Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
SELF-PRODUCING FOR THE FRINGE by Christi Moore, Scriptworks at Hyde Park Theatre, September 18, 2013
presents
DRAMATIS PERSONAE WORKSHOP
A primer in self-producing for the fringe
A workshop taught by Christina J. Moore
Wednesday, September 18, 7:00 - 9:00 pm
Hyde Park Theatre, 511 W. 43rd St. - click for map
$5 SW members; $10 general
This workshop, led by ScriptWorks Executive Director and FronteraFest Producer Christina J. Moore, will guide participants through the process of preparing a piece for FronteraFest. From resources for finding actors, directors, and rehearsal space to the ins and outs of the technical rehearsal, we'll cover it all.
Contact christi@scriptworks.org to reserve your spot.
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Friday, May 31, 2013
SNAPSHOTS, the OUT OF INK PLAY FESTIVAL 2013, Scriptworks at the Salvage Vanguard theatre, June 20 - 29, 2013 -
presents
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.
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.
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.
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Thursday, March 28, 2013
Dramatis Personae workshop with Kirk Lynn, Scriptworks, May 7, 2013
DRAMATIS PERSONAE WORKSHOP COMING UP!
Kirk Lynn of the Rude Mechs
place and time TBA
Contact Christi@scriptworks.org to sign up!
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Sunday, March 24, 2013
Dramtis Personae: Delving into Character with Dael Orlandersmith, Scriptworks at the Hyde Park Theatre, April 3, 2013
DRAMATIS PERSONAE WORKSHOP COMING UP!
Delving Into Character
with Dael Orlandersmith
Wednesday, April 3rd at 7:00 pm
Hyde Park Theatre, 511 West 43rd St.
Contact Christi@scriptworks.org to sign up!
This workshop will explore character development using aspects of Carl Jung's work. The workshop will emphasize the inner life of characters and how and why they respond to the story set up by the playwright. How and why does a character think/respond to circumstances? How does the family background/environment play a role?
Dael Orlandersmith is an actress, poet and playwright who is best known for her Obie Award-winning Beauty's Daughter and the 2002 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Drama, Yellowman. Her latest project, a co-production between Berkeley Rep and the Goodman is Black N Blue Boys/Broken Men in which she plays male characters who have been abused. She will be doing a reading of that work at Austin Community College as part of their Arts and Humanities Festival on April 4th.
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Friday, January 11, 2013
Poster for Upcoming: FronteraFest 2013 at the Hyde Park Theatre and Salvage Vanguard Theatre, January 15 - February 3
Monday, January 7, 2013
Call for Scripts and Venues for Mi Casa Es Su Teatro, FronteraFest 2013
We are looking for both projects and venue hosts for this year's Mi Casa Es Su Teatro 2013.
These events are produced by ScriptWorks and Hyde Park Theatre and curated for FronteraFest.Contact Adrienne Dawes for more details at adriennedawes@gmail.com
Monday, December 24, 2012
Upcoming 21013 FronteraFest: Short Finge at the Hyde Park Theatre, Long Fringe at the Salvage Vanguard, January 15 - February 16 Long Fringe at the Salvage Vanguard Theatre, January 15 - February 3
Over the course of two decades, FronteraFest stages have been host to more than 2,000 performances and well over 8,000 participants from Central Texas and beyond. The month-long Festival, now an institution, features three separate components; the Short Fringe which runs the entirety of the Festival showcasing pieces 25 minutes or less, and the Long Fringe, with longer pieces between 45-90 minutes. The final and most unique component, 'Mi Casa es Su Teatro' consists of one day of performances hosted primarily at private homes.
FronteraFest is a collaboration between two of Austin’s foremost arts organizations, Hyde Park Theatre, an award-winning professional theatre in Central Austin and ScriptWorks, a statewide playwright development and service organization. The Salvage Vanguard Theatre at 2803 Manor Rd. hosts the Long Fringe productions.
The festival was created in 1993 by Frontera@Hyde Park Theatre Artistic Director Vicky Boone. Boone resigned in 2001 and Ken Webster became Artistic Director of the organization, which changed its name to Hyde Park Theatre. In 2002 Hyde Park Theatre and ScriptWorks' began a partnership to produce the storied festival with Christina J. Moore of ScriptWorks serving as festival producer.
To commemorate two decades of exciting, moving, sometimes weird and delightfully unexpected performance, former FronteraFest ‘Best of Fest’ winners and long-time participants have been invited to return to the stage for special appearances on Thursday evenings, including Steven Tomlinson, Emily Fordyce, Cyndi Williams, Zell Miller, III and Keira McDonald. Past notables include nationally recognized playwrights Kirk Lynn, John Walch, and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lisa D'Amour, who presented some of their earliest work at the festival.
Tickets available from BuyPlayTix via www.hydeparktheatre.com
All FronteraFest performances are listed on Austin Live Theatre's Central Texas theatre calendar and at the HPT website.
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Opportunity: Seminar on Producing for FronteraFest 2013 by Christina Moore of Scriptworks, September 18
FRONTERAFEST 101
A workshop taught by Christina J. Moore
Tuesday, September 18, 7:00 - 9:00pm
Dougherty Arts Center 1110 Barton Springs Rd.
COST: $5 Scriptworks members; $10 general
INFO/RESERVATIONS: 512.454.9727; info@scriptworks.org
The FronteraFest 101 workshop, led by ScriptWorks Executive Director and FronteraFest Producer Christina J. Moore, will guide participants through the process of preparing a piece for FronteraFest. From resources for finding actors, directors, and rehearsal space to the ins and outs of the technical rehearsal, we'll cover it all.
CHRISTINA J. MOORE is a director and producer whose work has been seen at The State Theatre, Zach Scott, Mary Moody Northen Theater, Vortex Repertory Company, Capitol City Playhouse, Frontera@Hyde Park Theatre, Different Stages, and ScriptWorks (formerly Austin Script Works), which she helped found in 1997. FronteraFest 2013 will mark her twelfth year as producer of the festival under the joint enterprise of Hyde Park Theatre and ScriptWorks.
Monday, April 23, 2012
Upcoming: Sherry Kramer disusses Magical Objects, Hyde Park Theatre, March 8
presents
Hyde Park Theatre, 511 W. 43rd St.
How do we make the ordinary into the extraordinary? How do we create something that can carry meaning across the stage, into the audience and then out of the theatre, all the way home, and into the lives of these strangers who come to sit together in the dark? How do we generate a magical object on stage?
It will help if you have more than a passing relationship with A Streetcar Named Desire, The Piano Lesson, and Buried Child, but if you don't you'll still do okay. We'll be talking about the magical object, and there will be a small in class writing assignment.
ScriptWorks is a playwright driven organization that seeks to promote the craft of dramatic writing and to protect the playwright's
integrity by encouraging playwright initiative and harnessing collective potential. The Dramatis Personae series was initiated to provide area
playwrights a place to experiment with their craft and expand their careers.
Monday, April 2, 2012
Upcoming: Out of Ink Festival - Sound Off, ScriptWorks, April 19-21, 26-28
April 19-21 and 26-28, 8 p.m. at the Blue Theatre, 916 Springdale (click for map)
Playwrights: Colin Denby Swanson, Trey Deason, Aimee Gonzalez, Anne Marie Newsome, Amparo Garcia-Crow, Marshall Maresca, Robert M Barr, Elizabeth Cobbe
Directors: Jason Phelps, Ellie McBride, Lowell Bartholomee, Sharon Sparlin, and Debbie Lynn Carriger
Dramaturgs: Kristen Harrison, Ellie McBride, Debbie Lynn Carriger
Production & Design Team: Christi Moore, Kayla Newman, Cassandra Castillo, Christina Smith, Pam Friday, George Marsolek, Jen Rogers and Robert Fisher
ScriptWorks presents OUT OF INK 2012: Sound Off, the 14th annual showcase of 10 minute plays
$15 general admission, $12 students/seniors/ScriptWorks members; April 19th is a Pay-What-You-Wish preview;
$25 for pre-show reception at Zhi Tea (4607 Bolm Road) and performance on Saturday, April 21st
RESERVATIONS/INFORMATION: www.scriptworks.org 512-454-9727
How do you encompass 3000 years in ten minutes? And do it in 48 hours? That was the challenge set before ScriptWorks members last fall at the annual Weekend Fling 48-hour writing event. At the Fling, member playwrights were tasked with writing a ten-minute play over 48 hours using three arbitrary ingredients.
This year's ingredients were:
1) Write a play with three hundred characters that takes place over 3000 years.
2) Include a children's song, game or fairy tale.
3) Include a sound that everyone hears differently.
At the end of the Fling, the plays were read in a ScriptWorks Salon at the State Theater. A selection committee picked eight of the plays to produce in the Out of Ink Festival. The selection committee included ScriptWorks co-founder Emily Cicchini, non-applying member Rhonda Kulhanek, and Cleveland Playhouse Artistic Associate, Corey Atkins.
The Sound Off scripts were written by: Bob Barr, Elizabeth Cobbe, Trey Deason, Amparo Garcia-Crow, Aimée Gonzalez, Marshall Ryan Maresca, Anne Maria Newsome and C. Denby Swanson. The plays will be performed by an ensemble of actors including Sarah Bading, Beth Burroughs, Amy Chang, David DuBose, Anna Maria Garcia, Heather Hanna, Anne Hulsman, Rhonda Kulhanek, Jenny Lavery, Christopher Loveless, Jason Phelps and Aron Taylor. They'll be directed by Lowell Bartholomee, Debbie Lynn Carriger, Ellie McBride, Jason Phelps, and Sharon Sparlin with dramaturgy by Kristin Harrison. Designers for the project are Robert Fisher, Pam Friday, George Marsolek, and Jennifer Rogers.
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.
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Upcoming: Scriptworks Annual Meet & Greet, August 28
Received directly from
(formerly Austin Script Works)
ScriptWorks Annual Meet & Greet
Sunday, August 28th 5:30-7:30pm
at The Vortex, 2307 Manor Rd. (click for map)
No admission charge!
Further info at 512.454.9727 or info@scriptworks.org
On SUNDAY, AUGUST 28th from 5:30-7:30pm ScriptWorks members and their families, as well as area playwrights, actors, directors, designers, technicians, and those interested in finding out more about ScriptWorks are invited to the 14th Annual Meet & Greet at the Vortex, 2307 Manor Rd. This is ScriptWorks’ annual party to kick off the new year, welcome new members, swap summer triumphs and tribulations, and get informed on how ScriptWorks can help you in the coming year. The event is FREE and open to all. ScriptWorks will provide libations and attendees are invited to bring their favorite finger food to the potluck. This party has no narrative through-line and no inciting incident, so drop by anytime and rub elbows and egos with the local bards.
ABOUT SCRIPTWORKS ScriptWorks is a playwright driven organization that seeks to promote the craft of dramatic writing and to protect the playwright's integrity by encouraging playwright initiative and harnessing collective potential. ScriptWorks is funded in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division and by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts, and by individual donors.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Upcoming: Scriptworks Dramatis Personae Workshop with Octavio Solis, May 3
Caught by Tweet:
ScriptWorks presents
with
Octavio Solis
Tuesday, May 3rd 7 – 9:30pm
Dougherty Arts Center, 1110 Barton Springs Rd. (click for map)
Reserve your seat by emailing info@scriptworks.org
This class with award-winning playwright Octavio Solis will involve relaxation and visualization exercises as part of the writing process. Participants will do their writing in the class and then read what they wrote aloud.
Octavio Solis is a playwright and director living in San Francisco. His works John Steinbeck’s The Pastures of Heaven, Ghosts of the River, Quixote, Lydia, June in a Box, Lethe, Marfa Lights, Gibraltar, The Ballad of Pancho and Lucy, The 7 Visions of Encarnación, Bethlehem, Dreamlandia, El Otro, Man of the Flesh, Prospect, El Paso Blue, Santos & Santos, and La Posada Mágica have been mounted at the California Shakespeare Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Yale Repertory Theatre, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, the Dallas Theater Center, the Magic Theatre, Intersection for the Arts, South Coast Repertory Theatre, the San Diego Repertory Theatre, the San Jose Repertory Theatre, Shadowlight Productions, the Venture Theatre in Philadelphia, Latino Chicago Theatre Company, the New York Summer Play Festival, Teatro Vista in Chicago, El Teatro Campesino, the Undermain Theatre in Dallas, Thick Description, Campo Santo, the Imua Theatre Company in New York, and Cornerstone Theatre.
Solis has received an NEA 1995-97 Playwriting Fellowship, the Roger L. Stevens award from the Kennedy Center, the Will Glickman Playwright Award, a production grant from the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays, the 1998 TCG/NEA Theatre Artists in Residence Grant, the 1998 McKnight Fellowship grant from the Playwrights Center in Minneapolis, and the National Latino Playwriting Award for 2003. He is the recipient of the 2000-2001 National Theatre Artists Residency Grant from TCG and the Pew Charitable Trust for Gibraltar at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Solis is a Thornton Wilder Fellow for the MacDowell Colony, New Dramatists alum and member of the Dramatists Guild. He is working on commissions for South Coast Repertory Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, and the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.
Monday, March 21, 2011
Upcoming: Forgetting Finnegan, Scriptworks' Out of Ink Festival, Salvage Vanguard Theatre, April 7 - 15
Received directly from Christi Moore at scriptworks.org:
presents
OUT OF INK:
Forgetting Finnegan
the 13th annual showcase of 10 minute plays
April 7-9 and April 14-16 at 8 p.m.
Salvage Vanguard Theatre, 2803 Manor Rd. (click for map)
$12 general admission, $10 students/seniors/ScriptWorks
April 7th is a pay-what-you-wish preview
RESERVATIONS/INFORMATION: tel. 512-454-9727or reserve@scriptworks.org
We all know time flies when you're having fun. It flies especially quickly when that fun is writing a ten-minute play in 48 hours. That is the task ScriptWorks members were charged with during the Weekend Fling writing retreat. And if that isn't challenge enough, they had to also incorporate three random ingredients into their mini opuses.
1. The dialogue must include passages from the end and the beginning of Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce.
3. Time is running out.
At the end of the Fling, the plays were read in a ScriptWorks Salon at the State Theater. A selection committee picked eight of the plays to produce in the Out of Ink Festival. The selection committee included director Debbie Lynn Carriger, actor Jason Phelps, and Texas A&M - Corpus Christi theatre professor, Alison Frost. The selected plays deal in various ways with those ingredients including scientists dealing with a shrinking world, a young woman getting married to forget her past, and a surprise encounter with Albert Einstein.
