24 June 2010

PLAYWRIGHT BIO's - Get to know the Playwrights!

PILLS by Michael DeVito from Hartsdale, NY
World Premiere July 9, 10 and 11, 2010
Directed by Jeremy Lewis

About the Playwright
Michael DeVito’s plays are up and running across The United States. His play In Loco Parentis will be produced as part of the 2010 New York International Fringe Festival (inlocoparentisplay.com), and Pills (already booked for its second production – following its World Premiere at The Players Guild Theatre, Canton, OH) will be part of Chicago’s Black Ship Company’s inaugural season in 2011. He has had productions and readings in New York with Ten Grand Theater Company, Emerging Artists Theater, The Playwrights Group, and The Manhattan Theater Source. His He has studied playwriting at Queens College, Gotham Writers Group, and is a founding member of The Playwrights Group. He also has studied literature at Brooklyn College, and teaches high school in Westchester County. He lives in Hartsdale, New York, with his wife and two young children.

MONA LISA by Ron Burch from Los Angeles, CA
World Premiere July 16, 17 and 18, 2010
Directed by Mark Monday

About the Playwright
Ron Burch is a native of Columbus, Ohio, and makes his living as a screenwriter in Los Angeles. His movies include; Yours, Mine & Ours; Beverly Hills Chihuahua and Head Over Heels. In television he was nominated for a primetime Emmy for the Tom Selleck show, The Closer. His plays have been produced and developed by the Adirondack Theatre Festival, New York Theatre Workshop, The Lark, The Public Theater, ASK Theatre Projects, and others. Mona Lisa won the 2010 Rocky Mountain Theatre Association's Full Length Play Competition, where it was given a staged reading. Other staged readings have been at Northern Writes: 4th Annual New Play Festival, Penobscot Theatre, Bangor, ME, and at Live @ the Libe, Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights, and Los Angeles, CA. Ron's play, The Baby, was a recent finalist for “The National Ten-Minute Play Contest” at Actors Theatre of Louisville; it was produced in April 2010 as part of the American Globe Theatre's “NYC 15-Minute Play Festival” and had a production at Tre Stage in Hollywood, CA. His first novel, Bliss Inc., has just been published.


THEN WAVES by Kevin Kautzman from Saint Paul, MN
World Premiere July 23, 24 and 25, 2010
Directed by Craig Joseph

About the Playwright
Kevin Anthony Kautzman is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, Inc. and the Playwrights’ Center; and has been selected as a 2009 Tennessee Williams Scholar and a 2009-10 Jerome Fellow. A writer of many full length and short plays, his play Down: A Fable recently ran in the Red Eye Theatre’s production of 2010 Works-in-Progress series. The play THEN WAVES was a finalist for the 2009 Yale Drama Series and received readings in New York City during the summer of 2008 at the Living Theatre and Poliglot Theater. Most recently the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis presented a reading of THEN WAVES. He is an alumnus of the University of Minnesota, where he studied history and philosophy, and has been a resident of the Twin Cities for nearly a decade. He can be found online at www.kevinkautzman.com.