THE RELENTLESS PURSUIT OF ICE by Max Langert, Punchkin Rep, January 25 - February 1, 2014

Punchkin Rep is producing a new play by Austin playwright, Max Langert, entitled “The Relentless Pursuit of Ice” for FronteraFest 2014!

Friday, January 24 at 8pm

Saturday, January 25 at 8pm

Friday, January 31 at 8pm

Saturday, February 1 at 8pm

The Relentless Pursuit Of Ice is set in the impending desolate future, where we focus on a couple. We follow their daily life of enduring the never ending, increasingly miserable hot sun. With the weather getting hotter, and more unbearable, a special delivery is brought to their door. Choices must be made. Will this new adventure tear them apart, or bring them together?

HERE IS OUR AMAZING CAST!

Liz: Candice Carr Tom: Adam Foldes Frankie: Jonathan Itchon

We are pleased to welcome Kyle Zamcheck to our team as our Director for this production!

Venue: The Museum of Human Achievement (please email us at info@punchkin.org for the venue address). If you purchase tickets online, you will be sent a confirmation email from Frontera Fest with the venue address. Bring a blanket!

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Second Call for Male Actors for Max Langert's The Relentless Pursuit of Ice, Punchkin Repertory Company, October 30, 2013

Casting Call for Male Actors!
 
Punchkin Repertory Theatre will be holding auditions for 'THE RELENTLESS PURSUIT OF ICE'- BY LOCAL PLAYWRIGHT, MAX LANGERT, TO BE PERFORMED AT FRONTERAFEST 2014.


Auditions Wednesday October, 30th beginning at 6 pm. Location on East 6th Street, Austin. Directions will be given once a spot is confirmed. If you cannot make this date, but would like to audition, please contact us to set up another date and time. 

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THE RELENTLESS PURSUIT OF ICE is set in the impending desolate future, where we focus on a young couple. We follow their daily life of enduring the never ending, increasingly miserable hot sun. With the weather getting hotter, and more unbearable, a special delivery is brought to their door. Choices must be made. Will this new adventure tear them apart, or bring them together?

Character descriptions:

TOM: 30s-mid40s, Level headed, but a romantic. Determined to make his wife happy. Not easily amused.
FRANKIE: 20s-mid40s, Likes to be in control and have power over others. Wants to be needed. Ability to be two extreme versions of powerful and needy.

Please message our Facebook page, www.facebook.com/PunchkinRepertoryTheatre, or e-mail info@punchkin.org, to sign up for a time slot, AND WE WILL SEND YOU A COPY OF THE SCRIPT.

For more info about Punchkin Rep, go to our website, www.punchkin.org. Punchkin Rep is a sponsored project of Austin Creative Alliance and is supported in part by the City of Austin Cultural Arts Division.

Opportunity: Set Designer/Artist for The Relentless Pursuit of Ice by Max Langert, Punchkin Repertory, Austin

CALL FOR DESIGNERS AND ARTISTS!

Want to join a fun, creative, and collaborative team? We are currently looking for creative people to join our team as Set, Prop, Lighting, Sound, Costume Designer. If you are skilled at one or more of those areas, contact us!We need creative, flexible designers and artists who want to showcase their talents. Please email your resumé to info@punchkin.org

Punchkin Rep will be producing a new play by Austin playwright Max Langert, The Relentless Pursuit of Ice, for FronteraFest 2014! We are pleased to welcome Kyle Zamcheck to our team as our director for our upcoming production!

The Relentless Pursuit Of Ice is set in the impending desolate future, where we focus on a couple. We follow their daily life of enduring the never ending, increasingly miserable hot sun. With the weather getting hotter, and more unbearable, a special delivery is brought to their door. Choices must be made. Will this new adventure tear them apart, or bring them together?

Typical designer responsibilities include: Collaborate with director and interpret script to visualize set and sound; order/locate materials for production of set; conceptualize, create and craft sets while working alongside production team; produce plans, drawings and models of sets; prepare estimates of set costs; liaise with directors, producers, costume designers and lighting/sound staff, etc.; manage set budget; attend rehearsals as needed; analyze stage entrances and exits to ensure set is situated properly; demonstrate set abilities to crew members, including actors; ensure stage is properly broken down and disposed of after use; costume and prop design.

Key skills: ability to demonstrate genuine interest in, knowledge or experience of visual arts, and theatre is essential; teamwork ; enthusiasm; determination; perseverance; imaginative/artistic adaptability; working well under pressure; good spatial awareness; technical skills.

If interested, please message our Facebook page, www.facebook.com/PunchkinRepertoryTheatre, or e-mail info@punchkin.org, to set up an interview. For more info about Punchkin Rep, go to our website, www.punchkin.org.

Punchkin Rep is a sponsored project of Austin Creative Alliance and is supported in part by the City of Austin Cultural Arts Division.

Auditions for The Relentless Pursuit of Ice by Max Langert, Punchkin Repertory, October 19 and 20, 2013

Punchkin Repertory Theatre will be holding auditions for THE RELENTLESS PURSUIT OF ICE by local playwright Max Langert, to be performed at FronteraFest 2014. Audition dates are set for October 19-20, location is TBD. (Dates may be subject to change)

The Relentless Pursuit Of Ice is set in the impending desolate future, where we focus on a young couple. We follow their daily life of enduring the never ending, increasingly miserable hot sun. With the weather getting hotter, and more unbearable, a special delivery is brought to their door. Choices must be made. Will this new adventure tear them apart, or bring them together?

Character descriptions (ages are 20s to late 40s):
TOM: Level headed but a romantic. Determined to make his wife happy. Not easily amused.
LIZ: Free spirited, easily intrigued and attention seeking
FRANKIE: Likes to be in control and have power over others. Likes to be needed, and Seduce people.

Participants
-Must be able to attend all rehearsals and performances
-Must be patient and flexible in thinking
-Must be highly organized
-Must have reliable transportation
-And above all, must LOVE theatre!

If interested, please message our Facebook page, www.facebook.com/PunchkinRepertoryTheatre, or e-mail info@punchkin.org, to sign up for a time slot, AND WE WILL SEND YOU A COPY OF THE SCRIPT. For more info about Punchkin Rep, go to our website, www.punchkin.org. Punchkin Rep is a sponsored project of Austin Creative Alliance and is supported in part by the City of Austin Cultural Arts Division.

Call for Director and Stage Manager for 'The Relentless Pursuit of Ice' by Max Langert, Punchkin Repertory Theatre

Want to be part of a creative team? Punchkin Repertory Theatre needs to fill a Director position and a Stage Manager position immediately for our upcoming run of The Relentless Pursuit of Ice by Max Langert to be performed at the FronteraFest 2014.

Director duties include:

• adapting a script and collaborating with the team
• breaking down a script, analyzing and exploring the content and conducting relevant research;
• managing time and organizing people and space;
• communicating with all parties involved, including actors, the creative team, the production team
• preparing detailed notes for the cast and creative and production teams;
• helping to publicize the production

Stage manager duties include:

-Coordinating the scheduling of rehearsals, paper tech, tech, and run
-Acting as liaison between actors, director, and other company members (e.g. - rehearsal reminders, issues)
-Noting blocking, props, lighting/sound cues

Both Postions:
-Must be able to attend all rehearsals and performances
-Must be patient and flexible in thinking
-Must be highly organized
-Must have reliable transportation
-And above all, must LOVE theatre!

SNAPSHOTS, the OUT OF INK PLAY FESTIVAL 2013, Scriptworks at the Salvage Vanguard theatre, June 20 - 29, 2013 -

presents

OUT OF INK 2013

Snapshots

the 15th annual showcase of 10 minute plays

June 20-22 and 27-29, 2013 at 8 p.m.

Salvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 Manor Rd. - click for map$15 general admission, $12 students/seniors/ScriptWorks
June 20th is a Pay-What-You-Wish preview

RESERVATIONS/INFORMATION: www.scriptworks.org512-454-9727

Whether it's avoiding adjectives, employing superheroes, crickets, or trunks, or finding a way to incorporate the opening and closing lines of Finnegan's Wake, ScriptWorks members have been up to the challenge of combining three arbitrary ingredients into cohesive ten-minute plays for 15 years.

Every year for the past 15 years, members have worked feverishly for 48 hours during the Weekend Fling to pen their opuses built around that year's three ingredients. And every year for the past 15 years, eight of the plays have been produced in the Out of Ink 10 minute play showcase. Over the years, the showcase has been performed at six different venues, from the long-gone Public Domain to the recently-gone Blue Theatre with stops at ACC, The State Theatre, The Hideout, Hyde Park Theatre, and Salvage Vanguard along the way.

Dozens of national and local theatre artists have contributed ingredients including Robert Faires of the Austin Chronicle, Michael Barnes of the Austin-American Statesman, director and casting director Vicky Boone, actors Ev Lunning and Babs George, designers Leilah Stewart, Ia Ensterä, and Natalie George, and playwrights Sherry Kramer, Suzan Zeder, Sibyl Kempson, Zell Miller, III, Naomi Iizuka, Dan Dietz, and Lisa D'Amour to name just a few.

This year the mini-festival returns to Salvage Vanguard and with eight plays inspired by the following ingredients:

1) The play must contain or involve a photograph--which two or more characters interpret the meaning of differently.
2) One character speaks only in commercial lingo, using known tag-lines or slogans.
3) The play must contain a gunshot or a birth.

At the end of the Weekend Fling, the plays were read in a ScriptWorks Salon at Hyde Park Theatre. A selection committee picked eight of the plays for production in Out of Ink. The selection committee included director Sharon Sparlin and non-applying members Elizabeth Cobbe and James Venhaus.

The Snapshots scripts were written by James Burnside, Trey Deason, Amparo Garcia-Crow, Kirk German, Zac Kline, Max Langert, Jason Rainey, and Anne Maria Wynter.

The plays will be performed by an ensemble of actors including Roxy Becker, Pete Betcher, Amy Chang, David DuBose, Nathanael Dunaway, Joe Hartman, Heather Huggins, Katie Kohler, Jordan Marrett, Don Sneed, Rommel Sulit, and Katy Taylor. They'll be directed by Lowell Bartholomee, Heather Huggins, Ellie McBride, Christina J. Moore, and Sharon Sparlin. Designers for the project are Pam Friday, George Marsolek, Jennifer Rogers, and Bryan Schneider.

ABOUT SCRIPTWORKS ScriptWorks (formerly Austin Script Works) is a playwright-driven organization that seeks to promote the craft of dramatic writing and protect the writer's integrity by encouraging playwright initiative and harnessing collective potential. ScriptWorks is funded and supported in part by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts and the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division believing an investment in the Arts is an investment in Austin’s future.

For more information about ScriptWorks call 512-454-9727 or email: info@scriptworks.org
 

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Upcoming: The Billy Ocean/Teena Marie Confluence of 1985 by Max Langert, Punchkin Repertory at Salvage Vanguard Theatre, January 25 - February 4

Received directly:

presents

The Billy Ocean/Teena Marie Confluence of 1985

by Max Langert
directed by Lizz Taylor

Wed., Jan. 25 @ 7 pm
Sat., Jan. 28 @ 3:15 pm
Fri., Feb. 3 @ 7 pm
Sat., Feb. 4 @ 10 pm
All performances are for Frontera Fest 2012 Long Fringe at Salvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 Manor Rd. (click for map)

To purchase tickets: http://fronterafest.org/site/index.html

Cast: Allison: Lizz Taylor -- Jay McKinney: Steve/Eric P./Ronnie/Morgue Guy/Doctor

The Billy Ocean/Teena Marie Confluence of 1985 centers around Allison, a young woman who is fascinated by charts and has been plotting her emotional life for the past 20 years. She shares the ups and downs of the past, specifically focusing on her love life. She seems to have a pattern of falling into one disappointing relationship after another. Her only hope lies in two love songs from the 80s, which have a seemingly karmic convergence.

About the playwright: Max Langert’s plays have been produced in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Dallas and Nashville. He’s a regular participant in the FronteraFest Short Fringe in Austin and is a proud member of the regional Texas writers’ group, ScriptWorks. He was born in Oakland, California where he used to sell lemonade at a loss and sometimes got in fights with smaller, younger kids.

Auditions for The Billy Ocean/Teena Marie Confluence of 1985 by Max Langert, Punchkin Repertory, September 26 - 27

Received directly:

Punchkin Repertory Theatre is auditioning for their upcoming production of The Billy Ocean/Teena Marie Confluence of 1985 by local playwright, Max Langert. The play will be performed at Frontera Fest from Jan. 24 - Feb 5.

Auditions are at the Dougherty Arts Center, 1110 Barton Springs Road (click for map) on Monday, September 26 and Tuesday, September 27 from 6-9pm. Callbacks are on Thursday, September 29 from 6-9pm. Monday will be auditions for the female role. Tuesday will be auditions for the male role(s).

PLOT: Allison is a young woman who is fascinated by charts and has been plotting her emotional life for the past 20 years. She shares the ups and downs of the past, specifically focusing on her love life. She seems to have a pattern of falling into one disappointing relationship after another. Her only hope lies in two love songs from the 80s which have a seemingly karmic convergence.

ROLES

Allison, 32, ambitious, analytical, a bit naive when it comes to relationships, disconnected from her family, always yearning for something more

Ronnie/Steve/Eric/Morgue Guy/Doctor, generally in 30s age range, all played by the same actor

Ronnie: Allison's brain-damaged brother

Steve: A difficult, stubborn, troubled adjunct professor with a tendency to lie

Eric: A frustrated wanna-be celebrity, possibly related to Michael J. Fox

Morgue Guy: Nice enough guy, works in morgue
Doctor: Seems sweet, works in mental hospital, has poor aim

The play is dialogue heavy with many long monologues for the female role. Requires a strong commitment from both actors.

Please come with a prepared 1-minute monologue (contemporary, non-dramatic, serio-comic). Will also do a cold read from the script.

Email your resume and headshot to info@punchkinrep.org, along with your preference for an audition slot.

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Teacher, Teacher by Max Langert, Austin Scriptworks at the Off Center, June 12 - 27

Max Langert writes dialogue that pops and crackles, not just for the jokes but also because it springs from the characters. They speak to one another in the quick shorthand of coworkers under stress. Folks who know one another, perhaps too well. They can telegraph their messages, and they can needle one another persistently in an effort to keep a chaotic situation on track. There's no time or patience for introspection in the teachers' lounge at an urban Austin middle school.

The setting recalls many another farce, movie or situation comedy set in a work environment. Define your characters, set 'em to bounce off one another under stress, give 'em unexpected surprises, and let it rip. Langert sets up the qurks, director Ed Harrelson cranks up speed, and an assured cast of actors converts the characters into individuals.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Upcoming: Teacher, Teacher by Max Langert, Loaded Gun Theory at

Received May 19:

It may be summertime, but school is still in session!

TEACHER, TEACHER

Loaded Gun Theory and Austin Scriptworks member Max Langert team up for a zany new comedy about what teachers are really up to when class is over. School buses run amok and zombie students attack, but at least there's plenty of coffee!

Teacher, Teacher is being directed by E.D. Harrelson and stars Jessica Medina, Louise Martin, Jeanne Harris, Robert Dieke, Ian King and Travis Holmes.

June 12,13, 17-20, and 25-27 at 8:00pm
Tickets: $18/$15 for ACoT/Teachers
Austin Scriptworks Benefit Night June 17th - 50% of proceeds donated to Austin Scriptworks
Special Artist night June 18th - $15/13 for ACoT/Teachers (online only!)
Performances at the Off Center, 2211-A Hidalgo Street

Wednesday June 17th is Scriptworks night
Join us on Wednesday June 17th for a benefit for Austin Scriptworks. A grant from them is helping us put on "Teacher, Teacher" and so we're giving back 50% of proceeds from that night to their "Finer Point" grant fund.

We'd like to encourage all writers and those who appreciate new works to head out in support. You can buy your tickets for that night here:

http://lgt.buyplaytix.com

Teacher, Teacher is presented with assistance from Austin Script Works
through their Finer Points Fund for new play production

Loaded Gun is a sponsored project of the Austin Circle of Theatres

Auditions, April 21: Teacher, Teacher by Max Langert

Received from Austin Scriptworks:

Loaded Gun Theory is excited to be casting for its next show, Teacher Teacher, for production June 12th-27th. Looking for Actors/Actresses who are old enough to have earned a teacher's certificate. Auditions are at the Dougherty Arts Center Tuesday April 21st at 7:30PM, and are cold readings from the script. To schedule an audition call 280-4795 or email auditions@loadedguntheory.com.

Teacher, Teacher is a great new script by Max Langert that takes place in the teacher's lounge of a Texas high school. There are tornados, unconcious principals, stowaway teachers, and a runaway bus on the way to Mexico. You won't want to miss this hilarious comedy.

Time Steps, Austin Scriptworks at the Blue Theatre, March 26 - April 4

The gathering for Time Steps at the Blue Theatre last Thursday felt like skit night at the close of summer camp. Friendly excitement, lots of young adults, and a program based on games, brainstorming and collaborative action, intended to amuse and astound us over the course of a short evening. The Blue Theatre itself, tucked away behind the Goodwill warehouses in East Austin, is a found venue of sorts, redolent of much earnest make believe.

Austin Scriptworks stirred the pot and furnished the ingredients. At its annual Weekend Fling earlier this season, participating writers were given two days and three "ingredients" with which to build a ten-minute play:

- - The play must move backward, from end to beginning;
- - The play must include a dance break which causes a shift in the action;
and
- - The play must include three things your mother told you not to do.

The harvest was eight winning scripts, presented by Austin directors and actors in six performances. By my subjective taxonomy, these included two relationship dramas, two stories of misfortunes or crimes, one fantasy drama, and three nutsy pieces. Dialogue was strong in all of them. Available actors were parceled out so that almost every face showed up in two roles during the event.

Read More at AustinLiveTheatre.com. . . .