PTW is looking for a new Producing Artistic Director!

Philadelphia Theatre Workshop (PTW) seeks candidates for a new Producing Artistic Director. The only theater company in the city solely dedicated to supporting and promoting Philadelphia area playwrights, PTW’s mission is to produce world premiere plays by local playwrights. Since 2004, PTW has proudly served the Philadelphia theatre community as an incubator for new plays with its annual PlayShop Festival featuring local playwrights. In 2004, PTW became a non-profit corporation, and in 2005, it achieved 501(c)(3) status. The theatre’s Board of Directors is an active, innovative, and fun group of skilled business and theatre professionals.

The Producing Artistic Director is responsible for overall vision, artistic direction, and production choices; management; administration; budgeting; fundraising; and coordinating of programming, with the assistance of the Board and staff. This is a volunteer position, offering the candidate a leading role in the Philadelphia theatre community and the opportunity to showcase the incredible talent of Philadelphia’s playwrights, directors, actors, and designers.

For more information or to apply, please contact Kathleen Neary, PTW Board President, at kathleen_neary@yahoo.com or Kathy Anderson, PTW Artistic Associate, at kathyandersonwriter@yahoo.com. Tell us why you are interested and about your qualifications to lead PTW into its 8th season and beyond.

A Reading of CONSOLATION by Will Dennis

The 1st Installment of the 11-12 PTW Reading Series

Consolation: A Play

By Will Dennis

"Addiction tears them apart. Addiction brings them together."

Monday, October 17^th @ 8 PM

Plays and Players, 3rd Floor

17th and Delancey

With:

· Steven Nemphos

· Stephanie Lauren

· Robert Daponte

· Mark Knight

· Ann Gundersheimer

· Ed Miller

Directed by Howie Brown

5th Annual PlayShop Festival Selections

Our 5th Annual PlayShop Festival playwrights and plays are:

The Working Man by Paul Recupero

Wilkes by James Stover

TBA collaboration with Philadelphia Young Playwrights

In addition, the following playwrights and plays will be part of PTW’s 11-12 Reading Series:

Consolation by Will Dennis

Alvin's Will by Lee Colston II

Casse Noisette (A Fairy Ballet) by Mike Whistler

Finally, we'd also like to acknowledge our honorable mentions:

EL DEGÜELLO by Kevin Grauke

Family Guidance by M.M Wittle

The Text of Sex by Michele Aldin Kushner

Albatross by Kate McGrath

The Estate of Coco Larue by Andy Wertner

We continue to make a commitment to support Philadelphia-area playwrights.  This year's festival will take place April 24 - May 19, 2012 at the Walnut Street Theatre Studio 5. We hope that you will attend. We’d love to meet you!

Director and Cast for HAZARDOUS by Quinn D. Eli

We are proud to introduce the creative team behind Hazardous by Quinn D. Eli.  PTW is producing this great piece for Tiny Dynamite's "a Play, a Pie, and a Pint."  Hazardous will be performed Oct. 11th and 12th in the Red Room at the Society Hill Playhouse.   Buy your tickets HERE.

James Stover (Director) - James has previously directed Office Girl (NYC's Secret Theatre), Roger & Miriam(NYC's Under St. Marks, w/ Daytime Emmy Winner Matthew Wilson), Marcus is Walking (TN's Roxy Theatre),Santaland Diaries (OH's Short North Playhouse), and Indigenous Peoples (NYC's Wonderland One-Act Festival, winner of the festival's Best Play Award). He has worked as assistant director for Tony Nominee Thomas Kail and Drama Desk Nominees Jonathan Silverstein and Igor Goldin. He made his Philadelphia acting debut in PTW's The Invisible Playalongside Howie Brown. He will next be directing The Amish Project for The Renegade Company, opening right here in the Red Room on Nov. 11th.

Rebecca Vail (Lucy) - Rebecca is honored to be appearing in her first production with Philadelphia Theatre Workshop.  Selected prior credits include the world premiere of Lucy Thurber’s The Insurgents (Contemporary American Theater Festival), A Christmas Carol and Macbeth (Theatre of the Seventh Sister), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Arsenic and Old Lace, Measure for Measure (Great Lakes Theater Festival), Blood Wedding, Crimes of the Heart, Sister Cities, A Nightmare of Crime (BWC) and Mr. Marmalade (Dark Horse Theatre Company). She is a proud graduate of the Baldwin-Wallace College Department of Theatre and Dance. “Love and deep gratitude to my dear clan all over the globe.”

Miriam White (Gwen) - Miriam just returned to the amazing city of Philadelphia after a brief stint in San Diego where she performed as Nora in Brighton Beach at the Old Globe and got herself a Craig Noel nomination for her performance in Elliot a Soldiers Fugue with Ion.  Recent productions include: Frida Libre (La Jolla Playhouse), Hearts of Man (Riot Group), Wildflower (PlayPenn and the Lark), Have a Nice Life (Edinburgh Fringe and NPTC), Killing Women and Six Seconds in Charlack (NPTC), Valhalla and 50 West 50 (Philadelphia Theatre Workshop). She's thrilled to be working with such a wonderful group of people. 

PTW seeking two actresses (age range 23-30) for “a play, a pie and a pint.”

Audition Notice: Philadelphia Theatre Workshop

Hazardous by Quinn D. Eli

Directed by James Stover

PTW is producing Quinn D. Eli’s One-Act play, “Hazardous” as part of Tiny Dynamite’s “a play, a pie and a pint.” Seeking two actresses. Age range 23-30.

Audition Date/Time: Sunday, August 28th from 7:30 -11pm

Audition Location: The "Parish Room" on the 1st floor of the First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia, 2125 Chestnut Street, Phila., PA 19103 (btwn. 21st and 22nd). If you are looking at the Church, please use the entrance on the right hand side of the building.

Performance Dates: October 11 and 12, 6pm @ Society Hill Playhouse - Red Room (NOTE: Tech: Oct. 10th Time: TBD)

Rehearsals: 4-5 total, TBD around director’s, producers’ and actresses’ availability. Stipend provided.

Character Descriptions

LUCY: Mid-20's. Well-dressed, sharp, witty and fierce. A shark in a suit.

GWEN: Her older sister, 29. Beautiful, beleaguered, a victim of birth order.

Synopsis

A famous scientologist has posted an ad seeking a “wife” to help with his public image. Lucy gets Gwen the audition.

To schedule an audition, send head shot and resume via emai to Will Dennis, PTW's Associate Artistic Director at wdennis@philadelphiatheatreworkshop.org.

Thespian Smackdown! Sneak Peak

Check out some clips from "Thespian Smackdown!" -- PTW's improvised game show!  See a whole new game show this Friday, May 20th at 7pm!

Franco in the Press!

Check out PTW's collaboration with Philly Young Playwrights featured in the South Philly review!  You only have one more change to see this great show tonight at 7pm!  First come first serve -- get there early since the theatre was packed early on for Sunday's performance :)

Rockin' Robin!

(Robin watches a recent rehearsal of her play LOVED ONES with director Jamie Haskins)

Get inside the writer's mind with one of PTW's 4th Annual PlayShop Festival playwright, Robin Rodriguez!

Check out Rep Radio's interview with Robin HERE.

Get tickets to see LOVED ONES by Robin HERE!

Check-In With Mr. White

A Preview of the 4th Annual PlayShop Festival

Thanks to STAGE Magazine!