Rough Readings of MERCURY Set for Custom Made Theatre, 3/14-15

Playwrights Foundation and the National Center for New Plays at Stanford present A March Rough Reading of Mercury by Steve Yockey on Monday, March 14 - 7:30pm at Stanford and Tuesday, March 15 - 2:00pm at Custom Made Theatre in San Francisco.

Steve Yockey is a Los Angeles based writer with work produced throughout the country, Europe, and Asia. In Steve Yockey's play Mercury a couple abruptly ends an illicit affair while another couple hangs on by a thread. No one's happy, people stop being nice, and blood spills in a story that uses violent myth and our expectations of "good neighbors" to explore what happens when escalating anger eclipses rational response

Steve Yockey's plays Afterlife, Octopus, Large Animal Games, CARTOON, Subculture, Very Still & Hard to See, The Fisherman's Wife, Wolves, Disassembly, and Niagara Falls & Other Plays are published and available from Samuel French. He was selected for the first US/Australia playwright exchange in February 2013 for his play Pluto, sponsored by the National New Play Network and Playwriting Australia. This season, Blackberry Winter will be an NNPN Rolling World Premiere with productions at Actor's Express/Out of Hand, Salt Lake Acting Company, New Rep, Forum, Kitchen Dog, Capital Stage Company, and Oregon Contemporary Theatre. Steve holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He currently contributes issues to the Zenescope comic book series Grimm Tales of Terror and writes on HBO's The Brink.

The March Rough Reading of Mercury by Steve Yockey will be performed on Monday, March 14 7:30 PM at Roble Hall in Stanford University, and on Tuesday, March 15 2 PM at the Custom Made Theatre, 533 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA 94102.

For information visit us at http://www.playwrightsfoundation.org.

Rough Readings bring playwrights and theatergoers together in an intimate setting to showcase work that is still at a very early stage of development, giving audiences a rare opportunity to engage directly with the artistic process of bringing a play to life. The Rough Reading Series is presented in partnership with the National Center for New Plays at Stanford, a producing partner of the National New Play Network, helping to foster a thriving relationship between Stanford University and the greater San Francisco theater scene.

The Readings are open to the public and are always pay-what-you-can. Monday and Sunday readings take place at Roble Hall on the Stanford University campus, and Tuesday and Saturday readings are held at Custom Made Theatre in San Francisco.

2016 Winter Rough Readings Series Continues in April :

Br'er Cotton by Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm

Monday, April 11 - 7:30pm at Stanford

Tuesday, April 12 - 2:00pm at Custom Made Theatre

Lynchburg, Virginia. The former site of a thriving cotton mill is now an impoverished neighborhood. Deeply affected by all the recent killings of young black men like himself, Ruffrino, a 14 year old "militant," incites riots at school and online. More and more at odds with his mother and grandfather, the boy's anger grows beyond containment while the family home literally sinks into the cotton field, and no one seems to notice but him.

Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm is a playwright. That title is an indelible part of his character. Theatre is the filter through which he sees and interprets the world. As a playwright, Tearrance is interested in exploring the many facets of the African American experience. He feels that race is double edged sword, equipped with its advantages and shortcomings. It is the exploration of this theme that permeates all of his work. His works includes Burning Books (MU New Play Series), Liddy's Samiches Potions & Baths (Arkansas Rep; Voices on the River), Vulpicide (MU New Play Series), Month of Sundays (Midwinter Madness Short Play Festival; NYC) and In Sweet Remembrance (Endstation Theatre Company and Sweet Briar College). Tearrance has also been published in interJACtions: 75 Monologues by some of America's Finest Playwrights and Arcadia Magazine. He has worked closely with Endstation Theatre Company (Lynchburg, VA), Theatre Alliance (Washington DC), The Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival and has held residencies at The Virginia Center for Creative Arts and The Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference (Playwright Observer). Tearrance is currently an MFA Playwriting candidate at The Catholic University of America.

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