Winter 2012 Updates

Fengar Gael's new play, Gift of a Thousand Tongues, will be given a staged reading at Pulp Stages' New Works Festival, Pulp Diction III on January 22, in Portland, Oregon. Her play, The Gallerist, a tale of Desecration and Desire, will be given a production at the Rorschach Theatre from January 23 to February 19, in Washington, D.C.  The Gallerist was given a staged  reading hosted by Resonance Theatre Company in October. The cast included Gallery members, David Crommett, Miguel Govea, Olivia Horton, Kathryn Velvel Jones, Irene Sofia Lucio, Jed Peterson and Kendall Rileigh.  Her play,  Devil Dog Six will be produced in the spring of 2013 by the Mondays Dark Theatre Company in New York. The Island Of No Tomorrows, was the winner of MultiStages New Works Contest and will be given a New York production in October, 2012.

On Tuesday, March 13th, Deborah Savadge's new play, When Danny Comes Back For Us, will be read at the Drilling Company on West 78th Street at 7:30.  The play was selected by the League of Professional Theatre Women as part of Thirty Plays Celebrate Thirty Years, a celebration of Turning 30, the League's 30th year. Reservations: playwrightsgallery@gmail.com.

When Danny Comes Back For Us: Two couples are stranded while weekending on a remote Maine island. Rivalries, recriminations and a power failure. Has some darker force intervened to prevent them from ever getting home? The cast includes Lyndsay Becker and Jed Peterson.

Fengar Gael's Devil Dog Six, directed by Deborah Randall, will be produced by The Venus Theatre of Laurel, Maryland, from September 4th through October 28th, 2012.

Joey Brenneman directed  Two Girls at New York International Fringe Festival.

Ron Crawford filmed We Are the Hartmans. Richard Chamberlain stars. Ron appeared in The Crucible at Harford Stage. He was seen last season in a new play, Eventide, by Eric Schmied, at the Denver Theatre Center. In May he opened at the Irish Rep in White Woman Street. 

Melissa Hurst  appeared in Fallen Angels at the Dorset Theatre Company in July. She reads new fiction including, Stray Affections by  Charlene Ann Baumbich, for Recorded Books.

Lou Bullock's work is on view at the Metropolitan Opera this season in their new production of Simon Boccenegra (see photo below) and in Tosca (see photo below).

Deborah Savadge's play, The Right Number, will be published by Smith and Kraus this winter.

Martine Sainvil and Ms. Savadge had readings of new work at the Drilling Company last summer.

Stephen Bradbury stood by for roles in each of the Orphan Home Cycle of plays by Horton Foote, at the Signature Theatre.