THE SLEEPING WORLD by Crystal Skillman
THE SLEEPING WORLD by Crystal Skillman
Directed by Daniel Talbott
With Teddy Bergman, Denis Butkus, Jessica Dickey, Samantha Soule. Stage Directions: Jocelyn Kuritsky.
Where: Woodshed Studio
The Sleeping World is a play about a deadly quiet and cold church. In the midst of a swirling snowstorm. Four playwrights come together for their first reading of a final and unfinished script by their recently dead friend, Peter.
Crysal Skillman is the author of Birthday, Nobody and The Telling Trilogy (Rising Phoenix Rep, Dir. Daniel Talbott) as well as Hack (Vampire Cowboys, Dir. John Hurley). The Sleeping World was developed at the Lincoln Center Directors Lab as well as Rattlestick (Dir. Scott Ebersold), and The Side Project (Dir. Adam Webster). Crystal is an Innovative Theatre Awards Nominee, finalist for the Yale Drama Series, and a member of the MCC Theater Playwrights’ Coalition, E.S.T, Rising Phoenix Rep, and Dramatists Guild, among others. You can find her plays at Smith & Kraus this winter and she is published in Plays & Playwrights. Crystal is pleased to announce she has been commissioned by the Vampire Cowboys to write a new full length play that will be developed and produced by the company in NYC in their upcoming seasons.
Daniel Talbott’s work as a director and playwright has been seen at Red Elevator Productions, HERE, Red Fern Theatre, The Side Project, Singularity, Synapse Productions, Six Figures, Expanded Arts, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Soho Rep, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Sitelines Festival, New York International Fringe Festival, and the Royal Court. He is the recipient of a Drama-Logue Award for acting and a 2007 NYIT Award for directing, and was named one of 15 People of the Year 2006 by nytheatre.com. He is a graduate of Juilliard and of Solano College Theatre’s ATP, and is a literary manager at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and the founding artistic director of Rising Phoenix Rep (recipient of the 2007 NYIT Caffe Cino Fellowship Award).
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