A Very Special Evening:
A Stage Play and a Screenplay
UNDER THE UPPER HAND, by Lois Muñoz-Merka
A movie star and her former child star sibling wrestle their demons. Who will come out on top?
THE COUCH, a Screenplay by Peggy Harmon-Jones
A psychologist, haunted by survivor guilt, is obsessed with helping everyone but herself, a businesswoman so caught up in the quest for success and a lifetime of people pleasing that she doesn’t know who she is anymore.
Moderator: Katharine Rex
About the Authors…
Lois Muñoz-Merka’s theater love began in the womb. Once exiled, she staged psychotic original productions in the basement of her Bronx home. Then followed performance art, acting study with The New Ehrlich Theater in Boston, Method with mentor Eleanor Lenke, touring in punk bands, feminist short film creation, “Fucking Bukowski” and a web series “And Now Cooking With Frieda.” She resides with her husband and cat in glorious San Diego.
Peggy Harmon-Jones loves both Arts and Sciences. With a PhD from UCLA, she investigated cockroach hormones and African Sleeping Sickness. Currently, Peggy guides a team of writers who storyboard animated presentations that teach about medical science. She enjoys all the creative aspects of sharing less heady topics from writing, acting, prop making, set dressing to voiceover.
Lois Muñoz-Merka Peggy Harmon Jones