OCPA to Present BAD MOON RISING

In the second installment of its 2016 OCPA Presents... series of staged readings of full-length plays, the Orange County Playwrights Alliance presents Bad Moon Rising, a finely written new drama from Huntington Beach playwright Karen JP Howes. Directed by Jaye Austin Williams (CSULB), this event features a cast of veteran theatre, film and TV actors ... Haskell V. Anderson III, Warren Davis, Emily Goss, McKerrin Kelly, Jennifer Schoch, Brian Tichnell, Jilon VanOver and Sarah Yarkin.

Their assorted TV credits include appearances on Castle, Criminal Minds, ER, House, Silicon Valley and The West Wing ... and their stage credits include roles at the Blank Theatre, Colony Theatre, Fountain Theatre, Open Fist Theatre Company, Pacific Resident Theatre, Sacred Fools Theatre Company, Skylight Theatre Company, Theatre of NOTE and Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum.

About the Play
It's 1974 in a small Mississippi town not far from where the blues began. Times are changing, the South is changing, and this town should be something to get past and get through, but only a few people have that chance. In the meantime, the relationship between a white southern woman and a black blues musician gets caught up in dirty politics, yellow journalism, and murder.

About the Playwright
Karen JP Howes is the author of Last Flight of the Mercenary (Caltech 2015 Mach 33 Festival for New Science-Driven Plays), Moment of Evolution (winner, Maxim Mazumdar New Play Competition), and other works. Bad Moon Rising has been developed in the Skylight Theatre Company's INKubator new play series, and it was a 2015 finalist in the Henley Rose Playwright Competition for Women. Karen has an MFA in Creative Writing and Writing for Performing Arts from the University of California. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights, PEN Center USA and OCPA.

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