Sarah Coleman, CuDC‘s Manager, Performing Arts and Business Center and one of the producers of the Source Festival with all the latest news from the Festival.
We’re rapidly checking things off our Source Festival to do list. This week we announced our 10-minute plays & playwrights and held open auditions to cast them. Jeremy is finalizing the schedule for the interdisciplinary week, we’ve held production meetings with all our fabulous designers and directors, and Jessie has been creating contact sheets. There are a lot of contact sheets. To date we’ve got 182 people participating in the three weeks of the festival- and that’s not counting the interdisciplinary performers, the 24 hour event’s actors and dancers or our 85 readers.
The 25 10-minute plays (listed below) touch on the war in Iraq, the fat content of cupcakes, trips to the zoo, relationships and Hurricane Katrina. They’ll take us to an art museum, the desert in Afghanistan, a Wal-Mart parking lot, a backyard tent and the neighborhood playground. Each night will be hosted by one of our eclectic masters of ceremonies – magician Matthew Holtzclaw hosts Group A, Regie Cabico, a poet and spoken word artist, will weave the pieces in Group B and DJ beat master nik the 1da will mix together Group C. For more details on the schedule click here. Less than 60 days till the festival, but who’s counting…?
The 2008 source festival 10 minute plays are:
Group A
The Great White Undulating Orb In the Bed Between Us by Ari Roth (Artistic Director, Theater J)
Directed by Deborah Kirby, Producing Artistic Director, Journeymen Theater Ensemble
Maintenance by Nathan McGaughey
Directed by Blake Robison, Artistic Director, Roundhouse Theatre
NOLA by Rick Park
Directed by Michael Bobbitt, Artistic Director, Adventure Theatre
Painting a Room by Dano Madden
Directed by Jenny McConnell Fredrick, Co-Artistic Director, Rorschach Theatre
The Two Marys by Heather MacDonald
Directed by Joy Zinoman, Artistic Director, Studio Theatre
Urashima Taro by Francesca Sanders
Directed by Chris Gallu, Associate Artistic Director, Catalyst Theater Company
Urban Legend by Mike Batistick
Directed by Gregg Henry, Artistic Director, Kennedy Center’s American College Theater Festival
The Wild Life by Thomas Higgins
Directed by Mark Rhea, Artistic Director, Keegan Theatre
Group B
Empties by Matt Mayerchak
Directed by Howard Shalwitz, Artistic Director, Woolly Mammoth
How Much for This by Keith Bridges (Artistic Director, Charter Theater)
Directed by Karen Berman, Co-Director, Washington Women in Theatre
Magnolia Day by Sheri Graubert
Directed by Jeffery Johnson, Artistic Director, Ganymede Arts
Pentimento by Jon Haller
Directed by Michael Baron, Associate Artistic Director, Signature Theatre
Running in Circles Screaming by Jeni Mahoney
Directed by Paul Douglas Michnewicz, Artistic Director, Theater Alliance
What Remains by Libby Leonard
Directed by John MacDonald, Artistic Director, Washington Stage Guild
Warriors by Renee Calarco
Directed by Christopher Henley, Artistic Director, Washington Shakespeare Company
Writer’s Block by John-Paul Nickel
Directed by Paata Tsikurishvili, Artistic Director, Synetic Theatre
Yes to Everything by Philip Dawkins
Directed by Linda Murray, Artistic Director, Solas Nua
Group C
The Bed by Allyson Currin
Directed by Scott Fortier, Artistic Director, Catalyst Theater Company
First/Last by Aaron Levy
Directed by Robert McNamara, Artistic Director, Scena Theatre
Dated: A Cautionary Tale for Facebook Users by Ira Gamerman
Directed by Michael Dove, Artistic Director, Forum Theater
The Downtown Daylight Project by Daniel McCoy
Directed by Michael Kahn, Artistic Director, Shakespeare Theater Company
The Rabbit and the Snake by Randy Baker (Co-Artistic Director, Rorschach Theatre)
Directed by Mark Ramont, Artistic Producer, Ford’s Theatre
Tamed by Foster Solomon
Directed by Eric Schaeffer, Artistic Director, Signature Theatre
A Taste of Heaven by Estep Nagy
Directed by Kathleen Akerley, Artistic Director, Longacre Lea Productions
Without Parachutes by Eric Levitz
Directed by Jack Marshall, Artistic Director, American Century Theatre
May 7, 2008 at 8:10 pm |
Can you tell me please if you notified all the entrants of the one act/10 minute play festival contest who did not have one of their plays accepted for your festival staging?
Thank you.