As part of the Underground Readings, my play THE ALBATROSS will be having a reading next Monday, June 20th at 7:00 pm at The Grey Box.
It was directed by long-time collaborator, Lisa Jackson-Schebetta, and features some pretty amazing Pittsburgh talent like Jeffrey Carpenter (Bricolage) and Mark Clayton Southers (Pittsburgh Playwrights Theater and The August Wilson Center) as well as up-and-coming talent like Laci Mosly and Fred Pelzer.
As those who know me and read this blog, I'm the guy always saying "self-produce, self-produce, self-produce". So when Bill Cameron, the writer-director of Violet Sharp which is being produced by Terra Nova Theater, said to me and some other playwrights, "hey, we've got some dark nights at Violet Sharp, do you want to do something with them?" I jumped at the chance. I hate seeing a dark theater.
So, I teamed up with playwrights Ginny Cunningham and Jeanne Drennan and we decided to do a series of readings and found some playwrights with some stuff to read--all of them of high calibre--and they got some great directors and celebrated local actors and next thing you know, we got us a great mini-festival of new works.
The first evening, Monday night, we heard Gab Cody's new play, The 2nd American Revolution and had wonderful turnout of about forty to fifty audience members.
On Monday, I'll be hearing THE ALBATROSS again. It's been a few years since the last reading and I'm curious to dive into it. It's the right amount of time to be away from the material, I think, in order to see it with an objective eye. I hope I can see some new things or be proud of the things that I know are working. Either way, I've got a fantastic director and talented actors to take care of the play.
For those of you wanting to know more about the play, or any of my plays, please click here.
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