![]() ![]() Tammy has also received numerous Globe Awards for excellence in direction and costuming design. Together they were just awarded the Jasmina Wellinghoff Award for Artistic Contribution for Theatre. She also co-produces the Sheldon Vexler Theatre in San Antonio with her husband Ken Frazier. FRAZIER is the artistic director for The Vexler Children’s Theatre in San Antonio, Texas. He has served as a reading editor for "Iron Horse Literary Review" and as a managing editor for "BordeRevolución." He has also performed freelance work as an actor, a composer, a librettist, a lyricist, a storyteller, and a transcriber. In addition to his numerous musicals and many children’s shows, he also writes for adults as demonstrated by his dramatic one-act adaptation, "Storm-Breeder," published by Eldridge. He has written scores for five musicals with Sidney Berger with plans for many more.īRIAN BILLINGS is a professor of English and Creative Writing specializing in libretti. Rob has served as musical director for many theatrical productions and is also on the faculty of the Theatre Under The Stars School of Musical Theatre. The Rob Landes Trio, a well-known and versatile group in the Houston area, released a CD. ![]() He is a composer of sacred music as well as music for the theatre. His playing has taken him throughout North America and Europe. ROB LANDES began studying piano at the age of three and made his debut on the "Art Linklater House Party" TV program at the age of four. ![]() Berger was the 1993 recipient of the University's "Esther Farfel Award.” Director of the University of Houston School of Theatre and producer of the Children's Theatre Festival, Dr. As an associate artist, he has also directed at the Alley Theatre. Berger has directed annually at the Houston Shakespeare Festival, as well as at Stages Repertory Theatre, where he serves as Artistic Consultant. ![]() Jefferson St.ĭETAILS: 85 or BERGER is the founder of the Houston Shakespeare Festival, past president of the Shakespeare Theatre Association of America, member of the International Shakespeare Globe Center Board, and recipient of the Mayor's Arts Award for Outstanding contribution by a Performing Artist. Kaplan.Īndy Metzger is a freelance writer for the News Journal. Ferguson, “We Have to Tell Jacob” by George Smart and “Happy Birthday” by Philip J. The other three one-acts on this year’s Short Attention Span program are “Ori and Addison” by James C. “Believe it or not, that’s a tall order for a playwright, so I congratulate all the writers for their inventiveness.” “Just because all the plays in Short Attention Span are about 10 minutes long, they don’t lack for story, drama and humor,” Marse said. Now they can travel down to PLT and see two of my plays in Short Attention Span Theatre.”Īnd for those who are unfamiliar with the one-act form, both Marse and Jacobs are here to tell you that it’s very much worth giving it a look. Friends and family kept asking me when they would be able to see something I’ve written. “I’ve been lucky enough to have plays produced in festivals in New York City, Atlanta and New Jersey. “I started writing short plays to enter in festivals about three years ago,” Marse said. “We look for plays with characters that our audiences can identify with, where people will say, 'I know that person!'" “These one-acts are mostly based in humor and it’s always about things that are real,” Jacobs said. Jacobs also said sometimes plays that make the cut will "sit on the shelf" for a few years before they are selected for inclusion in Short Attention Span. This is the process that whittles down hundreds of one-acts to just six each year. Jacobs describes the evenings as fun and relaxed and said the group encourages local writers to bring in their one-acts, and they are always looking for new readers. on the first Tuesday of every month, with the exception of January. Scripts are read and then the pros and cons are discussed. More: Pensacola Opera brings "Man of La Mancha" to the Saenger Theatre The ones that are considered candidates for Short Attention Span are then brought to a script reading club sponsored by PLT called Scripteasers.” I do most of those and sometimes I farm them out to a couple of people who will do a first read for me. "Sadly, many of them are absolutely dreadful,” she said. PLT receives hundreds of one-acts each year for possible inclusion in Short Attention Span, Jacobs said. ![]()
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