Harvardwood Actors' Program Hosts Reading of Billy Goda's The Cretan Bull

The Harvardwood Actors' Program, in association with The American Repertory Theatre / Moscow Art Theatre Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University Alumni Association will present a reading of Billy Goda's screenplay The Cretan Bull.

Monday November 21st
7:00 PM - please arrive a little early to grab a drink and find a seat

Solas Bar
2nd floor seating area - no elevator access
232 E 9th St
Free admission - suggested 1 drink minimum

No reservations needed, seating is first come first serve on the upper level.

Sixty year old Marvin Freeman no longer wants to live and has fifty million dollars to leave behind. Marvin creates a series of life and death tests to find someone worthy of all that money, someone who will not commit the act he once did. Enter Jake Rivers, a young man whose life will hang in the balance, for he has peaked Marvin's interest.

*Doug Goodenough - Marvin Freeman
*Ed Walsh - Jim Sweeny
*Gardiner Comfort - Jake Rivers
*Anna Rahn - Wife, Christy
*Chudney Sykes - Janet
*Paul Murillo - Ted, Max, Hank, Vinny, Crumb, Lawyer, Child #1,
*Adam Kern - Mike, Joe, Young Man, Steve, Officer, Carpenter, Doorman
Gina Goodenough - Stage Directions

All actors are members of Actors' Equity Association and are alumni from The American Repertory Theatre / Moscow Art Theatre Institute at Harvard MFA program.

Billy Goda - Billy's play "Dust" was produced Off-Broadway at The Westside Theatre and was directed by Scott Zigler. "Dust" was published by Samuel French, Inc. His other plays have been seen at such venues as The SoHo Playhouse, New World Stages, and The Actors Studio. Billy has received writer's grants for his plays "Final Appeal" and "Dust," as well as being honored with awards for screenwriting for his scripts "The
Cretan Bull" and "Two Arm Bandit." His short play "No Crime" was published in "The Best American Short Plays" series and in the college textbook "Literature: Reading, Writing, Reacting, 6th Edition." Billy is excited to be part of the Harvardwood Play Reading Series. Billy received his MFA in playwrighting from Columbia University.

PAST projects of the Harvardwood group include The Pilot Season Survival Guide, a reading of Marc Sulley's Last of the Navesink River Divers, Beth McGee's The Possessions of Mary Todd Lincoln, Kate Mulley's screenplay Zandy, Elana Zucker's screenplay The Weathergirl and Kelly McAllister's screenplay Burning Man

For more information email Adam Kern at hapnyc@gmail.com

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