Past Shows
Dirty Works/March '08
Mando Alvarado:
BASILICA – Wed 3/5 (8PM)
Directed by Michael Ray Escamilla
Mando Alvarado was born in Pharr, Texas. His childhood consisted of a loss of a father, Reagonomics, Theater, MTV, Drug addicted Step-Father and BBQ Brisket. He received his undergraduate degree from North Carolina School of the Arts.
BASILICA IS: 1982. San Juan, TX. Father Gonzalez returns to his home parish to face the indiscretions of his youth. His return causes those around him to question their own guilt bringing about an explosive revelation. This new play examines the nature of redemption, confession and guilt.
Dan LeFranc:
NIGHT SURF – Fri 3/7 (8PM)
Directed by Heath Cullens
Dan LeFranc is a recent graduate of the MFA playwriting program at Brown University, where he is currently in residence as the 2007-2008 John C. Russell Fellow in Playwriting. His plays have been seen or developed at Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Vineyard Theater, MCC, The Kennedy Center, American Repertory Theatre, ArsNova, Clubbed Thumb, Portland Center Stage, Woolly Mammoth Theater Company, The Magic Theater, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Perishable Theater, foolsFury, Kitchen Dog Theater, Santa Cruz Actors’ Theatre, Contemporary Arts Center of Cincinnati, UCSB Summer Theater Lab, and the Page 73 Summer Residency at Yale, among others. Dan is a member of the MCC Playwrights Coalition, the Soho Rep Writers/Directors Lab, and teaches playwriting at the Brown/Trinity Rep Consortium. His short play Hippie Van Gumdrop is published in The Backstage Book of New American Short Plays 2005, edited by Craig Lucas.
Gregory Moss:
HOUSE OF GOLD – Sat 3/8 (8PM)
Directed by Kerry Whigham
Gregory Moss is playwright, performer and director from Cambridge MA. He is an MFA student in Brown University’s Graduate Playwriting Program. Recent and upcoming presentations of his work include The Accident at Theatre Limina in Minneapolis; No One Remembers When as part of the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival; The Argument at The Hangar Theatre; sixsixsix at the A.R.T. in Cambridge; Count Orlok’s Castle at Collaboration Theatre in Chicago; and punkplay at Brown University. Gregory is the recipient of a 2006-2007 Lucille Lortel Playwriting Fellowship, and a 2008 Millay Colony Residency. Since 1999 he has run Independent Submarine Productions, a company dedicated to generating original, challenging art in a variety of media, some of which has been archived at www.gregorysmoss.com. Gregory is a member of The Dramatists’ Guild of America.
HOUSE OF GOLD IS: the story of a Very Famous Dead Little Girl who doesn’t know she’s dead. While negotiating the minefield of adult desire as projected by her parents, a seedy detective who lives in the basement and a shady man with a van, The Girl befrinds Jasper, a plump, surly 13 year-old white boy who believes he’s a full-grown African American man trying to live up to his heroes – Muhammad Ali and Richard Pryor. The children take solace each in the other’s presence, each pushing the other to remember all the things they have tried to forget. Alice in Wonderland retold by Samuel Beckett, House of Gold is a bracing black comedy that speaks to the dangers of growing up in America at the end of the 20th Century.
Erin Browne:
A METH PLAY – Sun 3/9 (7PM)
Directed by Erick Herrscher
A Meth Play is the recipient of the 2008 International Student Playscript Award at the National Student Drama Festival and was also a finalist for the BBC Worldservice International Playwriting Competition, it was also a finalist for the Lark’s Playwrights’ Week. Erin’s short play Lucky in Love has played at Columbia as part of the Torture Project, at Adelphi University, at the Brecht forum through Brooklyn Playwrights Collective, and in Spork Fest. Erin’s short play Could was in Sticky at Bowery Poetry Club and God Exits was in Sticky at Galapagos. Erin’s short play The Blahs was in Gone in 60 secs at the Harrogate Theatre in North Yorkshire. 30 Patriot Actors: Playing Real People was part of Columbia’s Patriot Project. After was performed as part of Anne Bogart’s collaboration class in the Shapiro Theater. Not As of Yet received a reading at the Abingdon Theater and was a finalist for the Hangar Theatre’s summer residency, it was also a finalist for Bloody Unicorn Theatre Company’s Queer Womens’ Festival. Her short play Again was read as part of Lynn Thomson’s Brooklyn College Collaboration at the Abingdon. Hence was recently read at The Flea. Erin is a founding member of America in Play and her commission Farmer’s Quartette was read last year at Tribeca Performing Arts Center and another commission will be read in March. Erin has been working on Trying and Narrator 1 with Flux Theatre Ensemble and a section of Narrator 1 was read in Flux’s Bar Series at Jimmy’s No 43, and her contribution to Flux’s Imagination Compact (a response to Midsummer Night’s Dream) will be read in late April. Erin is a graduate of NYU: Tisch School of the Arts and recently earned an MFA from Columbia University in Playwriting. She works in television and education.
A METH PLAY IS: about three high school kids who seek to solve financial woes by starting a meth lab.
Daniel Macdonald:
VELOCITY – Tues 3/11 (8PM)
Directed by Sturgis Warner
Daniel Macdonald (Playwright, VELOCITY) is a playwright, actor, director and teacher. He holds degrees from St. F.X. University, St. Mary’s University (Nova Scotia) and the University of Regina. His play PAGEANT premiered at Alberta Theatre Projects’ National PlayRites Festival in Calgary and has had productions in Regina, Fort MacMurray, Alberta and Austin, Texas. MACGREGOR’S HARD ICE CREAM AND GAS has had productions at Persephone Theatre in Saskatoon, Prairie Theatre Exchange (Winnipeg), and Ship’s Company (Nova Scotia). He recently co-wrote and directed the film series REDEMPTION, SK. He has taught both at university and high school and has collaborated on several plays with and for young people, including TRAGEDIE and WAKING. As a teacher/coach his high school improv team won the Canadian National Improv Championship. He is the former president of the Saskatchewan Playwrights Centre as well as a recipient of the Regina Writer’s Award. He is also two-time winner of the SIMPIA showcase award for acting. He lives in Regina, Saskatchewan with his wife, Heather, his daughter, Averie and Eddy, the Cat.
VELOCITY IS: A teenaged girl dares to challenge the laws of physics by blowing her dad out the 73rd floor of his office tower and interviewing him as he falls. While Dot’s 15-year-old world is coming crashing down, she’s bound and determined to take everyone else along for the ride – all in 6 seconds.
Laurie Sanderson:
DOTTIE HOPE – Thurs 3/13 (3:30PM)
Directed by Courtney Munch
Steve Yockey:
OCTOPUS – Thurs 3/13 (8PM)
Directed by Bill Fennelly
Steve Yockey is a member of Atlanta’s Out of Hand Theater. His plays for the company include HELP! and Cartoon. After a run at Vital Theatre Company in New York, Steve’s play Bright.Apple.Crush. won the 2007 Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Play Festival and will be published in two forthcoming collections. He is a regular fixture at Dad’s Garage Theatre Company in their annual 8 1/2 X 11 series including: Stop Motion (2004), Swallow (2005), Snuff Film (2006) and Sucker Punch (2007). Dad’s Garage also produced the short play cycle Sleepy, a work commissioned to inaugurate their new Top Shelf Series in 2005, and the adults-only Skin, which closed a sold-out, extended run in March 2007 – both directed by Artistic Director Kate Warner. Actor’s Express in Atlanta, GA produced the World Premiere of Octopus in Jan/Feb 2008. The West Coast Premiere will open at San Francisco’s Magic Theatre, co-produced by Encore Theatre, in May 2008. Steve is a Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude graduate of the University of Georgia. He is currently a second-year in the MFA Dramatic Writing Program at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
OCTOPUS IS: a post-modern love story sliding from realism into fable as Kevin and Blake, after a much anticipated night of group sex, try to salvage a relationship from the aftermath of their risky behavior, including a pummeling mix of jealousy and betrayal, an impossibly polite telegram delivery boy, and a ravenous sea monster from the ocean floor.
Megan Mostyn-Brown:
THE REST OF YOUR LIFE – Sat 3/15 (8PM)
Directed by Meredith McDonough
Liz Meriweather:
WHO IS PT BUTTERHOUSE? – Sun 3/16 (7PM)
Directed by Sam Gold
Eric Sanders:
THE HILLSIDE, OR WHATEVER SIDE HE COMES ON – Mon 3/17 (8PM)
Directed by Daniel Kutner
Eric Sanders: Playwright/Creator/Producer: f**kplays with Working Man’s Clothes at the Ohio Theatre and Galapagos Art Space (4 NYIT Award nominations); Dread Awakening, the hit collection of horror plays at the 45th Street Theatre; the childhood literacy benefit Dewey’s Nightmare (Gene Frankel Theatre). Playwright: IXOMIA (Crown Point Festival 2007, dir. Stephen Brackett), Faint (NYC Fringe Festival), Oceanside Parkway (Working Man’s Clothes, dir. Steven Gillenwater), Oblivia (WMC, Andhow! Theatre Company, Sam French Festival 2007, dir. Pat Diamond), Hollow Hallow (Brick Theater, dir. Jake Witlen), Lords of Chaos, Pt. 1 (WMC Binge Festival 2007, dir. Julie Rossman), The Underground Ocean (Vampire Cowboys, dir. Matthew Hancock), Skin Maps (Cardboard Box Collaborative), It’s a Dry Heat (reading at Playwrights Horizons, dir. Isaac Butler). Upcoming: Heartless, dir. Pat Diamond; The Wendigo, dir. Matthew Hancock. www.funintrouble.com.
Now playing: a “gripping drama” by Stephen Belber:
Geometry of Fire.
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