Long Island native Marc Palmieri's drama Levittown and Pulitzer Prize-winner Paula Vogel's comedy The Mineola Twins will be read in The Great Hall of Winnick House (the Merriweather Post mansion) in Old Brookville, NY.

Levittown will play Sept. 26 at 2 PM and The Mineola Twins will be Sept. 27 at 12:30 PM. Both are part of the "Experience Long Island Festival" presented by Tilles Center for the Performing Arts.

The family drams Levittown "relates the story of a young man's attempts to resolve the enmity that has nearly destroyed several generations of a Long Island family." The author will direct the reading, to feature four actors from this summer's Off-Broadway cast of the play (Tristan Colton, Curzon Dobell, Todd Lawson and Deborah Tranelli), as well as three actors drawn from previous productions of the play (Jeremy Johnson, Margo Passalaqua, and Ian Tooley).

The Mineola Twins is a comedy-drama that "tells an allegorical tale of the battle between the political left and right through the story of two 'almost' identical twin sisters born and raised in Mineola in the last half of the 20th century."

The play is directed by Todd Lawson and stars Brandy Zarle reading the tour-de-force dual role of Myrna/Myra, Sabrina Veroczi, Jeremiah Miller and Andrew Lincoln.

Tickets are free, but reservations are recommended. Call (516) 299-2104.

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Carter Anne McGowan (Producer) is a native Long Islander, a screenwriter/playwright, producer, and professor, and an entertainment lawyer. As an associate professor and director of the arts management program at the CW Post Campus of Long Island University, she leads one of the few BFA programs in arts management in the United States, and the only undergraduate arts management program to produce professional theatre, dance and music. Last year, she, along with her company Followspot Entertainment and the CW Post Arts Management Program, produced Stones in His Pockets at the Tilles Center for the Performing Arts and rockabilly band The BackSeat Devils in Hillwood Commons. As an entertainment lawyer and director of business affairs for Richard Frankel Productions, a production and general management company, she has been on the production/legal team for over 150 Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional and touring productions including The Producers, Hairspray, Stomp, Rocky Horror and Sweeney Todd. As an independent consultant for Richard Frankel Productions, McGowan continues to oversee music rights for productions of Swing! and Broadway Asia projects throughout the world. As production counsel for TUS (Nederlander San Francisco), she represented TUS' interests in San Francisco's Marines Memorial and Post Street Theatres and productions presented by TUS including Burn the Floor, Here Lies Jenny, Trumbo, Addicted and Love, Janis. She also served as production counsel for Nederlander's Detroit production of Mitch Albom's Duck Hunter Shoots Angel. On the writing front, her play, The Grecian Formula, premiered at the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival, where it received four stars from Time Out New York and was called an "amazing feat" by The Village Voice. She was co-writer (with Kelly Bryan) and lead producer of the indie feature film "Jingle Hell" (2000), which was an Official Selection at 12 film festivals and went on to be broadcast on PBS/Metroarts as well as Cablevision's Metro TV, nationally in England, and was recently released to home video. She is the winner of the Waldo Salt/Ian McClellan Hunter Screenwriters Award from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and the Managers for the Arts Award from the City University of New York. She has an MFA in Dramatic Writing from the Tisch School of the Arts, an MFA in Theatre (concentration in Performing Arts Management) from Brooklyn College, and a JD from Cornell Law School.