SICK STORIES, GENTLE GRANDDADDY to Open at Baltimore Playwrights Festival, 7/11

The Baltimore Playwrights Festival continues its Thirty-Second Season with the July 11th opening of "Sick Stories, Gentle Granddaddy", by S. Ann Johnson, produced by Theatrical Mining Company, at Notre Dame of Maryland University, Leclerc Hall, 4701 N. Charles Street., Baltimore, MD 21210. Directed by Tyrone Requer, "Sick Stories, Gentle Granddaddy" runs through July 28th, with performances Friday and Saturday at 8:00 p.m., and Sundays at 2:00 p.m. Tickets are $10.00 and can be purchased on-line (HERE) and at the door. Opening Night, Thursday, July 11th, is "Pay What You Can".

Little Miss Mabelle would describe her maternal grandfather as a sweet, old man who makes her laugh and spoils her rotten. So the Sick Stories her family members share about him must be figments of their imagination, right? Wrong. In "Sick Stories, Gentle Granddaddy," the drunken past conflicts with the docile present of a husband, father--and Gentle Granddaddy.

S. Ann Johnson is a professional writer and editor born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. She holds a BA in journalism from Penn State University and a MS in professional writing from Towson University. By day, she is a web producer for WJZ-TV/CBSBaltimore.com. By night, she is a performing artist. She most recently starred in her first musical: "The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin" at Strand Theater Company, where she is a board member. "Sick Stories, Gentle Granddaddy" is her second penned play. Her first: "The XX Chromosome Genome Project," a multicultural choreopoem that will be featured in Artscape 2013 on July 19 at the Baltimore Theater Project.

During the last thirty-two years, The Baltimore Playwrights Festival has presented over 282 productions by 173 playwrights at 27 different theaters. The BPF nurtures the talents of Maryland and DC playwrights through public readings, discussions, critiques and workshopping of new plays. Participating local theaters offer productions of several of the submitted scripts during their summer season. Further information can be found on the BPF website, www.baltplayfest.org.

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