Christie Perfetti Williams
Christie Perfetti Williams is an NYIT-nominated and award-winning playwright, screenwriter and novelist.
She's the founding producing artistic director of NYC-based Carnival Girls Productions, celebrating 20 years of creating and producing art by and about women. Over 30 productions of her work have been performed internationally. She's a volunteer with resettled refugees, a PTO parent, churchgoer, and Taekwon-Do enthusiast. Occasionally, she reads a palm.
Born and raised in Oswego, NY and a graduate of Wells College, Christie lives on the Jersey Shore with her partner and husband, Greg, their three children, Luke, Eve, Ruby, sponsor son, Mir, and rescue pup, Memphis.
Bettye and the Jockettes New Release
Comedy by Christie Perfetti Williams
62 pages
2 m, 5 w
It’s July 3, 1956 and the jockettes of WHER, America’s first "all-girl" radio station in Memphis, Tennessee, are having one heck of a day: the copywriter has run off to elope, they have just found out that the Elvis Presley is coming to the station to be interviewed on-air and their star DJ Bettye has shown up… in pants! When Elvis’s record promoter arrives and is none other than Bettye’s former flame Benjamin, sarcastic zingers fly, sisterhoods are forged, and secrets are exposed. Approximately 1 hour and 40 minutes.