Summer Sampler

The annual Summer Sampler presents new works by local award-winning playwrights.  Honorable mention plays from the annual One Act Play Competition receive staged
readings.

These honorable mention plays from the 2008 One Act Play Competition will receive staged
readings in on July 30 and 31, 2009:

    "Who's Afraid of George and Alice" by James Daly
    "Belief" by David H Schroeder
 

Thursday, July 30 at 7:00 p.m. and Friday July 31 at 8:00 p.m. 

Note location: Pope Marine Building, Madison and Water Streets.

Local playwrights featured in 2009 Summer Sampler

Dramatic readings of two honorable-mention plays

Two award-winning plays by Port Townsend playwrights will be presented to the public for the first time in Key City Public Theatre’s “Summer Sampler.”

Dramatic readings of “Who’s Afraid of George and Alice” by James Daly and “Belief” by David Schroeder will be given at 7:00 p.m. Thu. July 30 and 8:00 p.m. Fri. July 31 at the Pope Marine Building in Port Townsend. Both plays received honorable mentions in the 2008 One Act Play Competition sponsored by the P.T. Arts Commission, and will be directed by Angela Gilbert.

Daly was a multiple winner in the 2008 Competition, having seen his comic western “Signs of Change” performed as part of the Thirteenth Annual Playwrights’ Festival this past spring. “Who’s Afraid of George and Alice” was also selected by Changing Scene Theatre Northwest in Bremerton to be part of its recent Summerplay Festival of New Works. “George and Alice” are a couple who compete to “one up” each other and need an audience to enjoy their hobby. The reading features Terry Campbell, Judith Glass Collins, and Christian Elbert.

Schroeder was a first-time winner in the One Act Play Competition this year. His full-length musical “Alkmena” has been produced by both Bare Boards & Passion and Port Townsend High School. “Belief” is about young boys, comic books and the suspension of disbelief, and features Mickey McKinney, Zach Nesmith, Don White, Iain Coates, Mason Stan, and Christian Elbert.

The Pope Marine Building is located at Water and Madison Streets in Port Townsend. Admission to Summer Sampler is pay-what-you-wish. There are no reservations or advance ticket sales.

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Two award-winning plays by Port Townsend playwrights will be presented to the public for the first time in Key City Public Theatre’s “Summer Sampler.”

Dramatic readings of “Oh, Baby” by Claire Nielsen Taylor and “Something in the Air” by Flip Wingrove will be performed July 18 & 19 at Key City Playhouse. Both plays received honorable mentions in the 2007 One Act Play Competition sponsored by the Port Townsend Arts Commission.

Wingrove is a former One Act Play Competition winner and has been an active playwright in our community for many years. Taylor is new to Port Townsend and has a production of another of her plays opening out of state in the next month.

Admission to Summer Sampler is pay-what-you-wish. The event was introduced last year and Artistic Director Denise Winter anticipates continuing it as a regular part of Key City Public Theatre’s annual Playwrights’ Festival. The three winning plays from the 2007 competition were produced this spring, to full houses and critical acclaim.

Photo: Local playwright Flip Wingrove receives his One Act Play Competition honorable mention award from

Port Townsend Mayor Michelle Sandoval at a ceremony earlier this year. Photo by Shelly Randall / KCPT

Each play that receives an honorable mention enjoys a condensed version of the workshopping that the winning plays receive as part of the annual Playwrights’ Festival. Initial readings of the two honorable-mention plays were arranged in June with actors and the playwrights. These readings, which were not open to the public, allowed the playwrights to hear their plays and to receive feedback on their work. The playwrights then had time to continue work on their scripts before the Summer Sampler readings.

Jeane Myers continues as assistant director for the 2008 Playwrights’ Festival and directs the Summer Sampler program. She directed Deb Wiese’s winning play in the 2006 Playwrights’ Festival as well as that year’s Shakespeare in the Park production of “The Taming of the Shrew” Myers studied at the Orange County Performing Arts Foundation in California and has directed 40 full-length productions in theatres in Sequim, Port Angeles , Poulsbo, Bremerton and Port Townsend. 

Key City Playhouse is located at 419 Washington St. , Port Townsend. There are no reservations or advance tickets. Seating begins at 7:30 p.m., with an 8 p.m. curtain. 

Summer Sampler is the final event of the 2007 One Act Play Competition, sponsored by the Port Townsend Arts Commission, and the 2008 Playwrights’ Festival, produced by Key City Public Theatre.