The 3rd Summer Play Festival announces directors
The Summer Play Festival have announced the full schedule for the 15 shows to play at Theatre Row from the 5 - 30 Jul as part of the third annual event.
The 15 plays playing at the Third Annual Summer Play Festival:
- The Butcherhouse Chronicles
Playwrite: Michael Hidalgo
Director: Thomas Caruso
Cast: Matthew Doyle, Billy Wheelan, Todd Cerveris, Carole Monferdini, Erik Singer, Vin Knight, William Youmans, Kate Chadwick and Anna Chlumsky Synopsis: A dark play about four high school students looking for their missing history teacher.
Venue: Theatre Row's Beckett Theatre
Dates: 11 - 16 Jul 2006 - Father Joy
Playwrite: Sheri Wilner
Director: Pam MacKinnon
Cast: Lizbeth MacKay, Reno Roop, Elisabeth Waterston and Randall Newsome
Synopsis: A fantastical comedy about a girl whose father is actually disappearing before her very eyes.
Venue: Theatre Row's Kirk Theatre
Dates: 11 - 16 Jul 2006 - The Fearless
Playwrite: Etan Frankel
Director: Scott Schwartz
Cast:tba
Synopsis: Follows the decade-long journey of three friends who formed a rock band in college.
Venue: Theatre Row's Kirk Theatre
Dates: 25 - 30 Jul 2006 - Gardening Leave
Playwrite: Joanna Pinto
Director: Michael Goldfried
Cast: Maha Chehlaoui and Michael Tomlinson
Synopsis: A lonely older British man whose life is turned around when a young Iranian woman comes to help with his rooftop garden.
Venue: Theatre Row's Lion Theatre
Dates: 11 - 16 Jul 2006 - Hardball
Playwrite: Victoria Stewart
Director: Lou Jacob
Cast:tba
Synopsis: A comedy about a rising female Republican political pundit. What happens when news becomes entertainment and politics become a performance?
Venue: Theatre Row's Beckett Theatre
Dates: 25 - 30 Jul 2006 - Hitting The Wall
Playwrite: Barbara Blumenthal-Ehrlich
Director: Drew Barr
Cast: Leslie Lyles, Tom Mason, Kelly Coffield Park, John Rothman, Patricia Buckley and Todd Weeks
Synopsis: A dark comedy about a pair of neighbors putting their lives together after the death of one of their children.
Venue: Theatre Row's Clurman Theatre
Dates: 11 - 16 Jul 2006 - Marge
Playwrite: Peter Morris
Director: Alex Timbers
Cast:tba
Synopsis: A comedy about a man who hires a prostitute to help murder his wife.
Venue: Theatre Row's Lion Theatre
Dates: 18 - 23 Jul 2006 - Millicent Scowlworthy
Playwrite: Rob Handel
Director: Ken Rus Schmoll
Cast: Maria Dizzia, Hannah Cabell, Megan Hart, Laurabeth Greenwald, Emily Sophia Knapp, Dan McCabe, Debargo Sanyal, Joe Curnutte, Gregory Keller, Jonathan Monk, John Summerour and Alexis Camins
Synopsis: A story that finds teenagers reenacting a murder that took place in their community.
Venue: Theatre Row's Beckett Theatre
Dates: 5 - 9 Jul 2006 - Sonia Flew
Playwrite: Melinda Lopez
Director: Justin Waldman
Cast:tba
Synopsis: A Cuban exile haunted by the memories of her past when her son announces his intention to join the Marines.
Venue: Theatre Row's Clurman Theatre
Dates: 25 - 30 Jul 2006 - Spain
Playwrite: Jim Knable
Director: Jeremy Dobrish
Cast:tba
Synopsis: A comedy about a woman, recently left by her husband, who encounters a sixteenth-century conquistador in her twenty-first century living room.
Venue: Theatre Row's Kirk Theatre
Dates: 18 - 23 Jul 2006 - Splitting Infinity
Playwrite: Jamie Pachino
Director: Matt Shakman
Cast: Michael Rupert, Ann Dowd, Greg Wooddell, Samantha Soule, Paul Kropfl and Priscilla Shanks
Synopsis: About two old friends, a Rabbi and an astrophysicist who wants to prove that God does not exist.
Venue: Theatre Row's Clurman Theatre
Dates: 5 - 9 Jul 2006 - The Squirrel
Playwrite: Alex Moggridge
Director: Patrick McNulty
Cast: Rachel Black, Jed Orlemann, Jeff Galfer and Rebecca Wisocky
Synopsis: A black comedy that follows a woman and her oversensitive husband, overbearing sister, and a man she just hit with her car.
Venue: Theatre Row's Kirk Theatre
Dates: 5 - 9 Jul 2006 - Swansong
Playwrite: Patrick Page
Director: David Muse
Cast:tba
Synopsis: A comedic fictitious story about real life playwright Ben Jonson putting together the first Folio of William Shakespeare�s work after the Bard�s death.
Venue: Theatre Row's Lion Theatre
Dates: 25 - 30 Jul 2006 - Training Wisteria
Playwrite: Molly Smith Metzler
Director: Evan Cabnet
Cast:tba
Synopsis: Combines a dysfunctional family with a dirty yard and home improvement on the evening of the son�s graduation party.
Venue: Theatre Row's Clurman Theatre
Dates: 18 - 23 Jul 2006 - A Wive's Tale
Playwrite: Christina Ham
Director:Rosemary Andress
Cast:tba
Synopsis: A futuristic drama about a group of barren women in the future conspiring to create the perfect society.
Venue: Theatre Row's Beckett Theatre
Dates: 18 - 23 Jul 2006
The final plays were selected by the following theater professionals. They were: Walter Bilderback, David Binder, Jo Bonney, Polly K. Carl, Jeremy Dobrish, David Dower, Gordon Edelstein, Todd London, Eduardo Machado, Lisa McNulty, Richard Nelson, Matthew Byam Shaw, Leigh Silverman, John Weidman.
"Playwrights need productions to become better playwrights.� said Richard Nelson, final selector, playwright, and Yale Department Chair, �The Summer Play Festival is built upon this vision; it has become for young playwrights a significant and necessary part of our theatrical landscape. This is a vital and really important event." Of this year�s selections, West End Producer and selection committee member Matthew Byam Shaw said, �To anyone looking for an original and genuinely entertaining new play this summer, I think the SPF will have it."
Under founder Arielle Tepper, The non-profit organization The Living Room for Artists Inc./Summer Play Festival provides emerging writers, directors, designers and producers an opportunity to work on their material and their craft in a protected environment, guided by established professionals at no cost to them.
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