Berkshire Theatre Festival Hosts A Reading Of THE BIRTHDAY BOY 7/30

BTF Friday Series Presents: The Birthday Boy Friday Series Reading in the Main Stage. 

About the Playwright

Playwright Chris Newbound's Morning, Noon and Night received its world premiere at Main Street Stage in North Adams, Mass., as well as a reading at Berkshire Theatre Festival in 2008. Earlier incarnations of The Birthday Boy have been performed as staged readings at Main Street Stage, and the Berkshire Playwrights Lab. His short stories and articles have been published in a variety of publications, including Seventeen magazine and Variety. He is the former managing editor of Berkshire Living, a post he held for more than five years and continues to write regularly for BerkshireLive and Berkshire Living. Chris also teaches creative non-fiction writing at MCLA and is currently at work on a creative non-fiction writing project of his own tentatively titled, Pieces of Me. He is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and received his MFA in fiction writing from Columbia. For the past three years, he's been an active and enthusiastic participant of Barrington Stage Company's Playwright Mentoring Project (PMP). Although he really does try to avoid writing plays, he sometimes can't help himself.

The Birthday Boy

by Chris Newbound
Directed by Kristen Pilgrim

July 30 at 2 p.m.
at the Main Stage

Featuring:
James Barry as Matt
Tara Franklin as Melora
Stage Directions read by Brittany Jo Sowards

Time
The Present

Setting
The lunchroom where Matt and Melora work.
A bar of a Mexican Restaurant, Mi Casa Su Casa.

Hear the voices of tomorrow, today! Once again this season we will be presenting a special series of talks and staged readings of new and classic works. These readings are directed by our Directing Assistantship students and feature professional actors from our other productions as well as members of our Acting Apprenticeship program. All readings start at 2pm. This year's series is every Friday through August 20. Audiences have loved the intimacy and passion of these discussions and readings.
Make plans to join us for the Friday Series.

Friday Series Facilitator - Gloria Miller
Friday Series Producer - Tyler Gutowsky
Friday Series Stage Manager - Emily Griffin