The 15/20s: Staged Readings of New Works (2009-2010 Season)

The 15/20s: Staged Readings of New Works is a reading series that introduces APAC audiences to new work and writers, involving them in the creative process of developing theatre. The readings allow writers the opportunity to hear their material with the involvement of professional actors and a director, encouraging the further development of new American plays and musicals.

The 15/20s are produced under the AEA Staged Reading Guidelines, which permits 15 hours of combined rehearsal and performance time for AEA actors (20 for musicals), hence the name “The 15/20s”.


DEAD AND BURIED
By James McLindon

Directed by Dominic D’Andrea

March 11, 2010

Three people working in a graveyard. A missing mother, a missing father, a missing child. In this dark comedy, three cemetery workers, searching for what they’ve lost, find each other instead.

Stage Manager: Kristine Schlachter

featuring
Margot Bercy, Matt Dickson*, Victoria Wylie

THE FINAL JEW
By Alex Goldberg

Directed by Seth Soloway

December 10, 2009

The Final Jew, a dark historical comedy, begins in the year 2032 as Marvin Black witnesses his own funeral and is quickly spirited away to the customs office of the afterlife. As he is processed it is revealed that not only was Marvin the last survivor of the Holocaust to die, but in a strange cosmic twist the customs official processing his entry into the afterlife is Adolf Hitler. Throughout the interview and interrogation Marvin must forgive Hitler of his crimes against humanity, execute him, or relive his own life with the shadow of Hitler always by his side.

Stage Manager: Jennifer Marie Russo

featuring
Richard D. Busser, Kwaku Driskell*, Brad Makorowski*, Karla Mosley*, Kelly Scanlon*, Adam Wald*

HEARTBREAK HELP
by Justin Tanner

Directed by Tom Wojtunik

September 24, 2009

A cheap motel in Joshua is the setting for a weekend of soul-searching and pillow fights when four strangers attend a women’s spiritual conference in the desert. The women: Andromeda, a low-rent relationship guru trying to break into the lucrative world of high-end self-help; Sage, her teenage daughter dragged along against her will; Margo, the party girl; and Paula the neurotic mess (who freaks out  if anyone touches her things).

Stage Manager: Jennifer Marie Russo

featuring
Amy Bizjack*, Emily Dorsch*, Julie Fitzpatrick*, Katherine Folk-Sullivan
*Appears courtesy of the Actors Equity Association.

BETHANY
by Laura Marks

May 11, 2010

Directed by Davis McCallum (Queens Boulevard, Signature Theater Company)

In an American suburb wiped out by foreclosures, Crystal, a young Saturn saleswoman, struggles to sell one last car to Charlie, a slick motivational speaker; but the paranoid squatter she shares a house with has other plans.  As her situation grows more and more desperate, she discovers how far she’ll have to go in order to survive.

Bethany has previously received a public reading in Reverie Productions’ WET INK Festival of New Work (March 2, 2010), and a private reading at Barrow Street Theatre (May 4, 2009). It was a finalist for Clubbed Thumb’s 2009-2010 Biennial Commission, and a semifinalist for the National Playwrights Conference.


Stage Manager: Kristine Schlachter

featuring

Margaret Daly*, Kimberly Parker Green*, Kathryn Hunter-Williams*, Ken Marks*, Bob McClure*, Allison Weller*
*appears courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association

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