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ALUMNI JAM 1/13
Bill Bowers, Michael John Garces, William Hoffman, and Basil Kreimendahl, Lucy Thurber
Monday, January 13, 2020 at 7:00PM
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
224 Waverly Place
New York,
NY
10014
Monday, January 13th:
Host and Participating Playwright: Lucy Thurber
Lucy Thurber is the author of twelve plays: Where We’re Born, Ashville, Scarcity, Killers and Other Family, Stay, Bottom of The World, Monstrosity, Dillingham City, The Locus, Perry Street, The Insurgents, and Transfers. Lucy wrote the text for QUIXOTE, conceived and directed by Lear deBessonet, a site-specific performance with the Psalters made for and with The Broad Street Community, also with Lear deBessonet and produced by 13P, Monstrosity. Lucy is published by Dramatists Play Service. She is the recipient of Manhattan Theatre Club Playwriting Fellowship, the first Gary Bonasorte Memorial Prize for Playwriting, a proud recipient of a LILLY AWARD, an OBIE Award for The Hill Town Plays and The Helen Merrill Distinguished Playwriting Award. She also writes for TV and Film.
Bill Bowers, sharing It Goes Without Saying
Since IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING was produced at Rattlestick in 2006, Bill Bowers has performed the play in theatres throughout the US, Europe and Asia. The play garnered 5 star reviews in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and won top honors at numerous international theatre festivals. Bill’s other solo plays include BEYOND WORDS, ALL OVER THE MAP, and THE TRAVELER. He has also adapted the Dalton Trumbo novel JOHNNY GOT HIS GUNfor the stage. www. Bill-Bowers.com
It Goes Without Saying: Join us for this fun and unflinching look at the life and mimes of Bill Bowers. It Goes Without Saying takes the audience on a scenic tour of Bill's life thus far: from growing up gay in the wilds of Montana, his outrageous jobs as a performer, studying with Marcel Marceau, and the whirlwind of working on Broadway. Bill observes the incredible power that silence can wield - whether on stage, between family members, among neighbors, or when we are alone. Bill talks (yes, talks) with sensitivity, precision, and constant humor about a life lived out loud.
Michael John Garcés sharing new piece
Michael is a playwright and director. His play Acts of Mercy was produced at Rattlestick under the direction of Gia Forakis; he also directed FIner Noble Gases by Adam Rapp for the theatre. He is the Artistic Director of Cornerstone Theater Company, a community-engaged ensemble in Los Angeles where he has directed many productions of new plays by writers such as Larissa FastHorse, Naomi Iizuka, Alison Carey, Juliette Carillo, and Lisa Loomer as well as writing Magic Fruit, Los Illegals and several other plays. Other recent directing credits include the just and the blind by Marc Bamuthi Joseph in collaboration with Daniel Bernard Roumain (Carnegie Hall and The Kennedy Center); Larissa FastHorse's The Thanksgiving Play (The Geffen Playhouse); The Royale by Marco Ramirez (Arizona Theater Company); and Wrestling Jerusalem (59 E 59th, The Guthrie Theatre and other venues). Michael is a proud alumnus of New Dramatists and serves as vice president of the executive board of SDC, the theatrical union for stage directors and choreographers.
William Francis Hoffman, sharing Cal in Camo
William Francis Hoffman was born and raised in Oakville, Missouri. He was a one time member of the Rivendell Theatre Ensemble in Chicago Illinois and is a current member of the Actor’s Gym in Los Angeles, California. His play ‘Cal in Camo’ received its world premiere Off-Broadway at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in May of 2016, as a co- production between Colt Coeur and Rattlestick. ‘Cal in Camo’ received its Midwest premiere in 2018 at the Rivendell Theatre Ensemble in Chicago IL. His play ‘Drift’ was developed at the Actor’s Gym in 2016. It was subsequently workshopped as part of the New Plays/New Year Festival at Palm Beach Dramaworks in Palm Beach, Florida in 2019, and was recently selected for development as part of the Playwrights Lab at the The Actor’s Studio Los Angeles. ‘Drift’ will receive its world premiere Off-Broadway in the spring of 2020.
Cal in Camo: Cal's desperation mounts as she strains to breastfeed and care for her newborn, while her husband Tim resents his struggle to make sales in his new territory. But the extent of the unease that pervades this couple's new house won't fully come to light until Cal's brother Flynt arrives, reeling from the recent death of his wife. Do the wounds of the past irrevocably impact our capacity to connect? Heartbreaking and mysterious, Cal in Camo probes the nature of family bonds with lacerating humor and moments of blinding revelatio
Basil Kreimendahl, sharing ORANGE JULIUS
Basil Kreimendahl is a resident playwright at New Dramatists. He is a working-class, transgender artist, who’s work often explores the intersection of language, class and gender. Basil is currently commissioned by Yale Rep., Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s American Revolutions Program, and Actors Theater of Louisville. Basil’s plays have been produced or developed by Rattlestick, New York Theatre Workshop, Victory Gardens Theater, The Lark, and La Jolla Playhouse among others. Basil has been a Jerome Fellow and a McKnight Fellow.
ORANGE JULIUS: Nut grew up the youngest child of Julius, a Vietnam vet, in 1980s and 90s working-class America. As Julius suffers the toxic effects of Agent Orange, Nut worries their time together may run out before they can embrace something essential about their relationship. Paging through forgotten photo albums and acting out old war movies about brothers-in-arms, Nut leaps through time and memory, tracing the complex intimacy between father and child, fighting for a mutual recognition before it’s too late.
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