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Directed by John Gould Rubin

Where: Woodshed Studio

When: September 20th, 2010

FAIL: Failures by Sarah Burgess

Directed by Jess Chayes

With Matt Dellapina and Jocelyn Kuritsky. Stage Directions: Michael Cohen.

Where: Woodshed Studio

When: August 1st, 8pm

FAIL: Failures is a series of vignettes about personal failure, usually while attempting to present information or impress another.

Sarah Burgess’ screenwriting includes “Five Difficult Situations” (official selection, 2007 Crown Point Festival), “Nate” (2005 Coca-Cola Refreshing Filmmaker’s Award finalist), “These Things Happen” (writer/director; 2004 Malcolm Ross Memorial Film Production Award) “Ezekiel’s Revelation” (co-writer; 2007 First Run Film Festival Screenwriting Award). Sarah’s first film project was licensed and aired by HBO in 2000. She has worked for MTV Networks in New York and as a writer and researcher for the BBC in London. BFA NYU Film – 2007 Faculty Commendation for Body of Work.

Jess Chayes is a co-founder and resident director of The Assembly Theater Project and a free lance director,  producer and grant writer. With The Assembly (formerly The American Story Project), she has co-created and directed We Can’t Reach You, Hartford (Edinburgh Fringe First Nominee), Daguerreotype (The Abingdon Theater complex), What I Took in My Hand (The Ontological Theater, the Brick Theater), Clementine and the Cyber Ducks (The Ontological Theater, reading at P73) and The Dark Heart of Meteorology (UNDER St. Marks). Other recent projects include: The Sister (reading, The Public Theater), American Treasure (PSM, 13P), We Declare You a Terrorist (Assistant Director, SPF), The Civilians’ Paris Commune (Assistant Director, The Public Theater), and directing short pieces for Sticky (The Bowery Poetry Club) and The Public Theater’s 2008 Emerging Writers Group. As a producer and development professional, Jess has worked for The Civilians and The Public Theater. She is a New Georges affiliated artist and a founding member of their new multi-disciplinary artists lab, The Jam. Jess graduated from Wesleyan University with a B.A. in Theater and English with Honors, and was awarded the Rachel Henderson Theater Prize as well as an Olin Fellowship for her work on Hartford.

]]> http://www.woodshedcollective.com/archives/1257/feed 0 http://www.woodshedcollective.com/archives/1262 http://www.woodshedcollective.com/archives/1262#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:26:39 +0000 jkuritsky http://www.woodshedcollective.com/?p=1262 http://www.woodshedcollective.com/archives/1262/feed 0 http://www.woodshedcollective.com/archives/1246 http://www.woodshedcollective.com/archives/1246#comments Thu, 13 May 2010 16:13:10 +0000 jkuritsky http://www.woodshedcollective.com/?p=1246 THE UNFORTUNATE SQUIRREL by Sonya Sobieski

Directed by Morgan Gould

With Jessica Almasy, Louis Cancelmi, Andrew Cassese, Jessica Howell, Jocelyn Kuritsky, Maria McConville, Pete Simpson, Paco Tolson. Stage Directions: David Jackson.

Music by Alden Terry, Ronnie Reshef, Jana Zielonka.

Where: Woodshed Studio

The Unfortunate Squirrel is a play about everyday life, with songs.

Sonya Sobieski is an Affiliated Artist with the Obie Award-winning New Georges, who commissioned and produced her full-length play Commedia dell Smartass, which was a New York magazine Off-Off Broadway Pick. She has been a three-time finalist for the Actors Theatre of Louisville Heideman Award, a finalist for the Weissberger Award, a semifinalist for the Princess Grace, and the winner of a Best in Fringe award for excellence in playwriting from the New York International Fringe Festival. Screenwriting honors include Slamdance Finalist and Special Jury Prize at the Avignon/New York Film Festival. She teaches playwriting through the continuing education programs of New York University and Hunter College. MFA, Brooklyn College.

Morgan Gould’s recent New York directing credits include Peter Gil-Sheridan’s What May Fall (Fordham University Alumni Company), Leah Hendrick’s Elephant in the Room (New International Fringe Festival), Andi Cohen’s Maybe, Tomorrow (HipObscurity), Les Hunter’s The Biggest Break (Artistic New Directions Company), Alaina Hammond’s Dr. Chekhov, Gunshot Expert (Brooklyn Playwrights Collective), and Mike Williams’ But the Confessions of the Dead (Red Room Theater). Morgan has also developed work with writers Elizabeth Claire Taylor, Matthew Paul Olmos, Isaac Oliver, Bethany Larsen, Steve Russomano, Lucas Leyva, Brendan Norton and Jim Boyett. Select NYC assistant directing credits include: Annie Baker’s Circle Mirror Transformation (dir. Sam Gold/ Playwrights Horizons), Bruce Norris’ Clybourne Park (dir. Pam MacKinnon, Playwrights Horizons), Greg Moss’ punkplay (dir. Davis McCallum/ Clubbed Thumb), Sheila Callaghan’s Crawl, Fade to White (dir. Paul Willis/ 13P), Naomi Wallace’s 21 Positions, A Cartographic Dream of the Middle East (dir. Lisa Peterson, The Public/ Fordham University Co-Production), Young Jean Lee’s LEAR (Soho Rep), Sheila Callaghan’s WATER (or the secret life of objects) (dir. Daniella Topol, currently in development). Morgan is a member of the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, a member of New Georges’ Emerging Artists group “The Jam” and she is currently the associate director of Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company. www.youngjeanlee.org.

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Directed by John Gould Rubin

With Carlo Alban, Raul Castillo, Jessica Kaye, Jocelyn Kuritsky

NOTE: POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

Directed by Peter James Cook

With David Chernicoff, Frank Deal, Tanya Fischer, Evan Joiner, Anita Sabherwal, Alok Tewari. Stage Directions: Claire Siebers.

Where: Woodshed Studio

Paradigm from California is a play that’s set in Berkeley, California in 1984. It’s about a half baked but well-meaning, amateur philosopher in his forties and his relationships with his teenage protégés.

Anna Kerrigan is a screenwriter, playwright, and director based in New York City. Under the mentorship of Neil Labute, Anna wrote and directed Roost, an independent feature film shot in Western Massachusetts. Production for Roost wrapped in May 2010 and the film is currently in Post Production.  A 2004 graduate of Stanford, she received the University’s Robert Golden Medal Award for her thesis production The Poor, which she wrote under the mentorship of Artist-in-Residence Cherrie Moraga.  In 2009, Anna was invited to join the Ensemble Studio Theater’s Youngblood Playwrights group for promising playwrights under 30. She has developed a number of screenplays and plays both in New York and at the Williamstown Theatre Festival where she also assisted Obie Award-winning director Alex Timbers. She works as a freelance writer for online, alternative, print and on-air advertisements as well as in Television and Film production. Anna has also held jobs as a dogwalker, publicist and barista. Anna is currently represented by William Morris Endeavor. www.jackfishfilms.com

Peter J. Cook has recently directed Crabquistador: Scavenger of God (Ars Nova), Rockberry: The Last One-Man Show (The Brick), The Secret of the Mysterious Baby (Columbia U. & Luna Lounge), No Direction Homo: The Many Identical Persona of Dan Fishback (P.S. 122), Misgivings (West End Theater). Other credits include: Go, Dog. Go!, Bluebeard and Alice in Wonderland (Hangar Theater), Handel’s Semele (Opera Theater of Yale College Guest Artist). Yale: Romeo and Juliet, Lulu, Only We Who Guard the Mystery Shall be Unhappy, Titus Andronicus, Little Tales of Misogyny, Uncle Vanya, The Nature and Purpose of the Universe, She Loves Me, and Death and the Maiden. Most recent: co-writing, directing and playing the director in Jollyship the Whiz Bang’s Straight Up Vampire, an edutainment Paula Abdul jukebox musical about vampires in Colonial Pennsylvania (Bowery Poetry Club). Drama League directing fellow. Yale College 2005.