Written by Kate Moira Ryan with Judy Gold and directed by Karen Kohlhaas, 25 QUESTIONS FOR A JEWISH MOTHER is Gold’s personal journey about becoming a parent, while learning to be a daughter to a nagging Jewish mother of her own.

Emmy-winning actress/comedienne Judy Gold and award-winning playwright Kate Moira Ryan embarked on a five-year journey across the United States, interviewing over 50 Jewish women of different ages, ethnicities, and occupations. The end result is a moving and humorous portrait of what makes a Jewish mother, a Jewish mother.

JUDY GOLD received a 2006 Drama Desk nomination for outstanding solo performance for 25 Questions For A Jewish Mother. She is the host of HBO's “At the Multiplex with Judy Gold,” and she also hosted Comedy Central's “100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time.” She hosted the GLAAD MEDIA AWARDS that aired on LOGO and VH1. Her most recent TV specials include a half-hour comedy special for LOGO and she is featured in the HBO documentary, "All Aboard." Her stand-up specials include “Comedy Central Presents: Judy Gold,” Comedy Central's “Tough Crowd Stands Up,” and Judy's HBO half-hour special, for which she received a Cable Ace Award. Gold was most recently seen in the smash hit film The Aristocrats. Gold won two Emmy Awards for writing and producing “The Rosie O'Donnell Show.” She was nominated twice for The American Comedy Award's funniest female stand-up. She has also appeared on “Law & Order,” “Law & Order SVU,” “Sex and The City,” “The View,” “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” and “The Conan O'Brien Show,” to name a few. Gold lives in New York City with her two children, Henry and Ben. She frequently tours theatres and comedy clubs around the country and she talks to her mother at least once a day. Her CD, Judith's Roommate Had a Baby, is available now. A book based on 25 Questions For A Jewish Mother will be released by Hyperion on Mother's Day 2007.

KATE MOIRA RYAN (Playwright) started her career in 1985 as a winner of the Young Playwrights Festival. 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother, written with and for comedienne Judy Gold, was produced at Ars Nova in New York City, the Montreal Comedy Festival, and the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach to rave reviews. A book based on the stage play will be published by Hyperion Spring of 2007. Her play OTMA was produced by the Atlantic Theatre Company, the Ekaterinburg Youth Theatre in Russia, and the Lake George Theatre Project, and will be seen again at the Powerhouse Theatre at Vassar College in the fall of 2006. It is published by Playscripts, Inc. Her adaptation of Dorothy Allison's novel Cavedweller premiered at New York Theatre Workshop and is published by Dramatists Play Service. She is an alumna of New Dramatists and has received residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, and the Edward Albee Foundations. She was recently awarded a fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation by the Ensemble Studio Theatre as well as an Arnold Weinberger Fellowship to the University of Cincinnati, and two fellowships to New Play Festival in Russia from the Center for International Theatre Development. She was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and received the Joe Calloway Award from New Dramatists.

KAREN KOHLHAAS (Director) is a founding member of New York’s Atlantic Theater Company. Off-Broadway and regional directing credits include Kate Moira Ryan’s OTMA (Atlantic), Harold Pinter's The Hothouse (Atlantic), Keith Reddin’s Synergy (Alley Theatre, world premiere) and Frame 312 (Atlantic, NY premiere); David Mamet's Boston Marriage (Public Theater, NY premiere) and The Water Engine (Atlantic); and three productions of An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein in New York and Sydney. She has also directed at Atlantic Stage Two, Naked Angels, New Dramatists, NYU mainstage, the Kraine, Expanded Arts, and the 4th Street Theatre. Karen is a senior teacher at the Atlantic Acting School, author of The Monologue Audition: A Practical Guide for Actors, and director/producer of the DVD, The Monologue Audition Video. She maintains a website for actors: www.monologueaudition.com.

A little over three years ago, Ars Nova, under the leadership of Jon Steingart, Jenny Wiener and Jason Eagan, opened its doors in memory of Gabe Wiener with the goal of being a home for artists to develop and perform new works in an intimate audience setting. Since then some of New York’s top writers, directors and performers have walked through their doors with ideas and walked out with projects that were ready to be taken to the next level. Some of those names include Rufus Wainwright, David Cross, Sandra Bernhard, John Cameron Mitchell, Jason Biggs, Sarah Jessica Parker, Amy Sedaris, Paul Rudd, Rachel Dratch, Ana Gasteyer, The Wau Wau Sisters, Moises Kaufman, James Lapine, Tony Kushner, Stephen Belber, and Michael Patrick King. Ars Nova produces theater, comedy and music events, making exciting live entertainment accessible to a New York audience at affordable prices. In addition to fully staged productions, Ars Nova offers a free play reading series (Out Loud), an alternative music and comedy series (Thursdays at 10), a musical theater series (Broadway Spotlight), a singer/songwriter series (Uncharted) and in-house writers' workshops. For more information, visit www.arsnovanyc.com.