Provincetown Theater Playwrights' Lab Set for June

Eight plays will be presented on each day of the Spring Playwrights Festival at the studio of WOMR Radio (494 Commercial Street, Provincetown, MA). Performances will take place at 7:30 pm on June 2, 3, and 4 and at 2 pm on June 5. Plays were chosen by Playwrights Lab Reading Committee members Michele Clark, Bob Cohen, Stuard Derrick, R.F. Griffith and Judy Israel. Each playwrights wrote a ten-minute play with the theme "The Wind In Our Sails" using a sailboat (at sea, in a boatyard, or docked) as the main setting. Seven directors will cast and direct the shows. Directors include: Bob Costa, Brian Cowe, Bill Salem, Bragan Thomas, Michael Walczak, Cindy Wegel and Dana McCoy (who will direct two plays). Bob Cohen is serving as Festival Producer and can be reached at bluskize2da@aol.com.

Following are the selected plays along with short bios for each playwright.

How To Sail by Tim Bosworth

Tim Bosworth started writing plays on 9/11. His play, Somewhere Under the Rainbow (inspired by the events of that day) was presented at the Provincetown Theater during the 2016 Winter Reading Series. Tim has been a member of the Provincetown Theater's Playwrights' Lab since June 2015. He is 70 years old. He resides in Orleans, but lives in Provincetown.

Navigare Necesse Est by Andrea Fleck Clardy

The short plays of Andrea Fleck Clardy have been widely produced and two are included in Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2016 (forthcoming from Smith and Kraus). Her children's play Hide and Seek, with music by Clark Gesner, premiered at the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, NY and her full-length play Job Loss was a semi-finalist for the Eugene O'Neill National Theater Conference and for the Princess Grace Award. ACT IV, a community theatre group in Plainfield, NJ produced a collection of her short plays and monologues in 2015. She is a member of The Dramatists Guild and the National Writers Union. She spent her childhood summers on Cape Cod and she now lives in Boston, MA.

Grab The Gib by Con Chapman

Con Chapman is a Boston-area writer and playwright. He is the author of The Year of the Gerbil (a history of the 1978 Boston Red Sox-New York Yankees pennant race), two novels, and forty-five books of humor. His articles and humor have appeared in national magazines and major newspapers, including: The Atlantic Monthly, The Christian Science Monitor, Barron's, The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald and The Providence Journal. He has written thirty plays of which eleven have been published. He is currently working on a biography of Johnny Hodges (Duke Ellington's alto sax player) for Oxford University Press.

Any Port In A Storm by Alison Hyder

Alison Hyder wrote her first script for The Provincetown Theater's 2016 24-hour play festival, which took place in February. This is her second foray into playwriting. She was recently seen in The Provincetown Theater productions of The Dresser, Dr. Faustus Lights The Lights, and Oliver. Alison has directed and acted in numerous play festivals and readings. She also loves to sing and looks forward to returning with Zoe Lewis and the Bootleggers this summer.

The Birthday Boat by Michele Markarian

Michele Markarian's short plays have been produced throughout the US and UK. Her work appears in two Smith and Kraus anthologies: The Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2014 and The Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2015. Michele's work can also be found through Heuer Publishing, Dramatic Publishing, and Oxford University Press USA. A collection of her plays, The Unborn Children of America and Other Family Procedures, was recently published by Fomite Press. Michele is thrilled to be back at Provincetown Theater, where a reading of her play The Dedoption was staged as part of the 2012 Winter Play Series.

A Sleep And A Forgetting by James McLindon

James McLindon is a member of the Nylon Fusion Theatre Company in New York and a Next Voices Fellow at the New Rep in Boston. His plays have been produced or developed at theaters across America including the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, Lark, PlayPenn, hotINK Festival, Irish Repertory, CAP21, Samuel French Festival, Victory Gardens, Hudson Stage Company, Abingdon, New Repertory, Lyric Stage, Detroit Rep, Great Plains Theatre Conference, Seven Devils, Telluride Playwrights Festival, Ashland New Plays Festival, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Colony Theatre, Theatricum Botanicum, Circus Theatricals, and Arkansas Rep. His plays have been published by Dramatic Publishing, Smith & Kraus, and Original Works Publishing.

Struggles by Candace Perry

Candace Perry is a writer, activist, and social worker who holds the audacious hope that plays can change the world. She was The Provincetown Theater's selected playwright for Four Squared: A Collaborative Theater Project, and through this commission she completed a new full length playAlong the River Road. She has written three other full-length plays and thirty short plays. Her work has been produced in various venues around the country, including The Provincetown Theater's Playwrights' Festivals, Women's International Theater Festivals, Boston Theatre Marathons, New Bedford Culutre*Park Marathons, and Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival. Candace is a member of The Provincetown Theater Playwrights Lab and The Dramatists Guild. She lives in Wellfleet, MA on Cape Cod.

Storm Window by Wendy Shreve

Wendy Shreve received her undergraduate degree from Smith College and graduate degree in English from The University of Montana. Wendy has written for The Cape Playhouse and The Payomet Performing Arts Center. Her published works include e-zine/journal articles, blogs, poetry, and short stories and her books Shadowwater and Dark Sea. Storm Window is Wendy's first play to receive a production.

Advance tickets can be purchased by calling The Provincetown Theater box office at 508-487-7487 and at the theater's website www.provincetowntheater.org. Tickets purchased at the WOMR studio door will be cash only.

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