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I Interview Playwrights Part 259: Gary Garrison

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Gary Garrison

Hometown: Orange, Texas

Current Town: Westport, Connecticut

Q:  What are you working on now?

A:  For work (at the Dramatists Guild), the first national conference for playwrights scheduled for next June in Fairfax, Virginia. Can't wait. How c...

I Interview Playwrights Part 258: Saviana Stanescu

Saviana Stanescu

Hometown: Bucharest, Romania?

Hmm, Bucharest is actually my birth-town, I kinda hesitate to still consider it my hometown after almost 10 years of living in NYC… a hometown should be a town/city where you feel at home, where you pay rent to have a home :), where you struggle to pay that rent, and that's New York for me now…

Plus, over there in Romania I spent my childhood raised by my grandparents in Curtea-de-Arges (Arges-Court, the first capital of Walachia), then my parents...

I Interview Playwrights Part 257: Brian Bauman

Brian Bauman

Hometown:
I was born in a naval hospital in Groton, Connecticut. My family relocated often in my early childhood. My father was a supply officer on a nuclear submarine and the family would trail him as he moved from port to port.. I spent the longest part of my childhood in Burnt Hills, New York.

Current Town:
New York City

Q:  What are you working on now?

A:  I am writing a new play called A CRUCIBLE which is a riff on Arthur Miller's THE CRUCIBLE. The play's structure is a 9-mo...

upcoming this month part 2

oh, also this:

The 4th Annual New York One-Minute Play Festival 80+Plays. 40+ Playwrights. 30+Actors. 7 Directors. 1 Minute. At the Astoria Performing Arts CenterGood Shepherd United Methodist 30-44 Crescent St (@30th Rd)Astoria, NY, 11102 September 25th & 26th, 2010, 8:00 PMTickets are $18/ $12 Seniors & Studentsfor tickets and info visit: www.apacny.org It's theater boiled down to its essence. Sixty Seconds from lights up to lights down. The much-anticipated short-form theatre festival r...

upcoming, this month

1.

Reading of Hearts Like Fists 
at Flux Theater Ensemble's Food:Soul


8pm
Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square Park (Corner of Thompson Street) New York, NYFood:Soul features good food, good company, and a fully staged reading of a play Flux is passionate about developing and sharing with you - all for free!



The Play: HEARTS LIKE FISTS by Adam Szymkowicz

The Director: Keith Powell

 ...Dinner is at 7:30pm and the stage reading starts at 8:00pm (play runs 90min)
If some of you are itching...

I Interview Playwrights Part 256: Mark Harvey Levine

Mark Harvey Levine

Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA

Current Town: Pasadena, CA

Q: Tell me about "Cabfare For The Common Man"

A: It's kind of like my first "album". I took a bunch of ten minute plays that I had written, and picked out the very best. The last play has the same title as the whole collection -- I really did want it to be like a record album. Er, CD. I mean a collection of mp3s. Anyway, it's an evening of romantic comedies. Some are naturalistic, some more stylized. Not every play is abo...

I Interview Playwrights Part 255: Lisa Soland

Lisa Soland

Hometown:  I grew up in a small town of only 350 people, but still knew the horses and the woods better than the individuals who lived there – Northern, Illinois.

Current Town:  Los Angeles.

Q:  What are you working on now?

A:  Last week the director Charles R. Miller and I cast an evening of works of mine entitled "MEET CUTE," which is a collection of six short plays on the topic of "boy meets girl" in a unique and cute fashion, and then hopefully falling in love. It opens at Pel...

I Interview Playwrights Part 254: Sigrid Gilmer

Sigrid Gilmer

Hometown:  Pittsburg, California.

Current Town:  Pasadena, California

Q:  Tell me about your show with Cornerstone.

A:  It's All Bueno was written for Cornerstone's 7th Summer Institute that was stationed in Pacoima, California. The Institute is a program where theatre makers, social activist and students come, hang out, learn the Cornerstone methodology and help make a play. Based on Candide, It's All Bueno was inspired by the two diametrically opposed ideas that I kept running ...

I Interview Playwrights Part 253: Anthony Weigh

Anthony Weigh

Hometown: Brisbane, Australia.

Current Town: New York.

Q: What are you working on now?

A: New commissions for The National Theatre, the Sydney Theatre Company, the Melbourne Theatre Company and Malthouse Theatre. Hopefully they won't all end up as one big really awful play.

Q: What was it like being in residence at the National?

A: Absolutely terrific. I was writer in residence at the NT for a year. I learnt a huge amount. Part of the position requires that you sit on the associ...

I Interview Playwrights Part 252: Maria Alexandria Beech

Maria Alexandria Beech

Hometown:  Anaco, Venezuela

Current Town:  Manhattan

Q:  What are you working on now?

A:  I'm writing a commissioned play for Primary Stages and Theatre Masters based on the Aspen Ideas Festival which I attended last summer. I'm also working Little Monsters which will be co-produced (with Primary) at Brandeis Theatre Company next February. Little Monsters is also part of Octoberfest at Ensemble Studio Theatre in September so I'm trying to get the play in shape for that. I'm...