Woodshed Collective’s PlayDates Reading Series presents:
The Sleeping World by Crystal Skillman
Directed by Daniel Talbott
With Teddy Bergman, Denis Butkus, Jessica Dickey, Samantha Soule. Stage Directions: Jocelyn Kuritsky.
Where: Colt Coeur Studio
When: Feb 1
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.
Crystal Skillman is the playwright of the comedy Hack! an I.T. Spaghetti Western (produced by Impetuous Theater Group (ITG)/The Brick Theater, Amanda Feldman) and the drama Vigil or the Guided Cradle (ITG/Brick Theater) which has been nominated for a 2010 NY Innovative Theater Award for Outstanding Full Length Script and published in “Out of Time and Place” (an anthology featuring writers from the Women’s Project Lab: www.outoftimeandplace.com). Both productions were directed by John Hurley. Her play Birthday, directed by Daniel Talbott for Rising Phoenix Rep, was produced in London at the East Waterloo Theater this summer under the direction of Sharon Willems. Plays in development include Flow, an EST/Sloan Project commission recently workshopped at the Working Theater with director Nicole Watson, and That’s Andy, a musical with Kevin Carter and Bobby Cronin. She is currently working on her new play Another Kind of Love and Geek, a new full length play commission for the Obie-Award winning NYC theatre company Vampire Cowboys who is currently featuring her episodic play Killer High, directed by Hope Cartelli in this year’s Saloon Series. www.google.com/profiles/crystalskillman#about
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).
