BIRDS DO IT!
A staged reading written by
Guest Dramaturg
October 18 - 19
Saturday at 4pm, Sunday at 1pm
If gay marriage is a hot issue, then Fernando & Aubrey really feel the burn! After 10 happy years together, a proposal may be the one thing that could tear them apart. This timely romantic comedy probes the distinction between gay marriage and my marriage.
David Valdes Greenwood is a playwright and memoirist. His plays have been seen in 18 US states and the UK, including at the Humana Festival, New York International Fringe Festival, New York Theatre Workshop, Portland Stage, and others. He has received grants, commissions, and awards from Ensemble Studio Theatre, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Edward Albee PlayLab, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and the Clauder Competition. His full-length play Brave Navigator is published by Bakers Plays, and his memoir Homo Domesticus is forthcoming from Da Capo Press. He is a regular columnist for the Boston Globe Magazine "Coupling" column.
BLUE FIRE ON THE WATER
A staged reading written by
Guest Dramaturg
October 18 - 19
Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 4pm
As Hurricane Katrina floods Jo's home, the aging New Orleans jazz stalwart is also inundated by stolen dreams, lost loves, and tightly bound secrets. Jo rejects one rescuer after another, committed to stick with the comfort of his main squeeze -- his beloved piano named "Red". As the muddy waters rise, can truth float to the surface?
Renita has held residencies at The Theater Offensive, Jumpstart Theatre Company, The Cherry Lane Theatre, and Brandeis University Women's Studies Department. She is the recipient of the Nancy Beigal New Play award, the Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation award, and the Annette B. Miller Playwriting Fellow award. Her work has been called "Brash, lyrical, and funny, blend of poetic lyricism with great storytelling!" by The Boston Herald.
Renita earned her MFA in playwriting from Brandeis University. She serves as founding director of Rhythm Visions Production Company, Inc., a nonprofit arts education organization.
Blue Fire of the Water, a multi-generational, two-act, multi-media play with music, explores how Hurricane Katrina washed up our now hidden, but ever-present, economic and racial segregation. The lives of queer, transgender, poor, African Americans are examined as they face the aftermath of Katrina. This play speaks to a particular blues experience and gives life to people not usually seen on stage.
