JUNE FINFER has written and produced plays, musicals, and screenplays, as well as documentary and educational films. Her play, The Glass House, about Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House, was produced off-Broadway by Madd River Productions. A musical, Burnham’s Dream: The White City (now Dream City) with music and some lyrics by Elizabeth Doyle, produced by Lost and Found Productions, had a run at Theater Wit in Chicago. Documentaries she wrote and produced are distributed throughout the world by Kanopy, including The Hall of Man, about the creation of an artistic museum exhibit about race; Greentowns USA: A New Deal; Tugendhat House: Mies van der Rohe’s Czech Masterpiece; Creating Community: Lafayette Park; Passionate Nature: Chicago Parks of Alfred Caldwell;The Farnsworth House; and Eagle Point Park. She created more than thirty educational programs ranging from art and folktales to poetry. Her work has won awards from The American Film Festival, CINE, Goethe-Institute, Graham Foundation, Illinois Arts Council, Illinois Humanities Council, Maryland Humanities Council, Ohio Humanities Council, TELLY U.S. International Film and Video Festival, and has been broadcast on PBS. Long ago she taught English language and literature at the high school and college levels and studied photography at the Institute of Design, IIT. MS Northwestern University, MA University of Chicago.
Available Plays:
Exiled to Indiana, a new play about the bad old times of the 1960s when a young wife who moves from Chicago to Indiana feels lost and struggles to find purpose. 3W/4M with doubling
Dream City, written with Elizabeth Doyle, Musical, 4W/7M with doubling.
The Trenton Six, limited TV series, 1950s true story of innocent men accused of murder.
Justice, a screenplay based on the Trenton Six.
The Pilgrim of Love, a play with songs, a valentine to the power of love, adapted from Washington Irving’s Tales of the Alhambra — talking birds guide a Muslim prince to his Christian princess. 3W/4M with doubling. Workshopped at Piven Theater, Chicago Writers’ Bloc.
Ten Minute Plays:
He and She, can new love withstand living together? 1W/2M
Vocabulary Lesson, children learn the danger of “cancel culture.” 2W/2M with doubling.
Couples Therapy, Bottom and Titania, from Midsummer Night’s Dream, seek help with their relationship. 1W/2M
Bat and Crow, for young children on Halloween, 3 actors
Liza, Chana and Shanie, a family history in three lives. 1 – 3 actors.