| 05-30-08 - WTP's Playwrights' Salon featuring John Drago's CUTESY-POOTSIE |
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Jill Patrick, 404.441.2716, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Date: May 30, 2008 Working Title Playwrights Presents Playwrights' Salon 2008 Decatur, GA – Working Title Playwrights (WTP), Atlanta's leading play-development organization, announces the third installment of its 2008 Playwrights' Salon, open-to-the public, roundtable workshops of new, full-length plays, on Sunday, June 15th and Sunday, June 29th at 7:00 p.m. at Academy Theatre, 119 Center St, Avondale Estates, GA with John Drago's "Cutesy-Pootsie". John Drago received his MFA in Playwriting from Indiana University, where his PLAYING THE BONES was developed and produced. BONES went on to become a finalist in the Appalachian Festival of Plays and Playwrights, and was given a staged reading and mini-production by the Barter Theatre. His short plays THE FAMILY ROOM and THE DREAM JOURNAL have been produced as part of the Bloomington Playwrights Project's Dark Alley Series. This year, Drago's play OF THE FLESH was named a finalist for the second Clubbed Thumb Biennial Commission. More recently, his adaptation of MEDEA was staged by New American Junk, in conjunction with the MondoHomo Dirty South Festival. Cutesy-Pootsie is a pitch black comedy in which a girl's refusal to grow up tests the limits of her mother's devotion, and the very limits of the universe itself. This third installment of WTP's Playwrights' Salon is directed Laurence Ruth with a cast including Joanna Daniel, Paul Hester, Jo Howarth, Bethany Anne Lind and Steve Young. John's is the third WTP Affiliate script selected by an independent panel for development in these two-phase roundtable workshops. A roundtable workshop is a developmental reading of the script by professional actors, the playwright and dramaturg/director, working around a table, with an interactive audience seated around them. These theatre professionals hear the dialogue, analyze the story, work through revealed problems, and two weeks later, return to hear and continue development of the playwright's revisions. Please join us at Academy Theatre, 119 Center St, Avondale Estates, GA, Sunday, June 15th, at 7:00 p.m., and again on Sunday, June 29th at 7:00 p.m. PWYC donation. For more information, please contact WTP at 404.441.2716 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . Working Title Playwrights, Inc., is a professional theatre company dedicated to the development and promotion of playwrights and new plays. Its mission is to provide all playwrights with the opportunity to excel -- by helping them tell their stories for stage; fostering the development of well-crafted plays; and increasing the visibility of theatre in Atlanta and beyond. Incorporated in 2003 as a non-profit organization with 501(c)(3) status, WTP serves its mission by featuring workshops and education seminars, public and private readings, and collaborative programs with other recognized local, regional and national artists and cultural arts groups. |
