TIME FLIES by Sherry Paulsen
December 6, 2006 at 8.00pm
Come see the final play in our 2006 Monday Night Reading Series, TIME FLIES by Sherry Paulsen, at Academy Theatre. Directed by Patricia Henritze, and starring Carolyn Cook.The Monday Night Reading Series is dedicated to the development of works in progress.
TIME FLIES spans the 40 year career of Marsha Treadwell, from stewardess to flight attendant in the ever changing often turbulent world of commercial flight. Although a zany commentary on the airline industry, this play zeros in on the life of a woman through one of the most evolutionary periods of time in history for the female population - from the sixties to the birth of the twenty-first century. From “Coffee, tea or me?” to “I am Woman hear me roar!” Marsha shares the intimate details of her journey... its joys, its sorrows, and inevitably, its surprises.
Former Atlanta Playwright, Sherry Camp Paulsen, now resides in Pensacola, Florida where she serves as a member of the Artistic Committee for the Pensacola Little Theatre, which is celebrating its 75th Anniversary this year.
Sherry Camp Paulsen’s passion for dialogue was kindled in the late 70’s and early eighties as a radio scriptwriter in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Atlanta. In 1985, she created, wrote and co-produced a national award-winning cable television program for children in Los Angeles called “The Book Galaxy”. After twenty years as an advertising creative director and as a television producer/writer she wrote her first play, OUR LADY OF PERRYSBURG. The play went on to win several awards among them the Ruby Lloyd Apsey Award for Playwrighting. The play has had productions in Birmingham, Atlanta, Blowing Rock, Dayton, and Pensacola.
Paulsen’s next play, LADIES IN WAITING was featured at Theater Emory’s Brave New Works Marathon and at the “Seen + Heard Women’s Festival of Plays” both in Atlanta. The play has been acknowledged in several prestigious competitions including the 2003 Mildred and Albert Panowski Playwriting Award, Semi-Finalist, 2003 Jane Chambers Award for Playwriting, Honorable Mention and the 2003 American Theatre Coop Playwriting Award, Semi-Finalist.
TIME FLIES, Paulsen’s third play, debuted at a reading at Brave New Works in 2003 to much acclaim.
WTP's Monday Night Reading Series is designed to help a play which has gone through WTP's development program achieve its next step: The reaction of an audience. Each play receives six hours of rehearsal with a director and a cast of professional actors.
The reading is presented in chamber style -- without movement, sets or lighting -- to enable the cast and audience to focus on the text. Following each reading, a moderated feedback session enables the playwright to hear the audience's reactions, so that s/he may continue to develop the work.
Venue:
Academy Theatre12 North Clarendon Avenue
Avondale Estates GA
www.academytheatre.org
Cost:
For WTP Affiliates: freeFor General Public: $6
Contact:
Jill Patrick, Managing Artistic DirectorWorkingTitle Playwrights
managing@workingtitleplaywrights.com
404.441.2716