COOKIES FOR PRISONERS in the PLAYWRIGHTS IN PROGRESS NEW PLAY FESTIVAL
About the Show:
Margie bakes cookies for prisoners, takes in stray people and advocates for underdogs, but all bets are off when it comes to tolerating her own son. All the characters in this play are hiding horrible secrets in the kookiest ways. Directed by D. Candis Paule.
Featuring: Tom Ashworth, Sidney Franklin, Austyn Meyers, Veronica Murphy, Nicolette Shutty, Shaun Tuazon.
Shaun Tuazon will be taking a brief break from rehearsals for THE NUTCRACKER (Not the ballet) at New Village Arts to be in COOKIES FOR PRISONERS by Thelma Virata de Castro thanks to Cygnet Theatre Company & Playwrights Project!
The festival introduces San Diego playgoers to new works by local artists and also offers a series of workshops designed to introduce curious audiences to the art of playwriting. In addition, the three-day festival at the Old Town Theatre includes opportunities for informal forums to meet the playwrights.
Sponsored by Bill and Judy Garrett and the County of San Diego.
MORE ABOUT THE FESTIVAL:
PLAYWRIGHTS IN PROCESS
NEW PLAY FESTIVAL
Sponsored by Bill & Judy Garrett
November 7-9, 2014
Produced in collaboration with Playwrights Project
Cygnet Theatre is proud to present the Third Annual Playwrights in Process: New Play Festival, a festival of readings of 4 new plays by playwrights with strong Southern California ties. The festival also includes a series of workshops designed to introduce curious audiences to the art of new play development.
COOKIES FOR PRISONERS
by Thelma Virata de Castro
Friday, Nov 7 at 8:00pm
Margie bakes cookies for prisoners, takes in stray people and advocates for underdogs, but all bets are off when it comes to tolerating her own son. All the characters in this play are hiding horrible secrets in the kookiest ways. Directed by D. Candis Paule.
Featuring: Tom Ashworth, Sidney Franklin, Austyn Meyers, Veronica Murphy, Nicolette Shutty, Shaun Tuazon.
WIDOWER
by David Jacobi
Saturday, Nov 8 at 8:00pm
When a boy caught between unfit, divorced parents is left home alone at a Southwestern trailer park, he makes friends with his drug addicted dad's jilted ex-lover who is trying to ransack the joint. There, his father's kinda-ex-girlfriend teaches him some hard life-lessons. Directed by Judy Bauerlein.
Featuring: Carlos Angel-Barajas, Samantha Ginn, Steven Lone, Whitney Brianna Thomas.
SILUETA
by Diana Burbano, Tom Shelton, and Chris Shelton
Sunday, Nov 9 at 2:00pm
Silueta is a two person show based on the true story of Ana Mendieta, who fell 34 stories to her death in 1985. Almost three decades later her ghost returns to ask her husband a question for which she needs an answer: Did he push her. Directed by Katie Haroff.
Featuring: Veronica Burgess, Patrick Kelly, Charles Maze.
MANNEQUINS
by Paul-David Halem
Sunday, Nov 9 at 7:00pm
Life is more interesting if it's not what it seems to be. Fade in on a successful actor trying to read a hot new film script. Phone calls, delusional friends, and a hunky burglar disrupt his plans...as the mannequins watch. Directed by Derek Charles Livingston.
Featuring: Jason Heil, Brandon Kelley, Linda Libby, Connor Sullivan, Whitney Brianna Thomas.
SINGLE TICKET - $15
Enjoy one reading plus access to same day workshops.
FESTIVAL PASS - $40
The festival pass gives you all access. Enjoy all 4 new play readings, the 3 workshops and an opening night pre-show reception.
SAVE $5 on Single Tix or $10 on a Festival Pass
USE Code NEWPLAY when ordering and Save $5 off of Single Tickets or $10 off a Festival Pass!
or call 619-337-1525
Click here for more information
Margie bakes cookies for prisoners, takes in stray people and advocates for underdogs, but all bets are off when it comes to tolerating her own son. All the characters in this play are hiding horrible secrets in the kookiest ways. Directed by D. Candis Paule.
Featuring: Tom Ashworth, Sidney Franklin, Austyn Meyers, Veronica Murphy, Nicolette Shutty, Shaun Tuazon.
Shaun Tuazon will be taking a brief break from rehearsals for THE NUTCRACKER (Not the ballet) at New Village Arts to be in COOKIES FOR PRISONERS by Thelma Virata de Castro thanks to Cygnet Theatre Company & Playwrights Project!
The festival introduces San Diego playgoers to new works by local artists and also offers a series of workshops designed to introduce curious audiences to the art of playwriting. In addition, the three-day festival at the Old Town Theatre includes opportunities for informal forums to meet the playwrights.
Sponsored by Bill and Judy Garrett and the County of San Diego.
MORE ABOUT THE FESTIVAL:
PLAYWRIGHTS IN PROCESS
NEW PLAY FESTIVAL
Sponsored by Bill & Judy Garrett
November 7-9, 2014
Produced in collaboration with Playwrights Project
Cygnet Theatre is proud to present the Third Annual Playwrights in Process: New Play Festival, a festival of readings of 4 new plays by playwrights with strong Southern California ties. The festival also includes a series of workshops designed to introduce curious audiences to the art of new play development.
COOKIES FOR PRISONERS
by Thelma Virata de Castro
Friday, Nov 7 at 8:00pm
Margie bakes cookies for prisoners, takes in stray people and advocates for underdogs, but all bets are off when it comes to tolerating her own son. All the characters in this play are hiding horrible secrets in the kookiest ways. Directed by D. Candis Paule.
Featuring: Tom Ashworth, Sidney Franklin, Austyn Meyers, Veronica Murphy, Nicolette Shutty, Shaun Tuazon.
WIDOWER
by David Jacobi
Saturday, Nov 8 at 8:00pm
When a boy caught between unfit, divorced parents is left home alone at a Southwestern trailer park, he makes friends with his drug addicted dad's jilted ex-lover who is trying to ransack the joint. There, his father's kinda-ex-girlfriend teaches him some hard life-lessons. Directed by Judy Bauerlein.
Featuring: Carlos Angel-Barajas, Samantha Ginn, Steven Lone, Whitney Brianna Thomas.
SILUETA
by Diana Burbano, Tom Shelton, and Chris Shelton
Sunday, Nov 9 at 2:00pm
Silueta is a two person show based on the true story of Ana Mendieta, who fell 34 stories to her death in 1985. Almost three decades later her ghost returns to ask her husband a question for which she needs an answer: Did he push her. Directed by Katie Haroff.
Featuring: Veronica Burgess, Patrick Kelly, Charles Maze.
MANNEQUINS
by Paul-David Halem
Sunday, Nov 9 at 7:00pm
Life is more interesting if it's not what it seems to be. Fade in on a successful actor trying to read a hot new film script. Phone calls, delusional friends, and a hunky burglar disrupt his plans...as the mannequins watch. Directed by Derek Charles Livingston.
Featuring: Jason Heil, Brandon Kelley, Linda Libby, Connor Sullivan, Whitney Brianna Thomas.
SINGLE TICKET - $15
Enjoy one reading plus access to same day workshops.
FESTIVAL PASS - $40
The festival pass gives you all access. Enjoy all 4 new play readings, the 3 workshops and an opening night pre-show reception.
SAVE $5 on Single Tix or $10 on a Festival Pass
USE Code NEWPLAY when ordering and Save $5 off of Single Tickets or $10 off a Festival Pass!
or call 619-337-1525
Click here for more information
Press & Media
- Review: PRAISE FOR COOKIES FOR PRISONERS.
"We meet her adopted son Jesus, an adorable if somewhat catty eccentric gay high school theatre geek, very realized in Shaun Tauzon’s strong performance."
http://sandiegoplaywrightscollective.wordpress.com/2014/11/08/praise-for-cookies-for-prisoners-at-cygnet/ - PLAYWRIGHT INSIGHT: THELMA VIRATA DE CASTRO
http://blog.cygnettheatre.com/2014/11/03/playwright-insight-thelma-virata-de-castro/
