Arthur M. Jolly's LONG JOAN SILVER Opens Friday!

LOFT ENSEMBLE announces opening night of their production of Arthur M. Jolly's Long Joan Silver. Performances begin with opening night February 17th at 8 pm.

The classic adventure story of buried treasure pursued by a one legged pirate is reimagined with offbeat farce, breathtaking fights and a dramatic core that explores discrimination, privilege and greed. Captain Joan Silver and her all-female pirate crew are front and center during the fateful voyage of the Hispaniola and the clash with young Jim Hawkins, Squire Trelawney, Doctor Livesy and the domineering Captain Smollett. Treasure will be found, alliances betrayed, and swords will fly when the Jolly Roger is raised!

Playwright Arthur M. Jolly was recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with a Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting for his feature comedy The Free Republic of Bobistan, and his feature film, The Hero, won the 2011 Kay Snow Award in Screenwriting, and Eightball, while his dramatic short film noir, was a finalist in the Pavaline Short Screenplay competition. In 2013, Jolly was an alternate selection for the Fox Writers Intensive. A feature version of his play A Very Modern Marriage has been optioned.

As a playwright, Jolly has penned over 50 produced plays, with productions across the US and in Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, and South America. He has twice won the Joining Sword and Pen competition, and was a finalist for the Woodward/Newman Drama Award, and a two time semi-finalist for the O'Neill Conference. In 2016, he was featured artist at the 24th Last Frontier Theatre Conference. His published plays include A Gulag Mouse, Trash, Past Curfew, Long Joan Silver, The Christmas Princess, The Four Senses of Love, How Blue is My Crocodile, Snakes in a Lunchbox, Moby (No Last Name Given), A Grain of Salt, Past Saturn, What the Well Dressed Girl is Wearing, Bath Time is Fun Time, and two collections of short plays Guilty Moments and Thin Lines. Other produced plays include Of Rats and Men, Christmas Spirit, The Secret of Jarlsberg, Mopping the Stage, If You Could Go Back, and the NPR radio play Thicker than Water. Jolly is a member of the WGA, The Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights, and The Dramatists Guild and is repped by the Brant Rose Agency.

Director Danielle Ozymandias' directing credits include Neil LaBute's Some Girl(s) with Cruthaigh Productions, A Gulag Mouse with SacRed Fools Theatre Company, Two seasons of Pick of the Vine, and The Gin Game, and Ladies Foursome with Little Fish Theatre, Past Curfew and Random Acts at Pacific Resident Theatre, Fifty Shades of Shrew and The Other F Word in the Hollywood Fringe and 15 episodes of Love, Sex, Money, Prom at SacRed Fools late night theatre: Serial Killers. Danielle is a Co-Artistic Director at SacRed Fools Theatre and co-founder and AD of Broads' Word Ensemble.

Fight Director Mike Mahaffey was recognized in 2015 with an LA Ovations Honors Award for his fight choreography for Loft's She Kills Monsters. Mike also received Stage Raw nominations the past two years. Acting credits: Masters of Sex, The King's Rook, Chronicles of Narnia, Resident Evil: Degeneration, The Trip Back Down, Romeo et Juliette, Stop the World..., Peter Pan, and Midsummer Night's Dream. FD Credits: Stoneface, Casa Valentina (The Pasadena Playhouse); Rio Hondo (Theatre of NOTE); Astro Boy and the God of Comics, Taste, A Gulag Mouse (SacRed Fools Theater); Carmen, Faust (San Diego Opera); All the Best Killers Are Librarians (Hollywood Fringe Festival). Mike is a teacher and member of SDC and the SAFD.

Loft Ensemble is one of Los Angeles's up and coming resident theatre companies, consistently offering some of the most high energy and ground breaking productions in the area. In its young history, Loft has already won several awards including two Ovation Awards in 2015, Best Ensemble at the 2013 New York International Fringe Festival, and back to back Producers' Encore Awards at the Hollywood Fringe Festival for 2015 and 2016. Two of Loft's 2016 productions earned a combined five nominations for BroadwayWorld Awards.

Loft Ensemble has been at the forefront of providing unusual productions with a risk-taking voice and creative approaches to tackling the challenges of an intimate theatre setting. With programs such as its Dark Night Series and Next Stage Series, Loft Ensemble is committed to providing artists of all types and skill level with a platform to be heard, to take chances, and to develop their talents. For more information, please visit www.LoftEnsemble.org.

Long Joan Silver is published by Youth Plays and will open Friday, February 17 at 8pm.

The regular performance schedule will be:

Fridays** & Saturdays at 8pm
Sundays at 5pm
Running through March 26, 2017
Tickets - $20
Purchase at www.LoftEnsemble.org or via phone at (818) 616-3150.

**Friday nights are understudy performances

Loft Ensemble Theater is located at 13442 Ventura Boulevard in Sherman Oaks, 91423.

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