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IN THIS ISSUE:
- Dramaturgs & Lit Managers Event
- Live @ The Libe Short Play Fest
- ALAP's 2nd Annual Cocktail Party
- Gay Play Reading Festival
- New Works Lab Update
- Photos!
- NewsFLASHes
TAKING YOUR PLAY TO THE NEXT LEVEL
SoCal's Top Dramaturgs and Literary Managers Tell You Everything You Need to Know!
For advice on how to turn your play into a hit, get thee to this symposium, hosted by The Theatre @ Boston Court! Dramaturgs and Lit Managers Pier Carlo Talenti (Center Theatre Group), Gabe Greene (La Jolla Playhouse), Bari Newport (Pasadena Playhouse), and Dylan Southard (needtheater and the Robey Theater), and director Corey Madden, who worked in the development of new plays at CTG for 22 years, will join moderator Peter Colley, ALAP Vice Chair and widely-produced playwright, for a discussion on the ins and outs of preserving your voice and vision while getting your play on the boards.
WHEN: Saturday, March 6, 2010 @ 1:00 PM
WHERE: Boston Court Performing Arts Center
70 North Mentor Avenue, Pasadena
Parking behind the building.
For directions, visit www.bostoncourt.com
FREE FOR ALAP MEMBERS, $5 ALL OTHERS. SEATING LIMITED, AND YOU MUST MAKE A RESERVATION!
Email events@laplaywrights.org or call the HotLine at 323-957-4752, and leave your name, phone #, and number in your party.
LIVE @ THE LIBE SHORT PLAY FESTIVAL
Live@ The Libe’s most ambitious offering to date is about to happen: three one-hour programs of short works. All programs are free and open to the public. Come on out and support your fellow ALAP member playwrights!
Sunday February 28 @ 2:00 p.m.
West Los Angeles Regional Branch
11360 Santa Monica Blvd 310-575-8323
1,2, Skidoo by Terry McFadden
Happy and Gay by Mary Steelsmith
It’s Done All The Time by Terry McFadden
Sourpuss by Dan Berkowitz
The Stone Cat by Stephanie Hutchinson
Bailing Out by Arthur Jolly
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Wednesday March 3 @ 6:30 p.m.
Westwood Branch Library
1246 Glendon Ave 310-474-1739
Egg by Erin McLaine
Mrs. Invisible by Robert Hecker
Strangers On A Train by Mona Deutsch Miller
Super 8 versus Bacara Resort and Spa by Stephanie Hutchinson
The Pitch by Gene Lesser
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Saturday March 6 @ 2:00 p.m.
Donald Kaufman Brentwood Branch Library
11820 San Vicente Blvd 310-575-8273
Dot Dot Dot by Chelsea Sutton
Scraps by Chris Hare
Seldom is Heard by Mary Steelsmith
Shadows Round The Moon by Janice Kennedy
Charlie by Janice Kennedy
Three Syllables of Shame by Rom Watson
The Light Blue Sea by Bill Hyatt
Future submissions to Live @ The Libe may be mailed to John Frank at the West Los Angeles Regional Branch Library, 11360 Santa Monica Bl, LA 90025, or submitted as a pdf to jfrank@lapl.org.
ANNOUNCING ALAP'S 2ND ANNUAL COCKTAIL PARTY...
Last year’s inaugural Cocktail Party was so much fun we had to do it again! So mark your calendars for April 18!
The soiree will take place at a private home from 5:00 to 7:00 PM on a Sunday – perfect for having a drink and some conversation before you head off to dinner, or back home to watch 60 Minutes – and will feature beer, wine, Cosmopolitans (the semi-official drink of West Hollywood!) and light nibbles. And of course, there’ll be non-alcoholic beverages for those of you who don’t wish to indulge.
The party promises to be relaxing and fun – and at $5 for members and $10 for others, it’s the bargain of the decade! Reservations are mandatory, as is payment in advance. Download the RSVP form by clicking here laplaywrights.org/10CocktailInvite.pdf or by scrolling to the bottom of the right-hand column on the Welcome page of the website.
... AND 2ND GAY PLAY READING FESTIVAL!
ALAP has once again been awarded a grant from the City of West Hollywood’s Arts and Cultural Affairs Commission, to present a Reading Festival of new lesbian and gay plays during the City’s Pride Month Celebration in June. The grant isn’t large, but it provides for prize money to the playwrights selected ($150 to the writer of the chosen full-length, $150 to be divided among the authors of the shorts), as well as tiny – and we do mean tiny! – stipends to the directors and actors.
The submission deadline is March 15. Download the application form: http://laplaywrights.org/10GayFestEntryFormRevised.pdf. It is also available on the front page of the website. Please read the rules carefully, then send us your stuff!
NEW WORKS LAB UPDATE
The Lab’s new Coordinator, Teri Graves, is lining up the theatres which will host this year’s Labs, and will have news soon. As we announced in the last NewsFlash, submissions may now be made electronically, and more changes are on the way.
The next submission deadline is April 15 for your full-length or 30+ page one-act. Since the purpose of the Lab is to aid in the development of new work, previously read or produced plays should be submitted only if they have been significantly rewritten. The Labs are not open to the public, but a limited number of spaces are available for ALAP members who would like to attend. For submission guidelines and more info on the Lab, visit the ALAP website.
BIG FUN AT THE ANNUAL MEETING!
(L) Julius Galacki and Catherine Pelonero point the way for those who can't read...
as Gene Lesser (R) checks names on the Guest List...
... and a bunch of happy people enjoy the party!
NewsFLASHes
UPCOMING: FEB 26: Dan Berkowitz’s Something Old, Something New, A Few Things Borrowed, and a Lot That’s Blue (reading), ANMT, 5628 Vineland, NoHo, ICIMEDIA@aol.com... THRU FEB 27: Lisa Soland’s Truth Be Told, Burt Reynolds Institute, 100 N. US 1, Jupiter, FL, 561-743-9955… THRU FEB 28: Laura Shamas’s Picnic at Hanging Rock, Catholic U., 3801 Harewood Rd NE, Washington, D.C., 202-319-4000… THRU MAR 21: Art Shulman’s Bagels (with Jan Michael Alejandro’s song “Brooklyn Bagels”), Secret Rose, 11246 Magnolia Bl, NoHo, 818-782-4254… MAR 6-21: Robert Riemer’s Splendid Misery, Actors Temple Theatre, 339 W 47 St, NYC, tickettriangle.com… MAR 9: Diane Grant’s The Last of the Daytons (reading), Theatre Palisades, 941 Temescal Cyn Rd, Pacific Palisades, 310-454-1970… MAR 9-15: James C. Ferguson’s Don’t Eat the Yellow Picasso, The Red Room, 85 E. 4 St, NYC, smarttix.com… MAR 14: Michelle Fiordaliso’s Hell’s Gate (reading), Ruskin Theatre, 3000 Airport Av, Santa Monica, mfiordaliso@gmail.com... MAR 23: Richard Martin Hirsch’s Apogee +26 (reading), Theatre Palisades… APR 10-MAY 16: Kres Mersky’s The Life and Times of A. Einstein, Theatre West, 3333 Cahuenga Bl W., LA, 323-851-7977… APR 20: Noelle Donfeld’s (reading; book, lyrics) The Spark - Hannah Senesh, Theatre Palisades… APR 24: Richard Martin Hirsch’s The Restoration of Sight (reading), Long Beach Playhouse, 5021 E. Anaheim St, Long Beach, 562-494-1014…
CONGRATS: To Judith Allen, whose The Captain (A Love Story) and Dylan Brody, whose True Romance, were done at Santa Monica Bay Women’s Club in Feb… Ron Burch, whose Mona Lisa is a finalist for Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s Playfest! and Rocky Mountain Theatre Assoc, and The Baby was a finalist for Actors Theatre of Louisville’s 10-Minute Play Contest… Peter Colley, whose Cagney! at Florida Stage has been nominated for 7 Carbonell Awards including Best New Work… Chris DiGiovanni, whose Abandon was read at Theatre West in Jan… Noelle Donfeld, whose The Revolution of Betsy Loring (lyrics) was read at Encore Theater, Dayton, OH in Jan… Frank Farmer, whose Under Forty was read by Performance Loft, Redlands in Feb… James C. Ferguson, whose Ori & Addison was done at Joria Mainstages, NYC, in Jan… Richard Martin Hirsch, whose The Restoration of Sight won the 2010 Stanley Drama Award, and is one of 4 winners in 2010 Long Beach Playhouse New Works Fest, and Apogee +26 was chosen for Great Plains Theatre Conference in Omaha in Jun… Garry Kluger, who won a Red Carpet Award from Women in Theatre… Kres Mersky, who performed her Isadora Duncan: A Unique Recital at Cal Center for the Arts, Escondido in Feb… Brian Pugach, whose The Next Fairy Tale was read at Celebration in Jan… Laura Shamas, who has 2 monologs in 2009: Best Men’s Stage Monologues & Scenes, and who was on a panel at Theatre J in D.C. in Feb… Lisa Soland, whose This Side Up was done by Paw Paw Village Players, Paw Paw, MI in Feb… Mary Steelsmith, whose Happy and Gay was read at Drake Performance and Event Center, Columbus, OH in Feb… Richard Warren, who was honored by Phoenix Theatre, AZ, in Feb…
SEND US YOUR NEWS! NewsFlash is for you! If you have news – an opening, a reading, a grant, an assignation! – send it to us at the ALAP address or e-mail to newsflash@LAPlaywrights.org. Deadline for the next issue is April 23.
EMAILS TO REMEMBER
DAN BERKOWITZ (CO-CHAIR)
DanB@LAPlaywrights.org
JON DORF (CO-CHAIR)
JonD@LAPlaywrights.org
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