Welcome to heatherogers.com
The website for NYC Actress Heather Lee Rogers
The website for NYC Actress Heather Lee Rogers
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The Writing Page
infatuation with words and language is a huge part of what inspires me as an
actor.
Theatre Reviews
In Summer 2008 I joined the reviewing staff of nytheatre.com where I am currently
reviewing plays in New York. I love this website because they look at the entire
theatre landscape - work on all levels of budget, work outside of Manhattan, and
generally celebrate the diversity of quality theater in New York. Theater
practitioners do the reviewing. I am very flattered, humbled and challenged by
this activity and I think it will help me grow both as a writer and as a
theater-maker. To read my work, visit my bio page on nytheatre.com which lists
my most recent reviews.
actor.
Theatre Reviews
In Summer 2008 I joined the reviewing staff of nytheatre.com where I am currently
reviewing plays in New York. I love this website because they look at the entire
theatre landscape - work on all levels of budget, work outside of Manhattan, and
generally celebrate the diversity of quality theater in New York. Theater
practitioners do the reviewing. I am very flattered, humbled and challenged by
this activity and I think it will help me grow both as a writer and as a
theater-maker. To read my work, visit my bio page on nytheatre.com which lists
my most recent reviews.
Poetry
November 4th 2010 I was the featured poet at the Art House Open Mic in Jersey
City! More information here.
February 25, 2009 I perfoemd as a featured writer at the first kick-off event of
their monthly "Parapluie" Creative Writing Series at the Cornichon Cafe &
Winebar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Why Are We In Iraq? published my poem Tiles on a Fence online on September
4th 2008 as the poem of the week.
United Divas has published two of my poems in the 2007 issue of Shouted
Whisper, a periodical web publication with a focus on the feminine experience.
United Divas is a cool organization that celebrates multi-disciplinary woman
artists.
Art House Productions accepted my poem Subway Adventure for their upcoming
collection Pile Driving in C-Minor: Poetry and Songs in a City of Change. I was
also asked by Art House to read this poem on 9/24/06 at the Jersey City
Museum as part of their "Context" series. I have been featured reading at the
open mic on their TV broadcast twice.
November 4th 2010 I was the featured poet at the Art House Open Mic in Jersey
City! More information here.
February 25, 2009 I perfoemd as a featured writer at the first kick-off event of
their monthly "Parapluie" Creative Writing Series at the Cornichon Cafe &
Winebar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Why Are We In Iraq? published my poem Tiles on a Fence online on September
4th 2008 as the poem of the week.
United Divas has published two of my poems in the 2007 issue of Shouted
Whisper, a periodical web publication with a focus on the feminine experience.
United Divas is a cool organization that celebrates multi-disciplinary woman
artists.
Art House Productions accepted my poem Subway Adventure for their upcoming
collection Pile Driving in C-Minor: Poetry and Songs in a City of Change. I was
also asked by Art House to read this poem on 9/24/06 at the Jersey City
Museum as part of their "Context" series. I have been featured reading at the
open mic on their TV broadcast twice.
Dramatic Writing
Once in a while I write plays and such...
I first attempted playwriting during college and it was called Somewhat
Shakespeare. It was a collage of various scene fragments, monologues and
famous lines from different Shakespeare plays stitched together into a farce
about actors acting Shakespeare. There was a lovers' triangle which led to a
street brawl, which led to a war, and the victims of which turned into a bunch of
ghosts. There was also obligatory cross-dressing and a "director" character who
spewed a lot of Jacques and Hamlet. The Hyperbolic Players performed it at NYU.
The second play I wrote was called The Riders which was a two-woman play
about motorcycling. It was "conceived, written and performed" by myself and my
best friend Amy Bennett (now Amy Wratchford) for the NY International Fringe
Festival in 2000. Amy and I both learned how to ride motorcycles the same year
and we both had some fantastic stories ranging from exhilaration to humiliation to
show for it. So we laced them together into a duet. We each played ourselves
plus in her scenes I played the supporting characters and she did the same in
mine. See the press quotes on the reviews page.
In 2009 I wrote and produced a short screenplay called Goodbye.
I also wrote a scene for The Heist Project (with Art House Productions, in 2005)
inspired by the Degas painting La Sortie du Pelage. The painting depicts some
men leaving a village on horseback and my scene was about three women
watching them go and talking about what they did before the men left to prepare
for the imminent loss. The scene was a crowd and critic favorite. Check out the
reviews on my reviews page. I also performed in The Heist Project in a scene
written by Karin Williams about another Degas painting.
Once in a while I write plays and such...
I first attempted playwriting during college and it was called Somewhat
Shakespeare. It was a collage of various scene fragments, monologues and
famous lines from different Shakespeare plays stitched together into a farce
about actors acting Shakespeare. There was a lovers' triangle which led to a
street brawl, which led to a war, and the victims of which turned into a bunch of
ghosts. There was also obligatory cross-dressing and a "director" character who
spewed a lot of Jacques and Hamlet. The Hyperbolic Players performed it at NYU.
The second play I wrote was called The Riders which was a two-woman play
about motorcycling. It was "conceived, written and performed" by myself and my
best friend Amy Bennett (now Amy Wratchford) for the NY International Fringe
Festival in 2000. Amy and I both learned how to ride motorcycles the same year
and we both had some fantastic stories ranging from exhilaration to humiliation to
show for it. So we laced them together into a duet. We each played ourselves
plus in her scenes I played the supporting characters and she did the same in
mine. See the press quotes on the reviews page.
In 2009 I wrote and produced a short screenplay called Goodbye.
I also wrote a scene for The Heist Project (with Art House Productions, in 2005)
inspired by the Degas painting La Sortie du Pelage. The painting depicts some
men leaving a village on horseback and my scene was about three women
watching them go and talking about what they did before the men left to prepare
for the imminent loss. The scene was a crowd and critic favorite. Check out the
reviews on my reviews page. I also performed in The Heist Project in a scene
written by Karin Williams about another Degas painting.
I sometimes entertain fantasies of working as a freelance motorcycle journalist.
In addition, I have been slowly building a collection of essays called The
Neighborhood Chronicles about experiences I've lived through in New York that
could only happen in New York which answer the question of why I'm here. I
hope to someday publish them as a book.