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CPT’s 11/12 Season

October 4th, 2011 No comments

CPT 2011/2012

Got the message below from Beth Wood, Associate Artistic Director, of CPT today. (I’ve modified and marked it up for my own diabolical purposes though.) (Also, as exciting as all this is, I’m really looking forward to Conni’s Avant Garde Restaurant…)

CPT is kicking off its 2011/2012 season with a new series, Springboard; a Staged Reading Festival that will feature eight new works. (I am proud to say that my play, Andrew Jackson ate my Homework will be one of them.)

  1. FREE BEER after the show on Fridays! (This will be happening ALL season too!)
  2. Raymond Bobgan and Chris Seibert will kick off Springboard by performing in the stage reading of Again and Against by Betty Shamieh this Thursday (October 6th) and Saturday (October 8th). I am looking forward to seeing Raymond on stage
  3. Springboard is striving to break the rules of conventional staged readings. There will be no actors just standing around and reading a play. Directors, playwrights and actors are “making bold, adventurous choices with each piece”. (Thank you very much) And everyone at CPT is truly striving to create the best possible production of each script within the confines of just a few rehearsals and minimal technical support (which is very impressive and demonstrates CPT’s commitment to new work).
  4. You get to see and experience more than Springboard. With a purchased ticket to any CPT performance this fall, you get free admission to Royal Ann’s Preserve, a performance installation created by Faye and Joan Hargate. According to Wood: “I experienced this piece at Pandemonium and it is beautiful and moving.” The installation is in the storefront just east of the box office and will be open a half hour before and after the show.
  5. Tickets to Springboard are only $10! Or you can purchase a pass to the entire festival for only $30. If you purchase a pass, you can come to the festival as many times as you want. Even if you don’t come to all eight of the readings, you could come to CPT for the next three Fridays, see some cool pieces in development, AND get FREE BEER after the show. As Wood notes: “You can’t beat that!!” (You really can’t)

Springboard runs October 6 – 23; Thursday – Saturday @ 7pm and Sundays @ 3pm.

If you come on Thursday, October 6th, there will be an opening reception for the series. There will be pizza, snacks and drinks at the reception.

Activities…

August 25th, 2011 No comments

I haven’t posted in a while so I thought I better get on the stick, as painful as that sounds, and do something about it. 

I have been busy, nevertheless, as hopefully my list of activities will indicate.  I felt that just blowing out a list of activities will suffice and then I can enhance the description of each as necessary.

June

Attended the Dramatist Guild conference, Playwrights in Mind, at George Mason in Fairfax, Virginia.

Applied for, and was accepted to, the Devised Theatre class at CPT.

Applied for, and was accepted to, Springboard at CPT.

  • Andrew Jackson ate my homework: a racial farce

July

Met with Peter Roth every Wednesday to discuss our proposed new theater and the notion of bringing live TV to theater… ha ha ha.  No, seriously.  Have been developing the story bible almost continuously this summer.

Attended the first meeting of the newly-born Bessemer Project: consisting of theatre artists, Rachel Baird, Michael Parsons, Peter Roth, Jaclyn Villano, Michael Geither, Michael Oatman, Michael Williams, Jarod Witkowski, Dan Riordan, Claire Robinson May, and myself.

August

Got a bite from Athena Theatre with a request for the full script for Lord of the Burgeoning Lumber (sent the synopsis two years ago!)

Applied for the Creative Workforce Grant through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture (hope the trend from June continues!)

Applied for an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist grant (hope the trend from June continues!)

September

Might be working with Jared Bendis on a written piece to supplement his work at Ingenuity.

I think that about covers it for now…

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