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IN THIS ISSUE:
- SUMMER PICNIC!!!!!
- Photos!
- Travel Advisory
- New Works Lab Update
- NewsFLASHes
PICNIC PICNIC PICNIC PICNIC YAY!
But soft, the annual ALAP Summer Picnic draws nigh!
On Sunday, July 18, ALAP members and guests will gather at a house on a hill with a pool and spectacular 360 degree views to eat, drink, swim, and make merry. The Picnic is always a lot of fun, as previous attendees will attest. If you haven’t reserved already, do it right now – we must have your paid reservation in hand by Thursday, July 15! For a RSVP form, click here.
WHEN: Sunday, July 18, 2010/ 2:00 - 5:00 PM
WHERE: A house on a hill overlooking downtown and the mountains (address will be sent when we get your check)
BUSY BUSY BUSY
ALAP’s busiest week ever was a hit!
It started with the Gay Play Reading Festival on June 1 and 2, continued with a Director/Dramatist Exchange on June 5, and ended with In Our Own Voices on June 6 and 7.
Add in a well-attended Salo(o)n in mid-May, and we had quite a time. Check out the pics…
Catherine Pelonero (C, standing) hosted the May Salo(o)n at her home.
Ann L. Gibbs was the narrator for both nights of the Gay Play Reading Festival... Rom Watson (L) confers with Celebration Artistis Director Michael Shepperd, who directed Rom's full-length play for the Fest.
A gaggle of playwrights and directors fills the stage at the Lounge Theatre for June's Exchange.
Peggy Miley and Bill Hyatt (front) and L-R Gary Young, Kenny Hargrove, Terrie Silverman, Mona Deutsch Miller, Alexandra, and Roger Q. Mason at In Our Own Voices, Barnes & Noble Santa Monica... L-R Edward Ash, Dan Berkowitz, Henry Holden, Ethel Golub, Tom Misuraca, Matt Chorpenning, and Stephanie Hutchinson at Voices, Barnes & Noble Encino
TRAVEL ADVISORY
Due to work-related travel, memberships and orders received after July 23 will not be processed until after Labor Day.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
NEW WORKS LAB UPDATE
On July 25 at 7:00 PM, the Lab will present a reading of Condoms and Carnies by Stephanie Phillips, hosted by Alliance Repertory Company, 4930 Lankershim Boulevard in NoHo. Congrats to Stephanie, and thanks to Alliance and its Artistic Director Royana Black, and ALAP producer Teri Graves. After the reading, there will be a Q&A session moderated by ALAP member Mona Deutsch Miller. The reading is not open to the public, but ALAP members may attend (no reservation required).
The submission deadline for the next Lab has been extended to July 15. Please email your play to newworks@laplaywrights.org for Lab Coordinator Teri Graves.
You may submit by regular mail, but email (PDF preferred) will help us produce labs more efficiently for you!
NewsFLASHes
UPCOMING: JUL 1, 5: Chris Hare’s Scraps; Henry Holden’s The Encounter; Garry Kluger’s Brotherhood; and Linda Felton Steinbaum’s Shifting Gears, Tre Stage, 1523 N. La Brea, Hollywood, 310-717-6937... JUL 2: Ron Burch’s Mona Lisa (reading) Penobscot Theatre, 131 Main St, Bangor, ME, 207-942-3333… JUL 8-25: Terry McFadden’s 30 Love, 10 x 10 in the Triangle, NC Arts Ctr, 300 E. Main St, Carrboro, NC, 919-929-2787… JUL 9-10: Mary Steelsmith’s Seldom Is Heard, Driftwood Players, 950 Main St, Edmonds, WA, 425-774-9600… JUL 11: Ron House’s Bullshot Crummond and the Invisible Bride of Death, George Izay Park, 1111B Olive, Burbank… JUL 16-18: Ron Burch’s Mona Lisa, Players Guild Theatre,1001 Market Ave N, Canton OH, 330-453-7619… JUL 19: Mary Steelsmith’s Isaac, I Am (reading), Alley Rep Theatre, 3638 Osage St, Garden City, ID, 208-388-4278… JUL 19-AUG 6: John Lane’s Four Characters in Search of a Play, NY Cringefest @ Producer’s Club, 358 W. 44 St, NYC, 212-242-6036… THRU AUG 1: Jan O’Connor’s The Girl Who Would Be King, El Centro Theatre, 804 N. El Centro Ave, Hollywood, http://absolutetheatrela.org/buy-tickets/... AUG 6-8: Jonathan Dorf’s The Cooking Gene, StillSpeaking Theatre, 2560 Huntington Drive, San Marino, CA 626-292-2081x7… AUG 6-15: John Lane’s The Limp, Eclectic, 5312 Lauren Cyn, NoHo, 818-508-3003… AUG 16-26: Laura Shamas’s Up2D8, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, www.chortle.co.uk/shows/edinburgh_fringe_2010/u/18089/up2d8... AUG 20-29: Marvin Harold Cheiten’s Oh Deer!, Hamilton Murray Theater, Princeton U, Princeton, NJ, 609-258-7062…
CONGRATS: To Jan Michael Alejandro, who had poetry and opera in A Magical Evening of Arts – French Style at the Secret Rose in May… Judith Allen, whose The World’s Oldest Profession was done at Tre Stage in May, and My First Husband Married My Second Husband’s First Wife was read at East West Players in Jun… Ron Burch, whose Mona Lisa won an ART Lab Grant Award, to be put toward a 2010-11 production, and first novel Bliss Inc. was published by BlazeVOX Books… Stacie Chaiken, whose The Dig was done in the Hollywood Fringe in Jun… Marvin Harold Cheiten, whose Miss Connections was done at Off-Broadstreet Theater, Hopewell, NJ in Jun… Noelle Donfeld, whose Squeak (lyrics) was done at La Canada Theatre in May… Jonathan Dorf, whose Rumors of Polar Bears and Tiny Tim Runs the Marathon were published by Playscripts… Anne Flanagan, whose Artifice won the Bloomington Playwrights’s Project’s Reva Shiner Comedy Award… Joe Godfrey, whose The Mission won 1st prize in Fresh Fruit 1-Act Competition at Nuryorican Poets Café, NY… Chris Hare, whose Rip was published in interJACtions, Volume 1: Monologues at the Heart of Human Nature by JAC Publishing & Promotions… Richard Martin Hirsch, whose London’s Scars was done at the Odyssey in May-Jun… Velina Hasu Houston, whose Territory of Dreams was read at Theatricum Botanicum in Jun… Tom Jacobson, whose The Twentieth-Century Way was done at Boston Court in May-Jun… Garry Kluger, whose Brotherhood was done at Tre Stage in Jun… Diane Lefer, whose book The Blessing Next to the Wound (co-author) was published by Lantern Books… Tom Misuraca, whose Communication was in PianoFight’s ShortLived 3.0 in May-Jun, The Diary was done in Queer Shorts 5, Madison, WI, Touch was done at Brooklyn College, and Opening Closure was done at NativeAliens Theatre Collective, NYC, all in Jun… Catherine Pelonero, whose Family Names was done, and Tragedy on West Utica was read, both at La Lupa Italian Arts Festival in May… David Rambo, whose The Ice Breaker was done at Theatre 40 in May-Jun… Laura Shamas, whose Trapper Joan was read by Women in Theatre in May, and A Story My Mother Told Me (and Her Mother Told Her) was done at ColorFest 2010 in San Diego in Jun… Lucy Wang, whose The Sensuous Gourmet & The Szechuan Peppercorn was done at San Diego Asian American Rep Theatre in May…
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EMAILS TO REMEMBER
DAN BERKOWITZ (CO-CHAIR)
DanB@LAPlaywrights.org
JON DORF (CO-CHAIR)
JonD@LAPlaywrights.org
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