New work with an edge in the city of Orange.
WHEN: August 19-28, 2011
Fri-Sat @ 8pm, Sun @ 2pm
WHERE: Chapman University
Moulton Center Studio Theatre
1 University Drive, Orange, CA 92866
TICKETS: (714) 902-5716
($15, $12 Chapman campus discount)
Something new and remarkable is starting in Orange County theatre – the first edition of OC-centric: Orange County’s New Play Festival. Conceived as a perennial summer event at Chapman University, OC-centric offers full productions of four new one-acts from OC playwrights who have been staged across America.
The Concept
Each summer, OC-centric will present some of the wittiest and most lively new work from Orange County’s substantial community of playwrights. Chapman University acting majors and skilled veterans of Orange County storefront theatres will bring the scripts to life, under the direction of theatre artists culled from around the Southland.
The Plays
Sex, Love and the Premature Evacuation by Joni Ravenna - Ellen, a thirtysomething romance novelist, visits a sex clinic seeking the perfect sperm – one detached from the male anatomy. While there, she meets Bob, a brilliant, handsome young man waylaid by a smorgasbord of sexual dysfunction. Dir. Allison Mosier.
The Myth of the Cubicle by Ken La Salle – In an absurd office of drones and burnouts, a young employee sees beyond the veil of illusion and tries to awaken his fellow wage slaves. Dir. Tamiko Washington.
In Search of Reason by Gene Fiskin – A group in limbo discover they are part of the same soul and must make a decision about being reborn ... but their consultant isn't entirely reliable and limbo isn’t what it seems. Dir. Jill Johnson.
Do Hoosiers Go to Heaven? by Eric Eberwein – A young man remembers the summer he learned to steal, the year his mother found God and the month his father fixated on Missouri’s most erotic real estate broker. A Midwestern memory play about growing up underclass. Dir. Ray Chao.
The Playwrights & Directors
Ray Chao – Principal role in a 2009 Sundance Festival Short Film selection, numerous L.A., Chicago and NYC acting credits and training with the Groundlings, Second City Chicago and the Upright Citizens Brigade
Eric Eberwein - Director of the Orange County Playwrights Alliance; productions at Las Vegas Little Theatre, Santa Cruz Actors Theatre, WNEP Theater (Chicago) and the Coastal Empire New Plays Festival (Savannah, GA).
Gene Fiskin - Productions/stagings include Grandpa Was a Bachelor (upcoming at Bedlam Ensemble in NYC, earlier in 2011 at Dark Room Theater, San Francisco) and Small Favors (the Leading Ladies monologue fest at NYC’s Theater Lab).
Ken La Salle - One-act plays recently produced/staged at Theatre of NOTE, Sacred Fools Theater Company and the Complex in Hollywood, the Laguna Beach New Play Festival, and San Francisco’s Dark Room Theater.
Jill Johnson – Director of the Hunger Artists Theatre Company’s recent acclaimed productions of Fengar Gael’s The Cantor’s Tale and Johnna Adams’ Sans Merci, creator of Dead Letter Office
Allison Mosier – AEA, experience as assistant director for a national tour of The Who’s Tommy, NYC acting credits at the New Amsterdam Theater, BMI Musical Theater Workshop, Wings Theater Company, Blue Heron Arts Center, American Globe Theater and other notable venues
Joni Ravenna - plays produced include A Brush With Fate (West Coast Ensemble, Hollywood), For Pete’s Sake (Chance Theater); other scripts have been produced across the country and received numerous awards, nominations and even publication.
Tamiko Washington – AEA, SAG, full-time faculty member at Chapman University, acting credits include Shakespeare Orange County, South Coast Repertory, Old Globe Theatre, Silk Stalkings
714.902.5716 for ticket reservations and further information.
Fri-Sat @ 8pm, Sun @ 2pm
WHERE: Chapman University
Moulton Center Studio Theatre
1 University Drive, Orange, CA 92866
TICKETS: (714) 902-5716
($15, $12 Chapman campus discount)
Something new and remarkable is starting in Orange County theatre – the first edition of OC-centric: Orange County’s New Play Festival. Conceived as a perennial summer event at Chapman University, OC-centric offers full productions of four new one-acts from OC playwrights who have been staged across America.
The Concept
Each summer, OC-centric will present some of the wittiest and most lively new work from Orange County’s substantial community of playwrights. Chapman University acting majors and skilled veterans of Orange County storefront theatres will bring the scripts to life, under the direction of theatre artists culled from around the Southland.
The Plays
Sex, Love and the Premature Evacuation by Joni Ravenna - Ellen, a thirtysomething romance novelist, visits a sex clinic seeking the perfect sperm – one detached from the male anatomy. While there, she meets Bob, a brilliant, handsome young man waylaid by a smorgasbord of sexual dysfunction. Dir. Allison Mosier.
The Myth of the Cubicle by Ken La Salle – In an absurd office of drones and burnouts, a young employee sees beyond the veil of illusion and tries to awaken his fellow wage slaves. Dir. Tamiko Washington.
In Search of Reason by Gene Fiskin – A group in limbo discover they are part of the same soul and must make a decision about being reborn ... but their consultant isn't entirely reliable and limbo isn’t what it seems. Dir. Jill Johnson.
Do Hoosiers Go to Heaven? by Eric Eberwein – A young man remembers the summer he learned to steal, the year his mother found God and the month his father fixated on Missouri’s most erotic real estate broker. A Midwestern memory play about growing up underclass. Dir. Ray Chao.
The Playwrights & Directors
Ray Chao – Principal role in a 2009 Sundance Festival Short Film selection, numerous L.A., Chicago and NYC acting credits and training with the Groundlings, Second City Chicago and the Upright Citizens Brigade
Eric Eberwein - Director of the Orange County Playwrights Alliance; productions at Las Vegas Little Theatre, Santa Cruz Actors Theatre, WNEP Theater (Chicago) and the Coastal Empire New Plays Festival (Savannah, GA).
Gene Fiskin - Productions/stagings include Grandpa Was a Bachelor (upcoming at Bedlam Ensemble in NYC, earlier in 2011 at Dark Room Theater, San Francisco) and Small Favors (the Leading Ladies monologue fest at NYC’s Theater Lab).
Ken La Salle - One-act plays recently produced/staged at Theatre of NOTE, Sacred Fools Theater Company and the Complex in Hollywood, the Laguna Beach New Play Festival, and San Francisco’s Dark Room Theater.
Jill Johnson – Director of the Hunger Artists Theatre Company’s recent acclaimed productions of Fengar Gael’s The Cantor’s Tale and Johnna Adams’ Sans Merci, creator of Dead Letter Office
Allison Mosier – AEA, experience as assistant director for a national tour of The Who’s Tommy, NYC acting credits at the New Amsterdam Theater, BMI Musical Theater Workshop, Wings Theater Company, Blue Heron Arts Center, American Globe Theater and other notable venues
Joni Ravenna - plays produced include A Brush With Fate (West Coast Ensemble, Hollywood), For Pete’s Sake (Chance Theater); other scripts have been produced across the country and received numerous awards, nominations and even publication.
Tamiko Washington – AEA, SAG, full-time faculty member at Chapman University, acting credits include Shakespeare Orange County, South Coast Repertory, Old Globe Theatre, Silk Stalkings
714.902.5716 for ticket reservations and further information.
