We’ve done it before and it’s always a treat to see unstaged readings of new plays by interesting Brooklyn playwrights.
This year’s event, curated by Rosemary Moore, who has her pulse on the best and brightest playwrights around, should be FANTASTIC. Stimulating plays, good actors, playwrights on site to answer questions.
You don’t want to miss. So here are the ‘tails:
On Thursday, October 21 at 8PM Brooklyn Reading Works at The Old Stone House presents:
New Plays by Brooklyn Playwrights (or three playwrights and a composer to be exact) curated by Rosemary Moore.
The Old Stone House is located on Fifth Avenue and Third Street in Park Slope. Suggested donation of $5 includes refreshments and wine. Q&A will follow the readings.
The following playwrights will present unstaged readings of their works:
Barbara Cassidy “Anthropology of a Book Club”
Joseph Goodrich “Mare’s Nest”
Lizzie Olesker 10,000 SPECIES
And a composer/ lyricist
Mary Lloyd-Butler “Hide and Seek”
Bios:
Mary Lloyd-Butler, composer, lives in Brooklyn, New York. She wrote music for “Mr. Squee-kee’s Super-Ultra-Clean Laundromat of Waking Dreams” which was performed last month at the Philly Fringe Festival. Her one-act musical, “The Happiness of Fish” was produced twice at the Bridewell Theatre in London and three of her arrangements for violin and piano, written for her students at Berkeley Carroll, have been published by C.F. Peters.
Barbara Cassidy received her MFA from Brooklyn College where she studied playwriting with Mac Wellman. Her play Interim is in the anthology New Downtown Now and was nominated for the Barrie Stavis Award. Her plays have been seen at The Flea Theater, Playwrights’ Horizons, Dixon Place, Bric Studios and Little Theater.
Joseph Goodrich is an alumnus of New Dramatists and an active member of the Mystery Writers of America. His plays have been produced across the United States and in Australia, and published by Samuel French, Playscripts, Applause Books, Back Stage Books, the Padua Hills Press, and others. Panic was awarded the 2008 Edgar Award for Best Play.
Lizzie Olesker has had her plays developed and presented at the Public Theater, Clubbed Thumb, Here/New Georges, the Ohio Theater (with the Talking Band) and the Cherry Lane Theater. She teaches playwriting at NYU & Swarthmore College and was a recent resident at the Blue Mountain Center. Her play GOWANUS GIRL was presented at the Old Stone House with the Neighborhood Theater for Kids.
ON THE HORIZON at BROOKLYN READING WORKS
November 11, 2010 at 8PM: BRW is thrilled to present fiction writing an memoir from writers who are veterans of Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan featuring Juri Jurjevics, Roy Scranton, Matt Gallagher, Philip Klay and Jake Sigal
December 16, 2010: Feast: Writers on Food. Curated by Michele Madigan Somerville (an annual benefit for the soup kitchen at St. Augustine’s Roman Catholic Church in Park Slope)
January 20, 2011: The Truth and Oral History (the double life of the interview) The curator, John Guidry, writes: “Stories do not tell themselves. Even once they are told and recorded, stories need some help to be heard and live in the world. This month’s Brooklyn Reading Works will look at the processes by which people collect stories and use them to tell stories. We will have panelists who use oral history practices to document our world and the lives we lead, and the conversation will explore the work it takes to make stories interesting and give them legs to stand on, as it were. Panelists will represent and explore several different genres and styles of the oral historian’s craft, from traditional first-person historical storytelling to the mediations of photography, marketing, multimedia, and social advocacy—as well as stories of how collecting stories ultimately affects the lives of oral historians as authors and curators of the human experience.”
February 17, 2011: Memoirathon
Curated by Branka Ruzak
March 17, 2011: Blarneypalooza
Curated by Michele Madigan Somerville
April 14, 2011: In the Year of the Rabbit: Voices from the East
Curated by Sophia Romero
May 19, 2011: Edgy Mother’s Day
Edgy, funny and raw writing from moms and about moms. Curated by Louise Crawford and Sophia Romero
June 16, 2011: Fiction in a Blender
Curated by Martha Southgate