Village Playwrights Announce Spring 2017 Lineup of Readings and More

The Village Playwrights have announced news about their upcoming events. The group meets from 8 pm to 10 pm at the LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC. Scroll down for details!

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May 10, 2017

90 mins., Dan Kavulish, "Out There" -- When 16-year-old Andrew shares some strange goings on around his family home with his best friend Bill, he doesn't foresee how they will soon upend his life.

Dan Kavulish has been a writer most of his life. He wrote his first play at the age of 18. His second play, "Summer Passed into Rain" was produced for a local TV station in Hartford, CT. Two of his one-act plays were given staged readings for Susan Charlotte's Prism Playhouse. He recently completed a novel, "The Fortunate Isles" about the perils of being a gay man in NYC during the turbulent last three decades of the twentieth century. He now returns to the craft of playwriting.

30 mins., Griselda Steiner, Alex Don Baron, an aging actor kicked out of a prestigious English theater five years ago because he was a drunk, hopes to return to the stage as he has been sober for 5 years.

Griselda Steiner is a playwright, poet, freelance and screenplay writer. Her plays have been read at The Actors Studio, the Page Torn Salon, the Episcopal Actors Guild andthe Woodstock Fringe. Her poems have been published in literary journals and in Scene4 online. She has shown her poetry DVDs in Westbeth and read at the Cornelia Street Cafe, the Mexican Consulate, the 92nd St. Tribeca Cafe, St. Johns and The Duplex, NYC. Her feature articles have appeared in The Mailer Review, American Theatre Magazine, Parabola, Filmmakers Newsletter and Scene4 online.

May 24

30 mins., Charles Leipart, "An Afternoon in Hammersmith 1931" -- E.M. Forester visits a friend in the Hammersmith section of London

Charles Leipart Cream Cakes in Munich, 1st Prize Award 2016 Tennessee Williams/New Orleans LiteraryFestival. A Kind of Marriage, 2015 Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation LGBT Playwrighting Award. His musicals include: Pickwick's Haunted Christmas (in development); Me and Miss Monroe, Enchanted April, and Frog Kiss. www.charlesleipart.com

1 hour, Uni Coglioni, 3rd part of screenplay Hey Day

Uni Coglioni's "Tricks" was part of the Village Playwrights Queer 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

30 mins., Wayne Paul Mattingly, Anthem

Wayne Paul Mattingly lives in NYC and has been involved in theatre for decades. Since focusing on playwriting in 2005, his plays have won multiple awards, produced in NYC, Westchester and Putnam, Los Angeles, San Francisco; Bangor, Maine; Denton & Houston, Texas; Valdez, Alaska, and London, England. 2014 Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Artists Fellowship, 2014 Ronald Duncan Literary Prize Finalist, 2014 & 2015 Disquiet International Literary Program Short Play short-list scholarships, Lisbon, Portugal, 2014 Best Women's Monologues, Smith & Kraus. Founding member, The Misfits Ensemble, L.A., Founding Artistic Director, Tiger's Heart Players, N.Y. Member: NYC Playwrights, Axial Theatre, The Dramatist Guild, & Actors' Equity Association. Proud to be on the bill tonight! www.waynepaulmattingly.com

May 26, Deadline for submission for Loud and Proud, staged readings of 10 minute plays to celebrate Gay Pride. For submission information click here.

June 14, Reserved for special event

June 28, Loud and Proud, the Village Playwrights celebrate Gay Pride with staged readings of seven 10 minute plays at the LGBT Community Center

July 12

July 26

No meetings in August.

Sept 13, Reserved for special event

Sept 26, 2 hours, Mark Nimar, Good Daddy -- a gay sex comedy about Ben, a young guy who has an affair with an older, married man.

Mark Nimar is a New York-based actor, singer, and playwright. In New York, he has performed at the Bank Street Theatre in the musical Happy End, at the Danny Kaye Playhouse in the New York premiere of the opera il Postino, and at the Manhattan School of Music in the New York premiere of the opera A Taste of Damnation. Productions outside of New York include Animal Crackers at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and Carmen at Dante Hall Theatre in Atlantic City. He made his screen debut as Mason in the film Beneath Contempt, which was screened at the Slamdance Film Festival, IFFB, and at the Brooklyn Film Festival. Mark holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in voice from the Mannes College the New School for Music. As a playwright, his work has been featured at the Village Playwrights in New York City.

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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 at www.facebook.com/pages/Village-Playwrights/120580224712564 or online here.