September 2006

Newsletter Vol. 7

IN THIS ISSUE:
   
THE 2005 PEN IS A MIGHTY SWORD WINNER
“A YANKEE TRADER ” BY KATO MCNICKLE
COMPLETES CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED PREMIERE


Back Row: Mark Arnold, Sean Mahon, Lauren McCormack
Front Row: April D. Parker, Jaymee Bishop, Heidi Mages, Director Ian Vogt,
Sterling Beaumon, Pamela Taylor
 
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*NEW THIS YEAR*
Honorable Mention Reading Series

 
THE 2006 PEN IS A MIGHTY SWORD

NEW PLAY READING SERIES

Saturday Afternoons at 2:30PM

At
Theatre Tribe
5267 Lankershim Blvd in North Hollywood

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In addition to a full production of the winning play and staged readings of the first and second runners-up, this year VTP will produce a fall reading series of the seven Honorable Mentions from 2005.  The reading series begins on October 21 and runs thru December 9.
   

October 21, 2006
My River, My Valley
By Ron Osborne
Directed by Lauren McCormack
With Kimberly Van Luin, Marilyn Brett and
Shawn Ross


Two sisters examine their life choices with humor, humanity and pathos, as their lives are slowly drowned by soul-darkness as surely as their sometimes loved, sometimes hated valley, sits helplessly as the rising waters of Watauga Lake creep ever upward

   
   
   
October 28, 2006
Moon Walkers
By Elizabeth Benton Appell
Directed by Shawn Ross
Scheduled to read: Jamie Denton, Heidi Mages

The loss of a child forces a couple to strip away all marital pretext and see each other honestly for the first time.

   
   
   
November 4, 2006
Indian Summer
By Eddy Barrows
Directed by Richard Hochberg
With TBD

Friends gather for a funny, poignant "Big Chill" summer weekend haunted by the ghost of Charles Lindbergh.

 

   
   
   
November 11, 2006
Eye of the Beheld
By Lauren Gunderson
Directed by Lauren McCormack
With Ian Vogt, Charles Carroll, Nicole Gaston

Intelligent, humorous look at the politics of love and lust with a young Leonardo Da Vinci on trial for his life

   
   
   
November 18, 2006
Gail Can See for Three Days
By Joshua Faigen
Directed by Whit Andrews
With Lauren McCormack, Kimberly Van Luin

A woman faces execution in Josh Faigen's soul wrenching exploration of passion, loneliness and broken taboos.

   
   
   
December 2, 2006
Dearest Frank Lights a Cigar
By Scott Munson
Directed by Ian Vogt
With TBD

In the first half of the twentieth century, a playwright tries to out run his past in this Brechtian romp across Europe, America and Stalinist Russia.

   
   
   
December 9, 2006
Christmas Confidential
Eddy Barrows
Directed by Kim Terrell
With TBD

Lewd acts with a cookie lead to an, oh-so-wrong, film-noir holiday "slay" ride through the town of Christmas. (RATED NC-17)

 
WINNERS ANNOUNCED
2006 PEN IS A MIGHTY SWORD NEW PLAY COMPETITION

 

 

First Place
Confessions of a Catholic Child
by Elizabeth Benton Appell
Kent, California

First Runner Up
joe

by Ed Cunningham
Los Angeles, California

Second Runner Up
Feeding the Roses

by Martin Goodman
Sandy, UK

Honorable Mentions (Alphabetical)

Visions of Right
by Marcia Cebulska
Topeka, Kansas

Baby M
by Lauren Gunderson
Atlanta, Georgia

Pollywog
by Kathy McKee
Decatur, Georgia

Tree Fall
by Henry Murray
Venice, California

I Am Grock
by Amanda Rogers
Monrovia, California

The Site
by Al Schnupp
San Luis Obispo, California

Collaterally Damaged
by Laura Zam
Washington, DC

 

 
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Astrology
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Personal Growth & Mind Development
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Publishing & Theatre Law
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The Dramatists Guild of America
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Actor's Equity Association
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The Actor Source Homepage
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American Theatre Resources
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