THE LOOKING GLASS WINTER 2007 WRITER/DIRECTOR FORUM
OPENS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29
** Semi-annual festival of news works runs November 29 - December 16 **
NEW YORK - The Winter 2007 Writer/Director Forum, a festival of workshop productions of plays featuring new writers and directors, runs Thursday, November 29 – Sunday, December 16 at The Looking Glass Theatre (422 West 57th Street).
The Looking Glass Writer/Director Forum is part of the company’s mission to reflect life on the stage with truth and theatricality while exploring a female vision/aesthetic. The festival is held twice a year at The Looking Glass Theatre. This year’s winter festival features the work of twelve emerging female directors tackling new works. Throughout the three-week festival, directors will present a wide range of styles in new works such as SPIRITS by Karin Diann Williams and PARADISE by Yasmine Rana.
Forum Audience Awards – weekly and overall, voted for by audience members – will be given for Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Production.
The primary lighting designer for the Winter 2007 Forum is The Looking Glass Theatre lighting designer-in-residence Ryan Metzler. The full performance schedule is as follows:
** WEEK 1: NOVEMBER 29 – DECEMBER 2 **
Assistant Directors/Stage Managers: Margot Fitzsimmons and Laura Neuhaus
CHICKEN WITH STARS by Lila Rose Kaplan, directed by Marie Darden
-- An everyday supermarket experience
PARADISE by Yasmine Rana, directed by Jacquelyn Honeybourne
-- The levees break in New Orleans forcing illegal Indian immigrants Meena and Raj to decide between daring to hope for life or coming to terms with death.
ICE FLOES by Kate McLeod, directed by Krystal Osborne
THE ANCIENT CURSE OF THE DRUID by Ruth Tyndall Baker, directed by Norah Turnham
-- A farcical feminine adventure featuring four very different sisters, a self-absorbed maternal muse, and a brother in way over his head.
** WEEK 2: DECEMBER 6-9 **
Assistant Directors/Stage Managers: Jennifer Browne & Becca Hutton
ALL IN MY HEAD by Terri McKinstry, directed by Chanda Calentine
LOSING IT by Judith Pratt, directed by Leigh Hile
-- “This stuff, it goes back through all my lives. It reminds me of who I thought I could be.”
A BUTHMAN FAMILY DINNER by Stephanie Timm, directed by Carly Hirschberg
THE INQUISTION by Robin Reese, directed by Holly Nañes
-- Learning how to accept the truth, forgive and move on can take an eternity in Purgatory
** WEEK 3: DECEMBER 13-16 **
Assistant Director/Stage Manager: Laura Pestronk
CARDBOARD BOX by Celia McBride, directed by Toby Bercovici
-- Come dream in two dimensions
DAMNATION by Jean K. Hedgecock, directed by Natalie Golonka
-- “Perfect things need to be taken special care of so that they stay perfect.”
ZACHARY ZWILLINGER EATS PEOPLE by Lauren D. Yee, directed by Audrey Neddermann
-- “Love Kills, Love Consumes”
SPIRITS by Karin Diann Williams, directed by Erin Winebark
Two ghosts hold the key to happiness for the living...if only they could remember what it was…
Casts Include: Melisa Annis, Regina Bartkoff, Jenifer Borntrager, Marie Buck, J. Dolan Byrnes, Joane Cajuste, Joe Cappelli, Leigh Ellen Caudill, Cassandra Cruz, Aneesah Dambreville, Amy Dellagiarino, Griffin Dubois, Russell Feder, Meg Flaherty, Candice Fortin, Dee Frazier, Charles Graytok, Tom Hedlund, Dennis Hruska, Beth Jastroch, Ben Harrison, Lucas Kavner, Meagan Kenney, Jeff Kitrosser , Kristen Kittel, Barrie Kreinik, Amanda Marino, Catherine McCurry, Helen McTernan, Hank Offinger, Craig O’Brien, Erin Blair O’Malley, Cheri Paige, Daphne Peterson-VanKanegan, Michael Rachlis, Maya Ray, Julia Rousseau, JD Scalzo, Alec Scott, Dana Shaw, Zarina Shea, Sarah Billington Stevens, Julia Susman, Rebecca Tello, Jamie Lea Thompson, and Rachael Villacis.
About The Looking Glass Theatre…
The Looking Glass Theatre’s mission is to explore and expand the feminine aesthetic, producing works by historic female playwrights, new works by women, and productions of the classics re-imagined by contemporary women directors. In June 2006, The Looking Glass Theatre and Artistic Director Justine Lambert received The Lucille Lortel Award from The League of Professional Theatre Women. Additionally, New York Resident named Ms. Lambert one of the Top 100 New Yorkers of 2003 for her work with the company.
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THE LOOKING GLASS WINTER FORUM
November 29 – December 16, 2007
SCHEDULE: Thursday - Saturday @ 7:30PM, Sunday @ 5PM
TICKET PRICE: $15 general admission; $12 seniors/students with valid ID
ADDRESS: 422 West 57th Street, between 9th and 10th Avenues
SUBWAYS: A, C, B, D, 1 to 59th/Columbus Circle; N, R, W, Q to 57th/7th
INFO PHONE: (212) 307-9467
TDF Vouchers Accepted!