NYC Strawberry One-Act Festival

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Parent Category: Other Festivals

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Published on Monday, 25 July 2011 05:00

Written by L E Shannon

The Riant Theatre presents the 20th annual NYC Strawberry One-Act Festival from July 28 - August 7, 2011 at The Hudson Guild Theater in Manhattan, New York City.

The brainchild of Artistic Director Van Dirk Fisher, the Festival is a play competition twice a year (in February and in July/August) in which the audience and the theatre's judges cast their votes to select the best play of the season. This year, 38 plays are in competition.

The Opening Night plays include:

Series A:

Press Seven by Sam Reisman
A mysterious voicemail threatens the sanity of two men.

All They Need Is Love by Jennifer Marvel
When it comes down to it - the one thing everyone wants in their life is Love.

Merry Meeting by Jacob Marx Rice
What happens when a man comes home to find his wife having sex with another man, beats that man unconscious and then sits down to have a civilized conversation.

Series B:

The Prenup by Charles Gershman
A side-splitting caricature of coupledom in which a young man’s marriage proposal unravels.

Mi Media Naranja by Rolls Andre
Featuring Rolls Andre, Kim Gainer, Jen Taher
After a night of kinky sex gone horribly wrong, a couple of swingers must re-examine their marriage.

Criminal Mischief by Ellen Orchid
He was a great boyfriend. Until his wife showed up.

Other plays this season include:

It’s Gonna Work Out Fine by Arlene Corsano
music and lyrics by Rose Marie McCoy
The only musical in the line-up, this is the inspiring, true-life story of a prolific and influential songwriter who provided hundreds of hits for the hottest rhythm and blues singers of the 1950s and ‘60s as well as for Elvis Presley, the singer who turned rhythm and blues into rock 'n' roll.

Horst and Graben at the Chateau Godot by Jeffrey Gold
Horst was waiting for his date. Then Graben arrived.

Some of the other entries are:

An Encounter with an Angel on the 42nd Street Platform While Contemplating Suicide
Written & directed by Anna Governali
Featuring Candice Goodluck, Ginger Kearns, Michael McMullan, Victory Chappotin, Michael Borne
As Hunny is sent to save a lost soul that lingers between life and death, the one she is really meant to save is herself.

Butterfly by Trish Cole
The Newtowne Players
Featuring Gloria Ranta, Missy Bell, Jessica Magno
Evocative in the spirit of M. Butterfly, Trish Cole’s Butterfly examines a mother who seeks refuge in an imaginary wildflower field when pushed to confront, from jail, the memories of her relationship with her transgender child.

Paid Off by Robert D. Argen
"Trust me, I’m a banker." Wall Street and Main Street collide in this poignant drama about a banker’s struggle to prove his moral worth to his grieving former English teacher.

Crossing Verrazano by Anthony Fusco
Three young men visiting NYC for a weekend of fun, experience an incident they will never forget. What really happened that night? Based on a true story.

Weight by Kerri Campbell Evans
3 Embryos, 2 women and 1 waiting room.

The Woman Will Get Hurt! By John Passadino
Featuring Vivian Wyrick, Vincent Compono
A man is unexpectedly brought to trial for allegedly breaking the rules of a relationship.

The Semi-Finals:
August 1 - 3
The best plays that have advanced to the Semi-Finals will be performed again.

The Wild Night:
Thursday, August 4
These plays are chosen by the Artistic Director to give them another chance to earn a spot in the Finals.

The Finals:
Friday, August 5 and Saturday, August 6
One play from each Semi-Finals and 1 play from each Wild Night advance to the Finals.

All the playwrights in the Festival return to judge the Finals along with the Theatre’s judges and Audience. The Playwrights‛ and the Theatre’s Judges‛ votes count for 60% of the vote.

The Award Ceremony & Performance:
Sunday, August 7
The 4 plays with the most votes from the finals perform at the Awards Show and Awards are presented to the Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director & Best Play.

Several of this season’s plays will be published in the next edition of The Riant Theatre’s anthology, The Best Plays From the Strawberry One-Act Festival, Volume 8.

The Festival has served as a springboard to major roles in television, film, and theater for a number of its participants.

For more information, go to www.therianttheatre.com.

NYC Strawberry One-Act Festival
July 28 - August 7, 2011

Hudson Guild Theater
441 W. 26th St. (betw 9th & 10 Aves.)
New York City

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