RLTP Announces 2010 Emanuel Fried New Play Workshop

Road Less Traveled Productions (RLTP) has announced its schedule of public development readings of plays developed in the 2010 Emanuel Fried New Play Workshop (NPW).  2010's NPW reading series includes readings of new plays by Annette Daniels Taylor, Michael Fanelli, Alex Livingston, Justin Karcher, James Marzo, Shawn McLaughlin, Steve Roylance, Vincent Scarsella, Darryl Schneider, Melody Von Smith, and Neil Wechsler, as well as RLTP Resident Playwright, Literary Director, and NPW Founder and Moderator Jon Elston.

Admission to all of these readings is FREE to the public. Readings are followed by response sessions, in which the audience is encouraged to ask questions of and offer feedback to the playwrights, in the interest of further developing their work. All readings are on Mondays; all readings begin at 7:00PM. Locations are either the Road Less Traveled Theater (RLTT) at the Market Arcade Film & Arts Center, or Buffalo East (BE), located at 1410-12 Main Street Buffalo, NY.
 
All dates and information are subject to change. The schedule is as follows:
 
9/20/2010 at RLTT: Eats by Baroness Melody Von Smith. Sometimes the worst things can happen in even the best of restaurants... the Artie award-nominated author of Bonegrinders brings you a toothsome new comedy that exposes the hysterical excess of the world of haute cuisine. Directed by Norm Sham.
 
9/27/2010 at RLTT: Internal Continuity by Shaun McLaughlin. It might be the end of the Ice Age for aging fanboys Efrin, Shelby, and Buster when Efrin finally discovers the fairer sex. Will Shelby and Buster be able to dissuade their lifelong friend from the Dark Side of the Force? Will tabletop gaming night survive?! Starring Rolando Gomez, Matt Witten, and Carlton Franklin. Directed by Jon Elston.
 
10/4/2010 at BE: Practical Time Travel by Vincent Scarsella. The Terminator as told by Alfred Hitchcock: A man must stop his own father from traveling back in time to prevent his birth in this unusual sci-fi mystery. Starring Kristin Bentley and Courtney Weather. Director: Craig Staufenberg.
 
10/11/2010 at BE: Clean Break by Darryl Schneider, RLTP Resident Playwright. More high stakes drama from the Artie-winning author of War Room: an inveterate gambler and his estranged daughter roll the dice one final time... for the future of their relationship.  Starring Kelly Meg Brennan; directed by Tim Kennedy.
 
10/25/2010 at RLTT: Dependent, Undisciplined, And Sleeping Late by Steve Roylance. This offbeat comedy of sibling symbiosis puts upright neatnik Kevin at the mercy of his slovenly slacker brother Jerry, turns the classic Odd Couple formula on its head, and asks the eternal question: why is China Beach still not on DVD?!  Starring John Kreuzer, Jonathan Shuey, Jessica Wegrzyn, and Stefan Brundage. Directed by Kristin Bentley.
 
11/1/2010 at RLTT:  A New Kind Of F*gg*t by Justin Karcher. The sequel to 2009's NPW offering Last Of The Sensitive Bastards (premiering 11/2010 at Buffalo East); Mike and Brian's whiskey-soaked misogyny and self-loathing grows to positively Biblical proportions in this scathing dark comedy. Starring Michael Renna, James Wild, and Courtney Weather. Directed by Drew McCabe.
 
11/8/2010 at RLTT: A Wretch Like Me by James Marzo. An aging father and his two adult sons engage in a devastating battle over the final fate of the family's waning matron in this tense domestic melodrama... Directed by Joe Natale. 11/15/2010 at BE: Ruby '67 by Annette Daniels-Taylor. June 26th, 1967: While the streets of Buffalo prepare to explode into a catastrophic race riot, the Wells household threatens to similarly unravel from within... over custody of thirteen year-old Ruby, raised by her (black) grandparents and coveted by her estranged (and white) biological mother... the triumphant return of Artie winner Annette Daniels-Taylor (A Little Bit Of Paradise). Starring Jermain Cooper, Adrienne Lewis, and Megan Callahan. Directed by Lorna Hill.
 
11/22/2010 at BE:  Greenspan & The Trilobites by Michael Fanelli. Landis, the affable antique-hunting host of syndicated TV hit "The Cavorting Collector", finds himself in deep fiscal shit when he is inexplicably mistaken for former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan by two vindictive victims of foreclosure, held hostage, and forced to appraise the value of Everything. A political fantasia from our favorite local absurdist, Michael Fanelli. Starring Greg Howze. Directed by Tilke Hill.
 
11/29/2010 at BE: Waking Cassandra by Alex Livingston. The author of 2009's cult hit The Alpha Geek returns with another disparate vision. Vespasian Gillingham would count himself a king of infinite space, were it not that he has bad dreams... dreams that show a time and place unfamiliar to a young man in 1850's New England. Are Vespa's dreams a blessing, or a curse? And will the motley crew of intellectuals and rogues tasked with solving Vespa's case be able to bring him peace - or will they be dragged into his infernal madness?
 
12/6/2010 at RLTT: The Water Table by Jon Elston, RLTP Resident Playwright and Co-Founder. Cologna Estates is a family vineyard at war from within... torn down the middle by the arrival of the mysterious, charismatic, and strikingly different Jaheira Amberlayn. Is she an agent of progress and unity... or a saboteur bearing a secret agenda? The author of Triangles: The Elliptical, American Deal, and the Artie-winningInterrogation Room presents a new (and already-controversial) political allegory... Directed by Kyle LoConti.
 
12/13/2010 at RLTT: The Brown Bull Of Cuailnge by Neil Wechsler. The author of 2009's Yale Drama Prize-winning world premiere Grenadine returns with the tale of four more men on a very different kind of epic journey; in search of their company, in the middle of an ancient Irish war, they lie by the fire: desperate to justify their situation, and at the mercy of the very nature of storytelling... Starring Vincent O'Neill.
 
RLTP's Emanuel Fried New Play Workshop supports the development of original dramatic works by local playwrights. Under the supervision of Workshop Director Kyle LoConti and Literary Manager/Resident Playwright Jon Elston, playwrights provide peer support to one another during the composition and revision of their original plays over a nine month period.  RLTP then presents readings of these new plays to the public, directed by and featuring some of WNY's finest theatrical talent.  Audience members who attend these readings are invited to enjoy a glimpse of tomorrow's world premiere productions and to offer their constructive feedback - an integral component of each playwright's process.
 
Applications for the 2011 New Play Workshop will be accepted beginning December 1, 2010. Only electronic submissions (via e-mail) will be accepted. For more information, please visit www.roadlesstraveledproductions.org, or contact Jon Elston at newplayworkshop@roadlesstraveledproductions.org

 

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