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Austin Script Works is an organization that supports Central Texas playwrights by providing opportunities at all stages in the writing process, from inception through production with a variety of programming.

NOVEMBER SALON

NOVEMBER SALON

THE HAPPY COUPLE by James Venhaus
Sunday, November 16 @6:30 pm
The State Theatre
719 Congress Ave.

A young lawyer and his wife return to the house that they rented while he attended law school. A lot has changed in ten years. Squatters now occupy the house and won't let the happy couple leave. By the time the sun comes up, no one's life will be the same.

ABOUT JAMES VENHAUS

James Venhaus is a playwright, actor, director and educator. His plays include award winning one-acts Inside the Loop and The Temple of Dionysus, 10-minute plays, The First Christmas, Santa's Little Helper, Amy's Last Shift, and Three Kings, full length plays The Happy Couple and Weird Sisters, and plays for young audiences Romeo and Juliet at Verona High and The Top Hand of Lone Tree Ranch. His work has been performed off-off Broadway at 13th Street Repertory Company, and in theatres across the country including, Ground Zero Theater Company, Audacity Productions, and Junior Players (Dallas), SUNY Brockport (New York), Killing My Lobster (San Francisco) and Loyola University (New Orleans). He holds a B.F.A. in Theatre from Southwestern University and a Masters of Arts in Teaching from Austin College. He lives in San Antonio, Texas with his wife and daughters.

The annual Weekend Fling is a playwriting retreat at which members have 48 hours to write a 10 minute play using 3 arbitrary ingredients. This year's ingredients are being contributed by Michael John Garces, Artistic Director of Cornerstone Theatre in Los Angeles, writer/performer Sharon Bridgforth, and local designer and producer, Natalie George.

ASW members will retreat to a ranch in New Braunfels, TX on the banks of the Guadalupe River to relax, recharge, and release the Muse on October 24th. The freshly written scripts will be read at the Fling Salon on Sunday, October 26th at 5:30 at the State Theatre. The public is welcome at the Salon.

8-10 plays written at the Weekend Fling will be produced in the Out of Ink 10 Minute Play Showcase in April 2009 at the Blue Theatre.

For more information about the Weekend Fling or any ASW programs, email info@scriptworks.org

Austin Playhouse is hosting a benefit performance of Cyndi William's Dug Up next Thursday night, October 16th at 8:00. Cyndi is one of the co-founding Core members of ASW and an award-winning playwright and actress. This premiere production of Dug Up received funding from ASW's Finer Point Fund and the benefit will help to replenish the fund.

AUSTIN PLAYHOUSE presents

DUG UP by Cyndi Williams
October 10 - November 2, 2008
Thursday- Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 5pm

Austin Playhouse, Larry L. King Theatre
3601 S. Congress, Bldg. C
All tickets are $20; student tickets are $10
Box office: 512-476-0084
www.austinplayhouse.com

Inspired by love, loss, and Tennessee Williams, the play creates an off-kilter world deep in Louisiana's bayou country. In the middle of this nowhere land a once great old house has been converted into "a unique and romantic escape for couples seeking solitude in nature." The inn is run by Dewitt and his aunt, the last living members of the Rutherford clan. As the play opens, Dewitt has taken to living like an animal in the courtyard, a sexy and mysterious guest who may have just killed her husband has checked in, and the bones Dewitt has carefully buried may be washing away. Also, his dead twin sister is coming home.

Dug Up is directed by King Theatre Artistic Director, Lara Toner (Women Who Steal, Moonlight and Magnolias) and features Jude Hickey, Jessie Tilton, and Liz Fisher.

Dug Up contains adult language, mature content, copious consumption of hurricanes, and real animal bones.

TRANSGRESSING FORM
A workshop taught by Sharon Bridgforth

Saturday, October 18, 2008
10AM - 12:30PM

State Theatre
719 Congress Ave.

ASW $15 / General $25

INFO/RESERVATIONS:
512.454.9727; christi@scriptworks.org

TRANSGRESSING FORM is a workshop focusing on the process of creating interdisciplinary theatre. Poets/dancers/spoken word artists/hip hop artists interested in translating their work for theatre welcome.

ABOUT SHARON BRIDGFORTH
Sharon Bridgforth is the Lambda Award winning author of the bull-jean stories , and love conjure/blues, both published by RedBone Press. Bridgforth has broken ground in the creation and presentation of the performance/novel and in doing so has advanced the articulation of the Jazz aesthetic as it lives in theatre.

A two time Alpert Award Nominee in the Arts in Theatre, Bridgforth is the recipient of the 2008 Alpert/Hedgebrook Residency Prize. Bridgforth's work has been anthologized and produced widely and has received support from the National Endowment For The Arts Commissioning Program; The National Endowment For The Arts/Theatre Communications Group Playwright in Residence Program; National Performance Network; and the Rockefeller Foundation Multi-Arts Production Fund Award. Bridgforth's work has presented nationally at venues including:the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis, MN., The Theatre Offensive Out on The Edge Festival in Boston, MA., LaPena in Berkeley, CA., The Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, Penumbra Theatre Company in St. Paul, MN

Bridgforth is currently touring delta dandi, a National Performance Network Creation Fund Project co-commissioned by Women & Their Work, in partnership with Center On Halsted and the National Performance Network.

MOSES OF THE BULRUSHES (a divine comedy) by Steve Warren
Sunday, September 28th @ 6:30pm
The State Theatre
719 Congress Ave.

The orphan Moses, abandoned as a baby in a basket on the river by his mother, possesses divine powers but doesn't know it yet even at age 17, because he has been raised by the stuttering, backwoods, river-washing former preacher Monroe Gifford and his two ugly sons who believe Moses is cursed for being born out of wedlock. Abused by his adopted family, Moses soon escapes with the help of wheelchair-ridden Granny Hannah and sets out on his Path to Glory, but when the ugly boys discover Moses has the deed to Granny's farm that Monroe desires, they pursue Moses with a vengeance.

ABOUT STEVE WARREN:

A former navy pilot and high school English teacher, Steve Warren retired eight years ago to dedicate his time to writing. He has had five stage plays produced around the country and four short screenplays made into films. One feature screenplay has been optioned while others have won or placed in national contests.