Six Playwrights! Six Directors! And only 24 hours to create six new plays for 21 actors! They will start on Friday evening…playwrights will write through the night…directors will work with actors in rehearsal throughout the day on Saturday and then….

Show time!!!   

8 pm, Saturday, January 25th

Tickets: $5 at the door

North Raleigh Arts and Creative Theater

7713 Lead Mine Road, Raleigh, NC

Playwrights:

Jack Berry

Chuck Kieth

Steve Gallagher

Nicole Noel

Kari Rodgers

Lydia Sbityakov

Directors:

Rebecca Blum

Sally Kinka

Trey Morehouse

Matt Schedler

Rob Underhill

Fred Yaffe 

Actors:

Gus Allen

Seth Blum

Christopher Bynum

Hannah Chapman

James Cox

Tristan Dufresne

Emily Guernsey

Colleen Ann Guest

Roberto Harrington

Joanna V Herath

Stephanie Kellogg

Clint Clintonio Lienau

Jeri McKee

Bonnie Roe

Bev Schieman

Tara Smith

Gabrielle Toledo

Emily Tryon

Sonia Usatch-Kuhn

Virginia Wallis

Mikey West

Emily Rose White

Band:

Kirk Ridge and Friends Band 

Props/Costumes Mistress:

Romni Rossi

Sound Designer:

Jason Tyne-Zimmerman

Stage Manager:

Kinsey Watson

This special event is sponsored by the Cary Playwrights’ Forum and the Town of Cary in conjunction with the Cary Players production of An Evening of Possibilities by Mark Harvey Levine.

During this four-hour workshop, each participant’s submitted short play will be discussed and writers will receive feedback from Mr. Levine, a master of the short play form.  There will be a break for lunch.

This special workshop will take place on February 1,  2014 from 10:00 am – 3:30 pm.  The workshop fee is $25 and the workshop is limited to 8 participants.

To register please submit a short play about 10 pages long in pdf format to submissions@caryplaywrightsforum.org (put “Mark Harvey Levine Workshop” in the subject line) and send a check for $25 made out to Cary Playwrights’ Forum, c/o Cary Arts Center,  101 Dry Ave, Cary, NC 27511.

Questions?  Please contact Lydia Sbityakov at lydia@caryplaywrightsforum.org.

To learn more about Mark Harvey Levine, please visit his website at http://markharveylevine.com

Six Playwrights! Six Directors! And only 24 hours to create six new plays for 21 actors!

Crazy chaos. Yes! Perpetual pandemonium. Yes!  Fabulously Fun!  Absolutely!

Join the Cary Playwrights’ Forum as we prepare for our 24 Hour Play Festival…the first ever in the Triangle!

We are looking for playwrights, directors, stage managers, actors and technicians to take part in the writing, staging, rehearsing and performing of six ten-minute plays.

The Play Festival will begin at 10:00 pm on Friday evening, January 24th, at the North Raleigh Arts and Creative Theater. At that time playwrights will select their actors and get to work. The plays will be a minimum of 5 minutes and a maximum of 15 minutes.  On Saturday morning, the groups will read the finished scripts. The stage managers and technicians will join the directors and actors for daylong rehearsals.

The Public Performance of all plays will take place on Saturday, January 25th at 8:00 p.m. at the North Raleigh Arts and Creative Theater with a reception to follow.

Interested participants are encouraged to contact Jason to register. To find out more or to register for the 24-Hour Play Festival contact Jason Tyne-Zimmerman at tynezimmerman@gmail.com

Or if you are just interested in seeing the final production!

Show time:  8 pm, Saturday, January 25th

Tickets: $5 at the door

And, for a special treat, Kirk Ridge and Friends Band will be performing original music during the show!

New in 2014!  The Cary Playwrights’ Forum will be offering two new playwriting classes thru the Town of Cary Parks and Recreation programs!

The first class – Living Stories: The Basics of Playwriting will explore the writer’s voice and teach participants how to create a compelling plot, interesting characters and great dialogue!  This class will culminate in a Staged Reading of the participant’s work produced during this class.  This class starts January 6th.

The second class – A Study of Sam Shepard’s True West will explore the writing style of Shepard and engage in discussions and in-class exercises.  This class starts March 3rd.

Both classes are open to interested participants 18 years of age & up and will be taught by Jason Tyne-Zimmerman. Mr. Tyne-Zimmerman is Head of Theater at Long Leaf School of the Arts in Raleigh; founder of the Exquisite Corpse Festival, a omnimedia arts organization; a Teaching Artist at the Raleigh Little Theater; and serves on the Board of Directors of the Cary Playwrights’ Forum.

Registration is now open for both of these classes!  To register, go to the Town of Cary website.

Questions?  Contact Jason Tyne-Zimmerman at jason.tyne-zimmerman@caryplaywrightsforum.org.