Village Playwrights' STRUTS AND FRETS Short Play SeriesBegins Today

Village Playwrights presents STRUTS AND FRETS: short plays by the Village Playwrights at the Producers Club, 358 W. 44th St., NYC today, April 15, tomorrow, April 16 at 8 pm and April 17 at 2 pm. Tickets $18, $15 for seniors and students. For reservations call 614-285-2515 or email villageplaywrights@gmail.com

The plays are:

"White Roux" by Stephen BraccoIn a play that explores racism with humor, New Yorker Cecil insists that his liberal credentials are intact after he uses a racial epithet to get his possessions back from a fleeing mugger.
A writer and performance artist (vimeo.com/sbracco), Stephen Bracco has studied at New York University, Brooklyn College, the Vermont Studio Center, and with the Creativity Workshop in Prague and Florence. He is currently working on a full-length version of "White Roux."

"Strange Bedfellows" by David Diaz

A frolicking farce, set 1970's in NYC's Greenwich Village, about a marriage of "convenience" turned inside out when stud boyfriend Fernando comes over to tango.

David Diaz is a playwright and filmmaker. His short plays"Love Birds" and "I'm a Work of Art" were part of Village Playwrights productions.

"Breaking Entail" by Edmund Miller

A tour de force Restoration Drawing Room Comedy, complete with heroic couplets and surprisingly modern attitudes about casual sex.

Edmund Miller is the author scholarly work and such poetry books as The Go-Go Boy Sonnets: Men of the New York Club Scene. His plays "Pink Elephants," The Last Conquests of Beau Fersen, The Greeks Have a Word, The Colonel's Lady, and Loving Cuckold have had recent staged readings. His screenplay "Hairline" was a quarterfinalist in the BlueCat Short Screenplay Contest 2014. His full-length screenplay Dueling Lady: A Restoration Romp of Epic Proportions was Fourth Place Winner at LAIFFA 15 July 2015.

"Triage at St. Sebastian's" by John Pakkanen
After an automobile accident involving a man and a woman, their respective spouses have an accidental meeting at the emergency room at St. Sebastian's Hospital.

Move over St. Sebastian. He may have been afflicted with many arrows, but who can tell where or when Cupid will strike with his arrows.

He grew up in Western Pennsylvania, came to New York and 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.

"Fall Back" by Michael Rendino

A fantastical look at what happens when a young climber gets stuck in a the subway on the most important day of his career.

Mike Rendino started writing plays six years ago, when his youngest son turned 18. He now has a c: drive full of long and short plays, with several productions and a first prize at a short play festival under his belt. Recent productions include "Used to be Bonanza" at the Hudson Guild theater in January 2016, "Crossing" in the Piney Fork Festival in 2014, "Global -Warming", a cautionary tale and first-prize winner at John Chatterton's short play festival and a staged reading of "Jack Rabbits of the Wild Interior", which was performed in the Manhattan Reading Festival in March.2016.

"You Done Good" by Drew Sachs

An exploration of the use of language and being in the moment to tell a story. Sometimes it takes a stranger to tell you, "You Done Good."

Drew Sachs is a playwright. Some of Drew's other works include, AKA AL PARKER, HARDIAN'S FAVORITE, NOCTURNAL PERMISSION, IT WORKS FOR THE ICONS and ANYA; A BOROUGH PARK ANTIGONE; MFA Carnegie Mellon University.

"Flo's Confession" by Debbra Liverman

A friendship is challenged when one wants a sex change.

Debbra Liverman has been playwright since the early 90s. She is a cable show producer, whose show "Show Your Talent" welcomes all talent. "Peaches' Pre-Op" and "Uncle Clyde and Niece Mary" were part of Village Playwrights productions.