Ave.

Jeanmarie (Simpson) Bishop, Founding Artistic Director of Arizona Theatre Matters, refers to incoming Co-Artistic Director Wendy Warwick White as 'the ultimate renaissance woman.'

Arizona Theatre Matters announces a call for actors, directors and playwrights, for their first annual We Ain't Done Yet Theatre Festival at the Phoenix Center for the Arts, 9am-10pm November 9, 2019.

Widely lauded as a director, teacher and playwright, John Perovich will facilitate an unique and exciting discussion following the March 18th matinee of A Woman on Stage.

'As a theatre artist I have always been drawn to work that explores issues of social justice, often featuring strong and vibrant female characters,' Pamela Sterling said. Sterling has been engaged to direct the week-long workshop and staged reading, January 14-19, of Jeanmarie (Simpson) Bishop's internationally celebrated one-woman show, The Joy.

Playwright Jeanmarie (Simpson) Bishop's 2011 solo work, The Joy seems eerily appropriate for development by one of the Valley's most up and coming new theatre companies. John Perovich, founding Artistic Director of Now & Then Creative Company, serves as the project's dramaturg.

The Joy, Jeanmarie (Simpson) Bishop's celebrated solo work, rises again in Phoenix on January 19th at the Metropolitan Arts Institute at 7:30 pm.

'One of the reasons I initially was attracted to the piece was the language,' Laurelann Porter said. 'Perhaps because the playwright made careful effort to write in the style of language that was used at the time, and the formality of the language, it feels almost poetic, or like elevated text. I feel similarly about the language of Edgar Allen Poe. I've been working on the Poe Fest for about 6 years now and each year I fall more in love with his careful and deliberate way he crafts language poetically. This piece has a similar quality. The language is purposeful and clear. And the message is carried in descriptive prose that evokes visceral sensations.'

'As a theatre artist I have always been drawn to work that explores issues of social justice, often featuring strong and vibrant female characters,' Pamela Sterling said. Sterling has been engaged to direct the week-long workshop and staged reading, January 14-19, of Jeanmarie (Simpson) Bishop's internationally celebrated one-woman show, The Joy.

Playwright Jeanmarie (Simpson) Bishop's 2011 solo work, The Joy seems eerily appropriate for development by one of the Valley's most up and coming new theatre companies. John Perovich, founding Artistic Director of Now & Then Creative Company, serves as the project's dramaturg.

The Joy, Jeanmarie (Simpson) Bishop's celebrated solo work, rises again in Phoenix on January 19th at the Metropolitan Arts Institute at 7:30 pm.

Director, Jeanmarie (Simpson) Bishop, is interviewing actors for a new short play to be performed at the Phoenix Art Museum on the 10th and 11th of February 2018.

I am incredibly proud of all my kids and Ryan is pursuing his dream as a performer. He has been performing for quite awhile now as a professional and I have had the idea that this would be so since about his Junior year in High School. I have always taken the time to include my kids (when they have shown an interest) into the shows I was doing. Ryan and his older sister, Kaitlynn, were able to be more inundated with it at a young age as I was more active as a professional performer and they got to be backstage and at rehearsal, and often in shows with me. Whenever I was in a show that needed kids, I got them an audition and, since they were talented, often got cast, so we were able to share the stage. Sound of Music, South Pacific, Music Man, Secret Garden, A Christmas Carol, all shows that my kids been able to share with me.

Universal Access Productions (UAP) seeks team members for 2017 programming in the West Valley.

Renowned actor-playwright, Jeanmarie (Simpson) Bishop returns to Reno inThe Joy, a play about pre-First Amendment martyr, Mary Dyer.

Renowned actor-playwright, Jeanmarie (Simpson) Bishop returns to Reno inThe Joy, a play about pre-First Amendment martyr, Mary Dyer.

Actor Performs Solo in Grassroots Tour to Benefit Artists and Audiences with Disabilities The celebrated one-woman show, The Joy is back on tour with winter and spring performances planned in Los Angeles, Reno, Houston, and across the eastern seabord.