See Two Free Play Readings as Part of Baltimore Playwrights Festival Today

Join us for free staged readings of two of the plays submitted by local playwrights for consideration for next summer's Baltimore Playwrights Festival. Our next Play Development Workshop Reading is today, December 12 at Fells Point Corner Theatre, 251 South Ann Street.

Please plan to arrive 15 minutes before the reading is to begin. Readings of plays submitted for our 35th Season begin promptly and are followed by a short talkback.

The readings are free and are open to the public. Light refreshments will be available.

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11 am
A Dirtbag Airman by Anthony DeLauder
directed by Kimberley Lynne

There are hundreds of thousands of men and women in the U.S. armed services who deploy each year to various battlegrounds across the world, but Airman First Class Avery Thompson is not one of them. Instead, he works on a nice, albeit slowly decomposing, air base in Germany, surrounded by computer screens and enabling friends. Unfortunately for Thompson, a college dropout struggling with alcohol problems, it's exactly the opposite of the reform he had hoped for when enlisting.

Based out of West Virginia, Anthony DeLauder is an actor and playwright for a small but resilient theater company, called Theatre On the Lake, or TOTL. His plays include: Gracefully Ending (winner of the 2016 AACT NewPlayFest; published by Dramatic Publishing; premiere at Theater Arlington of Arlington, TX); The Jungle Books (adaptation; produced in 2013 by TOTL and Preston High School in WV); Destiny Recalculated (reading at the New Hampshire Institute of Art); and A Dirtbag Airman. Anthony holds a BA in English from the University of Maryland University College and is currently pursuing his MFA in Writing for Stage and Screen through the New Hampshire Institute of Art.

1 pm
The Room Where I Was Held by David Zax
directed by John Wilson

Josh Salazar, a young foreign correspondent, has just survived the harrowing ordeal of being kidnapped by the Taliban. Now that he has returned to rest and recuperate at his home in Maryland, can he convince his traumatized parents of the value of his work abroad, and that it makes sense for him to return to Afghanistan?

David Zax, a journalist-turned-playwright, was born and raised in Washington, DC, and still roots for the Os. Having reported for The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and other publications, David received his MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU in 2015. He is a 2015-16 Playwriting Fellow at Playwrights Realm Theater in New York, where he lives.

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