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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
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 2008 Summer Sampler is over. This article remains here as an example of our ongoing programs. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Local playwrights featured in Summer SamplerDramatic readings of two honorable-mention plays from the One Act Play CompetitionTwo 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.
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. |
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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.
