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The feature-length documentary, "The Faun Experiment" has been selected to participate in IFP's, Independent Film Week. This market is a great opportunity for the film to be "shopped" in front of potential producers and distributors. http://www.ifp.org/about Stay tuned as things develop... My company, The Apothetae has been invited to workshop and present four new plays at the Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts annual Page to Stage Festival. Local D.C. actors and directors will work with myself and The Apothetae's four playwrights over four days. Selections from all four plays will be presented to the public on Saturday, September 1st, at 4pm. For more information check out this link. http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc-theater/news/08-2012/american-ensemble-theater-essential-theater-metros_60680.html I have been invited to participate in the Kennedy Center's MFA Playwriting Workshop this July 23rd-29th in Washington D.C. I will be helping to develop two plays; "Colossal" by Andrew Hinderaker and "The Igloo Settlement" by Daniel Sauermilch. This workshop is an experiment to incorporate an undergraduate playwright, an award recipient in the Kennedy Center’s Michael Kanin Playwriting Awards program, into the MFA Playwrights’ workshop process. I am pleased to announce that I have started my own theatre company! The Apothetate, is dedicated to the production of full length plays dealing with the "Disabled Experience. All information can be found on the company website www.theapothetae.org In addition to the website, the company also has a Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/TheApothetae Please follow us and take a moment to, "LIKE" us. This is a very exciting new venture for me, and I very much look forward to sharing it with you- Gregg A reading of Emily Chaddick Weiss' "Good Dancer" at The Ensemble Studio Theatre Wednesday June 13, 2012. Directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel With Kristen Griffith, Mike Hodge, Geany Masai, Gregg Mozgala, Scott Sowers and Ali StrokerPart of "Bloodwork," Youngblood's annual new full-length reading series. http://ensemblestudiotheatre.org/programs/youngblood/ The story of a wealthy, white disabled guy, his black girlfriend and the meeting of their parents... "Good Dancer" will be developed and workshopped at The Kennedy Center's Page To Stage Festival later this Summer...and I'll be there! On Saturday, 2/9/12 Theatre Breaking Through Barriers presented a "lightly staged" reading of the first two acts of William Shakespeare's THE MERCHANT OF VENCIE at the Jewish Community Center on Manhattan's upper west side as part of the ReelAbilities Film Fesival. It was a pleasure to take part in an event that honors the work of disabled artists and fimmakers, and it was very exciting to start work on a challenging and exciting play. The full production will be presented Off-Broadway this Spring on Theatre Row. Last week I recorded Arlene Hutton's LAST TRAIN TO NIBROC for Northeast Public Radio's, Playing On Air. I had the pleasure of working with Mamie Gummer and Toni Award winning director, John Rando. Playing On Air, is a program for public radio that features two or three short plays followed by an interview with their playwright. Northeast Public Radio; a consortium of ten public radio stations covering large areas of Massachusetts, Vermont and New York as well as northwest Connecticut and bits of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New Hampshire; is airing the program starting this March. More stations will follow. They have already recorded Christopher Durang's Mrs. Sorken performed by Dana Ivey; Peter Sagal's Milton Bradley with Bob Balaban and Michael Stuhlbarg; Sheri Wilner's Relative Strangers with Julie Halston, Debra Monk and Merritt Wever; Alexandra Gersten-Vasillaros' Two Jewish Men in their Seventies with Jerry Stiller and Bob Dishy; Tennessee Williams' The Strangest Kind of Romance with Kathleen Turner, Michael Stuhlbarg, Matthew Cowles; Lesley Ayvazian's There You Are with Olympia Dukakis and Maria Tucci; Jacquelyn Reingold's Dear Kenneth Blake with Matthew Cowles and Jodi Long; Cary Pepper's Small Things with Jack Wetherall and Bobby Steggert; Susan Sandler's The Burial Society with Anne Meara, George Morfogen and Jerry Stiller; a Frank Gilroy play with a cast of 11; Romulus Linney's Good-bye, Howard with Lois Smith, Frances Sternhagen, Dana Ivey and Scott Sowers; Naveen Bahar Choudhury's Skin with Vandit Bhatt and Nitya Vidyasagar; Cusi Cram's West of Stupid with J. Smith-Cameron and Alfredo Narciso; Cori Thomas' Waking Up with Lynette Freeman and Amy Staats; David Cale's Elizabeth with James Lecesne. About to be recorded are Alexandra Gersten's Open Arms with Bill Irwin and Julie White; and, of course, Arlene Hutton's Last Train to Nibroc . The purpose of Playing On Air is to introduce playwrights and performers to a broad American audience via the short play. Public radio provides easy entry to theater for Americans with limited time, cash and access while cultivating an audience for the playwrights' larger body of work and for theater itself. My play SEX ON WHEELS was part of the Kennedy Center's 10th annual Page To Stage Festival on September 5, 2011. The reading was sponsored by VSA Arts, The American College Theatre Festival and Open Source Theatre. SEX ON WHEELS was directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel. The cast consisted of Christopher Dinolfo, Christopher Dwyer, James Flanagan, Christopher Imbrosciano, Rana Kathleen Kay and Ali Stroker. We even got a small write up! http://mdtheatreguide.com/2011/09/reflections-on-page-to-stage-at-the-kennedy-center-sex-on-wheels-signature-theatre-at-millennium-stage-and-peter-pan-the-boy-who-hated-mothers-on-september-5-2011/weeblylink_new_window |
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