16th THEATRE ROULETTE, CLOWNTIME IS OVER, QUIET PENINSULA and More Set for MadLab's 2015 Season

Celebrating their 20th anniversary of delivering new exciting works to Columbus, MadLab is coming back in 2015 with another jam packed year including their 16th Theatre Roulette, their 4th Young Writer's Short Play Festival, the latest version of Date Night by their resident improv troupe FFN, and 3 new full length shows.

SCHEDULE:

FFN's Date Night February 12- February 28

The Sixteenth Annual Theatre Roulette May 7-23

The Fourth Annual Young Writers Short Play Festival July 10-25

Clowntime Is Over Aug 20 - Sep 5

Skillet Tag Oct 15 - Oct 31

Quiet Peninsula Dec 3 - Dec 19

DETAILS:

Full Frontal Nudity's Date Night 2015 - Fridays and Saturdays Feb. 13th - Feb 28th with a special preview on Thursday Feb 12th.

Once again, this Valentine's Day, Full Frontal Nudity is back yet again to tell more stories of love... YOUR story, your neighbors' story, everybody and anybody's stories of love! How? We don't know. But, as long as there are stories of love to tell, we can tell you we will be making it all up based on your stories. So, once again, it's date night!

Theatre Roulette 2015 - Thursdays, Fridays, + Saturdays, May 7th - May 23rd

Theatre Roulette, now in its sixteenth year, continues as Central Ohio's longest running shorts festival. MadLab will compose one night of programming of a collection of works from a single playwright, one night of programming composed of writers that have appeared in Theatre Roulette in the past, and the final night will be reserved for plays written by first time Roulette playwrights. Pick one, pick two, collect the whole set!

The 4th Annual Young Writers Short Play Festival - Fridays + Saturdays July 10th - July 25th.

After another fantastic run, MadLab is proud to present the fourth edition of The Young Writers Short Play Festival featuring plays written by local high-school students. The YWSPF is a three-week long collection of one-act plays written by Ohio teens and performed by adult actors. In its 4th year, the program promises to be bigger and better than ever.

Clowntime Is Over - - Fridays and Saturdays Aug 21st -Sep 5th with a special preview on Thursday Aug 20th.

Synopsis: Max P. Twinkle is a television clown who lives to entertain, because he's too exhausted by life for anything else. Today, however, is different. Today he finds himself trapped in a room with a bitter llama, a loveless bunny rabbit, and a fitfully hungry serpent that may destroy them all. Before the final curtain falls, there will be jokes, and love, and death, and entrances and exits. Clowntime is Over is a surreal comedy suffused with dread.

Bio: Joseph E. Green is the author of six books, three of them play collections: THE DULL ARE THE DAMNED, THE VERY WRATH OF LOVE, and CLOWNTIME IS OVER. He is also the author of the unpublished play EINSTEIN'S WRONG ABOUT EVERYTHING, which premieres in 2015. Green co-wrote and co-produced the upcoming documentary KING KILL 63, featuring Oliver Stone, Richard Belzer, Dick Gregory, and Jesse Ventura, and is attached as a script and research consultant to the motion picture DALLAS IN WONDERLAND. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America.

Previous Productions: Clowntime is Over was originally presented at the Overtime Theater in San Antonio, Texas, on January 10th, 2014 and ran through February 8th, 2014.

Edward Wise directed the production.

The cast was as follows:

MAX P. TWINKLE Chris Kelly

TIDY Brennan Loy

SUSIE Kylah McCoy

PACO Justin Bankston

THE SERPENT Kat Vermuelen

The stage manager was Mary Griffith; the set design was by Ricky Holdman, Karen Arredondo, and Chris Champlin; the costume design was by Morgan Clyde, Angie Hernandez, and Roxane Wise; the puppet design and construction was by Mary Griffith, Kat Vermeulen, and Liz Vermeulen; the lighting design was by Ricky Holdman; the sound design was by Edward Wise; and the board operator was Karen Arredondo.

Skillet Tag - Fridays and Saturdays Oct 16th - Oct 31st with a special preview on Thursday Oct 15th.

Synopsis: Skillet Tag is set around a team building meeting of a team in a greeting card company. The exercise? A game of Tag....with skillets. It's a tale of sex, lies, murder, chainsaws, anal beads, and of course....skillets. Funny, funny, funny.

Bio: Pete Bakely is a Kansas City based actor and playwright. He's acted at Kansas City Rep, The Coterie, Metropolitan Ensemble Theater and many others in roughly 100 productions since the early eighties.

In the early nineties, he gave up acting and spent a grueling sixteen years as a call center supervisor at Sony Electronics. While his experiences at Sony informed the characters in Skillet Tag, Pete would like to point out that his Sony co-workers were considerably more polite than the characters in the play. And that no one ever did anything criminal as far as he could see.

In 2009, Pete took an early retirement from Sony and enrolled in the Playwriting program at The University of Missouri -- Kansas City. He currently holds an MA in Playwriting from UMKC.

His produced plays include the shorts "Vicki's Desk" and "Button" and the full length plays Jet Propulsion, about the life of John Whiteside Parsons, Skillet Tag, and most recently, Drunks, about a screenwriter and two film actors who never quite get around to working on a screenplay.

Pete continues to act in Kansas City and helps produce original plays through his production company, Play On. Productions.

Previous Productions:

The original version of Skillet Tag was written in the Fall of 2010. It won Rockhurst University's Plays in Progress award and received a staged reading on April 20, 2011.

It was then chosen as the inaugural production for Play On Productions and presented (in a shortened version) as part of the 2012 Kansas City Fringe Festival.

Skillet Tag was remounted in a full length production at The Living Room Theater between December 12 and December 22, 2012.

Quiet Peninsula - Fridays and Saturdays Dec 4th - Dec 19th with a special preview on Thursday Dec 3rd.

Synopsis: 9pm. Detroit. A crisp Monday night. Three dark stories of guilt and justice unexpectedly intertwine in this timely, twisted, and suspenseful drama. A female cop, a desperate son, and a basketball star fight to prove the truth...not their innocence.

Bio: Brandon Ferraro is a Manhattan based playwright and actor with a B.A. in Theatre from James Madison University. Brandon has had written works featured at the New York International Fringe Festival, The Flea Theatre, The Chain Theatre, The Access Theatre, and Manhattan Children's Theatre. Highlights include "Dad's Safe" printed in the Bushwick Review; Who Doesn't Love Ben Franklin?, the short film BOND, and Shall We Go? brandonferraro.com

Previous Productions: Act one, Andre Washington was written and produced in the summer of 2013 at the Chain Theatre directed by Neal Kowalsky. Act two, Walter Lawrence premiered in November 2013 winning the Harvest Theatre festival awards for Best Play and Best Actor at the Chain Theatre. All three acts, forming Quiet Peninsula premiered at the NYC International Fringe Festival in August 2014 under the direction of Samantha Tella.

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