2011 24-Hour Theatre Project

It’s that time of year when drama teachers Adam Simpson and Carrie Simpson of Lynn University present to the community their ‘24 Hour Theatre Project’ Saturday, February 12, 2011 at 7:30 PM.

Back for the 4th time the Lynn University Drama Program is hosting it’s 24 Hour Theatre Project which means that in 24 Hours more than half a dozen plays will be written, rehearsed, memorized, staged, and performed in front of a live audience. This year along with professional playwrights from the community, along with a Lynn faculty member and two students eight new ten-minute plays will be written. Over 30 student actors, 8 directors and multiple stage hands will come together to make this show a comic success! Come on out for an evening of laughs! Basically, this is how it works: exactly 24 hours before curtain, writers are given a cast of actors; a director and a list of play titles. None of the participants have ever seen these titles before. The writers choose a title and over the next 12 hours write a play using that title as the only inspiration. The following morning, the actors and directors receive their scripts and begin rehearsal.

This year, the playwrights include:

Jeff Morgan (a Professor at Lynn University’s College of Liberal Education)
Will Garcia (a Senior English major at Lynn University)

Stephanie Williams (a film major at Lynn University who also takes classes in the conservatory for trumpet)
Todd Caster (a well-known playwright)
Wendy White (Artist/Playwright/Producer/Director/Curator, her website is: http://www.newlightgallery.org/ .)
Marla Schwartz (you may recognize her name as an AroundWellington.com cultural arts writer)
Allan Provost (a well-known playwright who lives in Miami)

Barbara Fox (a well-known playwright from Miami who organizes playwriting events at the Arts at St. Johns in South Beach)

The show will be performed in the Amarnick-Goldstein Concert Hall at the de Hoernle International Center on the campus of Lynn University, 3601 North Military Trail, Boca Raton, FL 33431. Tickets are free for students, faculty, staff (and playwrights- of course). Free tickets with Lynn ID can only be reserved in person at the Box Office. One ticket per ID. No online or phone reservations for free tickets. Tickets for guests are $10 a ticket. The box office is open Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., and on weekends for 2 hours prior to scheduled performances. Phone: (561) 237-9000; Website: www.lynn.edu/tickets, E-Mail: tickets@lynn.edu.

Driving Directions

Take I-95

Exit at Palmetto Park Blvd and turn West onto Palmetto Park Rd. Stay in the far right lane and at the first major intersection, turn right onto MILITARY TRAIL. If you see any of these roads, you’ve passed Military Trail = St. Andrews, Toledo, Rd., Powerline/Jog, Lyons, 441 …. turn back around and go back.

Once you turn onto Military Trail – stay in the left lane – you’ll pass the light at Verde Trail South (goes both way); on the left you’ll see the Marriott Tyco Bldg., then you’ll see the sign for the light at Town Center Signal – goes both ways, esp. right into the (you’ll see the sign) Boca Center Shops of Marriott; then you’ll see a sign for NW 19^th St, goes both ways; you’ll go under the bridge that says GLADES ROAD BRIDGE on it; to the left you’ll see the light for Butts Rd.; on the left is the Crystal Corp Ctr., then the light for Banyan Blvd, goes both ways; there’s a post office sign on the rite; to the left you’ll pass the light at Potomac Rd.; slow down/remain in the left lane — on the right you’ll see a sign for the Quad Office Park – and the very next left – there is no light, you turn left into Lynn University (there’s a sign) … if you pass it, you can go to the next light which is Spanish River Blvd., and turn around.

Once you turn left into Lynn University you’ll take the first right, rite at the guard gate. You’ll follow it around … and on the left is a parking lot for handicapped cars only. You do have other parking options.

Go to the next stop sign … it’s a three way stop  – go straight and you’ll find a public parking lot behind the Keith C. & Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center. Once you park in this lot you walk back toward the roadway and almost directly across the street from the Wold is the Count and Countess de HOERNLE INTERNATIONAL CENTER. Inside this center is the Amarnick-Goldstein Concert Hall and this is where the 24-Hour Theatre Project is going to be performed.

Also, if you turn left at the stop sign there’s an area that has a few handicapped parking spaces available. Just a bit further there’s a Lynn community parking lot that also has a few handicapped spaces available. These lots are a bit closer to the Amarnick-Goldstein Concert Hall.