A ten minute excerpt of Alejandro Morales’s the october crisis (last seen at this year’s Fringe Festival) will be part of the Public Theater’s 2 evening festival of works by 2008’s Emerging Writer’s Group! The writers in this group are sensational, so do check out both nights!
We will be having a special screening of our new film project The Moment on February 6th! To obtain your tickets please email info@packawallop.org with your name and the names of the people in your party. There are a limited number of seats. Reservations are absolutely essential. (NYU security has informed us they will not allow anyone to enter the building without a reservation.)
We’re excited about the film and hope to see you soon!
NYU Tisch School of the Arts,
lower level, room 018
A special invitation-only screening of Packawallop’s new short film, The Moment.
We will open the evening by presenting another Adam Szymkowicz short film, The Question, directed by Sam Buggeln.
Immediately following join us for post-screening drinks at Swift, 34 E 4th St.
The Moment
When Jane goes in to talk to her boss, in a instant of clarity, she notices something different in him that she never saw before. He sees it too in her. A new world opens up for them. Anything could be possible if they could just hold onto that moment.
“Jane”
Susan Lousie O’Connor
“Barry”
Jeff Biehl
Directed by
Scott Eberold
Written by
Adam Szymkowicz
Produced by
Lauren Fritz
Scott Ebersold
Marc Solomon
Director of photography
Greg Emetaz
Edited by
Andrew York McNown
Sound and Music design by
Ryan Maeker
Art Direction by
Nicholas Vaughan and Kate Rusek
Costume, Hair and Make-up design by
Kate Rusek
Script Supervisor
Barry Paul Hitchcock
Craft Services and Production Assistance
Jennie Crotero
Packawallop Productions, Inc.
Scott Ebersold and Alejandro Morales, Artistic Directors
Susan Louise O’Connor, Marc Solomon, Polly Lee, Board of Directors
thanks to everyone who came out to support our production of william bell! it was a lovely little show and we’re very proud of it!
here are some photos we took after the last performance. enjoy!
julian stetkevych and michael tisdale
david grimm and julian stetkevych
julian stetkevych and david grimm
julian stetkevych
julian stetkevych
david grimm
david grimm
david grimm
julian stetkevych and david grimm
michael tisdale
image courtesy of Robert Schatz
packawallop will present a workshop production of alejandro morales’s william bell directed by scott ebersold at the metropolitan playhouse as part of the melville festival featuring david grimm, michael tisdale and julian stetkevych.
in a not too distant future, after an economic collapse, luxury liners shelter the very rich from the squalor of the cities. summoned by his superior lucas brown, william bell must entertain edwards, a drunk passenger. in a dark bar on board the ship, the connections between all three men is illuminated forcing them all to confront what they desire and what they’ll never possess. inspired by melville’s billy budd.
friday, january 16 at 10pm
sunday, january 18 at 1pm
tuesday, january 20 at 7pm
saturday, january 24 at 7pm
$18 click here for tickets: http://www.metropolitanplayhouse.org/melvillapalooza.htm
william bell
by alejandro morales
directed by scott ebersold
featuring
julian stetkevych
david grimm
michael tisdale
assistant director: laura pestronk
sets: alejandro morales and scott ebersold
costumes: kate rusek
sound: ryan maeker
fight choreography: lisa kopitsky
image courtesy of robert schatz
note: william bell runs 30 minutes and will be presented with the first lowering by laura livingston
Polly, Alex, Scott & Susan
An exciting winter is shaping up at Packawallop!
Email info@packawallop.org for more details on the Town Hall.
Check back here soon for the exact date and time.
Friday, January 16 at 10pm
Sunday, January 18 at 1pm
Wednesday, January 21 at 7pm
Saturday, January 24 at 7pm
$18
Click here for tickets:
http://www.metropolitanplayhouse.org/melvillapalooza.htm
If you loved Polly Lee in the october crisis or expat/inferno, check out her new show!
CLOSE TIES
by Elizabeth Diggs*
directed by Pamela Berlin*
The Frye family gathers at their vacation home in the Berkshires, ruled for three generations by Josephine, their willful matriarch and center of the family. But what happens as the younger Fryes discover their center cannot hold? Close Ties celebrates the humor, the truth and the mystery of family.
featuring:
Jack Davidson, Julie Fitzpatrick*, Fiona Gallagher*,
David Gelles Hurwitz, Polly Lee*, Carole Monferdini, Judith Roberts*, Tommy Schrider
Sets: Michael Schweikardt
Costumes: Suzanne Chesney
Lights: Chris Dallos
Sound: David Lawson
Casting: Janet Foster, C.S.A.
Production Stage Manager: Mary Leach
Assistant Stage Manager: Christine Fisichella
Producer: James Carter
Associate Producer: Annie Trizna
Press Representative: David Gersten & Associates
Previews: September 17 – 21
Wed – Sat & Mon, 7pm
Sat & Sun, 2pm
Opening Night: September 22, 7pm
Performances: September 22 – October 12
Wed – Sat & Mon, 7pm
Sat & Sun, 2pm
Tickets: $30 Previews: $20 Students & Seniors: $15
Tickets at Ovationtix.com or by calling 212.352.3101
*denotes Member of EST
Amy Feinberg and the folks at The Hypothetical Theatre Company have been good friends with Packawallop for years. We’d love to let you all know about their new play There or Here, which you should check out!
Hypothetical Theatre Company will present the World Premiere of Jennifer Maisel’s THERE OR HERE. Workshopped at PlayPenn in Philadelphia, the play finalist for the 2007 Sundance Theatre Lab and the 2008 O’Neil Theatre Conference. Directed by Amy Feinberg, previews begin September 6th at the 14th Street Theater. Opening night is slated for Tuesday, September 9th.
Ripped straight from the headlines (including The Oprah Winfrey Show), THERE OR HERE is a dark comedy about a mixed race couple who outsource their baby-making surrogacy to a woman in India. Nothing is off limits on this non-stop ride through the endless possibilities of outsourcing including customer service, phone sex, and even drive thru dining.
The cast features Shalin Agarwal, Purva Bedi, Annie Meisels, Judy Rosenblatt, Deepti Gupta and Alok Tewari, with sets by Mark Symczak, lighting by Tim Kaufman, sound by Tim Cramer and costumes by Jessica Reed.
Jennifer Maisel is an award winning playwright, television and film writer. She is the recipient of the 2006 Women Working With Women Collaboration Award from the New York Coalition of Professional Women in the Arts and Media for the play birds. In 2002, The Fund for New American Plays honored Jennifer with the Charlotte Woolard Award for most promising new voice in American Theatre. Her short plays How I Learned to Spell and Goody F***ing Two Shoes were both finalists for the Actors Theatre of Louisville’s Heideman Award. Her play Mad Love garnered the Roger L. Stevens Award from the Kennedy Center’s Fund for New American Plays and was a finalist for the California Playwrights Competition, the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award and the PEN West Literary Award. Other plays by Maisel include Mallbaby, Eden, … And The Two Romeos, Dark Hours, and The Last Seder, which is currently running in Los Angeles and will have productions later this year in Minneapolis and St. Louis. Her TV writing credits include the WB series Related and the TV movie Satan’s School For Girls (starring Shannen Doherty and Kate Jackson).
The Hypothetical Theatre Company is a not-for-profit professional producing company in residence at the 14th Street Y. Past productions include Michael Weller’s Ghost on Fire, Buying Time and The Heart of Art; Quake by Melanie Marnich; Detail of a Larger Work by Lisa Dillman (ranked in the top five shows of 1998 by TheatreScope Magazine); Michael McKeever’s The Garden of Hannah List (winner of the 1998 Carbonell Award); Don Nigro’s My Sweetheart’s the Man in the Moon; and Jeffrey Sweet’s The Action Against Sol Schumann. For more information visit www.HypotheticalTheatre.org.
There or Here runs September 6 -28, Thurs. at 7pm, Fri. & Sat. at 8pm and Sun. at 2 pm with an additional performance Mon. 9/8 and Tues. 9/9 @ 7pm. The 14th Street Theater is located at 344 East 14th Street (between 1st & 2nd Aves. — accessible from the L train at 14th Street). Tickets are $18, available at 212-352-3101 or www.TheaterMania.com
Best Production
Best Script (Alejandro Morales)
Best Direction (Scott Ebersold)
Best Actress (Gayton Scott)
