SkyPilot Theatre Company Presents a Staged Reading of THE LAST DAYS OF THE FRANKLINTON HISTORICAL VILLAGE AND SHOPPE

The award-winning SkyPilot Theatre Company continues its acclaimed and entertaining Runway staged reading series with The Last Days of the Franklinton Historical Village and Shoppe on Wednesday, July 18 at 8pm at River Rock Lounge, 12825 Ventura Blvd., Studio City. Admission is free.

Written by local playwright Ron Burch, The Last Days is a comedy that focuses on the workers of an historical-recreation village whose benefactor dies, leaving them to figure out how to keep the place going before the manager and the heirs shut it down and sell it off. Directed by Morris Schorr, the cast includes Ian Nemser, Brad Griffith, Shelby James, David Haverty, Jessica Temple, Catherine Cox and Duane Taniguchi.

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SkyPilot's Runway is a play reading series that helps to develop new plays in the early drafts stage. The readings are rehearsed, staged, on their feet, script in hand, in partnership with an LA based playwright. After the reading there is a focused feedback session with a moderator, the playwright, and the audience. The Company's other upcoming productions include a dual evening of one-act plays and Fursona Non Grata by Jeff Goode in the fall.

Founded in 2004, SkyPilot is a non-profit ensemble company of resident playwrights, actors, directors and designers producing provocative, compelling and challenging new works for the Los Angeles theatre-going audience. In 2010 SkyPilot moved away from producing revivals and began writing and producing only original plays. Notable productions have included Samantha Macher's To The New Girl and War Bride, Adam Hahn's Kong: A Goddamn Thirty-Foot Gorilla, Nathan Wellman's Inhale Harmonica, Liz Shannon Miller's Light's Off, Eyes Closed, Jeff Goode's The Emancipation Of Alabaster Mcgill, Greg Machlin's Keith Haring: Pieces of a Life, and Earthbound: An Electronica Musical by Adam Hahn (book), Jonathan Price (music), and Chana Wise (lyrics). In 2017 SkyPilot launched its SkyPilot Runway development track, beginning with Daniel Rover Singer's newest work, The Cave, along with its most recent double bill Absence Makes the Heart/Comb Your Hair or You'll Look Like a Slave.