Gotham Stage Company Announces SPRINGboard Reading Series, Opens 4/11
By: Gabrielle Sierra
Off-Broadway's Gotham Stage Company is announcing the launch of their SPRINGboard Reading Series to run this April through June at Greenwich Village's historic Players Theatre. The series will debut on April 11th, 2011 with a reading of Sara Farrington's Thanksgiving, directed by company member Zach Shaffer, with the cast to be announced shortly.
Thanksgiving is about a family's attempt at a normal American Thanksgiving despite something being obviously wrong. Existing in real time, the family slowly starts to burn as each member attempts to steer the spiraling holiday their way, hoping to uncover the truth about how this "every family" went astray.Playwright Sara Farrington is currently in the MFA playwriting program at Brooklyn College with Mac Wellman. She is a MacDowell Colony Fellow, a playwright in the 2011 PlayLab Group at the Great Plains Theater Conference, and co-founder of Fine Feathered Friends theater company.Director Zach Shaffer has appeared as an actor on Broadway in A View From The Bridge and The Man Who Came to Dinner. Film and TV acting credits include Salt (Columbia Pictures), Strangers With Candy, The Black Donnellys, All My Children, Six Feet Under, XX/XY, Law & Order.Videos