Download February 21, 2005

February 21, 2005
The PLAYWRIGHTS
Michelle
Dale
Hot Spot
by Tim Bauer
Directed by Jim Kleinmann
Danielle Thys
Tim Kniffin
Lee
Tommy
Down Under
by Aaron Loeb
Directed by Lee Sankowich
Julia McNeal
Gabriel Marin
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Blown
by Geetha Reddy
Directed by Amy Glazer
Joseph
Carol
Rick
Tom
Janice
Zac Jaffee
Julia Brothers
Aldo Billingslea
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Driving Ranges
by Vince Montague
Directed by Elizabeth Williamson
Matt K. Miller
Stacy Ross
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Hands in Trash
by Sharon Eberhardt
Directed by Jessica Heidt
Dancer
Lisa Anne Morrison
Man with Dog
Craig Marker
Counselor
Jeff Elam
Photographer
Holli Hornlien
Park Worker
Aaron Junior Turner
What Molecules Have to Do with Wishes
by Brady Lea
Directed by Ginny Reed
Laura
Gwen Loeb
Dudley Dog
Reed Martin
* Member, Actors’ Equity Association
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Tim Bauer is a San Francisco-based freelance writer and playwright. His short
plays The Magic Word, A Brief Moment for Pausing and The Author's Present were
produced in the 2000, 2001 and 2003 Austin Script Works festivals. His short play
Wishful Drinking was staged by the Playwrights Foundation in 2002. His play
Green Eggs and Ham was a winner of A.C.T.’s David Mamet Writing Contest in
2003. And his short play Super Dude was staged in the 2004 Short Leaps festival.
Over the years, Tim has been an improv actor, a screenwriter (Semifinalist for the
Nicholl Fellowship), a contributing editor to the satirical SuBBrilliant News, a
literary manager, and a professional advertising copywriter.
Sharon Eberhardt’s plays include Becca and Heidi, produced by The Shee Theatre
in San Francisco and Spacegrrls, produced by And How! in New York. Her oneacts appeared at Bay Area One-Acts, Youngblood at Ensemble Studio Theater, And
How!, New Georges, adobe theater and Moving Arts. She has an MFA from
Columbia University.
Brady Lea is a theatre arts educator, performer and playwright. She’s a graduate
of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College and also has a B.A. in writing
and performance. She moved to San Francisco in 1989 to co-found the vaudeville
trio, The Kloons, with whom she wrote and toured several shows. In 2002, she
received a PlayGround Emerging Playwright Award for her play Remember Paris.
Brady lives in San Francisco with her husband David.
Aaron Loeb is a three-time PlayGround Emerging Playwright Award winner. His
plays Shameful/Shameless, Sound and The Maror the Merrier were published in the
Best of PlayGround series. Aaron’s short works have been performed at La MaMa
E.T.C. and in small venues around the country. His full-length play, Brown, was
recently workshopped locally by San Francisco’s Crowded Fire Theater company.
He has degrees in Dramatic Writing and Dramatic Literature from New York
University and in the daylight hours works as a videogame producer in Sausalito.
Aaron is a proud member of the writer’s group, Rumpus.
Vince Montague is a graduate of The Writing Program at New York University. His
fiction has been published in The Florida Review, Nimrod: An International Journal,
The Green Mountains Review, and many other literary journals. He is a recipient of
the Nimrod/Hardmon Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Fiction. His other awards
include special citations from Writer’s Digest, Zoetrope, and a scholarship to The
Squaw Valley Writer’s Conference. His short stories have also appeared in Other
Voices, The River Styx, The Bridge, The Santa Barbara Review, and The Nebraska
Review.
Geetha Reddy is a playwright and technology consultant now in her third year of
participating in PlayGround. In 2004 she received an Emerging Playwrights Award
from PlayGround. Her play Honey, I’m Home was included in The Best of
Playground festival and was also showcased at the San Francisco Theater Festival.
She studied writing with John Fisher and is also a member of the writing group
Rumpus. Geetha lives in Burlingame with her husband and two sons.
2004-05 PlayGround Writers Pool
Kenneth Alford  Tim Bauer  Andrew Black  Cass Brayton  Jon Brooks,  Kenyon
Brown  Mia Chung  Richard Ciccarone  Brian Couch  Sharon Eberhardt  Robert
Estes  Rodes Fishburne  Dave Garrett  Kristina Goodnight  Jody Handley  Brady
Lea  Aaron Loeb  Jonathan Luskin  Keely Madden  Richard McKern  Vince
Montague  Evelyn Pine  Kenn Rabin  Geetha Reddy  Molly Rhodes  Maria Rokas
 Mark Routhier  Kathy Rucker  Diane Sampson  Nick Sholley  Ken Slattery 
Martha Soukup  Phil Stockton  Tom Swift  Rodney Thomas  Alina Trowbridge
To apply to be part of the 2005-06 PlayGround Writers Pool, please visit our
website, www.playground-sf.org, for guidelines. The deadline for submission is
September 1, 2005.
The ACTORS and DIRECTORS_________________________________
“Where have we seen HER before?” The actors and directors you are seeing
tonight represent some of the Bay Area’s best and brightest talent. Here what’s
going on…
Julia McNeal and Tim Kniffin closed A Streetcar Named Desire at Pacific Alliance
Stage, and Tim will be in Blithe Spirit up in Spokane… Danielle Thys recently
appeared in I Love You, You’re Perfect Now Change at the Marines
Memorial…Gwen Loeb performed in Garrett Groenweld’s play Missives at The Bay
Area Playwrights Festival & has just begun her own freelance fund-raising
business…Reed Martin, one of the managing partners of The Reduced
Shakespeare Company, is workshopping their new show, Completely Hollywood,
Abridged at Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and Pittsburgh Public Theatre… Ginny
Reed will direct Sexsting for the Magic Theatre’s Commonwealth Club Series, and
The Playboy of the Western World for Cinnabar Theatre…Both Lisa Anne
Morrison and Craig Marker just closed Shakespeare in Hollywood at
TheatreWorks and Craig is in rehearsal at Marin Theatre Company with William
Inge’s Bus Stop…Holli Hornlien is currently appearing in Dublin Carol at the
Aurora Theatre…Magic Theatre Associate Artistic Director Jessica Heidt will be
directing the world premiere of The Black Eyed by Betty Shamieh for the HotHouse
series at the Magic…Aaron Junior Turner recently performed in the African
American Shakespeare Company’s production of Beast…Matt Miller is a resident
company member of Sacramento Theatre Company, where he is now playing the
title character in Tartuffe…Stacy Ross just closed The Gamester at ACT and will
begin rehearsals for Hannah and Martin at San Jose Rep…Elizabeth Williamson is
assistant directing ACT’s production of Well…Julia Brothers closed Fortune at
Marin Theatre Company and will be rehearsing Guantanamo at Brava!…Zac Jaffee
is set to tour France with Word for Word’s Stories of Tobias Wolf… Aldo
Billingslea directed Pentecost for University of Santa Clara, where he is on
faculty…Amy Glazer recently directed Rebecca Gilman’s The Sweetest Swing in
Baseball for the Magic Theatre…Lee Sankowich is preparing to direct Becoming
Memories at Center REP…Gabriel Marin will be rehearsing The Rules of Charity at
the Magic… Jeff Elam most recently acted in LA and with the Utah Shakespearean
Festival.
PlayGround thanks all the artists for taking what is frequently their only night off to
participate in the Monday Night Series. We encourage the community to support
their work at other venues.
Playwriting Classes for Emerging Professionals
PlayGround has launched a series of playwriting classes for emerging
professionals, led by five-time PlayGround Emerging Playwright Award winner
Garret Jon Groenveld and other distinguished artists from the community. Writers
may sign up for individual or multiple classes as each is intended as a stand-alone
program.
March 7, 2005
Genre Influence - Part 3: Non-Fiction’s Effect on Plays
Theatrical Journalism or Agitprop? The real deal is we need to hear about what we
live and experience. How is the fact of the matter transformed by putting it on the
page or stage? From Emily Mann to Moises Kaufman to Anna Deavere Smith to the
San Francisco Mime Troup, the personal and political meld to move theatre in new
directions.
Class size is limited so sign up early. For more information or to register online,
visit www.playground-sf.org/classes.shtml. March 7, 7-9pm, A.C.T. Studios, 30
Grant Avenue, San Francisco. Online Registration: $30 per person plus $5 order
fee. $40 at the door.