Now
Now, Brown Couch
August 17 - September 2, 2007
The Theatre Building
For our fifth annual festival, we went back to what started it all: an old brown couch. Our playwrights created works that take place on, around and in the general vicinity of the couch. We also featured nightly sets with local up and coming sketch comedy and improv groups, as well as three staged readings, held each Sunday night.
The
Critics
by Ian Grody
New York, NY
directed by Mark Pracht*
featuring: Marie Antoinette Flores, Sarah B. McLaughlin & Ben Veatch
Exotic
by Rebekah M. Lopata
Newark, DE
directed by Margaret Lebron
featuring: Lori Grupp & Damian Vanore
One
Sunday Morning
by Dennis Jones
Powhatan, VA
directed by Lauren Shepard
featuring: Sam Bianchini, Colene Byrd* & Mark Pracht*
The
Collar
by Ryan Dolan
Chicago, IL
directed by Ryan Magnuson
featuring: Dustin Burnett & Krissy Callahan
Clean
Sweep
by Walt McGough
Chicago, IL
directed by Anne Sheridan-Smith
featuring: Ryan Curtin & Whitney Green
Sometimes
Is All
by Theresa Giacopasi
Mahopac, NY
directed by Andrew Hobgood
featuring: Ryan Curtin, Sarah B. McLaughlin, Jacqueline Stone & Ben Veatch
Sandy
by Brian Allard
Portland, OR
directed by Lydia Milman
featuring: Lisa Cordileone & Micky York*
Naked
in the Light of Day
by Michelle Jane Wilson
St. Paul, MN
directed by Colene Byrd*
featuring: Jennifer Cheers & Mark Pracht*
Sir
Edmund Walter Has a Thought
by Matt Haldeman
Haverford, PA
directed by Lance Hall
featuring: Dustin Burnett & Damian Vanore
A Chicago
Coda
by Colene Byrd*
Chicago, IL
directed by Micky York*
featuring: Sarah Pinkham & Tom Wells
THE READINGS
August 19th @ 7pm:
The Battle of Anzio by Brenda Kilianski, directed
by Gabriele Johansen
featuring: Kara Ewinger, Chuck Greenia, Iris Lieberman, Dave Lykins, Francesca
Peppiatt, Jenn SavaRyan, James Stanton & HB Ward
August 26th
@ 7pm: Along For the Ride by Randall L. Wheatley,
directed by Colene Byrd*
featuring: Mark Pracht* and Shea Bredenkamp*
September 2nd @
7pm: Open Minds by Adam Szymkowicz, directed by Lydia
Milman
featuring: Dustin Burnett, Colene Byrd, Jennifer Cheers, Paul Kastner, Sarah
B. McLaughlin, Ben Veatch & Damian Vanore
* denotes company member
THE COMEDIANS