PAM TATE (PLAYWRIGHT) is an award-winning writer for her full-length stageplay, Pure Art: A Play About Leni Riefenstahl. Now known as Darling of the Third Reich, Pam’s play has had readings at Famous Door in Chicago, Aurora Theatre in California, Woodstock Fringe and Pulse Ensemble Theatre in NYC and was a finalist at The O’Neill Center’s National Playwrights Conference. Her screenplay The Mill Girls was a semi-finalist at The Austin Film Festival and selected for the IFP Film Market in NYC, as was her screenplay, Faith, Hope and Rock & Roll. Pam was the recipient of The Joan Howard Kersner Memorial Scholarship in Theatre and Performing Arts, 2001, from The New School University, where she earned a B.A. in Screenwriting. Pam was a finalist at Houston WorldFest Film Festival for her screenplay, Behind The Mask, an adaptation of the Louisa May Alcott novella. Pam is currently at work adapting the novel Ship of Fools, by Katherine Anne Porter, for the musical stage. Pam is also an actress and recording artist and is a proud member of AEA, SAG, BMI and The Dramatists Guild. Pam is represented by Literary Agent, Mitch Douglas.
     

It is 1947, Germany, and Leni Riefenstahl, the notorious and vilified film director of Triumph of the Will and Olympia, is being held against her will in a hospital. In a fragile and hallucinatory state, due to daily rounds of sedatives and frequent shock treatments, she finds comfort in her memories of better times when she was a star actress and powerful director in Hitler’s Germany. But Leni’s reveries are interrupted by an aggressive nurse, who challenges her, and a sympathetic doctor who tries to “understand” her. Leni, unremorseful about her role in glorifying Hitler, maintains that she was simply an artist hired to do a job and that she did that job with no interest, and indeed ignorance, of the future Nazi Party agenda. Rebellious and arrogant, Leni attempts to justify her past actions in order to form an alliance with Nurse Sonia Dressel that will help her escape the hospital and regain her lost, unfinished film, Tiefland.
 
 

FAITH, HOPE AND ROCK & ROLL is a comedy/drama about Jayna Wilde, a cynical New York rock singer struggling to raise her rebellious teenage daughter, Alana. When her record label drops her because of her declining sales and increasing age, she and Alana return to Jayna's Indiana hometown, where Jayna meets an attractive producer and is seduced by the offer of a lucrative gospel music recording contract. As Jayna attempts to clean up her act and transform herself into a gospel singer, she finds herself caught between the conflicting worlds of her quirky, church-going family, an old boyfriend who's a bitter out-of-work musician, the gospel producer who's become the new romance in her life, her lesbian friends and Jewish manager in New York, and her homesick, angry daughter who thinks, "Mommy's gone completely off the deep end with this 'Christian' thing!"
 
 

When Lila Grayson suddenly loses her daughter in a terrorist attack in Israel and her husband to a younger woman, she is devastated. After taking to her bed, Lila rouses herself with a plan. She reinvents herself into a hipper, sexy woman, picks up a very young Hispanic man, Rico, and proceeds to spend three days in bed with him. At the end of three days, she plans to kill herself. But as Lila and Rico spend time together, it is clear they have a connection beyond sex. But can it sustain them beyond Lila’s need for self-annihilation?
 
 

It is the Industrial Revolution and Yankee girls are thrilled to be liberated from their homes to become independent working women for the first time in America. Harriet Thayer is an aspiring writer who defies her wealthy, domineering father and her fiancé when she goes to work in a textile mill in 1842 Lowell, Massachusetts. There her three roommates' hard-luck lives inspire Harriet's stories and open her eyes to social injustice. Harriet's political and sexual awakening escalates when she meets a labor organizer and must choose between her job, her family and her friends and a dangerous, uncertain future as a political activist.
 
 

It is 1870 in a village outside of London. Jean Muir comes to live with the Coventrys as governess to Bella, the thirteen-year-old daughter. Although Jean is small and meek and not of their station, Bella's two older brothers, Gerald, the heir, and Edward, fall in love with her. Lucia, a beautiful cousin and Gerald's fiancée, is appalled, Bella is excited, and Sir John Coventry, the uncle who lives alone in baronial splendor next door, is intrigued. But Jean is not what she seems and her manipulation of the family becomes more and more evident. Just as she is about to realize her ambitions, the threat of discovery creates a suspense that is fueled by secret assignations, a deadly train wreck, unexpected passions, and the possibility of a true love match