I’m back, thanks to Matt Slaybaugh. Through the kindness of his heart, he built this website from the ground up, dismantled it, and then put it back together again. Trust me, the man has much better things to do with his life, like changing the face of contemporary American Theatre. Please consider donating a few bucks to Available Light Theater. I’ll consider it my birthday and Christmas present combined.
My short play, CAR & CARRIAGE COLLIDE (recently presented at NYC’s FACT Theatre) will come alive at Theatre Southwest on Sunday March 14th. Houstoners (Houstonites, Houstonians? Houstizens?) with a penchant for wry one-acts imaginatively based on real life events and featuring talking horses, should make a bee line directly to The Reader’s Theatre Festival…
CAR & CARRIAGE COLLIDE and other plays
Presented by Theatre Southwest
Sunday March 14th
3PM
www.theatresouthwest.org
tickets@theatresouthwest.org
It’s a twofer! My one-act, HOLD, has been selected for Savannah’s Coastal Empire New Play Festival. I’ve been honored to have been selected for the second time, and really look forward to another opportunity to visit with the incredibly generous faculty and students of Armstrong Atlantic University and explore a truly gorgeous city. More on this as we get closer to the production!
Photo, Telephone by Adan Wojtas courtesy of the artist via Creative Commons
Join me on Sunday, March 15th as I, along with five other playwrights, watch the short plays we wrote in a single night, staged by directors and actors who themselves had only 48 hours to produce them.
Instant Theatre is a fundraiser for FACT, the group who recently hosted a ripping good reading of my play, CAR & CARRIAGE COLLIDE.
Instant Theatre
Sunday March 14 – Monday March 15
7:30pm
Joria Studio’s Mainstage
260 West 36th Street – 3rd Floor
Tickets $15.00 (Advance) $18.00 (Day of)
Reservation Email: jdyville@yahoo.com
FEATURING
PLAYWRIGHTS
JIM BOYETT
RUBEN CARBAJAL
KIRBY FIELDS
PENNY JACKSON
NATANIEL KRESSEN
SERENA NORR
DIRECTORS
JOHN DE BLASS
JACK DYVILLE
LYNN MANUELL
KATHRYN McCONNELL
SAMANTHA SHECHTMAN
MARCUS YI
CAST
LIBBY ARNOLD
MARCUS CONERLY
SUE BERCH
DARYL EMBRY
KELLY GRIFFITH
CHRIS FERRETTI
AMANDA JOHNSON
BILL KOZY
PAIGE LUSSIER
DANIEL LUGO
LAURA LANE
ZACH ROTHMAN-HICKS
JENNIFER SOBERS
STEVE SHERMAN
LUCY SORLUCCO
PEP SPEED
BRANDI VARNELL
SIMONE ZVI
THE STAFF
JACK DYVILLE – Co-Producer/Stage Manager
DAVID FULLER – Co-Producer/Stage Manager
ZACH ROTHMAN-HICKS – Associate Producer
Attention Bay Staters* or friends with friends in Massachusetts…The Main Street Stage has selected my short play, RESTRAINING ORDERS for their second-annual Short Play Festival on March 5th, 6th, 12th and 13th. Andrew Bigelow will be directing this Brooklyn-based farce about stalkers and the stalkers who stalk them. According to their blog, there were over 400 submissions to this year’s festival, so, um, hooray for me! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!
Main Street Stage’s
Short Play Festival
March 5th, 6th, 12th and 13th
57 Main Street
North Adams, MA 01247-3403
(413) 663-3240
Tickets
*I had to look this up.
Join me on Sunday, January 31st for an informal reading of my never-before-heard-aloud play, CAR AND CARRIAGE COLLIDE, presented with five other new short works. It’s a part of the F.A.C.T. Company’s Words & Wine series. I’m thinking a glass of wine and a few one-acts is not a bad way to digest a little brunch, no?
A surreal exploration of a real event, CAR AND CARRIAGE COLLIDE is an imagined documentary exploring a traffic accident that makes an indelible mark on three very different lives.
F.A.C.T.
WORDS & WINE
SUNDAY JANUARY 31
3:00 PM – JORIA MAINSTAGE
260 West 36th Street – 3rd Floor
LIMITED SEATING
RSVP: jdyville@yahoo.com
Producer, Jessica Vera
CHOREOGRAPHY OF CYN AND MARTA by Rich Espey
ORI & ADDISON by James C. Ferguson
CAR & CARRIAGE COLLIDE by Ruben Carbajal
ELEANOR DESCENDING A STAIRCASE by Ian August
EARLY DISMISSAL by Vanessa David
K COMMA JOSEPH by Kirby Fields
FREE ADMISSION: DONATIONS ACCEPTED! We’d love for you to think of it as going out to a bar or lounge BUT receiving more – An Afternoon of PLAY Readings by Professional Actors/Actresses and a glass of Wine. So, hopefully, you’ll give us the pocket change and/or a couple of small bills – the same thing you would leave as a TIP for your server when Just Having A Drink!
Have your 2010 calendar yet? Close to Long Island City? Like your plays brief and bleak?
If you’ve checked off all of the above, I hope you’ll make it to The Secret Theatre for the Queens Players’ Act Five Festival, which will present my one-act, HOLD, along with a program of five other shorts January 13-17. Audience favorites will be granted a short extension January 20-23rd.
HOLD is about a desperate man seeking aid from a mental health hotline, who is instead sent into a surreal, automated phone system purgatory.
HOLD, directed by Kelly Johnston
and Five Other One-Act Plays
Presented by The Queens Players
Act Five: One Acts
January 13-17th (8pm)
January 16th (3:30pm)
@ The Secret Theatre
44-02 23rd St.
Long Island City, NYC 11101
For tickets
Image by Nick Stone
The UK wing of the Gone In 60 Festival has just posted 100 one-minute plays from this year’s event, including my entry, the result of eavesdropping in a crowded cinema. Here’s Overheard at the 7pm Screening of Watchmen, directed by Steve Ansell.
My one-minute play, MOMENT BEFORE IMPACT, from this year’s Gone In 60 Play Festival at Brooklyn College. Featuring Ava Geffen and Mickey Ryan, directed by Rose Burnett Bonczek. More 60 second selections can be seen here.
The above Daily News clipping has been pinned on my bulletin board for years. I knew there was a story waiting to burst from that image, but what? After a visit to These Places, a site that collects flash fiction inspired by photography, an imaginary documentary began to emerge.
