FLORENCE, A new devised work to be performed at Sparky Park, Austin, December 6-8 & 12-15, 2013

From Gale Theatre Company, in collaboration with the City of Austin and Bottle Alley Theatre Company, comes FLORENCE. Directed by Katherine Wilkinson and created by the Gale Ensemble, Florence tells the story of Florence Lawrence, America's "First Movie Star." Through physical theatre, dance, and video, Florence explores fame, old hollywood, and what it truly means to be remembered. Expect to see actors literally swinging from the rafters of the historic sparky park substation. Florence is also filled with shakespeare, kanye west, exhaustion, chaos,glamor and much much more. 

Dec 6-8 & 12-15 @ 8pm

Sparky Park Substation, 3701 Grooms Street, Austin (THE SUBSTATION WILL BE HEATED!) - click for map

Tickets: $20-General, $10-25 & Under --Buy tickets at








This performance is rated PG-15


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Directed by Katherine Wilkinson (www.katherinewilkinson.com)
Choreographed by Katherine Wilkinson & Celina Chapin

Performed by Ra'chel Lowery, Zoey Cane Belyea, Sam Gorena, Kenny Amponsah, Vanessa Alvarado, Martha Zo Ryland, Brittaney Ortiz, Kimberly Gifford

Stage Managed by Zac Crofford & Paul Mahaffey
Scenic, Costume and Media Design by Ráchel Lowery
Dramaturgy & Video Design by Zoey Cane Belyea
Produced by Gale Theatre Company & Bottle Alley Theatre Company

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For more information: www.galetheatre.tumblr.com www.bottlealley.co @galetheatre @alleybottle

Bottle Alley Theatre Co Seeking Director/Acting Coach for 'The Zoo'

Bottle Alley Theatre Company is seeking ONE last director to join their creative team (already consisting of a mind-boggling FIVE directors) for their extremely experimental performance piece entitled The Zoo.

Confused? Let's clarify:

First, a vague synopsis: The Zoo is about six criminals, each committing atrocities completely independent of each other. Sensationalized by the media and turned into quasi-celebrities, they are later apprehended and placed on large show trials. Instead of being executed, they are placed in a public prison, built specifically for them - and what is a public prison, but a zoo?

Each director is responsible for directing just ONE actor (and thus here is where the acting coach part comes in). The reason for this is so that there can be a level of attention to detail unlike most conventional plays. Bottle Alley's Artistic Director Chris Fontanes shall supervise/direct the entire production overall.

This is what is known as a "long-term" project, with The Zoo (the last show of the season) slated to open in September and with production kicking off in January. However, due to the scale of the production and its level of detail, we're eager to fill that last director's spot now.

No experience is necessary - however, the applicant should have an understanding of acting and how to work with someone on this one-on-one level. In addition, we're looking more for someone with the right attitude who can work in a larger creative group while still being independent.

And, yes, this position is paid.

Interested? Confused a little? Then send your resume or letter of interest to Artistic Director Chris Fontanes at cmfontanes@gmail.com

This a FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED type of thing. Applicants will be reviewed, and then possibly have an interview set up at a later date.

MAKE-BELIEVE by Chris Fontanes, Bottle Alley Theatre Company at Grayduck Gallery, July 12 - 20, 2013

presents

(poster design: Shannah Kunze)

Make-Believe
by Chris Fontanes
Grayduck Gallery, 608 W. Monroe St. - click for map
July 12-13, 19-20, 7:30 p.m.

Tickets $12 plus fee via






Bottle Alley Theatre Company is proud to present MAKE-BELIEVE, the final show in their first season of plays.

Make-Believe is an experiential theatrical piece, an abstract narrative of forgotten dreams and hospitals, of death and love, and all the things that you wish you remembered. In the world of Make-Believe, nothing is ever what it seems.

Make-Believe was written and directed by Chris Fontanes and stars Bottle Alley ensemble members Rachael Shaw (The Ivy House), Kate Jones (The Ivy House), Kim Gifford (The Ivy House), Tim Olivares (Stage, Autumn, The Ivy House), Steven Cruser (Autumn, The Ivy House), Taylor Whitmire (The Ivy House) as well as newcomers Brittaney Ortiz, Dan Wolff, and Kenny Amponsah. The play also features abstract makeup design by New Movement makeup artist Michelle Serrano.

The play shall take place over four nights at Grayduck Gallery, located on W Monroe Street just off of South 1st.

Doors open at 7pm and the show begins at 7:30!

For mature audiences only!

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THE IVY HOUSE by Chris Fontanes, Bottle Alley Theatre Company at the Eponymous Garden, February 25 - March 5

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The Ivy House
by Chris Fontanes

Produced by Brian Crabb, Joan Bryson, Tom De La Garza & Eponymous Garden

Starring Tim Olivares, Kimberly Gifford, Kate Jones, Ariel Gilman, Rachael Shaw, Taylor Whitmire and Steven Cruser

@ Eponymous Garden, 1202 Garden Street, Austin, TX (click for map)

Monday-Tuesday February 25th and 26th and Monday-Tuesday March 4th and 5th

House opens at 7 pm

Limited seating; tickets available via

The Ivy House is a tale of love, love lost, memories and escape. Seven characters' stories intertwine through the past, present and future and fall safely into the confines of the Ivy House, an imaginary place where they go to re-live their memories.

The Ivy House shall be performed at the Austin landmark - Victorian house, Eponymous Garden. Rather than a conventional theatre performance, the play takes place in different rooms within the house. The audience is encouraged to move through the house to fully experience the play.

Notice: The Ivy House is for mature audiences only

* Bottle Alley Theatre Company and Eponymous Garden would like to ask all audience members to park along the street on Waller St in regards to Garden St. Thank you.

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Bottle Alley Theatre Company Seeking ONE actress IMMEDIATELY for 'The Ivy House'

A strange series of events have left us without the last member of our cast. We are seeking one open-minded actress to join our production IMMEDIATELY. This is a first come-first-serve kind of thing, so please email your resume and headshot to writer/director Chris Fontanes ASAP. If selected, you will have an audition as soon as possible consisting of cold readings from the script.



The Ivy House, written and directed by Chris Fontanes, will be performed at the Eponymous Garden. The play weaves a bittersweet and melancholy story of love and love lost - how memories remain the same, no matter how much you wish they would change. A group of people, all connected somehow, re-live their joint memories over and over again, using a central place as an escape hatch of sorts. This place becomes known as the ivy house.



The part to be filled is Gwendolyn (mid-to late twenties), the love interest of the main character. She has moved on, but still exists within the realm of the main character's memories and thus becomes trapped, in a sense, in the ivy house. Iinterested? Email writer/director Chris Fontanes at cmfontanes@gmail.com Performances take place at the end of February and the beginning of March at a beautiful Victorian house called Eponymous Garden on Garden St, near Ceasar Chavez. Actors shall be compensated! As soon as the role is filled, this announcement willl be taken down

Second Call: Bottle Alley Theatre Company Seeking Four Actors for The Ivy House, Auditions Saturday, January 13, 2013

Bottle Alley Theatre Company, following their two-show stand at The Broken Neck, is returning with a new, experimental drama entitled The Ivy House written and directed by Chris Fontanes lto be performed the Eponymous Garden.

Auditions shall take place this Sunday, January 13th with one call at 3 p.m. and another beginning at 5 pm – or by appointment if those times do not work for you. The audition shall take place at the Austin Java on Barton Springs (click for map). These auditions are closed and by appointment only! Basically, this is how it is going to work: If interested, please email your resume and headshot to writer/director Chris Fontanes ASAP. If you are selected, you’ll be given an audition appointment as well as the script with certain scenes highlighted. These scenes shall be “warm read” (meaning that you won’t memorize them, but shall be familiar with them) during the appointment opposite a pre-cast actor.

The Ivy House is non-linear and interpretive. It weaves a bittersweet melancholy story of love and love lost – how memories remain the same, no matter how much you wish they would change. A group of people, all connected somehow, re-live their joint memories over and over again, using a central place as an escape hatch of sorts. This place is known as the Ivy House.

Bottle Alley is seeking four open-minded actors to join this cast of seven (all parts aged in their twenties). One male and three females are needed for the parts outlined below:

Dante (male): The best friend of the play’s central figure. Dante sleeps with his best friend’s girlfriend, holding it as a secret all the while consoling him

Zoe (female): A quirky, off-beat main supporting role. An aspiring painter and waitress, Zoe desires to disappear into the wilds of New York. She also has an imaginary friend.

Gwendolyn (female): The love interest of the central character. She appears through his memories, though she has now moved on. She is distant now, and shadowy.

Erin (female): The love interest of another female character. Erin is recently dead, and appears to multiple characters in a series of memories, manipulating their emotions. 

Email writer/director Chris Fontanes at cmfontanes@gmail.com

Performance dates shall be at the end of February/beginning of March at a beautiful Victorian house called the Eponymous Garden on Garden Street, just south of E. Cesar Chavez.

Actors shall be compensated!

Kickstarter campaign for Bottle Alley Theatre Company's The Ivy House by Chris Fontanes, January, 2013

Kickstarter campaign for Bottle Alley Theatre's The Ivy House by Chris Fontanes with the goal of $750 in 30 days:

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The third production from Bottle Alley Theatre Company - a play of love and love lost, escape, and memories.

• Launched: Jan 8, 2013
• Funding ends: Feb 7, 2013

About The Ivy House: The Ivy House is the third independent production from the Bottle Alley Theatre Company following their two-show stand at the notorious Broken Neck, Stage and most recently, Autumn. For Ivy House Bottle Alley ventures out into new and unexplored territory, settling into the eventual unknown. The Ivy House is hard to describe as so much of it is interpretive. The best description of it is a story of love and love lost, but also that of memories and escape. Seven character's stories intertwine through the past, present and future and fall safely into the confines of the Ivy House, an imaginary place where they go to re-live their memories. The play is written and directed by Chris Fontanes and features Bottle Alley alumnus actors Tim Olivares, Ariel Gilman, and Steven Cruser.

About Bottle Alley Theatre Company: Bottle Alley Theatre Company is a collection of creative minds, theatrical rebels, and college friends. We strive to push the limits of theatre and to create new and exciting collaborative works from both within the company as well as outside members. In order to have the most successful chance at presenting the play we need your support to promote, produce and fund this play. We operate outside the realm of conventional theater and as a wholly independent theater company we rely on the generosity of the public to keep us going. Every donation made to this show goes directly into the production and we know how to make every dollar go far.

Why we need your money: We are a poor theatre company trying to do big things - you can already see the problem. We are just like you - we live paycheck-to-paycheck and cannot afford that dental procedure or blown tire. We would like to own nicer clothes and new shoes. We would also like major grants to be able to drop ten thousand dollars on a single show. However, this is not yet to be. We don't want all of your hard-earned money. Spare what you can, and know that it shall go to the very grateful, who shall use it for what is absolutely needed.

Risks and challenges Learn about accountability on Kickstarter

With creation, comes conflict. We are a fledgling theatre company amongst a vast city littered with many amazing theatre companies. Some are massive, building huge multi-million dollar facilities. They will never have to wonder where their next show will be. Or how they'll have to scrape up a hundred bucks for seventy chairs. Other companies are like us - living show-by-show, chasing dreams, ambitious as hell. We live paycheck-to-paycheck too - our money is going into lights, chairs, programs, and promoting the hell out of this thing that we are proud to be creating.

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Bottle Alley Theatre Company Seeking Four Actors in Closed Audition, January 13, 2013

Bottle Alley Theatre Company, following their two-show stand at The Broken Neck, is returning with a new, experimental drama entitled The Ivy House written and directed by Chris Fontanes located at the Eponymous Garden.

Auditions shall take place this Sunday, January 13th with one call at 3pm and another beginning at 5 pm – or by appointment if those times do not work for you. The audition shall take place at the Austin Java on Barton Springs (click for map). These auditions are closed and by appointment only! Basically, this is how it is going to work: If interested, please email your resume and headshot to writer/director Chris Fontanes ASAP. If you are selected, you’ll be given an audition appointment as well as the script with certain scenes highlighted. These scenes shall be “warm read” (meaning that you won’t memorize them, but shall be familiar with them) during the appointment opposite a pre-cast actor.

The Ivy House is, quite frankly, difficult to describe as so much of the text, plot, and narrative is non-linear and interpretive. It weaves a bittersweet melancholy story of love and love lost – how memories remain the same, no matter how much you wish they would change. A group of people, all connected somehow, re-live their joint memories over and over again, using a central place as an escape hatch of sorts. This place is known as the Ivy House.

Bottle Alley is seeking four open-minded actors to join this cast of seven (all parts aged in their twenties). One male and three females are needed for the parts outlined below:

1. Dante (male): The best friend of the play’s central figure. Dante sleeps with his best friend’s girlfriend, holding it as a secret all the while consoling him
2. Zoe (female): A quirky, off-beat main supporting role. An aspiring painter and waitress, Zoe desires to disappear into the wilds of New York. She also has an imaginary friend.
3. Gwendolyn (female): The love interest of the central character. She appears through his memories, though she has now moved on. She is distant now, and shadowy.
4. Erin (female): The love interest of another female character. Erin is recently dead, and appears to multiple characters in a series of memories, manipulating their emotions.

Still interested? Email writer/director Chris Fontanes at cmfontanes@gmail.com

Performance dates shall be at the end of February/beginning of March at a beautiful Victorian house called the Eponymous Garden, south of east Cesar Chavez.    Actors shall be compensated!

Opportunity: Bottle Alley Theatre Company Seeking Writers, Submissions Accepted Until January 11

Bottle Alley Theatre Company is seeking talented and open-minded writers to write with their company!


Currently, we have several opportunities to work in site-specific venues. The difficulty with this is that a play must be tailor-written to fit that location.


This is where you come in.


If you are interested, please send a letter of inquiry (just a few sentences about you) as well as a sample of your writing that you feel is the best representation of you and your style of writing. Though plays are preferred, this can be poetry, prose, fiction, anything really.


Not interested in writing site-specific stuff? Have already written plays? Fortunately for you, we'll take a peek at those too!


If we're intrigued by your words, we'll drop you a line asking for more (if there's any) and then set up an interview so we can get to know more about you and your work


Have no experience? That's okay, you don't need any!


We won't be reading anything after FRIDAY, JANUARY 11TH! Don't make us send an awkward email!


Please email all queries to Artistic Director Chris Fontanes at his personal email address cmfontanes@gmail.com

Upcoming: Autumn by Randall Newsome, Bottle Alley Theatre Company at Broken Neck, November 30, December 1, 7 and 8

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Kickstarter Appeal: Autumn by Randall Newsom, Bottle Alley Theatre Company

The second production from Bottle Alley Theatre Company - a new, dark, experimental work written by Randall Newsom

GOAL: $600 ($325 raised as of October 8)

• Launched: Oct 8, 2012
• Funding ends: Nov 7, 2012

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About Autumn: Autumn is a tragic, disjointed, love story between a man and a women who are actually characters in an obsessive writer's story. The Writer delves completely into his fantasy and pushes his love, Mary, out of his life as she desperately tries to keep him in reality. With The Writer hearing demonic voices and taking their advice on how to finish his story he loses his fragile grip on reality and crosses the fine line between the fiction and the real while destroying the fantasies to which he so desperately clings.
BottleAlley Theatre Company is a collection of creative minds, theatrical rebels, and college friends. We strive to push the limits of theatre and to create new and exciting collaborative works from both within the company as well as outside members. Why we need your help: This play is an ambitious undertaking by both myself and Chris Fontanes, the director. In order to have the most successful chance at presenting the play we need your support to promote, produce and fund this play. We operate outside the realm of conventional theater and as a wholly independent theater company we rely on the generosity of the public to keep us going. Every donation made to this show goes directly into the production and we know how to make every dollar go far.

With creation, comes conflict. We are a fledgling theatre company amongst a vast city littered with many amazing theatre companies. Some are massive, building huge multi-million dollar facilities. They will never have to wonder where their next show will be. Or how they'll have to scrape up a hundred bucks for seventy chairs. Other companies are like us - living show-by-show, chasing dreams, ambitious as hell. We live paycheck-to-paycheck too - our money is going into lights, chairs, programs, and promoting the hell out of this thing that we are proud to be creating.

Auditions for Autumn by Randall Newsom, Bottle Alley Theatre Company, October 11 - 12

Bottle Alley Theatre Company is returning with Autumn, a new experimental drama written by Randall Newsom and directed by Chris Fontanes located at the infamous Broken Neck, location of their first experimental work entitled STAGE.


Auditions shall take place Thursday, October 11th and Friday, October 12th beginning at 5 pm. Auditions are by appointment only! To schedule an audition, email director Chris Fontanes at cmfontanes@gmail.com ASAP. Please include a headshot and resume in initial email (preferred, but not required). Auditons shall consist of cold readings from the script. Prepared monologues are nice, but not required. Auditions shall take place at The Broken Neck, located at 4701 Red Bluff Rd. (click for map)

Autumn spins a dark and fragmented love story revolving around The Writer, determined to finish his story while he pushes his love, Mary, away. Plagued by three demons (Loss, Hate and Fury), The Writer's world becomes intertwined with his story, and his two characters - The Narrator and Annabelle. Eventually the two worlds blur together, and The Writer begins his descent into the darkness of his tale.

Bottle Alley is seeking three (possibly four) open-minded actors interested in being apart of this new, experimental work. One male is needed, and two roles can filled with either gender - The Narrator (male), Hate (either) and Fury (either).

Actors shall be compensated! Hope to see you at auditions!