Renowned Playwright Paula Vogel has launched an annual workshop that will take place across the nation. Selected playwrights have taken on the challenge of writing a short play in 48 hours leading up to President's Day. The plays are inspired by Alfred Jarry's 1896 riot-inducing satire Ubu Roi.
THE 48-HOUR PLAYS:
"After Us the Savage God" by Terry Milner
"Oedipus Pence" by Siobhan Gilbert
"UBUUUUUUUUUUU" by Ricardo Pérez González
LOCATION: Theatre 54 @ Shetler Studios (12th floor) - 244 West 54th St. Ny, Ny 10016
DATE/TIME: President's Day 2018, Monday @ 7pm
http://paulavogelplaywright.com/bakeoff/
CAST: Bryan Hamilton, Stefania Schramm, Danelle Eliav, Nina Kassa, James Edward Becton, Max Samuels, Jack Sullivan, Asher Grodman, Philip Estrera, Kathryn Kates, Sarah Schultz, Rachel Broderick, Kate Greer, Katherine Kates, Kate Stahl, Tucker Lewis, Steve Cordeiro
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHTS:
Ricardo Pérez González's first play, the story of the WWI Christmas Truce In Fields Where They Lay (dir. Brad Raimondo) was hailed by the NY Times as “gripping” and “moving drama.” Following that debut, the Sundance Institute selected Ricardo for their Inaugural Writer’s Intensive and his Alan Turing Biopic, The Tender Peel, won him an Alfred P. Sloan Grant. He is also an alumnus of the Emerging Writer's Group at the Public Theater and a winner of the MetLife Nuestras Voces national playwrighting award. His play Don’t Eat The Mangos was recently included in Primary Stages reading series at the Cherry Lane Theatre. On the Grounds of Belonging, his play about racially segregated gay bars in 1950s Houston, Texas, recently debuted at the Public Theater as part of Public Studio. He was recently commissioned to co-write the script for the feature film The Rest of Us, produced by Mary Stuart Masterson and directed by Linda G. Mills. Additional writing credits include the drag ball musical Neon Baby (book writer/co- lyricist, Pregones 2013), Ashé, his Puerto Rican style two brothers myth (UP Theater, 2013; Repertorio, 2016; Labyrinth, 2017), his transgender family drama La casa de Ocaso (Asunción Playwriting Competition, 2010), his BDSM drama R.A.C.K., and his short film Losses and Gains about gay male body image.
Siobhan Gilbert's plays have been featured in Primary Stages' Detention series, Columbia University, the Davenport Theatre, John DeSotelle Studio, New York University, the Classical Theater of Harlem, the Last Frontier Theater Conference, Dixon Place, HERE Arts Center, the Tank Theater, and the Old Globe in San Diego. Her ten minute play The Interview has been published by Indie Theater Now. Her play Spotlight was a semi-finalist at the Bay Area Playwrights Festival. Her play The Flying Machine was a finalist for the Princess Grace Award and a finalist for the Henley Rose Playwriting Competition for Women. Her plays Memorare and Uncertainty were both semi-finalists for the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. She was the recipient of the 2015 MFA fellowship to the Sewanee Writer's Conference in Tennessee where her play was workshopped under the guidance of Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Paula Vogel. Her short film, Westward Expansion, was featured at the 2014 New York 48 Hour Film Festival. Her screenplay, Alsos, was a finalist for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science in Film initiative commission at the Sundance Institute. Her 1/2 hour pilot Ivy League A-holes was a finalist for the Fusion Film Festival Best 1/2 hour Pilot Category and the WGAE Made in NY Writers Room Initiative. Siobhan is a 2015 MFA graduate in Dramatic Writing from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where she was awarded the Department Full- tuition Fellowship. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild.
Terry Milner is a writer/actor/director based in NY. Terry's first play, The Jesus Fund, premiered in January 2014 at Burning Coal Theatre in Raleigh, North Carolina. His short play Nothing is Free premiered at the 2014 Collective:10 Festival in New York and a screen adaptation (with Rebecca Brillhart) was a semifinalist at the 2017 Nashville Film Festival and Finalist at the 2017 Phoenix Film Festival screenwriting competitions. Terry's play Adam Then was a semifinalist at the 2015 Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference; it received a developmental staged reading at the Drama League Studio in New York in 2016 directed by John Michael DiResta. Terry's play Jasper was a semifinalist for the 2016 Bay Area Playwrights Festival and presented in New York as part of Crashbox Theater's Read.Play.Write reading series and at PlayGround at the Old Globe. Terry's screenplay The Fiddle Player was a second-round selection for the 2017 Sundance Screenwriters Lab and his feature screenplay, Retrospective (co-written with Bill Claps) is currently in development. Terry's acting credits include appearances off-off Broadway, in regional theater, in the films Heart of Dixie and the Onion News Network's Today Now. Terry directed the world premiere of Jen Rudin's Freeway off-off Broadway and has also directed for the NYU/Tisch Dramatic Writing MFA program. He served as assistant director on James Joyce's The Dead at Burning Coal and a staged reading of Arthur Miller's The American Clock at Profile Theatre in Portland, Oregon. Terry is a member of the Dramatists Guild, SAG-AFTRA and Actors Equity Association and serves on the faculty of the Dramatists Guild of America Plays in Progress program and Cheri Magid's The Write Draft. MFA: NYU/Tisch. JD: University of North Carolina School of Law; BFA: University of Mississippi.
THE 48-HOUR PLAYS:
"After Us the Savage God" by Terry Milner
"Oedipus Pence" by Siobhan Gilbert
"UBUUUUUUUUUUU" by Ricardo Pérez González
LOCATION: Theatre 54 @ Shetler Studios (12th floor) - 244 West 54th St. Ny, Ny 10016
DATE/TIME: President's Day 2018, Monday @ 7pm
http://paulavogelplaywright.com/bakeoff/
CAST: Bryan Hamilton, Stefania Schramm, Danelle Eliav, Nina Kassa, James Edward Becton, Max Samuels, Jack Sullivan, Asher Grodman, Philip Estrera, Kathryn Kates, Sarah Schultz, Rachel Broderick, Kate Greer, Katherine Kates, Kate Stahl, Tucker Lewis, Steve Cordeiro
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHTS:
Ricardo Pérez González's first play, the story of the WWI Christmas Truce In Fields Where They Lay (dir. Brad Raimondo) was hailed by the NY Times as “gripping” and “moving drama.” Following that debut, the Sundance Institute selected Ricardo for their Inaugural Writer’s Intensive and his Alan Turing Biopic, The Tender Peel, won him an Alfred P. Sloan Grant. He is also an alumnus of the Emerging Writer's Group at the Public Theater and a winner of the MetLife Nuestras Voces national playwrighting award. His play Don’t Eat The Mangos was recently included in Primary Stages reading series at the Cherry Lane Theatre. On the Grounds of Belonging, his play about racially segregated gay bars in 1950s Houston, Texas, recently debuted at the Public Theater as part of Public Studio. He was recently commissioned to co-write the script for the feature film The Rest of Us, produced by Mary Stuart Masterson and directed by Linda G. Mills. Additional writing credits include the drag ball musical Neon Baby (book writer/co- lyricist, Pregones 2013), Ashé, his Puerto Rican style two brothers myth (UP Theater, 2013; Repertorio, 2016; Labyrinth, 2017), his transgender family drama La casa de Ocaso (Asunción Playwriting Competition, 2010), his BDSM drama R.A.C.K., and his short film Losses and Gains about gay male body image.
Siobhan Gilbert's plays have been featured in Primary Stages' Detention series, Columbia University, the Davenport Theatre, John DeSotelle Studio, New York University, the Classical Theater of Harlem, the Last Frontier Theater Conference, Dixon Place, HERE Arts Center, the Tank Theater, and the Old Globe in San Diego. Her ten minute play The Interview has been published by Indie Theater Now. Her play Spotlight was a semi-finalist at the Bay Area Playwrights Festival. Her play The Flying Machine was a finalist for the Princess Grace Award and a finalist for the Henley Rose Playwriting Competition for Women. Her plays Memorare and Uncertainty were both semi-finalists for the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. She was the recipient of the 2015 MFA fellowship to the Sewanee Writer's Conference in Tennessee where her play was workshopped under the guidance of Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Paula Vogel. Her short film, Westward Expansion, was featured at the 2014 New York 48 Hour Film Festival. Her screenplay, Alsos, was a finalist for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science in Film initiative commission at the Sundance Institute. Her 1/2 hour pilot Ivy League A-holes was a finalist for the Fusion Film Festival Best 1/2 hour Pilot Category and the WGAE Made in NY Writers Room Initiative. Siobhan is a 2015 MFA graduate in Dramatic Writing from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where she was awarded the Department Full- tuition Fellowship. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild.
Terry Milner is a writer/actor/director based in NY. Terry's first play, The Jesus Fund, premiered in January 2014 at Burning Coal Theatre in Raleigh, North Carolina. His short play Nothing is Free premiered at the 2014 Collective:10 Festival in New York and a screen adaptation (with Rebecca Brillhart) was a semifinalist at the 2017 Nashville Film Festival and Finalist at the 2017 Phoenix Film Festival screenwriting competitions. Terry's play Adam Then was a semifinalist at the 2015 Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference; it received a developmental staged reading at the Drama League Studio in New York in 2016 directed by John Michael DiResta. Terry's play Jasper was a semifinalist for the 2016 Bay Area Playwrights Festival and presented in New York as part of Crashbox Theater's Read.Play.Write reading series and at PlayGround at the Old Globe. Terry's screenplay The Fiddle Player was a second-round selection for the 2017 Sundance Screenwriters Lab and his feature screenplay, Retrospective (co-written with Bill Claps) is currently in development. Terry's acting credits include appearances off-off Broadway, in regional theater, in the films Heart of Dixie and the Onion News Network's Today Now. Terry directed the world premiere of Jen Rudin's Freeway off-off Broadway and has also directed for the NYU/Tisch Dramatic Writing MFA program. He served as assistant director on James Joyce's The Dead at Burning Coal and a staged reading of Arthur Miller's The American Clock at Profile Theatre in Portland, Oregon. Terry is a member of the Dramatists Guild, SAG-AFTRA and Actors Equity Association and serves on the faculty of the Dramatists Guild of America Plays in Progress program and Cheri Magid's The Write Draft. MFA: NYU/Tisch. JD: University of North Carolina School of Law; BFA: University of Mississippi.
