'QUEER SCARE III' Readings Coming Up This Fall at Village Playwrights
By: BWW News Desk Oct. 17, 2016
Village Playwrights has announced its upcoming events for the fall. Scroll down for details!
Oct. 26 -- Join us at the LGBT Community Center on Wednesday, Oct 26 at 8 pm for Queer Scare III, staged readings of jury chosen 10 minutes plays that celebrate Halloween from an LGBTQ perspective.
Reservations are strongly advised. Call 614-285-2515 or email villageplaywrights@gmail.com.
The plays and playwrights are:
1. "Witches' Brew" by Ross Hewitt
It's not about the alcohol content.
While Ross Hewitt's survival job (one he is very proud of) is providing and ensuring quality HIV care, his objectives are to continue to work as a theater professional, writing plays, directing and performing. He has a lot of experience as an arts administrator. As an actor and a playwright, he is a founding member of the American Bard Theater Company. His plays "Booties," "Mother knows Best," "The Middle," and "Crossover" were in past Village Playwrights festivals.
2. "Tricks" by Uni CoglioniSometimes the trick is the treat.
Uni Coglioni is happy to be a part of the Village Playwrights Queen Scare 3 Festival. His credits include being a recipient of the McClinchee Award for his play "Short Changed", and a performance of his play "Family Picnic" in the Ravenswood's Play Festival. Uni is also the recipient of two Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Awards. He recently finished a screenplay titled "Hey Day" and would love to find the right producer! Coglioni7@yahoo.com
Things aren't always what they seem.
John Pakkanen grew up in Western Pennsylvania. He has lived in the West Village for many, many years. He has spent much, much too much of his time enjoying theater, opera and watching far, far too many movies of all kinds, rather than spending that time pursing more P.C. pursuits.
What happens from handling the dead.
Marjorie Conn (Actor/Playwright/Ventriloquist) made her acting debut with the late, greyt Ethyl Eichelberger as his leading man playing Aegisthus to his Klytemnestra with her lover, the late, incomparable Katy Dierlam as Electra. She was given an award by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force for her contributions to theater in Provincetown. Marjorie is most known for her portrayal of Lizzie Borden (ax murderess) and Lorena Hickok (Eleanor Roosevelt's lover). These plays are published in LOST LESBIAN LIVES (available on eBay). She founded the Provincetown Fringe Festival in Provincetown, MA in 1994, which relocated to Asbury Park, NJ from 2007 to 2015. Currently she is a full-time New Yorker and living in Hell's Kitchen with her 6 rescue animals. marjorieconn@gmail.com/617-512-6066
5. "Arousing the Chthonic Goddess" by George Bistransin
Be careful what you wish for.
President of the Village Playwrights, George Bistransin learned to write plays by translating and producing the comedies of the ancient Roman playwright T. M. Plautus. Among others he produced The Menaechmi Twins, The Braggart Soldier and The Haunted House at Boston's 1400 seat vaudeville era Strand Theater. In 1996 George was awarded a NEH grant to attend "The Art of Ancient Spectacle" at the American Academy in Rome where he organized a production of Plautus' Curculio in the Academy's garden. His most ambitious undertaking was the 1991 production of Moliere's The Would-Be Gentleman in collaboration with the Ken Pierce Baroque Dance Company, complete with fencing and a small pit orchestra of period instruments played by moonlighting Boston Symphony Orchestra members. Since joining the Village Playwrights, he has had many short plays produced including "Stop Loss," "Marriage, the Gay Way," "Entrapment," "Insider Steal," "Dueling Drag Queens," and "A.P. Sexology."
6. "C'est la Vie" by Jimmy Lovett
Love is messy. Better bring a tarp.
Jimmy Lovett is a graduate of Hampshire College where they studied playwriting and directing and premiered three shows. Since moving to New York, Jimmy produced a stage reading of their dark comedy Laid to Rest and spends a lot of time in the dark working at Sleep No More. www.jimmylovett.com
7. "You Don't Know Boo" by Mary Fridley
What to do when the lights flicker.
Mary Fridley has worked as a director or assistant director on dozens of Castillo Theatre productions over the last 25 years. Ms. Fridley is Director of Special Projects and a member of the faculty for the East Side Institute, an international research and training center in radically humanistic approaches to human development and community. Ms. Fridley also produced Nothing Really Happens (Memories of Aging Strippers), an award-winning feature film written and directed by FrEd Newman. This is her second play.
Nov. 9 -- 30 minutes, Mervyn Kaufman, "Social Graces," Merv Kaufman is a long-ago graduate of the UCLA Theater Arts Dept. He came to New York to establish a career in publishing-books and magazines- but ultimately refocused his talents on playwriting. He's enjoyed seeing some of his work read at various sites, in New York and elsewhere, and looks forward to someday seeing his work actually performed. By real actors!
30 mins., special showing of David Diaz's new 10 minute video "Behind the Burka"
1 hour, Jeffrey James Keyes, Untitled Jamaica Project
Nov. 23 -- 1 hour, Marguerite Masse, Remorsing Lenny rewrite; 1 hour available
Dec. 14 -- 30 mins., Debbra Liverman; 1 1/2 hour available
Dec. 28 -- 2 hours
The Village Playwrights meet at 8 PM on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month at the LGBT Center, 208 W. 13th Street. Participation is open to all Playwrights and Screenwriters.Beginners are encouraged and helped. "This is a place to speak from the heart. This is a place to find one's voice. This is a place to take risks."For information about attending a Village Playwrights' meeting, call 614-285-2515 or e-mail villageplaywrights@gmail.com. Visit us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/Village-Playwrights/120580224712564 and on line at sites.google.com/site/villageplaywrights/news?pli=1.
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