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WTP’S 2011 Ethel Woolson Lab Completes Its Winning Season With

Jill Patrick — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:21:28 +0000

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

The Jew-Catcher [DER JUDEFÄNGER] by David L. Fisher
In 1961 Los Angeles a Holocaust survivor recognizes the man who decades earlier tricked her and her family out of hiding and into the hands of the Gestapo. Rather than go to the authorities, she takes the matter to the elders of her synagogue. They set into motion an investigation that insinuates two young people into the man’s life, employs agents across two continents and plumbs the depths of two war torn souls. What they find darkens the lives of them all. What they wanted was truth and justice. What they learn is that sometimes the two are strangers.

Directed by Melissa Foulger. Dramaturgy by Addae Moon. With Jim Donadio, Elliott Grey, Peter Hardy, Boyd Gossett, Cynthia Barrett, Jo Howarth, Whitney Millsap, and Judith Beasley.

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.

Theroun Patterson’s AMERICAN DISMANTLE this Tuesday, Sept 21st

Lisa Brathwaite — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:15:49 +0000

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.

AMERICAN DISMANTLE is a darkly comic journey from the present we know to the future we are creating. It’s not your abilities, but your choices that define your chaos.

There will be a talkback with the playwright immediately following the reading. 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) 949-7160 or email rsvpworkingtitleplaywrights.com.

Topher Nixon Payne’s EVELYN IN PURGATORY this Monday, July 26th

Lisa Brathwaite — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:33:43 +0000

We’re baaack… and now, WORKING TITLE PLAYWRIGHTS presents Topher Nixon Payne’s EVELYN IN PURGATORY as part of our signature play reading series, The Ethel Woolson Lab, this Monday, July 26, 2010, 7:30 p.m., at Academy Theatre.

Accused by an unreliable student of inappropriate behavior in her New York Public School, Evelyn is dismissed to a small forgotten classroom to await her hearing and her fate. There she encounters colleagues trapped in the same limbo. Paralleling the great diversity of their classrooms, the educators couldn’t be more different. As days turn into weeks and months, fights and friendships reveal their plans, hopes and secrets. It’s like detention for teachers. Not exactly hell, it’s Evelyn in Purgatory.

With Bobbie Elzey, Mark Gray, Megan Hayes, Shelly McCook, Stacy Melich and Matt Myers. Directed by Patricia Henritze with dramaturgy by Suehyla El-Attar.

There will be a talkback with the playwright immediately following the reading. This series is made possible through a grant from the Hellen Ingram Plummer Charitable Foundation.

Tickets are $10 at the door or available for purchase online. Call (404) 949-7160 or email rsvpworkingtitleplaywrights.com.