In the spring of 2009 NYCPlaywrights invited its web visitors to participate on our Monologue Project - submit a monologue to be videotaped - in the manner of NYCPlaywrights member monologues, which can be viewed here. We received over 100 submissions.
Special thanks to NYCPlaywrights members Leigh Harbin and Wayne Paul Mattingly for being primary judges for the submitted work.
BRICKLAYER by Arthur M. Jolly
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Arthur M. Jolly - was recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with a Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting in 2006, and is the playwright of Past Curfew (2008 AOPW Fellowship winner), Tjurjaga (2009 Joining Sword with Pen winner, premiering in Chicago 2010) and the radio play Thicker than Water, which will be broadcast on NPR on Wednesday August 26 at 9:30 PM. Other produced plays include: How Blue is my Crocodile, Tiger in a Cage, Better by Candlelight, The Fine Print, Howie's Last Words, and The Christmas Princess.
Web site: arthurjolly.com
Bruce Barton has been seen recently in Mergatroyd Productions' Stress and the City; Gorilla Rep's Hamlet as Guildenstern; Blue Coyote Theater's Busted Jesus Comix ; and Three Birds for NEST in Brooklyn. He also performed lately in the Century Center's production of Ibsen's When We Dead Awake, and in the 2008 production of Mergatroyd Productions' Jane Eyre.
CAREGIVER'S RESUME
by Dwyer Jones
Dwyer Jones Dwyer Jones (joneswrites@comcast.net) lives in Lawrenceville, NJ, with his wife, artist Loring Hughes, and his cockatiels, Frances and Freddie. Jones is a medical editor/writer, a poet, and a photographer. His book of poems, Fabulous Meat City, was published in 1997 by Iniquity Press and Vendetta Books.
Laurence Cantor's favorite OOB roles include Goldberg in The Birthday Party, Polonius in Hamlet, The Father in Six Characters in Search of an Author, Roebuck Ramsden in Man and Superman, Kolenkhov in You Can't Take It With You, The Old Man in Fool for Love and Chebutykin in Three Sisters; Film roles: Abu Ali in "Homeland", Opera in "SubterraNYa" and Avram in "Warsaw"; Television/Internet Video credits: Jerry Stein in "Parco, PI" and the Boss in "The Lydia Show". Currently trains with Terry Schreiber and Austin Pendleton. Further information, please see laurencecantor.com.
CORNER
by Meny Beriro
Meny Beriro was born in Gibraltar, and somehow wound up in the wilds of Queens, New York. His plays include Grosso is in Jail (Samuel French Short Play Festival), Climbing the Unisphere (Queens Theatre in the Park), Shock ( Asphalt Jungle Shorts II Canada), Master Space (GI 60 Brooklyn College), Worn (This Woman's Work Theatre Co.) Aisle 2B ( Lincoln Square Cinemas Night Caps II Chicago) Mean Green (Movement Theatre Co.) and The Rubout (WhatFour Productions).
He is the recipient of the Jean Dalrymple Playwriting Award (American Theatre of Actors) for PigeonHole, a play about street pigeons. Meny has just completed CHANGE, a full length play about a young woman looking for something meaningful to do with her life who stumbles onto politics only to find out that the promise is not always the reality. He can be contacted at menyb21@gmail.com
Doug Rossi received his MFA in classical acting from The Alabama Shakespeare Festival where his major roles included George in Miller's All My Sons, Kulygin in Chekhov's Three Sisters, The Prosecuting Attorney in To Kill a Mockingbird, Topper in A Christmas Carol.
He is originally from Cleveland where he performed for close to two decades on most every major area stage where he won acting awards for playing: Louis in both parts of Kushner's Angels in America, Nathan Leopold in John Logan's Never the Sinner, Jeff in The Sum of Us, Danny in Dorothy Silver's production of The Chosen and many others. Last year, for his work in the World Premiere of Elisa Abatsis' "Daguerrotypes" he was nominated as one of the year's best actors of The Midtown International Theatre Festival chosen from their field of 60 plays.
Also a graduate of the Second City, he's studied advanced longform at The P.I.T. (People's Improv Theatre) and advanced scenework with Austin Pendleton at the legendary HB Studio.
HANGUPS
by Alex Dremann
Alex Dremann's full-length productions include Split Pea Pod with The Brick Playhouse and Postcoital Variations with Philadelphia Theatre Workshop. Short play productions include On the Porch One Crisp Spring Morning (Actors Theatre of Louisville, Humana Festival), Third-First Person (Provincetown Theater Playwrights Festival) and The Cheever Tapes (Killing My Lobster). He is the producing artistic director of Secret Room Theatre in Philadelphia and runs a playwriting workshop every other Tuesday night.
Links www.alexdremann.com www.secretroomtheatre.com
Carl Conway Maguire is fresh out of Alabama, graduating from the University of Montevallo after playing lead roles in Company, The Seagull, Measure for Measure, and Fat Pig. He finished a summer contract with The Lost Colony as a principal in the historic drama, as well as Hysterium in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.
I WAS LOST
by Blake Hackler
[video to come]
Blake Hackler is an actor, writer, and teacher. As an actor, Blake has appeared in productions on Broadway, Off-Broadway and in regional theatres throughout the country as well as in TV and film. As a teacher, he has held faculty positions at Yale University, AMDA, PPAS and the National Theatre Workshop for the Handicapped. His musical The Boss in the Satin Kimono premiered to great acclaim - and some vilification - at the 2008 New York Fringe Festival. Other New York productions of his work in the 2008-2009 season include: Mother Courage of Westchester - NYTE Capture the Flag Festival, The Lady in Red - EndTimes Productions. His new musical, The Wasp Woman, co-written with Phillip Chernyak, will have a developmental reading in NYC in June. Blake holds an MFA in Acting from the Yale School of Drama, is a member of the BMI/Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Writing Program, and is the recipient of the 2009 BMI Harrington Award for Creative Excellence.
MAKE BELIEVE
by Kimberly Prosa
Kimberly Prosa is a classically trained dancer/actress and freelance writer living in New York City. She is a graduate of the Purchase Conservatory of Dance and has an extensive performing arts background including concert dance, theatre and film. Kim has performed works by Dance Theatre of Oregon, the Eugene Ballet Company, Purchase Dance Corps, Stephanie Tooman, Bettijane Sills, Angela Harriel, Pascal Rioult, and has been a company member with HT Chen and Dancers for the past three years originating roles in several new pieces. In addition to performing, Kim has worked as a teaching artist and resident guest artist throughout New York City, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Oregon and Birmingham and most recently has begun to expand her creative endeavors to include both non-fiction and fiction writing resulting in a few recent publications in Art and Culture periodicals.
Sara Vize is originally from Louisville, Kentucky and currently lives in Brooklyn. She earned a B.F.A. in Musical Theatre from Point Park Conservatory in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and recently participated in the NYCPlaywrights Spring 2009 Reading Fundraiser. Other credits include the 1st tour of Anne of Green Gables with TheaterWorks USA, and Ragtime at the Pittsburgh Playhouse, directed by Michael Rupert.
MOTHER MARTYRDOM
by Charissa Richters
Charissa Richters Charissa Richters is originally from Texas and currently resides on Long Island. She is a working single mom and a full time student.
Alice Anne English recently relocated from Washington, DC, where she performed with many companies including the Studio Theatre, Forum Theatre, The New Play House, Landless Theatre Company, Venus Theatre, Encore! Richmond Shakespeare on Tour, and in Page-to-Stage events at the Kennedy Center. She now studies with Terry Schreiber at T. Schreiber Studio in New York. Favorite roles include Annie Wilkes in Misery and Gertrude in Hamlet along with roles in new plays.
MOTHER'S DAY
by Chris Shaw Swanson
Chris Shaw Swanson Chris Shaw Swanson is an Ohio playwright whose comedies and dramas have been
honored in more than fifteen national competitions. This year, her works have been or
will be produced in California, Vermont, Washington D.C., New York, Minnesota,
Virginia, New Jersey, Illinois, Singapore, Florida, Connecticut, Oregon, Nebraska, Massachusetts and Australia. The Growth, which premiered at
the Toronto Ten-Minute Play Festival, is published in the Smith & Kraus anthology The
Best Ten Minute Plays of 2008 for Three or More Actors. Other plays include Measured
Honesty, The Heroines of Central Ohio, Tophet Point, Bankin' on the Grand, Take Two,
Ryan's List, Legacy, Getting Lucky, Friendship 101, and Orientation Day. Chris is a
member of the Dramatist Guild of America.
Website: http://www.dramatistsguildweb.com/members/chrisswanson/
Claire Warden most recently appeared in Abingdon Theater's Engaging Shaw. She holds a BA Honours in Drama and Theatre Arts from the University of Birmingham and is an alumna of the Intensive Actor Training Program at Shakespeare and Company. clairewarden.com
Also special thanks to Renee Cole, Mary Wilson, Nadia Kiyatkina, and Robert Anthony as the moms and minister.
MRS. ROSENFIELD SETS YOUR ASS STRAIGHT
by Cat Bistransin
Cat Bistransin has an uber-liberal arts education. Her youth was filled with hitchhiking across country; past residences include non-winterized cabins and other odd places. Her plays and screenplays have won or placed in national competitions, including the Script Savvy Feb. 2009 Screenplay Contest. The monologue Mrs. Rosenfield Sets Your Ass Straight is part of a larger work called Little Tales of Feminist Torments, was inspired in part by a statue in Central Park. A former playwriting fellow of the Pennsylvania State Arts Council, she used the money to move to New York.
Mary Catherine Wilson is an actor and theatre technician in New York City. When you can't find her onstage she is most likely backstage sewing something. She graduated from NYU-TISCH School of the Arts with a BFA in Acting and continued training in Meisner based work with the late Fred Kareman (now continuing with his protege Anthony Strapoli). Every week you can find her reading new works at several of the playwrighting groups she attends. Mary has worked as an actor on both coasts and is looking forward to producing her own project in the very near future.
WHO GETS KILLED?
by Alex Broun
Alex Broun was born in Sydney, Australia, and has enjoyed considerable success in theatre, TV and film as a writer, actor and director. As a writer he has had many plays performed in the USA, South Africa, Canada, Singapore, the UK, Taiwan, the Philippines, Pakistan, Japan and Australia. He has also twice received funding from the Australian Film Commission as well as recently having two short screenplays filmed. One of the world's leading ten minute playwrights, in recent years he has had over 40 short plays produced in over 200 productions across the globe. He has also recently had three ten-minute plays published in the USA. He is currently the Artistic Director of Short + Sweet Theatre, the largest ten minute play festival in the world that currently plays in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Singapore and Malaysia. Alex lives in Sydney, Australia. He has also recently launched a new website www.alexbroun.com - where you can access and download many of his plays free of charge.
Lynsey Buckelew is originally from Alabama and recently moved to New York City to pursue her Master's in Vocal Performance from the Manhattan School of Music. She was recently seen in Mergatroyd Productions' Playfest and Stress and the City. She also enjoys musical theatre and some of her favorite roles have been Cinderella in Into the Woods and Marta in Company.
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