TRU Voices New Plays Reading Series at the Players Theatre

Theater Resources Unlimited has announced the winning selections of the 2008 TRU Voices Series. In a series that develops new producers as well as new plays, three works were chosen from submissions by emerging or established producers, as well as writers.

This year, TRU received 64 submissions; out of nine semi-finalists, four scripts were submitted by producers in the TRU Producer Mentorship Program, and two of the four are final selections.

�They were submitted blind, so our readers didn�t even know the plays were from TRU producers. I�m pleased that the people in our program turn out to have such a good eye for promising new works,� said TRU executive director Bob Ost.

The plays will be read at the Players Theatre, from 2 - 16 Jun 2008

The three plays selected are:

• American Whupass
  Playwright: Justin Warner
  Director: Nancy Robillard
  Producer: Melinda O�Brien and her company M&M Productions Acting Co., with the assistance of Danielle Johnson
  Synopsis: A faded football star, an energy kingpin, and a former wrestling champ duke it out for a Nevada Senate seat in a no-holds-barred campaign that takes political warfare to outrageous extremes.
  Date: Mon 2 Jun 7pm

• Film Chinois
  Playwright: Damon Chua
  Director: Kevin Cochran
  Producer: Charles L. Johanson Jack W. Batman and Grove Theatre Center
  Synopsis: In Beijing in 1947, at an uneasy time between WWII and the imminent Communist take over, an enigmatic woman known as Chinadoll challenges an idealistic CIA operative to face the truth.
  Date: Mon 9 Jun 7pm

• A Crooked Man
  Playwright: Richard Kalinosk
  Director: Linda Selman
  Producer: Nora Armani and Pemart Productions
  Synopsis: A callow young man comes to grips with his grandfather's notorious past and discovers unexpected compassion and love on the roof of the old man�s house.
  Date: Mon 16 Jun 7pm