B.
Lois Wadas, RN,
Psychoanalytic-Oriented-Psychotherapist
B. Lois Wadas Is a Director, Playwright, Poet
and Performance Artist based in NYC. Her first full-length play,
Woman to Woman Off-Broadway in New York City. Her play
and her Choreopoem were developed and preformed at Skidmore
College, Saratoga Springs New York at the International Women
Writers Annual Conference.
Lois made her stage début at the West End Gate
Lounge in Women in Winter for which she authored ten of
the seventeen poems presented in that Choreopoem.
She twice moderated "A Round Table of Women
Writers", aired on Manhattan Cable Network Television in NYC.
Lois is an active member of The International
Women Writers Guild. She hosted a reading/performance series for
writers in Manhattan. S he is also a member of The Dramatist
Guild.
As a poet, Lois reads around NYC at bookstores
and area cafes. She won a plaque at Out-Write in Boston, her
first poetry slam, and took first place at her second Slam
hosted by Astrea at NYC. Lois was the Keynote Speaker for
Entertainment Industry Nurses Conferences held at the Warwick
Hotel in NYC. December 2000 found her among the reader at the
Open Center, on Spring Street, NYC.
As a Psychotherapist, Lois uses the creative
process psycho dynamically. She maintains a private practice in
NYC.
As an Adjunct Professor, Lois Directed Ntozake
Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When
The Rainbow is Enuf @ SUNY Stony Brook and she recently
Produced and Directed Woman to Woman at the Harlem
Theatre Co. in NYC.
Lois conducts workshops at university
campuses. She recently conducted The Good Breast at Wayne
State University in Detroit and Hartford University in
Connecticut.
Lois appeared on HBO in the Vagina Monologues. Currently
she is developing a panel, "Uneasy Alliance" a discussion
about relationships between African American and Caribbean
Women. She plans to air this discussion on Cable Television.
Lois firmly believes "an unexamined life is
a life unlived…"
Website:
http://mindmenderplus.com/index.html
Contact:
Source:
http://www.literatenubian.com/DisplaySProfile.asp?Id=424
http://mindmenderplus.com/whoweare.html
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