Austen Mondays Archive
This Rosenbach’s Biblioventure series focused on Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. It was a paid subscriber series, but we have now released it for everyone to watch free. For the first half hour of every episode host Edward G. Pettit interviewed scholars and Janeites about all things Austen, then lead a conversational annotation of a chapter or two of Pride and Prejudice. Along with co-hosts we examined why and how Pride and Prejudice continues to be one of the most beloved books of readers everywhere.
The Rosenbach holds a first edition of Pride and Prejudice published in 1813, as well as the first American edition, entitled Elizabeth Bennet; or, Pride and Prejudice, published in 1832 in Philadelphia. Over the 24 weeks of the series, we will tell the stories of these items from our collections, analyze the novel, and enjoy spirited conversations with many experts on Jane Austen and her works (and adaptations, of course).
Episode Archive
Austen Mondays aired live from September 19, 2022 and ran until March 20, 2023. You can watch all of the episodes on our Austen Mondays YouTube playlist.
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Episode Guide
Episode 1, Chapters 1-3: Meet the Bennets (and Bingley and Darcy) with special guest Devoney Looser
Devoney Looser, Regents Professor of English at Arizona State University and Guggenheim Fellow, is the author or editor of ten books, including the forthcoming Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës (out from Bloomsbury on October 25, 2022), The Making of Jane Austen, and The Daily Jane Austen: A Year of Quotes. Her essays have appeared in the Atlantic, New York Times, Salon, Slate, TLS, Entertainment Weekly, and the Washington Post, and her series of 24 30-minute lectures on Austen is available through The Great Courses. In addition to being a quirky Janeite book nerd, she’s played roller derby under the name Stone Cold Jane Austen.
Episode 2, Chapters 4-6: Ladies’ Gossip and Darcy’s Second Chance to Dance with special guest Janine Barchas
Janine Barchas (featured in Episode 2) holds the Chancellor’s Council Centennial Chair in the Book Arts at the University of Texas at Austin, where she is a professor in the English Department. Her recent award-winning book, entitled The Lost Books of Jane Austen, tracks Austen’s popular reception by means of the unsung, cheap editions that scholarly libraries have not bothered to collect. She describes it as “hardcore bibliography meets the Antiques Roadshow.” Her earlier book, Matters of Fact in Jane Austen: History, Location, and Celebrity, described Austen as a consummate name dropper who invokes both national celebrity and local history with the choices of names and settings for her fictions. In addition to authoring books, Barchas is the creator behind the digital project What Jane Saw (www.whatjanesaw.org), which reconstructs two Georgian blockbusters as witnessed by Jane Austen. She has also curated museum exhibitions and written essays for the Washington Post, New York Times, Lit Hub, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Episode 3, Chapters 7-9: Sweet Jane and Muddy Elizabeth Visit Netherfield with special guest Natalie Jenner
Natalie Jenner (featured in Episode 3) is the internationally bestselling author of The Jane Austen Society and Bloomsbury Girls, which were both instant national bestsellers, Amazon Best Books of the Month, Indie Next Picks and People Magazine Books of the Week. The runner-up for best historical fiction in the 2020 Goodreads Choice Awards, The Jane Austen Society has been sold for translation in over twenty countries and has been optioned for film and television. Born in England and raised in Canada, Natalie has been a corporate lawyer and career coach and once owned an independent bookstore in Oakville, Ontario, where she lives with her family and two rescue dogs.
Episode 4, Chapters 10-12: A Turn about the Room at Netherfield with special guest Deborah Yaffe
Deborah Yaffe (featured in Episode 4), an award-winning newspaper journalist and author, has been a passionate Jane Austen fan since first reading Pride and Prejudice at age ten. Her second book, Among the Janeites: A Journey Through the World of Jane Austen Fandom, was published in August 2013. Yaffe holds a bachelor’s degree in humanities from Yale University and a master’s degree in politics, philosophy, and economics from Oxford University in England, which she attended on a Marshall Scholarship. She works as a freelance writer, has two grown children, and lives in central New Jersey with her husband and her Jane Austen Action Figure.
Follow her on Twitter (@DeborahYaffe); visit her website and blog, www.deborahyaffe.com ; and drop by the Among the Janeites Facebook page www.facebook.com/amongthejaneites.
Episode 5, Chapters 13-14: Mr. Collins Arrives with special guest Jocelyn Harris
Professor emerita Jocelyn Harris (featured in Episode 5) took her MA at the University of Otago, New Zealand, and her PhD at the University of London. Always, she tries to catch Jane Austen in the act of creation. Editing Samuel Richardson’s Sir Charles Grandison (1972) made her realize just how often Austen turned to her favorite book, and in Jane Austen’s Art of Memory (2003), she argued that Austen took whatever she wanted from Richardson, Shakespeare and a host of other authors. In A Revolution Almost Beyond Expression: Jane Austen’s “Persuasion” (2007), Jocelyn looked closely into Austen’s mind by comparing the cancelled chapters with the published ones and enquiring into the social, political, historical and satirical contexts of that novel. More discoveries followed in Satire. Celebrity, and Politics in Jane Austen (2017), where she identified historical moments and actual people in Austen’s fiction. Jocelyn is a frequent speaker JASNA and elsewhere.
Episode 6: Darcy’s Wet Shirt: The 1995 BBC Pride and Prejudice
Episode 7, Chapters 15-17: Introducing Mr. Wickham with special guest Dr. Emily C. Friedman
Dr. Emily C. Friedman (featured in Episode 7) is Associate Professor of English at Auburn University, where she teaches and writes on connections between the 18th century and today’s new media phenomena. Her work can be found at academic & pop venues including Polygon, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Persuasions, and more. She also serves as the Director of 18thConnect.org and the Manuscript Fiction Project, and with Emily M.N. Kugler is the project lead on Playing the Eighteenth Century, which explores representations of eighteenth-century culture in modern board, video, and roleplaying games. She is at work on two books, Before Fanfiction: Alternative Circulation in the Age of Print, and Actual Play: Improvisational Storytelling in the Digital Age.
Episode 8, Chapters 18: The Netherfield Ball with special guest John Mullan
John Mullan is Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London. He has published widely on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature. His most recent book is The Artful Dickens (Bloomsbury, 2020). His other books include What Matters in Jane Austen? (Bloomsbury, 2012) and Anonymity. A Secret History of English Literature (Faber and Faber, 2007). He is also a broadcaster and journalist, writing on contemporary fiction for the Guardian. He is the author of How Novels Work (OUP, 2006) and in 2009 was one of the judges for the Man Booker Prize. He published a new edition of Austen’s Sense and Sensibility for Oxford World’s Classics in 2017 and has just completed a new World’s Classics edition of Emma.
Episode 9, Chapters 19-23: Mr. Collins’ Proposal(s)
Episode 10, Chapters 24-27: Everyone Goes to London with special guests KC MacMillan and Jessica Bedford
Kathryn MacMillan (cohost) is the Artistic Director of Philadelphia theater Tiny Dynamite, where she premiered the smash hit The Complete Works of Jane Austen, Abridged in 2019. The show’s director as well as co-writer, KC was nominated for a Barrymore Award for Excellence in Theater, for Outstanding Direction of a Play. KC is the director of more than 50 productions in regional theater and off-Broadway, including NYC’s Theatre Row; Lantern Theater and InterAct Theater (Philadelphia), Delaware Theatre Company (Wilmington, DE), Dram Tree Shakespeare (Wilmington, NC), and Theatre Horizon in Norristown, PA, where her production of The Revolutionists was nominated in 2018 for six Barrymore Awards, including Best Production & Director. Philadelphia Weekly named her Beauty Queen of Leenane the Best of the Year, and the Daily News named Doubt one of the Best Plays of 2015. In 2015, she was named one of Billy Penn’s Who’s Next: 16 Young Philadelphians Shaping the Arts Scene. Upcoming: KC is the lead artist on the upcoming The Vampire’s Mystery: Notes on a Monster program at the Rosenbach on Oct 28-30, and is director/co-writer of a new adaptation of Jane Eyre.
Jessica Bedford is a Philadelphia based actor, director, dramaturg, playwright and teacher. She has been seen onstage at McCarter Theatre, Walnut Street Theater, Lantern Theatre Co, Montgomery Theatre, Act II Playhouse, Tiny Dynamite, Theatre Horizon, People’s Light and Theatre Co. and other stages in the Philadelphia area. Recent directing credits include Delaware Shakespeare, the Philadelphia Artists’ Collective, Act II Playhouse, DeSales University, the McCarter and the PA Shakespeare Festival. As a writer, her works have been produced with Passage Theatre, 1812 Productions, Recognize Theatre, Act II Playhouse, Tiny Dynamite, Villanova University Theatre, Philadelphia Artists’ Collective, and Juniper Productions. Jessica has taught at Villanova University, Temple University, and University of the Arts. She was a finalist for the 2018 F Otto Haas Emerging Artist Award from Theatre Philadelphia and a 2012 finalist for NY Stage & Film’s Founder Award. She recently completed an MFA in Stage & Screen Writing at Queens University of Charlotte. Currently, she is an assistant professor of theatre at DeSales University.
Episode 11, Chapters 28-31: Dining at Rosings with special guest Patricia Matthew
Patricia A. Matthew is an associate professor of English at Montclair State University where she teaches courses on British Romanticism, the history of the novel, and British abolitionist literature. She is the co-editor of a special issue of Romantic Pedagogy Commons and a cluster issue in European Romantic Review, and a special of Studies in Romanticism. She has published essays and reviews in Women’s Writing, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, the Keats-Shelley Journal, and Texas Studies in Literature and Language and written about race, portraiture, and British abolitionist material culture for The Atlantic and Lapham’s Quarterly. Matthew is the editor of Written/Unwritten: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure (University of North Carolina Press, 2016) and has published essays and book reviews on diversity in higher education in PMLA, The College Language Association Journal, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, and The New Inquiry. Her work on diversity and equity has been featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Education. She has written television reviews for The Los Angeles Review of Books and The Times Literary Supplement. She is co-editor of Oxford University Press’s new series Race in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture and will edit Mansfield Park for W.W. Norton. Her monograph about sugar, gender, and British abolitionist culture is under advance contract with Princeton University Press. A 2020-2021 Center for Diversity Innovation Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the University at Buffalo she currently holds the Anthony E. Kaye Fellowship at the National Humanities Center.
Episode 12, Chapters 32-34: Darcy Loves Lizzy with special guest Elizabeth Steele
Elizabeth Steele has been reading anything by or about Jane Austen since the age of 16. She has been the “Voice of JASNA,” acting as JASNA’s 800 number operator, and has been a featured speaker at local colleges, libraries and museums, most notably at Winterthur Museum’s Jane Austen Day. She has published two articles in Persuasions, a journal dedicated to the study of Jane Austen. She served on the JASNA board of directors from 2006 to 2016 and has also held a number of offices for both the local and national organizations since 2004. Elizabeth is most proud of her role as Annual General Meeting Coordinator for the 2009 Philadelphia AGM, which played host to over 600 guests from all over the world.
Episode 13, Chapters 35-38: Darcy Writes, Lizzy Reflects with special guest Juliette Wells
Juliette Wells is Professor of Literary Studies in the Department of Visual, Literary, and Material Culture at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland. The author of three histories of Austen’s readers, all published by Bloomsbury Academic, and the editor of two Penguin Classics editions of Austen, she will guest co-curate a major, international Austen exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York in 2025. Forthcoming in 2023 is A New Jane Austen: How Americans Brought Us the World’s Greatest Novelist, which centers on visionary writers and collectors who, from the 1880s to the 1980s, advocated for Austen’s literary significance, broadened her readership, and preserved artifacts vital to her legacy. Reading Austen in America (2017) offers a vivid account of how an appreciative audience for Austen’s novels originated and developed in America, and how American readers contributed to the rise of Austen’s international fame. Everybody’s Jane: Austen in the Popular Imagination (2011) explores the importance of Austen to readers and fans today. All these books highlight Goucher’s exceptional Jane Austen collection and its creator, alumna Alberta H. Burke. For Penguin Classics, Dr. Wells created reader-friendly 200th-anniversary editions of Austen’s novels Persuasion (2017) and Emma (2015). Her more than thirty-five articles and book chapters include examinations of Austen’s novels and adaptations, as well as essays on Austen pedagogy. An acclaimed speaker to popular and scholarly audiences, she was a guest on Jane Austen & Co.’s spring 2021 “Race and the Regency” series and regularly gives lectures to national and regional meetings of the Jane Austen Society of North America.
Episode 14: Keira and All the Rest: Adaptations of Pride and Prejudice
Episode 15, Chapters 39-41: Lydia Takes Charge of the Bennets with special guest Stephanie Barron
Stephanie Barron, who also writes as Francine Mathews, is the author of 30 novels of suspense, espionage, and historical fiction, including the Jane Austen Mystery Series. A graduate of Princeton, Barron received an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship in the Humanities and earned a Masters in History from Stanford University. Stephanie has also worked as a journalist and as an intelligence analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency, where she briefly served on the investigation into the bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Raised in Potomac, MD, she lives and works in Denver, Colorado.
Episode 16, Chapters 42-43: “To be mistress of Pemberley might be something” with special guest Collins Hemingway
Collins Hemingway writes and lectures on Jane Austen and the Regency period. He is the author of historical fiction based on the life of Austen as well as five books of nonfiction. He is currently working on a collection of essays on Austen’s development as a writer. A graduate of the University of Arkansas, Phi Beta Kappa, Hemingway has a master’s degree in English literature from the University of Oregon, including a concentration on eighteenth-century literature. His career has combined the humanities with technology, and intellectual analysis with operational skills.
Episode 17, Chapters 44-45: Elizabeth at Pemberley with special guest Dr. Alexander L. Ames
Dr. Alexander L. Ames is Associate Curator of the Rosenbach Museum & Library, where he curates exhibitions, designs collections-based public programs, co-facilitates The Ladies of the House of Love: A Feminist & Queer Gothic Literature Book Club, and works with colleagues to preserve the Rosenbach’s diverse holdings for future generations. A scholar of religion and society in the eighteenth and nineteenth-century Atlantic world, Ames is also a lifelong Jane Austen fan and an avid tea drinker. His favorite Jane Austen novel is Persuasion, though his favorite Austen character is Georgiana Darcy. When not at the Rosenbach, Ames is likely to be found playing his Celtic harp, or hosting tea parties in his drawing room. Find the recipe for Georgiana’s Delight: A Fancy Tea Scone Created for Austen Mondays by Dr. Ames here.
Episode 18, Chapters 46-47: News of Lydia with special guest Clara Tuite
Clara Tuite is Professor of English at the University of Melbourne, where she teaches and researches literary Romanticism and the history of the novel. Her work focuses on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature and its social and cultural contexts, ongoing reception and afterlives. She is the author of Romantic Austen: Sexual Politics and the Literary Canon (Cambridge University Press, 2002), which was shortlisted for the MLA Prize for a First Book. With Claudia L. Johnson, she is the co-editor of A Companion to Jane Austen (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009). Her second monograph, Lord Byron and Scandalous Celebrity (Cambridge University Press, 2015), was awarded the Elma Dangerfield Prize. Her most recent book is 30 Great Myths About Jane Austen (Wiley-Blackwell, 2020), co-authored with Claudia L. Johnson. Forthcoming work includes an article titled ‘Precarious Austen: A Shabby-Genteel Story’, in a special issue of Romanticism, edited by Eric Parisot and Gillian Dooley.
Episode 19, Chapters 48-50: Lydia and “the wickedest young man in the world” with special guest Susannah Fullerton
Susannah Fullerton has been President of the Jane Austen Society of Australia for over 25 years. She is the author of Jane Austen and Crime, A Dance with Jane Austen, Happily Ever After: Celebrating Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Jane & I: A Tale of Austen Addiction. She speaks about Austen’s life and works at conferences, libraries, schools and for Jane Austen societies around the world.
Susannah is one of Australia’s most popular literary lecturers, she leads literary tours for Australians Studying Abroad, and she is the author of a popular monthly blog, ‘Notes from a Book Addict’. She lives in Sydney, Australia, but was born in Canada, grew up in New Zealand, was educated in Scotland and married a South African. Reading Jane Austen has changed her life!
Episode 20, Chapters 51-52: Lydia’s Triumphant Return with special guests Bridget Draxler and Danielle Spratt
Danielle Spratt is professor and associate chair of English at California State University Northridge in Los Angeles, California. Bridget Draxler teaches writing at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN. Danielle and Bridget met at Chawton House Library in 2011, and both participated in a 2012 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar to study Jane Austen and her contemporary women writers. Bridget and Danielle contributed essays to a special issue of Persuasions On-Line (published by JASNA) in 2014 on “Teaching Austen and Her Contemporaries.” They are co-authors of a book from the University of Iowa Press, Engaging the Age of Jane Austen: Humanities in Practice (2018).
Episode 21, Chapters 53-55: Jane and Bingley with special guests Lauren Wethers and Emily Davis-Hale from the Reclaiming Jane podcast
Reclaiming Jane is a Jane Austen podcast for fans on the margins, co-hosted by Emily Davis-Hale and Lauren Wethers. The podcast was created to provide fans of color, queer fans, or other readers who may feel as though Jane Austen is ‘not for them’ with a space to experience the works of Jane Austen freely and without judgment. Each episode covers a section of a Jane Austen novel, which Emily and Lauren connect to both relevant historical context and pop culture. Whether you’ve been a devoted Janeite for years or have never read a word of Austen, Reclaiming Jane provides new ways of interpreting old texts.
Emily Davis-Hale is a consummate word nerd. With a BA, MA, and in-progress PhD in linguistic anthropology, they try to read Austen from a perspective beyond literary analysis. Their contributions to Reclaiming Jane stem from a lifelong interest in the histories of ordinary people as well as a desire to bring light to fans who are currently underrepresented in conversations about Austen. You can find their stream of consciousness on Twitter (@e_davishale).
Lauren Wethers is a writer with a lifelong love of literature. She completed a B.A. in English and Spanish, an M.A. in English, and a minor in film studies at Tulane University. She applies her academic background to discussions and analyses of all things pop culture, from books to reality television. Her freelance writing has appeared in outlets like HuffPost, Screen Rant, and USA Today, and she is currently revising a full-length fiction manuscript for publication. You can follow her unsolicited hot takes on Twitter (@laurenwethers) or visit her website to learn about her career coaching and writing.
Episode 22, Chapters 56-57: Lady Catherine de Bourgh Is Not Amused with special guest Juliette Wells
Juliette Wells is Professor of Literary Studies in the Department of Visual, Literary, and Material Culture at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland. The author of three histories of Austen’s readers, all published by Bloomsbury Academic, and the editor of two Penguin Classics editions of Austen, she will guest co-curate a major, international Austen exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York in 2025. Forthcoming in 2023 is A New Jane Austen: How Americans Brought Us the World’s Greatest Novelist, which centers on visionary writers and collectors who, from the 1880s to the 1980s, advocated for Austen’s literary significance, broadened her readership, and preserved artifacts vital to her legacy. Reading Austen in America (2017) offers a vivid account of how an appreciative audience for Austen’s novels originated and developed in America, and how American readers contributed to the rise of Austen’s international fame. Everybody’s Jane: Austen in the Popular Imagination (2011) explores the importance of Austen to readers and fans today. All these books highlight Goucher’s exceptional Jane Austen collection and its creator, alumna Alberta H. Burke. For Penguin Classics, Dr. Wells created reader-friendly 200th-anniversary editions of Austen’s novels Persuasion (2017) and Emma (2015). Her more than thirty-five articles and book chapters include examinations of Austen’s novels and adaptations, as well as essays on Austen pedagogy. An acclaimed speaker to popular and scholarly audiences, she was a guest on Jane Austen & Co.’s spring 2021 “Race and the Regency” series and regularly gives lectures to national and regional meetings of the Jane Austen Society of North America.
Episode 23, Chapters 58-60: The Success of Mrs. Bennet with special guest Claudia Johnson
Claudia L. Johnson joined the faculty at Princeton in 1994 and was Chair of the English Department from 2004-2012. Johnson’s Jane Austen’s Cults and Cultures (Chicago, 2012) won the Christian Gauss Award in 2013. More recently she has published a deluxe edition of Jane Austen’s The Beautifull Cassandra (Princeton, 2018) in collaboration with artist Leon Steinmetz, and 30 Great Myths about Jane Austen (Blackwell, 2020) in collaboration with Clara Tuite. Her other books include The Blackwell Companion to Jane Austen, ed. with Clara Tuite (Blackwell, 2005), The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft (Cambridge, 2002), Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender and Sentimentality in the 1790s (Chicago, 1995), which won an Honorable Mention for the MLA Lowell Prize, and Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel (Chicago, 1988). In addition she is keenly interested in textual scholarship, and has prepared editions of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey and (with Susan Wolfson) Pride and Prejudice. Her research has been supported by major fellowships such as the NEH and the Guggenheim.
Episode 24, Chapter 61 (and show wrap-up): Intimate Terms
Meet the Host
Edward G. Pettit is the Sunstein Senior Manager of Public Programs at the Rosenbach and has been presenter for the weekly Biblioventures series: Sundays with Dracula, Sundays with Frankenstein, Sundays with Jane Eyre, and Austen Mondays: Pride and Prejudice. Pettit has taught many reading courses at the Rosenbach, including Nicholas Nickleby, Bleak House, and Dickens’ Christmas Books. He is a member of the Dickens Fellowship, the Philadelphia Pickwick Club, and in 2012, was the Charles Dickens Ambassador for the Free Library of Philadelphia’s year-long bicentenary celebration of Dickens’ birth. When not reading, he can be found working on his TARDIS so he can return to the Nineteenth Century.
Meet the Cohosts
The final hour of each episode consists of a conversational annotation of a few chapters of Pride and Prejudice with one of our cohosts.
Dr. Lauren Nixon is an Early Career Researcher specialising in representations of nation, war and masculinity in the late eighteenth century, exploring the interconnections between conflict, gender, and nationality during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. She is currently the Events Fellow for the Gothic Women Project, and creates spooky edutainment content as one half of the Ghoul Guides with her partner in crime, Mary Going. For The Rosenbach, Lauren was a cohost for the Sundays with Dracula, Frankenstein and Jane Eyre. Although her primary focus is Gothic literature, Jane Austen has long been a personal and professional passion: in addition to a published works on Austen, she worked for a number of years at the Jane Austen Centre and with the Jane Austen Festival. And yes, she does own a bonnet. She may even own two.
Kathleen Hudson earned her postgraduate degree from the University of Sheffield. She is the author of Servants and the Gothic: 1764-1831, A half-told tale and editor of the edited collection Women’s Authorship and the Early Gothic: Legacies and Innovations, and has published widely on Gothic literature, class narratives, and women’s writing in the 18th and 19th centuries. She currently works as an adjunct professor at the United States Naval Academy and Anne Arundel Community College and has a close relationship with The Rosenbach, where she was an instructor for the “Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility” course in 2021/2022 and a featured cohost on Sundays with Jane Eyre.
Kathryn MacMillan (cohost) is the Artistic Director of Philadelphia theater Tiny Dynamite, where she premiered the smash hit The Complete Works of Jane Austen, Abridged in 2019. The show’s director as well as co-writer, KC was nominated for a Barrymore Award for Excellence in Theater, for Outstanding Direction of a Play. KC is the director of more than 50 productions in regional theater and off-Broadway, including NYC’s Theatre Row; Lantern Theater and InterAct Theater (Philadelphia), Delaware Theatre Company (Wilmington, DE), Dram Tree Shakespeare (Wilmington, NC), and Theatre Horizon in Norristown, PA, where her production of The Revolutionists was nominated in 2018 for six Barrymore Awards, including Best Production & Director. Philadelphia Weekly named her Beauty Queen of Leenane the Best of the Year, and the Daily News named Doubt one of the Best Plays of 2015. In 2015, she was named one of Billy Penn’s Who’s Next: 16 Young Philadelphians Shaping the Arts Scene. Upcoming: KC is the lead artist on the upcoming The Vampire’s Mystery: Notes on a Monster program at the Rosenbach on Oct 28-30, and is director/co-writer of a new adaptation of Jane Eyre.
