SkyPilot Theatre Company Announces New Development Track

SkyPilot Theatre Company, a well-established greenhouse for new works by emerging and established playwrights in Los Angeles, has created a new development track called SkyPilot Runway. The program will launch on April 5th, 2017, with a staged reading of The Cave by Daniel Rover Singer (The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)), directed by Michael A. Shepperd (co-Artistic Director, Celebration Theatre, Los Angeles CA and recent Ovation Award winner for direction of The Boy From Oz.) The cast will include Mario Burrell, Thomas Colby, Natalie Nicole Dressel, Brad Griffith, Mat Hayes, Shelby Janes, Sarah Marcum, Ian Nemser, Gabby Sanalitro, Morry Schorr, Shoniqua Shandai, and Duane Taniguchi.

READING INFO:
8pm with talkback to follow.
Pan-Andreas Theatre, 5119 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90038.
Reservations are not needed.
More info - https://www.facebook.com/events/1635032996514572/

"We've slightly altered our mission statement to develop not only work we plan to fully stage in the future, but interesting work we feel could benefit from development in a playwright-friendly environment," says Sean Abley, SkyPilot's new dramaturg and literary manager. "SkyPilot started out as a playwright-centric company, and we felt it was time to extend our reach beyond our mainstage season. We hope by supporting early drafts of work by a diverse group of playwrights and then sending them out into the world, we can do our part to contribute to a more diverse theatrical landscape in general."

SkyPilot Runway will include 6-8 readings a season. The process will include a rehearsed, fully staged, script-in- hand reading directed by a prominent Los Angeles theater director in partnership with the playwright and dramaturg, followed by a intensely focused feedback session after the reading moderated by the dramaturg. Playwrights must be in the Los Angeles area, and available for all rehearsals and the reading.

In addition to Singer's The Cave, SkyPilot Runway will present readings of Loss of Limb by Liz Shannon Miller (Lights Off, Eyes Closed), and a play currently being developed by SkyPilot company member, trans playwright Natalie Nicole Dressel (Raise Your Hand...From the Dead!). SPT is also seeking a female, African-American playwright in the Los Angeles area for a commissioned work which will move through the Runway process on its way to a mainstage production.

Los Angeles playwrights interested in having their work developed via the SkyPilot Runway track and/or commissioned work should submit the following:

o A copy of a full length play (no one-acts or musicals) including synopsis and any previous development of the work;
o a bio;
o and a statement of any length explaining their goals for the script;
o any past experience writing on commission (if interested in the commissioned work.)

Although there are no cast or technical limitations for SkyPilot Runway readings, playwrights wishing to be considered for a SkyPilot Theatre mainstage production should submit scripts with 6 or fewer characters, and minimal tech requirements.

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT

Daniel Rover Singer has been a theatrical impresario from the moment he looked up the word 'impresario' in the dictionary, founding his first company, General Amazement Theater in Santa Rosa, California, when he was just 18. Upon his return from studying "proper dramatic technique" in London, he became a director at the original Renaissance Pleasure Faire, where he founded the subversive Reduced Shakespeare Company, whose three-man farce The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) ran for a record-breaking nine years in London's West End and has since become one of the world's most popular comedy shows. In 1989 Mr. Singer hung up his doublet-and- hose to design theme park attractions at Walt Disney Imagineering, where he also co-founded the Flower Street Players, an in-house theater company for Disney employees. Since 2000 Mr. Singer has been a freelance designer, writer and event producer in Los Angeles. His latest play is A Perfect Likeness, a comedy about a fictional meeting between Lewis Carroll and Charles Dickens.

ABOUT SKYPILOT THEATER COMPANY

Founded in 2004, SkyPilot Theatre Company is a non-profit ensemble of resident playwrights, actors, directors and designers producing provocative, compelling and challenging new works for the Los Angeles theatre-going audience. 2010 saw SkyPilot shift gears away from producing revivals and towards writing and producing only original plays. Notable productions include Samathan Macher's To The New Girl and War Bride, Adam Hahn's Kong: A Goddamn Thirty-Foot Gorilla, Nathan Wellman's Inhale Harmonica, Liz Shannon Miller's Light's Off, Eyes Closed, Jeff Goode's The Emancipation Of Alabaster Mcgill, Greg Machlin's Keith Haring: Pieces of a Life, and Earthbound: An Electronica Musical by Adam Hahn (book), JoNathan Price (music), and Chana Wise (lyrics).

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