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Playwrights
Kevin Brofsky
David Wiltse
J.J Sedelmaier
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SNAP!
Productions presents SNAP!fest 2003: 6th Annual New Works Festival
SNAP! Productions
is pleased to present SNAP!fest 2003: 6th Annual New Works Festival,
June 12 to June 29, 2003 at SNAP!/Shelterbelt Theatre, 3225 California
Street. SNAP!fest is a unique project that showcases new plays and
plays new to Omaha in repertory, and invites the playwrights to
interact with the audience, cast and directors in post-performance
discussions. SNAP! hopes to infuse the audience with a sense of
adventure as they experience a play for the very first time. SNAP!
also hopes to enhance the educational experience by introducing
audiences to the creative process behind the performance they just
witnessed. All tickets are $10. Reservations are suggested: (402)
341-2757 or at our secure online box office at www.snapproductions.com.
“The post-performance
discussions are one of my favorite aspects of SNAP!fest,”
said SNAP! Co-Producer, Todd Brooks, a participant in SNAP!fest
1 and a director of this year’s The Matinee Ladies. “It’s
very interesting to actually get to talk to the playwrights. They
bring to the show their original intent and vision to the project.
They also get to see others interpret their material. So, it’s
a collaborative experience for both playwright and participant.
Rarely do you get the opportunity to ask the playwright questions
about their material. The question and answer period following the
shows are always well received.”
This year’s
festival offerings include the Midwest premieres of A
Dance Lesson by David Wiltse, Weston, CT, and Kevin Brofsky’s
The Matinee Ladies, New York,
NY. (See attached biographical information.)
We are also please to present the screening of Robert Smigel and
J.J. Sedelmaier's animated cartoons Ambiguously
Gay Duo series prior to each show. Robert Smigel and
J.J. Sedelmaier’s The Ambiguously Gay Duo is a series of cartoons
that had wide showing on the late night TV show, “Saturday
Night Live”. Follow Ace and Gary, a pair of muscularly costumed
crime fighting superheros, as they fight evil villains. A superb
send-up of the trashy '60s superhero cartoons. Are they gay or just
doing an unusally good job fighting crime? You be the judge. Along
with this series, J.J. Sedelmaier has also included the animated
short, Hete-Roy. This short pokes fun at the controversial method
of changing homosexuals straight through christian doctrine. The
shorts will be played about thirty minutes prior to the plays.
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A
Dance Lesson is about an idyllic middle-class
small town family of the 1950’s who’s lives are
forever changed by the visit of the returning boy-next-door
who excites and fascinates mother, father and teenage son.
A Dance Lesson runs June 12 - June 15 and June 28-29. A sign
language interpreted
performance of A Dance Lesson will be presented on June 29th.
A
Dance Lesson is directed by Daena Schweiger and stage managed
by Jennie McCready. The cast includes Jerry Evert, Tom Lowe,
Diane Watson, Cody Enicke, Mike McCormick, J. Todd Reagan.
Properties by Rhonda Hall. Costumes by Nancy Ross. Sound Design
by Dave Podendorf.
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Kevin Brofsky’s The Matinee
Ladies spans twenty-five years, in the lives of three
women who meet
every year at a Greenwich Village Cafe, owned by one the women’s
son and his ex-lover. Kevin Brofsky’s The Matinee Ladies runs
June 19-22 and June 26-27. A sign language interpreted performance
of Kevin Brofsky’s The Matinee Ladies will be presented on
June 27th.
Kevin Brofsky’s
The Matinee Ladies is directed by SNAP!fest alumni Todd Brooks and
stage managed by Michael Jirkovsky. The cast includes: Barb Ross,
Mary Kelly, Liz Heim, Jim Palmer, Mark Wegener, Aaron Pattno, Eduardo
Millan. Sound and Video Designer is Mark Wegener. Properties by
Rhonda Hall, Roxanne Wach and Todd Brooks. Costumes by Mallory Prucha.
SNAP!fest 2003 is produced by Rhonda Hall and Todd Brooks. Rob Kenney
is Lighting Designer. Michal Simpson and Todd Brooks are Set Designers.
Sign language interpretation done by Christine Lafinhan and Gary
L. Beck.
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SNAP! Productions
strives to provide educational and humanistic support of AIDS-related
programs and to promote understanding and acceptance of all members
of the community through artistic expression.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Contact:
Liz Heim, SNAP! President (402) 552-9326 or (402) 271-7686, Email:
laheim@up.com
Michal Simpson, SNAP! Artistic Director (402) 346-1773, Email: msimpson6@home.com
Todd Brooks, SNAP! Publicity Director and Co-Producer (402) 968-5543,
Email: Brooks1965@aol.com
Rhonda Hall, SNAP! Producer (402) 551-4904, Email: Rhonda.Hall@firstdatacorp.com
Correspondence Address: P.O. Box 8464, Omaha, NE 68108
Production Dates: June 12 - 29, 2003.
June 12 - 15 and June 28-29 A Dance Lesson
June 19 - 22 and June 26-27 The Matinee Ladies
Venue Address: SNAP!/Shelterbelt Theatre – 3225 California
Street
Curtain Times: Thurs., Fri., Sat. – 8:00 pm and Sun. –
6:00 pm.
Box Office opens 1/2 hour before curtain time.
Ticket Prices: All Seats are $10.00.
Reservations: 402.341.2757 or
Our online secure box office at: www.snapproductions.com
Special Information:
June 26-29 Playwrights attend performances. Please join us for post-performance
discussions of the thought-provoking issues presented by the play.
SNAP! offers audience members the opportunity to chat with the director,
cast and the playwright, immediately following each SNAP!fest performance
during the last weekend. Find out what it is like to bring these
works from the mind of the playwright to paper to stage.
June 27 Sign
language interpreted performance of The Matinee Ladies.
June 29 Sign language interpreted performance of A Dance Lesson.
Photos: Available upon request.
About the
playwrights
David
Wiltse is from Falls City,Nebraska and a graduate of the University
of Nebraska.He is the author of ten plays, twelve novels and several
dozen television films, television series pilots, feature film scripts,
and magazine articles. His home town of Falls City was the locale
of his two most recent novels, Heartland and The Hangman’s
Knot and an earlier work, Home Again,was set in the town of Cascade,
a thinly disguised version of Falls City.The fictitious Cascade
is also the setting for A Dance Lesson which is a partly autobiographical
recollection of his youth. Mr.Wiltse’s Nebraska theme is also
part of the play A Grand Romance, a memory play dedicated to his
grandmother, a native of Lincoln, and his grandfather, a former
professor at the University of Nebraska. Mr.Wiltse is a recipient
of a Drama Desk Award as Most Promising Playwright, an Edgar Allan
Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America, and the Nebraska
Sower Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts. He lives in Weston,
Connecticut.
Kevin
Brofsky is called “the most produced playwright in New
York.” Since 1997, not three months go by without a staged
reading, one act or full length work on stage. Last fall, Mr. Brofsky’s
one-act play Strawberry Fields was published by Samuel French in
their "25th Annual Off-Off Broadway Festival" series.
He has written nearly 50 one-act plays which have been performed
in New York, Los Angeles, Orlando and Dallas including The Morning
Sun produced at the Samuel Beckett Theater on Theater Row and Shvesters
at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Los Angeles. Full-length productions
in New York include The Matinee Ladies (Greenwich House), Living
With
Dragons (Pulse Theater) and the book for the musical Northern Boulevard
(AMAS Theater) which starred Rosetta LeNoire. His most recent one
acts are Dancing Straight and Close, But No Cigar. He has also written
several screenplays. Currently, he is busy at work on a new play,
Claymont, which takes place in his hometown in Delaware.
J.J.
Sedelmaier: If there’s a consumer out there who doesn’t
know J.J. Sedelmaier, it’s one who doesn’t
watch a whole lot of television. His animation studio, J.J. Sedelmaier
Productions, White Plains, N.Y., is famous for its work on Saturday
Night Live’s Saturday TV Funhouse, with such animated shorts
as The Ambiguously Gay Duo, The X Presidents and Fun with Real Audio.
The company has animated Beavis & Butthead, the pilot of Comedy
Central’s TV Funhouse, a recent series of interstitials for
Cartoon Network called Captain Linger and a soon to be released
pilot for the same network called Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law.
Oh yeah, they’ve done some commercials too. Commercials produced
by the studio range as widely in animation style as the products
being advertised, from the Speed Racer commercial for Volkswagen
to an aggro spot for Slim Jim to a more pastel-flavored piece for
Quilted Northern bathroom tissue.
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