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Meet Rob Dames & Nowhere Man

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Rob has been writer, producer and/or director for over 30 television series including 17 network pilots. Rob worked on such series as: Benson, Marblehead Manor, Gimme A Break, Me and The Boys, The Royal Family, The Blues Brothers, Full House and many more. He was a nominee for The People’s Choice award for Best New Comedy for the series he co-created, Me and The Boys. Rob’s credits also include five original screenplays and multiple uncredited rewrites for Amblin’ Entertainment and Disney Studios. During the years working in television and film, he was pleased to write or direct for such great producers as Aaron Spelling, Witt-Thomas-Harris, Miller/Boyett, Ed. Weinberger and Steven Spielberg. His career also offered him the opportunity to work internationally in England, France and Germany. In recent years, his comedy play, VIRGINIA THROWS A WAKE, was a 2017 finalist for the Reva Shiner Comedy Award and his drama, HAUNTINGS, was a finalist for The Stanley Drama Award. Currently, his play, NOWHERE MAN, is premiering at the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival in New York in late August 2018. Rob, along with composer Dan Foliart, has recently completed their musical, BACK IN THE GAME. Rob was also an original member of The Groundlings Improv Company.
Tell us about your current project? 
NOWHERE MAN is an original full-length play dealing with difficult moral decisions
Where are you performing your show and why is it a good fit for your production?
The Theatre at the 14th St. Y. This is an excellent venue and a well-run festival.
What’s next for you? 
Time to workshop my musical, BACK IN THE GAME
What is the name of the last show you saw? 
Hamilton
Any advice for your peers?
Just do it

Show Information:

Date: Aug. 23, 25, 26.
Venue: The Theatre at the 14th St. Y.
Tickets: http://www.broadwayboundfestival.com
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Meet George Pfirrmann & The Brothers Khan

The Brothers Khan 8.5x11Tell us about you. 
Playwright/Producer
Tell us about your current project? 
The Brothers Khan, An American Story is going up at the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival this August in NYC
Where are you performing your show and why is it a good fit for your production? 
The Broadway Bound Theatre Festival. This is an opportunity to get this full production up before an audience. The BBTF is very helpful in teaching all one needs to know to self produce.
What’s next for you? 
Rewriting AROUSAL, workshopping Reckoning, finishing The Allens.
What is the name of the last show you saw? 
The Iceman Cometh
Any advice for your peers?
Write, have it read, rewrite, have it read, and do it until it’s where you want it to be.

Show Information:

Dates: August 15th at 8:30, the 17th at 8:30, and the 18th at 5pm.
Venue: 14th Street Theatre at the Y.
Tickets: http://www.broadwayboundfestival.com Tickets are $25.
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Meet Albi Gorn & Jim’s Room

Jim's Room Flyer_Page_1.jpegTell us about you. 
I’m Albi Gorn. I’ve been writing for 25 years and have been produced all over the U.S. and in Canada, Mexico and England. My shows have won dozens of playwriting competitions and theater festivals. I live in Hastings-on-Hudson in Westchester, N.Y. with my wife and director of choice, Robin Anne Joseph. I retired last year after working for 50 years so I could dedicate myself to theater and at 71 I feel like my life is just starting. Member of the Dramatists Guild. Website: albigorn.com
Tell us about your current project? 
My play Jim’s Room will have its world premiere at the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival in August. It’s a play that explore what we will do – and believe – to get back what we’ve lost and make ourselves whole.
Where are you performing your show and why is it a good fit for your production? 
Broadway Bound Theatre Festival, The 14th St. Y, 344 E. 14th St, NYC. The Festival is a wonderful mix of theater from all over the country touching on all manner of topics in all manner of theatrical styles. While Jim’s Room is mostly a traditional show, it does ask its audience to suspend their disbelief in disbelief. And I think that’s very much the atmosphere that BBTF has created.
What’s next for you? 
My one-act play about abortion, Paradise Enow, will be part of the Emerging Artists Annual New Work Series. Following that, my theater company, GoJo Clan Productions, will be doing a revival of Doubt (which, in case there’s any doubt, I didn’t write).
What is the name of the last show you saw? 
Sugar in Our Wounds at MTC
Any advice for your peers?
Two things. 1) Don’t listen to my advice, and; 2) In the event you’re still reading this, as a playwright I have three goals in this order of priority: Please myself, please my actors, please my audience. If I take care of the first two, the last one always takes care of itself.

Show Information: 

Dates: August 22nd 8:30; August 24th 5:00; August 25th 8:30.
Venue: The 14th St. Y, 344 E. 14th St, NYC.
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Meet Sean David Robinson & Starbright

starbright-promo-image.jpgTell us about you. 
My name is Sean David Robinson, and I’m a playwright from Asheville, NC. My work is focused on creating strong female protagonists in stories which bring science, speculative fiction and magical realism to life on the stage.
Tell us about your current project? 
Starbright, my current play, tells the story of Grace Morrow, an astronomer who lost her young daughter Abby nearly a year ago. As Grace’s life spins out of control, Abby appears to her and begins making bold predictions about the movements of the cosmos. Grace must determine if her daughter’s appearance is a sign of her dwindling sanity, or proof that there’s more to the universe than even she understands.
Where are you performing your show and why is it a good fit for your production? 
Starbright will debut at the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival at the 14th Street Y Theatre. It’s perfect for this show. We have striking visual effects that will wow audiences in the two-story space, and the 120-seat venue is the perfect size for the intimate-yet-universal story this play tells.
What’s next for you? 
I’m working on two new plays at the moment, one dealing with the American justice system (with a speculative fiction bent), and the other a more personal, human story about a heart transplant that changes everything about the life of its recipient.
What is the name of the last show you saw? 
The last show I saw was Other Desert Cities at N.C. Stage Company in Asheville.
Any advice for your peers?
I think the most important part of being a writer, or any kind of artist, is to never stop learning, growing, and evolving. Surround yourself with people who challenge you to become the best version of yourself. Oh, and find a bad ass editor. Marry them, if you can.

Show Information: 

Dates: August 16-19;
Venue: 14th Street Y Theatre
Tickets: https://www.broadwayboundfestival.com/book-online; https://www.facebook.com/starbrightstageplay/
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Meet Emily Emerson & The Field

The Field 1000x1000.jpegTell us about you. 
I am a playwright and actress currently based in North Carolina.
Tell us about your current project? 
My full-length play, The Field, is premiering at the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival on August 8, 9, & 10.
Where are you performing your show and why is it a good fit for your production? 
The Field is part of the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival and it will be performed at the Theater at the 14th St. Y in the East Village. The theater is beautifully renovated and is a lovely, intimate space for the show.
What’s next for you? 
I am currently working on a few new projects, but no dates for production as of yet.
What is the name of the last show you saw? 
The last show I saw in NYC was War Paint. The last show I saw in North Carolina was Legally Blonde at UNCSA.
Any advice for your peers?
Get a good team of collaborators. They are the people that will make your show great.

Show Information:

Dates: August 8 (5pm), August 9 (8:30pm), August 10 (5pm)
Venue: The Theater at the 14th Street Y, 344 E. 14th St.
Tickets: http://www.broadwayboundfestival.com http://www.thefieldplay.net @thefieldplay
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Meet Chuck Muckle & Running for My Life (Broadway Bound Theatre Festival)

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Name: Chuck Muckle

What is your current project?  RUNNING FOR MY LIFE

Where are you performing your show and why is it a good fit for your production?

Broadway Bound Theatre Festival – it’s the first time the play is ever being done, and the feedback has helped in rewrites to make it a better show. It’s a timely piece about dealing with loss and expectations, family and relationship, and moving on.

What’s next for you?

Some projects in pre-production planning, including ANIMAL STORY (the musical) and IN LOVE WITH THE ARROW COLLAR MAN; both premiered in other festivals last year.

What is the name of the last show you saw?

Hmm…a community theatre production of OLIVER! I had never seen it before onstage. A friend was in it.

Any advice for your peers?

Don’t let anyone ever discourage you! As Eleanor Roosevelt says, “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

Want More?

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OLevant

Chuck Muckle (director/playwright/actor/composer) directed IN LOVE WITH THE ARROW COLLAR MAN and MOURNING BECOMES RIDICULOUS at the New York New Works Festival last year. MBR was previously chosen as one of four finalists in the Manhattan Theatre Mission’s second annual musical showcase, where it won awards for best book, lyrics, actor and actress. He appeared in the National Tours of SOUTH PACIFIC and CAMELOT with Robert Goulet, the Eastern Tour of A CHRISTMAS CAROL with John Astin, and was in the feature film THE NIGHT BEFORE with Seth Rogen.

Show Information: 

Running for My Life

Friday, August 18, 4PM; Saturday, August 19, 7PM; Sunday, August 20, 11:30AM, 344 E. 14th St. https://www.broadwayboundfestival.com

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Meet Jack Rushen & Image (Broadway Bound Theatre Festival)

ImageName: Jack Rushen

What is your current project? IMAGE at BBTF

Where are you performing your show and why is it a good fit for your production?

Theater at the 14th st. Y

What’s next for you?

Working on two play which are in development

What is the name of the last show you saw?

RED

Any advice for your peers?

Spend all your time in front of your laptop.

Want More?

Website: www.jackrushen.com

Jack first fell in love with the theatre at sixteen years old, with a stellar portrayal of “Dead Man #2” in OUR TOWN, that they are still talking about at the Polka Dot Playhouse in Bridgeport, CT. He went on to play one of the thirty-seven soldiers in HENRY V at the American Shakespeare Theatre, and his claim to fame was quickly being fired for upstaging Christopher Plummer (for which he claims innocence).

Since then his life has been a whirlwind of generous mentors and like-minded artists.
His travels have taken him to the AMERICAN ACADEMY OF DRAMATIC ARTS, after which he found himself in the ensemble of such wonderful companies as LONG WHARF, HARTFORD STAGE, THE KENNEDY CENTER, AND THE HARTMAN THEATRE, to name a few.

Since taking a hiatus from acting, Jack has had great success with playwriting. He recently won the “Julie Harris Competition for excellence in playwriting” with IMAGE, which will be produced at the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival in August. IMAGE has been seen in staged readings around the country in such theaters as THEATRE 40 in Los Angeles, ARTEMESIA THEATRE in Chicago, POWERHOUSE THEATER in New Canaan CT, WORDSMITH THEATRE in Houston, EMERGING ARTISTS THEATRE in New York City, and at the DRAMATIST’S GUILD in their FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTLIGHTS series.

Other full-length plays include MATTERS OF FAITH, MEANS TO AN END, TAMING THE LION, CHAPPY IN PARADISE, and WHAT IT TAKES.

Other honors include many awards and accolades for his short play, TESTIMONIAL in the “East/West Theatre Festival,” the “Arts and Letters Prize” at Georgia State University, “The Boston Theatre Festival,” “Princeton Theatre Group” and recently, “Stage Door Productions” in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

His favorite theatrical expression is, “Ensemble is everything, ” because we can’t make good theatre alone.

Show Information:

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IMAGE Monday, August 14 @ 12:30pm, Thursday, August 17@7:30 pm, Saturday, August 19th@3:30pm Broadway Bound Theatre Festival, Theater at the 14st Y, 344 East 14th St. NYC, http://www.broadwaybound.com

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Meet Suzanne Mernyk & Sympathy in C (Broadway Bound Theatre Festival)

Sympathy in C

Name: Suzanne Mernyk

What is your current project?

‘Sympathy in C’ appearing in the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival

Where are you performing your show and why is it a good fit for your production?

Appearing in the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival on August 11, 13 and 16th. The venue will promote the full professional potential of the play with it’s impactful performance, lighting and live music, all supporting the symphonic stage design in this heart touching and thought provoking play.

What’s next for you?

To refine the production and find a theatrical home for ‘Sympathy in C’, as well as continue facilitating my playwrights’ workshop, Characters, Ink. Playwrights

What is the name of the last show you saw?

The Doll’s House, Part 2

Any advice for your peers?

The creative process is not linear, but continuously expands the heart and mind.

Want More?

Website: http://www.charactersink.com
Facebook: charactersinknyc

Show Information: 

Sympathy in C
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Meet Sean Tecson & Poor Boys’ Chorus (Broadway Bound Theatre Festival)

Poor Boys

Name: Sean Tecson

What is your current project?  Poor Boys’ Chorus

Where are you performing your show and why is it a good fit for your production?

Poor Boys’ Chorus is one of twenty plays selected from more than 200 submissions for Broadway Bound Theatre Festival’s inaugural season at the 14th Street Y Theater. The play reimagines the traditional Greek chorus as a trio of orphans telling the tragically romantic story about the town’s richest girl and an orphan boy falling in love through movement, light, and a little bit of magic. The chorus of orphans act as a traveling troupe of performers who are telling this story to different audiences in different venues every night, giving the play a pop-up performance feel that is perfect for a festival setting.

What’s next for you?

At the end of 2016 I accepted the A.R.T./New York Creative Opportunity Fellowship and have been working at the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York supporting their development department and fundraising for the organization’s various programs that serve over 370 nonprofit theatre companies in New York City. I will be entering the second and final half of my fellowship where I will be delving into institutional fundraising and a re-branding project for our department.

What is the name of the last show you saw?

Miss Saigon

Any advice for your peers?

Don’t forget that it’s just theatre. We’re not curing cancer or conducting brain surgery. At the end of the day, we’re working on something that we love and we should never forget that. It’s a lot of work, but no one is going to die if a small mistake is made here or there. Do your best and remember that we’re all humans doing this weird theatre thing.

Want More?

Website: about.me/seantecson
Twitter: twitter.com/seanohfour
Instagram: instagram.com/seanohfour

Sean Tecson is a NYC-based director and arts administrator. He has worked with several nonprofit theatres in NYC including Ma-Yi Theatre Company and the National Asian American Theater Company and was the assistant producer for a FringeFAVE production in the 2016 New York International Fringe Festival. He is currently the Development Fellow at the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York and helps fundraise for the organization’s various programs that serve over 370 nonprofit theatre companies in New York City. He received a B.A. in Theatre & Dance from The University of Texas at Austin.

Show Information:

Poor Boys
TUE AUG 15 @ 4:00PM
FRI AUG 18 @ 7:30PM
SUN AUG 20 @ 3:00PM

14TH STREET Y THEATRE
344 EAST 14TH STREET
NEW YORK, NY 10003

 

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Meet Mark Adrian Ford & Keys (Broadway Bound Theatre Festival)

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Name: Mark Adrian Ford

What is your current project?

My new play “KEYS” goes up at the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival this summer 2017! Directed by Alison Preece

Where are you performing your show and why is it a good fit for your production?

Performances of KEYS are taking place at the 14th Street Y Theatre in NYC. The simple space, large stage, 130 tiered seats and marquis create an ideal canvas for our play. The location is fantastic too! (344 E 14th St, New York, NY)

What’s next for you?

After the Broadway Bound Festival I’ll be visiting my big sister in Alberta. She’s having her first baby!

What is the name of the last show you saw?

I recently saw my friend perform in The Book of Mormon. I hadn’t seen it before and it changed my life forever.

Any advice for your peers?

Deep breaths. Don’t procrastinate in any area of production. Enjoy the hard work as well as the easy fun. Get to know your teammates and always be respectful.

Want More?

Website: www.MarkFord.ca
Facebook: @KEYSthePlay
Instagram: @KEYSthePlay / @markyfordo

Mark Adrian Ford is an Albertan bred, award-winning actor and writer currently living in Toronto. He received a BFA with honours from the Hart School Actor Training program at the University of Hartford (class of 2012). He started acting at the age 9 and has since performed in several countries across the world. Mark enjoys all mediums and has credits in classical, musical & contemporary theatre as well as film and television. Along with creative art his interests include makin’ friends, jamming, going dancing, playing sports, video gaming and adventuring on mountains. http://www.MarkFord.ca

Show Information: 

Bone on Bone
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