"Just wanted to pass on my heartfelt thanks to you and the rest of the TRU team for the opportunity to take part in the TRU Voices series. The entire experience has been a wonderful learning experience, and has already brought the script much farther along toward a production than any efforts of my own, sitting out there in the wilds of Germany, could probably have ever done. Rest assured I'll be submitting pieces to future competitions."
~ Skot Davis, (The Ibsen Follies, TRU Voices '07) |
2008 submissions closed. But to read more about the series requirements,
Click here for 2008 Play Guidelines
Click here for 2008 Play Application
We will open up for submissions to the Musicals Series in late May '08.
THE 2008 TRU VOICES
NEW PLAYS READING SERIES!
Tenth annual series of new plays by TRU writers produced by TRU producers, followed by reception and our "Dollars and Sense" panels on producing featuring prominent commercial producers, artistic directors and general managers. Reservations required: 212/714-7628
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All performances will be at 7pm.
The Players Theatre,
115 MacDougal Street, NYC.
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American Whupass
presented by M&M Actors Production Co. & Danielle Johnson
Directed by Nancy Robillard
A pugilistic Senate campaign might just end in an actual wrestling match.
Hurrah for the red white and bruised!
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Film Chinois
presented by Charles L. Johanson, Jack W. Batman and Grove Theater Center
Directed by Kevin Cochran
Red threat. Yellow fever. Film Noir. |
A Crooked Man
presented by Nora Armana and Pemart Productions
Directed by Linda Selman
A young man is confronted by his grandfather's notorious past –
unexpectedly – on a rooftop.
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Check back for confirmed casts, plus the industry panelists scheduled for our "Dollars and Sense" panels.
All performances at The Players Theater (mainstage),
115 MacDougal Street (south of west 3rd Street)
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Series made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), a stage agency; and from the NYC Department of Culutral Affairs (DCA) and the Friars National Foundation Association. |
THE 2007 TRU VOICES
NEW PLAYS READING SERIES!
Ninth annual series of new plays by TRU writers produced by TRU producers, followed by reception and our "Dollars and Sense" panels on producing featuring prominent commercial producers, artistic directors and general managers. All performances will be at 7pm.
Monday 6/4:
To Barcelona!
by Michael Niederman,
produced by Sarah Melissa Rotker.
The true story of one man's decision to fight in the Spanish Civil War.
"Live fee or die ... hey, are those the only options?"
Directed by Elyzabeth Gorman,
with Dan Diggles, Dana Watkins, Liz Wisan, Adam Arian, Johnny Lin and Alexander Sovronsky.
"Dollars and Sense" panel to include: Ken Davenport, producer (Altar Boys, Awesome 80's Prom, Somewhere in Time), general manager (Gypsy, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Jekyll & Hyde); Valentina Fratti, director, former artistic director of the Miranda Theater Company, commercial producer (The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Buried Child); Jan Hacha, Amas Musical Theatre; Ludovica Villar-Hauser, director/producer (The Countess, Duet, Pitchfork Disney).
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Monday 6/11:
The Jesus Hickey
by Luke Yankee,
produced by Jack W. Batman & Jaye Maynard

Playwright Luke Yankee; cast members Liz Morton, Merle Louise, Sean Dugan, Barbara Dana, Matthew Arkin, Todd Conner, Malachy Court; director Casey Childs.
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Directed by Casey Childs,
starring Matthew Arkin, Todd Conner, Sean Dugan, Merle Louise, Malachy McCourt, Liz Morton and Barbara Dana.
An Irish comedy about religious fanaticism and the unwanted fame that comes to a young lady after a kissing incident.
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"Dollars and Sense" panel: co-producers Jaye Maynard & Jack W. Batman; director Casey Childs; Tara Schoen Fishman, Off-Broadway Booking; Pat Addiss, producer (Spring Awakening, Little Women, Bridge & Tunnel); R Erin Craig, general manager / producer La Vie Productions (In the Heights, Elliot: A Soldier's Fugue, High Fidelity, Captain Louie); Pam Koslow, producer (Jelly's Last Jam, Jane Eyre, Captain Louie); Jennifer Manocherian, producer (Adrift in Macao, Jayson with a Y, Caroline or Change, Stomp).
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Monday 6/18:
SPARKS
by Helen Sheehy,
produced by Pat Addiss & Ludovica Villar-Hauser

Above: Stephen Plunkett, Margo Passalaqua, Antionette LaVecchia, Rachel Duvall.
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A pious mother and her doubting daughter wage battle while another watches, refusing to interfere until it is too late.
Directed by Ludovica Villar-Hauser,
with Antoinette LaVecchia, Margo Passalaqua, Stephen Plunkett
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All photos by Ellis Gaskell.
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"Dollars and Sense" panel: Bob; director Ludovica Villar-Hauser; producer Pat Addiss; Eric Krebs, producer/ general manager (Broadway: Ain't Nothin' but the Blues, Electra; off-B'way: Bash, This Is Our Youth, Little Ham); Ricky L. Stevens, producer/general manager (over 110 productions around the country, and NYC; Radio Golf); Dan Markley (High Fidelity, Damn Yankees revival, Stomp, Vagina Monologues, Shockheaded Peter); Elysabeth Kleinhans, 59E59, artistic director Animated Theaterworks; Martin Platt, Perry Street Theater. Missing: Cheryl Wiesenfeld, producer (Elaine Stritch: At Liberty, The Exonerated, Caroline or Change, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Legally Blonde).
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Monday 6/25:
The Ibsen Follies
by Skot Davis,
produced by RK Greene and
The StoryLine Project LLC.
Directed by Sonia Gluckman,
with Evan Buxbaum, Dan Diggles,
Heather Massie,
Mort Milder,
Michelle Ramoni, Jackie Reinking,
Patrick Turner, Susan Wands
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"Dollars and Sense" panel: Peter Bogyo, general manager with the Sprecher Organization (A Moon for the Misbegotten w/Kevin Spacey, Sly Fox w/Richard Dreyfus, Fortune’s Fool, Madame Melville, The Unexpected Man, The Joys of Sex); James Morgan, artistic director York Theatre Company; Janet Pailet, P2 Creations, producer (How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Great American Trailer Park Musical); Michael Parva, artistic director The Directors Company; Jack Thomas, producer Bulldog Theatrical (Almost, Maine, No Way to Treat a Lady, Our Lady of 121st Street), formerly with the Shubert Organization; Orin Wolf, Off-Broadway Booking. |
Ibsen is spinning in his grave!
Caught in a romantic farce -
where two young lovers seek escape
from the gloom of Norwegian literary history -
Ibsen squares off against his arch rival Bjornson…
and only the lovers win!
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The Players Theater (mainstage; except To Barcelona! is in the Loft), 115 MacDougal Street (south of 3rd Street)
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