The Laughing Dog at Aux Dog Theatre Nob Hill
Dates: (2/14/2020 - 2/16/2020 )
Aux Dog Theatre Nob Hill |
3011-3013 Monte Vista Blvd. NE
Albuquerque,NM 87106
Phone: 5055960607
Tickets: $5 to $20
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CONTACTS: Andy Mayo 206-910-2311; VJ Liberatori 917-710-4870RE: THE LAUGHING DOG COMEDY SHORT PLAY FESTIVAL on VALENTINEs WEEKEND Feb 14, 15, 16(Albuquerque, NM) Laugh and love this Valentine's Day weekend at The Laughing Dog, an evening of ten comedy short plays at Aux Dog Theatre Nob Hill.More than 170 plays from across America were submitted for this first annual event. Literary Manager Andy Mayo and Artistic Associate Angela Littleton evaluated all the submissions for the Festival. Each play is approximately 10 minutes long. All ten plays will be presented each evening, Friday and Saturday, Feb. 14 and 15, at 8 pm, and on Sunday afternoon at 2 pm.The line-up includes: Home for Retired Canadian Girlfriends, by John Bavoso, Washington, D.C.; Coming to Town by Keith Whalen, Peekskill, NY; Commitment, by Alexander Wilkie, Moorestown, NJ; Dead Giveaway, by Daniel Guyton, Fayetteville, GA; Getting Lucky, by Chris Shaw Swanson, Westerville, OH; Asteroid! by Mark Flaherty, Albuquerque, NM; The Ice Man, by Hope Hommersand, River Forest, IL; Scripted, by Mark Harvey Levine, Indianapolis, IN;Directing the plays will be Zoe Yeoman, Jessica Osborne. Mark Flaherty and Victoria J. Liberatori, Producing Artistic Director of Aux Dog Theatre Nob Hill.The CAST of veteran Albuquerque actors includes: Jeanette Aguilar-Harris, Kate Bergeron, John Cuellar, Ryan Dobbs, Jeff Dolecek, Lisa Fenstermacher, Bradd Howard, Katherine Jackson, Sarah Kennedy, Ronda Lewis, Margie Maes, Tim MacAlpine, Yannig Morin, Jessica Osborne, and Phil Shortell.Tickets and additional information are available at www.auxdogtheatre.org. Aux Dog Theatre Nob Hill is located at 3011-3015 Monte Vista Blvd. NE.DETAILS:The programDead Giveaway, by Daniel Guyton. Directed by Victoria J. Liberatori. Cast: Jessica Osbourne, Jeff Dolecek. Happy Valentine's Day!The Ice Man, by Hope Hommersand. Directed by Zoe Yeoman. Cast: Ronda Lewis, Yannig Morin. Whats it all about - poetry.The Ripple Effect, by Arianna Rose. Directed by Victoria J. Liberatori. Cast: Kate Bergeron, Jeff Dolecek. Practice makes perfect?Getting Lucky, by Chris Shaw Swanson. Directed by Zoe Yeoman. Cast: Jeanette Aguilar Harris, Tim MacAlpine. Getting lucky' sidetracked by a less than energetic petAsking For It, by Vicki Meagher. Directed by Jessica Osbourne. Cast: Sarah Kennedy, Margie Maes, Phil Shortell. Judge, he was asking for it!Scripted, by Mark Harvey Levine. Directed by Victoria J. Liberatori. Cast: Lisa Fenstermacher, Tim MacAlpine. Whose life is it, anyway?Asteroid!, by Mark Flaherty. Directed by Mark Flaherty. Cast: Jessica Osbourne, Ryan Dobbs. A bank robbery, love, an asteroid.Home for Retired Canadian Girlfriends, by John Bavoso. Directed by JessicaOsbourne. Cast: Katherine Jackson, Bradd Howard. Is that Canadian girlfriend real?Commitment, by Alexander Wilkie. Directed by Zoe Yeoman. Cast: Kate Bergeron, Jeff Dolecek. Best friends and the challenge of love.Coming to Town, by Keith Whalen. Directed by Jessica Osbourne. Cast: Margie Maes, Phil Shortell, John Cuellar. Parents - the source of fake news.Victoria J. Liberatori, Producing Artistic DirectorLiterary manager for this event: Andy Mayo with Angela Littleton The PlaywrightsJohn Bavoso is a Washington, DC-based playwright, book and theatre reviewer, marketer, and aspiring wrangler of unicorns. He mostly writes plays about women and queer people who are awkwardly attempting (and generally failing) to engage with serious subject matter using only dry wit and impeccably timed combative taunts. More info at John-Bavoso.com.Daniel Guyton is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter from Atlanta, GA. His plays have been produced over 500 times around the world and have been included in over 50 publications. For more info, please visit www.danguyton.com.Mark Harvey Levine of Indianapolis, IN, is an award-winning playwright with over 1750 productions of his plays all over the world including at the Actors Theatre Of Louisville, and the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. His plays have won over 45 awards and been produced in more than ten languages.Arianna Rose is an award-winning playwright and musical theatre writer whose works have been produced in 17 states and 4 countries. Artistic Director of Miami New Musicals, she received her M.F.A. from NYU Tisch School of the Arts Musical Theatre Writing Program, and has a catalog of her plays and musicals on New Play Exchange.Chris Shaw Swansons comedies and dramas have been honored in more than thirty national competitions and produced on more than one hundred stages in the U.S. and abroad. For further information, please visit her website at chrisshawswanson.comKeith Whalens short comedies have won awards and been produced across the country. In 2019, Coming to Town was awarded Runner-Up in Theatre Odyssey's Ten-Minute Play Festival (Sarasota, FL) and has been produced by Hand to Mouth Players (Shrub Oak, NY), the Aery Theatre Company (Garrison, NY), South Street Players (Spring Lake, NJ), and by Camino Real Playhouse (San Juan Capistrano, CA).Alex Wilkies plays have been produced in Rhode Island, New York, Colorado, and South Carolina. His one-act, "Furious George" was produced by the Philadelphia Dramatist Center at the Rotunda in Philadelphia in February and his short play, "The Forgiven" was performed at the Stillwater Short Play Festival in 2019.Mark Flahertys plays The Glasshouse and The Golden Egg were featured in the Albuquerque Theatre Guild Stage Reading Festival at the Adobe Theater. His screenplay, Neighbors was filmed in 2019.Hope Hommersand has had productions and readings of her plays throughout the US and beyond. Most recently: The Yellow Room Murders, Directors Showcase," Theatre of Western Springs, IL. Domestic Disturbance, "Diez Minutos Festival, Players Workshop, San Miguel de Allende, MX.Vicki Meagher is a full-time playwright writing full-length plays and living in Albuquerque and New Hampshire. See vickimeagher.com.
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