March 2008 Archives

DRAMATIS PERSONAE WORKSHOP

Creating Visual Metaphor with Sherry Kramer

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 @ 7:00 PM
Daugherty Arts Center, Conference Room B
1110 Barton Springs Rd.
$15 ASW/ $25 General

Information and reservations at:
info@scriptworks.org or 454-9727

How do we make the ordinary into the extraordinary? How do we create something that can carry meaning across the stage, into the audience and then out of the theatre, all the way home, and into the lives of these strangers who come, to sit together in the dark? How do we generate a magical object on stage?

A two hour workshop about making a magical object on stage.

Participants should come to the workshop prepared to discuss August Wilson's THE PIANO LESSON, and to write.

About Sherry Kramer:

Sherry Kramer's work has been seen at theaters across the country and abroad, including the Humana Festival at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, InterAct Theatre, Yale Repertory Theater, Soho Rep, Ensemble Studio Theater, New York's Second Stage, The Woolly Mammoth, The Tokyo International Arts Festival, and The Theater of the First Amendment. She is a recipient of N E A, New York Foundation for the Arts and McKnight Fellowships, the Weissberger Playwriting Award and a New York Drama League Award (WHAT A MAN WEIGHS), the L A Women in Theater New Play Award (THE WALL OF WATER), and the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award (DAVID'S REDHAIRED DEATH), and a commission from A.S.K (THE MAD MASTER.) Other plays include: WHEN SOMETHING WONDERFUL ENDS, THINGS THAT BREAK, ABOUT SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION, NAPOLEON'S CHINA (music theatre piece with Ann Haskell and Rebecca Newton), THE MASTER AND MARGARITA (music theatre adaptation with composer Margaret Pine), THE RELEASE OF A LIVE PERFORMANCE, PARTIAL OBJECTS, THE WORLD AT ABSOLUTE ZERO, HOLD FOR THREE, BEFORE AND AFTER, NANO AND NICKI IN BOCA RATON, THE LONG ARMS OF JUPITER, THE RULING PASSION, THE END OF RADIO, THE LAW MAKES EVENING FALL, and THE BAY OF FUNDY: An Adaptation of One Line of the Mayor of Casterbridge. She was the first national member of New Dramatists, and teaches playwriting at Bennington College, and in the MFA programs of the Iowa Playwrights Workshop and the Michener Center for Writers, UT Austin.

DYNAMO FROM DALLAS by Michael Michaelian
Sunday March 30, 2008 @ 6:30 PM
Featuring Babs George

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The Austin Center for Religious Science
4701 Westgate Blvd, Ste A-103
Austin, TX 78745
The Center is located across the street from the Westgate Theaters in the white stone office buildings (Westgate Professional Center) around the corner from Central Market South in South Austin.

Detailed directions and map available on the website: www.austincrs.net.

ABOUT THE PLAY:

Dynamo From Dallas is a one woman play celebrating the life of Judge Sarah T. Hughes of Dallas, Texas. Hers is the story of a woman who was underestimated by everyone but herself. Yet the list of her major accomplishments is a staggering series of firsts: the first woman state judge in the South (at a time women weren't allowed to serve on juries) - 1935, at age 38; the first woman to be placed in nomination for Vice-President -1952; the first woman appointed a Federal District Court judge -1961; the first woman to swear in a President of the United States, Lyndon Johnson -1963. She won her against-the-odds victories by the strength and determination of her personality, on the merits of her skills and professionalism, and by her fearlessness. The reading features Babs George as Judge Hughes.

ABOUT MICHAEL MICHAELIAN:
Michael Michaelian has been a screenwriter and playwright for 35 years. His career began with multiple episodes of "Kung Fu" in 1973 and continued with hour episodes of such TV series as "Barnaby Jones", "Hawaii 5-0", "Charlie's Angels", "Fantasy Island", "Dukes of Hazzard", and "Star Trek: The Next Generation", just to name a few. He also wrote and co-produced the miniseries, "Roughnecks", which starred Harry Morgan and Vera Miles; adapted Paul Gallico's "Miracle in the Wilderness" for TNT, which starred Kris Kristofferson and Kim Cattrall; and wrote "The Black Fox" for CBS, which starred Christopher Reeve. As a playwright, his adaptation of Christopher Isherwood's "A Single Man" opened at the Greenwich Theatre in London in June of 1990 and starred Alec McCowen. His comedy "Fertility Rights" was produced by the Arizona Theatre Company in both Tucson and Phoenix in 1993. "Dynamo from Dallas" is his third full length play.

ASW provides Seed Support funding to members on a quarterly basis, as available. New funding guidelines and an application are available on our Programs page. The next application deadline is April 1, 2008.

KEY CHANGES
ASW's 10th Annual Out of Ink Festival
The Blue Theater
916 Springdale Road
April 3-5 and 10-12 at 8 PM
Tickets $12 general admission, $10 students/seniors/ASW/ACoT
April 3 is a Pay-What-You-Wish preview

A global pop ballad, a Christmas carol, a golden oldie, a 20th century piano work and a plethora of Broadway show tunes. At Austin Script Works, we've got the music in us and we're teaching the world to sing in KEY CHANGES, the 10th annual Out of Ink ten-minute play showcase. Eight plays were selected from submissions created during a 48-hour writing retreat, called the Weekend Fling. During the Fling, writers are given three "ingredients" and two days to write their hearts out and create a ten-minute play.

This year each play had to include:

1. A character with a secret they are trying to hide
2. A piece of music, some of which may have been forgotten
3. A radical physical transformation (be it of person, place or thing.)

At the end of the Fling, the plays were read in an ASW Salon at the State Theater. A selection committee picked eight of the plays to produce in the Out of Ink Festival. This year's ingredients were contributed by playwright Daniel Alexander Jones, actor/director Jenny Larson, and Megan Monaghan, Literary Manager at South Coast Rep. The selection committee included ASW co-founding Core Alum, David Gunderson; playwright and ASW member, Kendall Lynch; and costume designer, Pamela Fletcher-Friday.

The KEY CHANGES scripts were written by:
Katherine Catmull, Vicki Caroline Cheatwood, Elizabeth Cobbe, Aimée Gonzalez, Meg Haley, Marshall Maresca, Sarah Saltwick and Tom Sime. The plays will be performed by an ensemble of actors including Mick D'Arcy, Jamison Drikill, Gina Houston, Hannah Kenah, Alan Lester, Nicole Marosis, Kayla Newman, Andrew Varenhorst, Jose Villarreal, Zeb L. West, and Amanda Yilmaz. They'll be directed by Emily Fordyce, T.J. Gonzales, Christina J. Moore and Ginger Morris.