2Cents Theatre presents ACTING OUT INK FEST 2017
By: A.A. Cristi
2Cents Theatre Group's popular 3-day festival of female playwrights is back for year four! We are once again gathering around 100 artists for this exciting event, from playwrights to directors to actors and street artists, to celebrate the FEMALE PLAYWRIGHT and ART! The Fest will take place March 17-19 at the Hudson Theatres in Hollywood, right in the heart of Theatre Row and the Los Angeles 99-seat community.
Showtimes begin at 2pm on Friday March 17, and continue every 90 minutes through Sunday night, for a total of 20 45-minute performances over the course of the weekend. The 2017 INK lineup includes 20 short plays all under 30 minutes plus 3 feature length one-acts. Special events of the weekend include the opening night feature, and opening night party on Friday night, sponsored by Fat Sal's and Velvet Margarita, and the inspiring closing night ceremony on Sunday, featuring live performances and special guests, celebrating the weekend.
ART will flood not just the theatre, but also the STREET & the Hudson Cafe. There will be hundreds of artists of all kinds gathering all weekend long to share their ART, you're not gonna want to miss a moment!
2Cents is a young not for profit theater company in Hollywood, fiscally partnered with Los Angeles Women's Theatre Project. The wonderful women of LAWTP inspired this venture, with their dedication to the often overlooked female playwright. We spend several months reading submitted plays by women, and in the end come to a selection of around 20 beautiful works, all unique and varied in subject, theme, characters, everything. Each year, our collection of plays for INK Fest is meant to represent the female artist as versatile, unpredictable, and ultimately undefinable.
ABOUT THE CREATIVE TEAM
INK Fest 2017 features these fully-produced plays, ranging from 7-75 minutes:
A THIN WHITE LINE by Gabrieal Griego
*world premiere
A GIFT FROM THE MEMORIAL SHOP by Penny Jackson
*world premiere
ARUBA by Susan Goodell
*world premiere
BE PREPARED by Brittny Roberts
*world premiere
CAMPING OUT by Anne Flanagan
*west coast premiere
CHARLIE MOOSE MAKES HIS MOVE by Jessica Jill Turner
*world premiere
CURVE OF THE EARTH by Allie Costa
*world premiere
FRANKENSTUD by Caroline Marshall
LOUISE IN CHARLESTOWN by Penny Jackson
*west coast premiere
MOMENTS by Bernadette Armstrong
*world premiere
PASSAGE by Mara Lee Gilbert
*world premiere
PICTURE ME ROLLIN' by Diana Burbano
*west coast premiere
PLAYING DOCTOR by CrystAl Smith-Connelly
*world premiere
PRIMARY LANGUAGES by Laura Stribling
*world premiere
PROTECT THE CHILDREN by Mara Lee Gilbert
*west coast premiere
SPUTNIK by ShoshAnna Green
*world premiere
THE AURA LORD OF DAWGTOWN by Caroline Marshall
*world premiere
THE RULES OF THE GAME by Mary Burkin
*world premiere
THE SACRED HEART by ShoshAnna Green
*world premiere
THE STRAGGLER by Amanda Newman
*world premiere
TOUCHED by Victoria Goring
*world premiere
WHISTLEBLOWER by Carolyn Kras
*west coast premiere
These 23 PLAYS will be helmed by DIRECTORS Louisa Adams, Joel Asher, Eric Augusztiny, Kristen Boulé, Vanessa Cate, Madeleine Dahm, Adam Finley, Nancy Dobbs Owen, Josh Galitsky, Dennis Gersten, Gabrieal Griego, Matthew Martin, Paris McCarthy, Amanda Newman, Maria Pasquarelli, Matt Ritchey,David Ruben, Laura Stribling, Kristin Towers-Rowles, John Wallis, & Sam Wilkes.
The 61 ACTORS that make up the casts of ACTING OUT INK FEST are led by veterans Miho Ando, Curt Bonnem, Julia Sanford, Krista Conti, Michael Yama, Wilky Lau, Eric Geller, Carl Weintraub, Deborah Cresswell, Katy Stoll, Vince DonVito, Jennifer Ashe, Jonathan Farrow, Dagney Kerr and Deborah Kellar, and young talents Alli Miller, Donathan Walters, Michael Armstrong Barr, Brianna McClellan, Nicholas Rubando, Channing Sargent, Phil Asta, Kate Bowman, Jessica Stadtlander, Kevin Herrmann and many others.
Acting Out INK Fest will take place Friday March 17, Saturday March 18 & Sunday March 19 at the Hudson Theatres, 6539 Santa Monica Blvd. in Hollywood.
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Fool for Love Santa Monica Playhouse (7/23-7/26) |
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Gershwin and the Golden Age Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts (The Soraya) (10/11-10/11) |
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Alice in Wonderland by International Ballet Stars in Long Beach, CA! Long Beach Terrace Theater (4/24-4/24) |
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ILLEAGLES - The premier tribute to the music of the Eagles. 4:30pm MATINEE and 7:30pm EVENING SHOW. Winters Opera House home of Winters Live (8/22-8/22) |
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Footloose Morgan Auditorium (7/18-8/02) |
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North by Northwest The Old Globe (7/03-8/02) |
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Studio Cabaret: Tabitha Meeks George Nakano Theatre (3/05-3/06) |
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Hamilton (Angelica Company) Pantages Theatre (7/28-8/29) |