Playwright Portrait, Julia Jarcho, Excerpt from American Treasure

The Playwright Julia Jarcho, 2009
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American Treasure
 

HORT: No, kid, I’m not gonna “just” do anything. What I do or don’t do at this point is the result of tireless ponderings, renunciations, slow and painful consolidation of eggs in a basket over years of abject commitment like you couldn’t begin to command. I know this is hard. But some things, believe it or not, some things, as they say, are bigger than you or me... POCA: Yeah, and some things are just our size.

credit the set to Jason Simms.

The Playwright A.R. Gurney, 2009

The Playwright A.R. Gurney,  2009

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"Sit up straight and trust in the Lord"

The Playwright Edward Albee

The Playwright Edward Albee 2008
copyright Peter Bellamy 2010

Excerpt from Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
George (At NICK, not to him)

You take the trouble to construct a civilization…to..to Build a society, based on the principles of…of principle…You endeavor to make communicable sense out of natural Order, morality out of the unnatural disorder of man’s Mind…you make government and art, and realize that They are, must be, both the same…you bring things to the Saddest of all points…to the point where there is something to lose…then all at once, through all the music, through all the sensible sounds of men building, attempting, comes the Dies Irae. And what is it? What does the trumpet sound? Up yours. I suppose there’s justice to it, after all the years… Up yours.

John Collins, Elevator Repair Service Theater Company

John Collins, Elevator Repair Service Theater Company,

2007

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Works Directed with Elevator Repair Service:

Mr. Antipryrine, Fire Extinguisher Marx Brothers on Horseback Salad Spine Check Language Instruction: Love Family vs. Andy Kaufman McGurk: A Cautionary Tale Shut-Up I Tell You (I said, Shut-Up I Tell You) Cab Legs Total FIctional Lie Highway To Tomorrow Room Tone Gatz No Great Society The Sound and the Fury (April 7th, 1928) Shuffle The Select (The Sun Also Rises)

Playwright Portrait, Kenny Finkle, Excerpt from Indoor/Outdoor

Kenny Finkle, Playwright 2006pswb©2012


Indoor/Outdoor

Matilda,

" Sometimes though I have a hard time believing anyone can ever love me. Sometimes I think that I’m going to die alone and no one will know me and I’ll be found in a spider web of my own macrame' and it’ll take them four days to dig me out of it – And I don’t want to die that way! I CAN’T DIE THAT WAY! OH GOD, I DON’T WANT TO DIE! I WANT TO LIVE FOREVER! I WANT TO BE A VAMPIRE! LIKE DRACULA! NO I DON’T! WHAT AM I SAYING? WHAT’S HAPPENING TO ME?"