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WTP Presents the last On-Demand Reading of the 2011 Season:

AFFLICTIONS OF A QUIET WINTER by Essential Theatre’s 2011 Playwriting Award Winner Theroun D’arcy Patterson.
A controversial interview sets off a firestorm of events. A former child soldier rises to power in Uganda. A reluctant son defies his fate while his wife embraces her fierce ambitions. An activist shrinks from life while a reporter uncovers an American corruption. Destinies collide, snow beckons a ghost from the past, and a Jackal pulls the strings. Everything in life is a battle for something. What’s  your affliction?

With Daniel Burnley, Eric Mendenhall, Stacy Melich, Olubajo Sonubi, Ko Sonubi, Cynthia Barker, Winslow Thomas, Naima Carter Russell and Amanda Cucher.  Directed by Suehyla El-Attar.

WHERE: Academy Theatre, 119 Center St., Avondale Estates, Ga
WHEN: Monday, Dec. 12, 2011
TIME: 7:30pm
TICKETS: $5 donation at door. WTP members free.

Don’t miss your opportunity to be a vital part of this play’s development. Your participation in the talkback with the playwright, director and cast immediately following the reading is greatly appreciated.

THE JEW-CATCHER [DER JUDEFÄNGER] by David L. Fisher, Tues., Nov. 15th, 7:30 p.m., Academy Theatre, 119 Center St., Avondale Estates, Ga.

Working Title Playwrights (WTP) is proud to present this new play as part of its signature series, The Ethel Woolson Lab (TEWL). In TEWL, WTP member playwrights are given the opportunity to develop their competitively selected scripts with a team of professional actors, director and dramaturg over the course of a week culminating in a staged reading for the public. Audience participation in an engaging talkback session with the playwright after the reading is a vital component of the development process.

WHERE: Academy Theatre, 119 Center St., Avondale Estates, Ga.

TIME:  7:30 p.m.

DIRECTIONS: http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.academytheatre.org&usd=2&usg=AFQjCNHfzILQbv20dQ_HYtbn2Z0ORP4ccw

TICKETS: $10 at door or online at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/208910

For more information on this and all WTP programming, contact Jill Patrick at managing@workingtitleplaywrights.com.

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Working Title Playwrights Presents BEING ALIVE by Doug Graham, a WTP On-Demand Reading, Tuesday, August 23, 2011, 7:30 p.m., Academy Theatre, 119 Center St., Avondale Estates, GA. Free for WTP members. All others, $5 donation at door or purchase online.

The Hand family has suffered tragedy after tragedy for the past several years. To make things worse Jim, the father, is given knowledge of the events before they occur. Though he tries to avoid them, no matter what, the events always come to pass. As the play unfolds and Jim’s life seems to be crumbling around him, he struggles desperately to hold his family together. Inspired by the story of Job, Being Alive is a play about the importance of family and the difficulties that we face that force us to realize how special and fragile life really is.

With Diany Rodriguez, Doug Graham, Jessica Hunt, Jacob York and Lowrey Brown. A talkback with the playwright will immediately follow the reading. Your participation is greatly appreciated. Read the rest of this entry »

Working Title Playwrights Presents THE LIARS CHILD by Sharon Mathis, a WTP On-Demand Reading, Tuesday, May 3, 2011 at 7:30 p.m., Academy Theatre, 119 Center St., Avondale Estates, Ga. Free for WTP members; $5 requested donation all others.

The Liars Child by Sharon Mathis

A legacy of violence. Accusations, delusions, and lies. Is killing in the genes? A son must choose between parents, and do an unspeakable wrong for the right reason. In the nightmare of living with his act, Orestes discovers the truth about his family and a promise of peace.

Based on Aeschylus’ “Orestia”, the play is history told by the outsiders- women, children, and servants. As it unfolds inside Orestes’ head, time is fluid; the dead can resurrect; and the living become demons or gods. The story is as old as myth and as new as a dream.

With Joshua David Simpson, Betty Mitchell, Whitney Drury, Naima Carter-Russell, Nadir Mateen, Laura Carson, Sarah Keys Chang, Lauren Broussard, Neal Hazzard, David Fisher and Jared Foust. A talkback with the playwright immediately following the reading will be moderated by Pamela Turner, PhD., Regional Representative Dramatists Guild of America.

WHEN: Tuesday, May 3, 2011
WHERE: Academy Theatre, 119 Center St., Avondale Estates, Ga.
DIRECTIONS: http://academytheatre.org/Directions.asp
TIME: 7:30 p.m.
COST: WTP Members FREE / $5 requested donation all others

WORKING TITLE PLAYWRIGHTS presents Glen Slattery’s VON WHO? as the next staged reading in our signature program series, The Ethel Woolson Lab, on Tuesday, October 26, 2010, 7:30 p.m., at Academy Theatre.

Spring 1945: The Third Reich is in ruins at the end of World War II – and so is Joachim Von Ribbentrop. Notorious for his arrogance and ineptitude (he once greeted the King of England with a Hitler salute) Nazi Germany’s ex-top diplomat is hiding in a bombed-out backstreet, wondering what happened to the good life. With the Allies conducting a manhunt and preparing his indictment as a war criminal, Ribbentrop would just as soon lie low and dream of glory. But the shades of former rivals, living and dead, make the quiet life impossible.  Judgment day awaits, and a nagging question: VON WHO?

With Yolanda Asher, James Baskin, Daniel Burley, Jill Hames, Bill Murphey, Larry Ruth and Michael Strauss. Directed by Patricia Henritze with dramaturgy by Suehyla El-Attar.

There will be a talkback with the playwright immediately following the reading. If you’re not already familiar, the Ethel Woolson Lab provides a unique opportunity to experience the process of making new plays happen in Atlanta. This series is made possible through a grant from the Hellen Ingram Plummer Charitable Foundation.

TICKETS: $10 donation at door or secure online here Call (404) 585-7695 or email rsvp<at>workingtitleplaywrights.com.

Kelly arrived on time for her blind date.
Tobias? …Didn’t.
Declan knows exactly why his extremities keep bursting into flames.
Fiona is a Handy Maid…that likes it dirty.
And Zeb? Let’s just say never come between a man and his smoothies…or his money.

These are five people who shouldn’t know each other…but were meant to meet.

WORKING TITLE PLAYWRIGHTS presents Theroun Patterson’s AMERICAN DISMANTLE as part of our signature program series, The Ethel Woolson Lab, this Tuesday, September 21, 2010, 7:30 p.m., at Academy Theatre.

With Nick Tecosky, Eric Mendenhall, Park Krausen, Megan Hayes and Ismail ibn Conner. Directed by Patricia Henritze with dramaturgy by Suehyla El-Attar. Read the rest of this entry »

Last night’s fund raising event for Allen Hagler was a smashing success!  While we’re still counting and have several outstanding bids from the silent auction to be settled, we’re expecting a tally of around $8,000 – 100% of which will go to Allen himself. PRETTY DARNED GREAT for an event thrown together on the sheer will of love. As one friend has said, “It felt way more like a birthday party!”

If you weren’t able to make it, then you missed the opportunity to enjoy a wealth of food, drink and generosity, as friends and family of Allen Hagler gathered together to hear new plays by Curt Shannon and David Fisher in concert readings directed by Betty Hart. In addition, the dynamic duo of Johnny Drago and Emma Crandall wowed the crowd with back-handed compliments that some of us are still wincing from today (but in a happy, codependent way). Read the rest of this entry »

The Atlanta theater community and the community-at- large have really come through with donations to Fun and Fundraising for Allen. We hope you’ll join us and help make the evening even more successful!

Starting at—like, right now—6pm tonight at The Academy, you can graze on tasty treats, purchase something to drink and/or a fabulous compliment from playwright Johnny Drago, buy a chance to win a great raffle item, make a bid on a gift for you or someone you love and hear two new short plays from WTP playwrights Curt Shannon and Dave Fisher. Admission is $10 for those who can afford (every cent goes to Allen) or—for those who can’t—two cans for the Atlanta Food Bank.

Here’s a mere glimpse of the array of goods and services you can win in tonight’s silent auction and raffle: Read the rest of this entry »

At this time, Working Title Playwrights, along with Academy Theatre, is hosting a fund raising event in conjunction with an On Demand reading of two new, short plays by WTP members Curt Shannon and David Fisher.

Tickets are a mere $10 at the door, and we’ll have food donated by area restaurants and beer, wine and sodas for a cheap $2 each.

A silent auction will begin at 6pm, and the readings will begin at 7:30 p.m.  ALL proceeds – 100% of the door, bar and silent auction – will go toward helping our dear friend Allen Hagler with his cost of living during this most arduous time in his life.

WHERE:  Academy Theatre, 119 Center St., Avondale Estates, GA

WHEN:  Tuesday, November 17, 2009

DOORS OPEN: 6 p.m. for silent auction. New play readings begin 7:30 p.m. Silent auction will wrap up immediately following the talkback at the end of the second play.

COST:  $10 at the door, but if you don’t have the $10 DON’T LET THAT STOP YOU – PLEASE COME ANYWAY!

And if you’ve been moved by Allen’s story and want to help, you can make a contribution to his care. Click the pledgie.com ‘DONATE’ button below, or at the top right of column of this blog. Read the rest of this entry »

The good news: two of those prescriptions that Allen got filled were for two different kinds of morphine, so at least his pain was contained for the first time since his ordeal began.

The bad news: when we went to Grady Radiation the next day, the oncologists there were really terrific, but refused to begin his treatments when they learned his Grady Card hadn’t yet been renegotiated.  On the one hand, it is benevolent that the physicians tried to help him not go into insurmountable debt.  But I ask how benevolent is the system that requires such a choice of both doctor and patient? Read the rest of this entry »