Storytelling Open Mic Featuring Cindy Parrish

Cindy Parrish is a playwright, filmmaker, educator, and a founding member of the storytelling troupe, The Snickering Witches. Cindy directed and wrote the films HEROIC GIRLZ and MAKING HISTORY, which won awards from the National Women’s Hall of Fame, and the Moondance Film Festival, and has screened before an international audience at the United Nations Convention on Women’s Rights. Her one-woman multi-media show, WomAnimal, was performed at the Berkshire Women’s Shorts Festival, and her children’s play, MAGIC PLANET, was EPA-awarded. Recent work includes JOLIE ROUGE, a hip hop sea shanty musical about two real-life women pirates (semi-finalist at the Eugene O’Neill National Music Theater Conference), and an educator for justice-impacted learners at Rikers Island.