The Play Group LLC Presents
“Short Cuts 3”
Nine Short Plays by Local Playwrights
When: Saturday, May 4, 2013 at 8PM and Sunday, May 5, 2013 at 2PM.
Where: LAKE WORTH PLAYHOUSE, 713 Lake Avenue, Lake Worth, FL 33460
Admission: $15. Tickets may be ordered at www.lakeworthplayhouse.org or by calling 561.586.6410. Tickets may also be purchased at the door.
FORT LAUDERDALE, FL, February 25, 2013—The Play Group LLC will kick off its Third Season of Short Cuts — nine short (ten minutes or less) original plays by local playwrights. The production at the historic Lake Worth Playhouse will be a staged reading. The audience will see fully staged plays but actors may hold scripts.
Short Cuts 3 features (in order of performance): “Chez Del Lago” by Palm Beach’s Brian Reeves, “Monkey Jam” by Boca Raton’s Marnie Bauman, “Ask Me Anything” by Miami’s Philip Middleton Williams, “Letting Go” by Boca Raton’s Ellen Greenwald, “Speed Date” by Delray Beach’s Carol White, “Special Delivery” by Miami Beach’s Marj O’Neill – Butler, “Into Wishin” by West Palm Beach’s Todd Caster, “Our Boys” by Lighthouse Point’s Peter Hawkins, and “Dead to Right” by Lighthouse Point Magazine’s Jon Frangipane.
Tickets are $15 and may be purchased at www.lakeworthplayhouse.org or by calling the Box Office at Lake Worth Playhouse at 561.586.6410 or at the door.
Managed by Joyce Sweeney of Coral Springs, The Play Group LLC is a coalition of South Florida playwrights, directors and actors. Formed in 2010, we put the community in community theatre by featuring original plays by local playwrights.
Media Contact: Joyce Sweeney, Manager, The Play Group LLC
Phone: 954.592.0226 email: grackle@bellsouth.net
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About the Playwrights
Marnie Bauman (Monkey Jam) is making her debut as a playwright. Marnie has been a resident of Palm Beach County for 15 years. She has enjoyed acting in little theatre on and off for the past 30 years and loves the artistic control she has through her characters. Marnie recently discovered a new passion and voice in writing short plays, and she is so very pleased that Short Cuts 3 is producing her first creation, Monkey Jam, this season! Now her control of character is the director’s hand – scary!
Marj O’Neill – Butler (Special Delivery) is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the International Center for Women Playwrights, and is a much-produced playwright. A proud member of Equity, SAG, and AFTRA, she has worked as a professional actor and director for over 30 years. Visit her online at www.marjorieoneill-butler.com
Todd Caster (Into Wishin’) is a published and produced playwright. His most notable plays include Broken Angels, Dog of War, Riddle of Three and Stranded on the Isle of Few. An accomplished actor, he has starred as Thomas Becket in Murder in the Cathedral, Daniel in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) and Edgar Allen Poe in Death Upon a Midnight Dreary.
Jon Frangipane (Dead to Right) is the editor and publisher of Lighthouse Point Magazine, pianist, ASCAP composer and playwright.
Ellen Greenwald (Letting Go). After a lifetime as an actor, director and producer in both community and professional theatre, in recent years Ellen has turned her hand to play writing. She has written an outdoor drama and several 10 minute plays, all of which have received staged readings. Her one-act, MIXED BLESSINGS, was produced as a winner of the Stockyards Theatre Playwriting Contest in Chicago. Long committed to fostering the good work of new or unrecognized playwrights, Ellen now produces and directs Playfest in North Carolina every summer, giving a voice to writers from all over the country. Ellen is delighted to have her work included in Short Cuts 3.
Peter Hawkins (Our Boys) is the winner of the 2012 South Florida Writers Network Playwrighting competition. Last year, the Playgroup presented Peter’s play, Joseph Andrews, based on Henry Fielding’s comic and racy eighteenth century novel. Peter’s numerous acting roles include the Mad Hatter for a charity function, and he has also appeared in Don Juan in Hell, Broken Angels and Murder in the Cathedral.
Brian Reeves (Chez Del Lago) acts, directs and writes ten-minute plays, all of which he is doing with Short Cuts 3. He is a mediator, lives in Palm Beach and is engaged to the lovely Allison Stallings (wedding next January). Brian co-leads our monthly playwrights’ workshop and teaches acting for us. He is also a national officer in Mensa, the high IQ society. Those who know him well assume there must have been a grading error.
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Carol White (Speed Date) is a novelist, playwright and a board member of the National League of American Pen Women. She is a frequent fiction contributor to the East Hampton Star newspaper and her articles have appeared in the Sun Sentinel, Insight for Playwrights, Working Writers, Writers Journal, and The Florida Writer. As a former Executive Producer for the Boca Raton Theatre Guild, she also moderated a playwright workshop. Her full-length plays have won major awards from the Royal Palm Literary Awards and her short plays have been staged and produced nationwide.
Philip Middleton Williams (Ask Me Anything) received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting from the University of Miami in 1974 where he participated in over 15 productions. His first play, The Hunter, was produced at the University of Minnesota in 1977 and at the University of Colorado in 1984. The Nomad Players of Boulder premiered Dark Twist in 1986, and The Purer, Brighter Years was premiered at the Old Town Playhouse in Traverse City, Michigan in 1992. Here’s Hoping was commissioned by Northern Michigan Planned Parenthood for the Troupe Teen Theatre Company in 1994. Some of his one-act plays include The Campers Strike Back (with Fred Kahn), Men At Ski Hi, The Return of the J.C., A Mountain Home Companion, and South Valley Shorts, a collection of short pieces (Acting Exercise Alpha, Gallery, Keyboards, Waiting for Bro), and Ask Me Anything. Can’t Live Without You, a two-act romantic comedy, premiered off-Broadway at the Manhattan Repertory Theatre in January 2008.
And Coming in the Fall – Step into The Monster Zone
The Playgroup LLC is thrilled to welcome back to South Florida award winning playwright Brian Harris. A native of Hollywood, Florida and now residing in Miami Beach, Brian’s freaky funny monster-themed plays will be presented in a four-week fright-a-ganza at The Empire Stage in Fort Lauderdale.