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TEN-MINUTE PLAYS
March 27 & 28
in the Pamela Brown Auditorium
Complete Festival Calendar
TICKETS
Tickets are $37—Call the Box Office at 502-584-1205.
APPROXIMATE PERFORMANCE TIME
Forty minutes with no intermission.
AUDIENCE ADVISORIES
Recommended for ages high school and up
Contains strong language
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Let Bygones Be
by Gamal Abdel Chasten
Against an American landscape of endless highway and abandoned railroad tracks, Chasten blends poetry with bluegrass, folk and zydeco in this nostalgic story about progress and its price.
Gamal Abdel Chasten joins Actors for the fourth time. Mr. Chasten first came
to Actors Theatre as a member of Rhythmicity, then as a cast member of UNIVERSES’
Slanguage, and just last year as a playwright and performer of UNIVERSES’ Ameriville.
Mr. Chasten’s writing credits include The Last Word at PS 122, and God Took Away
His Poem at the Abrons Arts Center. Mr. Chasten has been commissioned along with
UNIVERSES for Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s 2010 American Revolutions: the United
States History Cycle. He has also written two screenplays, Red Moon and Joe Bloe, which he
is currently shopping.
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Lobster Boy
by Dan Dietz
A boy hatches a plan to cure his younger brother, who was born without the capacity for pain, in this haunting play about the things we just can’t feel.
Dan Dietz's plays include tempOdyssey, Tilt Angel, Americamisfit and The
Sandreckoner. Lobster Boy marks his fourth production at Actors Theatre, and his second
time being honored with the Heideman Award. Regional Theatre: Shadowgrass (Guthrie
Theater). Off-Broadway: tempOdyssey (2005 Summer Play Festival). Other Theatre:
Productions at Curious Theatre Company, New Jersey Repertory Company, Phoenix
Theatre, Salvage Vanguard Theater, The Studio Theatre, Theater Schmeater, and Tiyatro-Z
(Istanbul, Turkey). Additional credits: Mr. Dietz has been a National Endowment for
the Arts/Theatre Communications Group Theatre Residency Program for Playwrights
recipient, a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere recipient, a Josephine Bay
Paul Fellow and a James A. Michener Fellow, and has been nominated for the Weissberger
Award and the American Theatre Critics Association Steinberg Award. Mr. Dietz
currently teaches playwriting at Florida State University. |
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Post Wave Spectacular
by Diana Grisanti
Three plucky women, united by one man’s addictive charms, invite his latest conquest Jessica to tea. When the party becomes an intervention, this sudden sisterhood takes a turn.
Diana Grisanti, a Louisville native and former Actors Theatre literary intern, is a
first-year James A. Michener Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin and graduate of
the University of Iowa. Ms. Grisanti’s plays Sunday Ballooning and Gathering Note were
produced by Actors Theatre’s 2006-2007 Apprentice Company. Her adaptation of 1,001
Nights was commissioned and produced by Walden Theatre. Currently, Ms. Grisanti is
writing a musical about Kentucky basketball with composer/lyricist Matt Schatz. As a
dramaturg, she has worked on new plays by Sherry Kramer, Alice Tuan, Carlos Murillo
and W. David Hancock. For the two years prior to relocating to Austin, Ms. Grisanti lived
in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where she worked as a teacher and translator.
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An Examination of the Whole Playwright/
Actor Relationship Presented
As Some Kind of Cop Show Parody
by Greg Kotis
A playwright has written a bad play; the actors want to know why. This scribe better talk, or some bad theater will happen. Real bad.
Greg Kotis is the author of many plays and musicals, including Yeast Nation (Book/
Lyrics), The Truth About Santa, Pig Farm, Eat the Taste, Urinetown (Book/Lyrics, for
which he won an Obie Award and two Tony Awards) and Jobey and Katherine. Mr. Kotis’
work has been produced and developed in theatres across the country and around the
world, including Actors Theatre, American Conservatory Theater, American Theater
Company, Henry Miller’s Theatre, the Musical Theater Center, New York Stage and Film,
Perseverance Theatre , Roundabout Theatre Company, Soho Repertory Theater, South
Coast Repertory and The Old Globe, among others. Mr. Kotis is a member of the Neo-
Futurists, the Cardiff Giant Theater Company, American Society of Composers, Authors
and Publishers and the Dramatists Guild. He grew up in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, and
now lives in Brooklyn with his wife Ayun Halliday, his daughter India and his son Milo.
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