Salt Lake Acting Company - New Play Sounding Series
FOUR WOMEN TALKING ABOUT THE MAN UNDER THE SHEET by Elaine Jarvik
New Play Sounding Series
Free Reading
Monday, March 4 @ 7pm
Director: Jason Bowcutt
Dramaturg: Camille Washington
Actors: Colleen Baum, Dee-Dee Darby-Duffin, Susanna Florence, Tamara Howell, Nicki Nixon
Reader: Michelle Love-Day
Stage Manager: Katelyn Limber
On the morning of February 21, 1895, the day after the great man died, Susan B. Anthony shows up on his widow’s doorstep. She is there to grieve — but is she also feeling guilty? FOUR WOMEN TALKING ABOUT THE MAN UNDER THE SHEET is an exploration of feminism and race, asking “what compromises should you make in pursuit of a cause?”
SLAC thanks the Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation for their generous support of this vital program.
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Doors open at 6:30pm. Open seating; first come, first served.
GRAB THEM BY THE P**** by Jeanette Munzert
BURST by Rachel Bublitz
New Play Sounding Series
Free Reading
Monday, September 24 @ 7pm
Director: Shannon Musgrave
Actors: Lily Hye Soo Dixon, Ava Kostia, Adriana Lemke
On the brink of her next round of funding, Sarah Boyd, Founder and CEO of Tactix, must hold her company together through a pesky journalist's questions and glaring doubts thrown her way surrounding the promises her company has made. It's a heavy load, and Sarah knows that she is the only one great enough to bear it.
SLAC thanks the Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation for their generous support of this vital program.
Doors open at 6:30pm. Open seating; first come, first served.
PART OF THE STORY by David Kranes
THE SHUCK by Shawn Fisher
New Play Sounding Series
Free Reading
Monday, March 5 @ 7pm
Director: Shawn Fisher
Actors: Jeanette Puhich Foulger, Morgan Lund, Amy Ware
Reader: Olivia Custodio
Stage Manager: Ashley Winch
When Constance’s troubled son is lost at sea, and her long-lost daughter suddenly decides to visit, she is forced to face the truth about her family and the secrets that broke it apart so many years ago.
SLAC thanks the Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation for their generous support of this vital program.
Doors open at 6:30pm. Open seating; first come, first served.
For a sneak peak of the reading, take a look at this article by Matt Morris of Utah Arts Magazine.
THE SQUIRRELS by Robert Askins
New Play Sounding Series
Free Reading
Monday, May 1 @ 7pm
Director: Robin Wilks-Dunn
Actors: Colleen Baum, Jacob Russell Johnson, Darby Mest, Nicki Nixon, Richard Scott, Matthew Sincell
Stage Manager/Reader: William Richardson
Winter is coming and the squirrels of the great tree are feeling the pinch. The greatest squirrel in the greatest tree in the greatest forest in all the land will not share his nuts. What's worse, rival squirrel families and rival squirrel species are all begging, pleading, and tricking to try to get his nuts. Will the tree survive? Will his family? Will war come and bring the whole thing tumbling down? The answer is yes, but we might have some fun getting there.
SLAC thanks the Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation for their generous support of this vital program.
SILENT DANCER by Kathleen Cahill
New Play Sounding Series Free Reading
Monday March 6 @ 7pm
Director: Cynthia Fleming
Actors: Austin Archer, Carleton Bluford, Trent Cox, Dan Larrinaga, Samantha Matsukawa, Andy Rindlisbach, Katryna Williams
Stage Manager/Reader: Morag Shepherd
The story of a girl who dances in silent films in 1921 New York City, her family, her lovers and friends, and the famous couple who almost ruined her life.
Workshopped in the 2017 SLAC Playwrights' Lab.
SLAC thanks the Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation for their generous support of this vital program.
LAURA AND THE SEA by Kate Tarker
New Play Sounding Series Free Reading
Monday, November 21 @ 7pm
Director: Shannon Musgrave
Cast: Anne Louise Brings, Eric Cadora, Dee-Dee Darby Duffin, Jacob Russell Johnson, Melanie Nelson, Topher Rasmussen
It’s company outing day, and Laura, one of the top travel agents of her generation, is having the best / worst day of her life. So much so that she decides to end it all. Afterwards, her colleagues try to piece things together on a memorial blog, but how do you mourn someone you didn’t know that well?
A comedy about depression, or: a treatise on travel agents who don’t travel.
Workshopped in the 2016 SLAC Playwrights' Lab, LAURA AND THE SEA has gone on to be developed in the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, was a finalist for the L. Arnold Weissberger Award, the Princess Grace Award, and was a semi-finalist for the Relentless Award.
SLAC thanks the Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation for their generous support of this vital program.
MERCURY by Steve Yockey
New Play Sounding Series Free Reading
Monday, April 25 @ 7pm
Director: Dave Mortensen
Featuring: Brighton Hertford, Dee-Dee Darby-Duffin, Elise Groves, Jenessa Bowen, Stephen Drabicki, Tito Livas, Aaron Adams
Reader: Joy Haynes
This pitch black comedy has an illicit affair, a couple hanging on by a thread, bears at the window, and an adorable missing dog named Mr Bundles. No one's happy, people stop being nice, and blood spills in a story that mashes up violent myth and ideas about "good neighbors" to explore what happens when the mercury rises.
SLAC thanks the Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation for their generous support of this vital program.
WINTER by Julie Jensen
New Play Sounding Series Free Reading
Monday, February 1 @ 7pm
Director: Tracy Callahan
Featuring: Daniel Beecher, Anne Louise Brings, Anne Cullimore Decker, Cragun Foulger, Bob Nelson
Stage Manager/Reader: Sarah Danielle Young
WINTER is the story of an older couple who has an end-of-life pact, until one of them backs out. This new play from Julie Jensen, inspired by the story "Robeck" by Margaret Pabst Battin, is a beautiful tale of family and the right to die.
SLAC thanks the Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation for their generous support of this vital program.
