Whole Theatre

Greetings Frenzies,

I’m Louise and while I’m not a Script Frenzy ML, I’m one of the NaNoWriMo MLs who is sticking her tentative toe into scriptwriting this year. I’ll be helping Ray with the C’ville Script Frenzy and acting as the WH representative.

First of all, what is Script Frenzy?
From their website:

Script Frenzy is an international writing event in which participants take on the challenge of writing 100 pages of scripted material in the month of April. As part of a donation-funded nonprofit, Script Frenzy charges no fee to participate; there are also no valuable prizes awarded or “best” scripts singled out. Every writer who completes the goal of 100 pages is victorious and awe-inspiring and will receive a handsome Script Frenzy Winner’s Certificate and web icon proclaiming this fact.

Even those who fall short of the page goal will be applauded for making a heroic attempt. Really, you have nothing to lose—except that nagging feeling that there’s a script inside you that may never get out.

I can tell you from my NaNoWriMo experiences (2007-present) that this sort of endeavour is a great deal of fun and having a social group to share it with makes it ever better!

We’ll be hosting “writeins” at WriterHouse and Live Arts throughout the month which I would encourage everyone to check out, literally a place and time to meet up, write, talk and work on our scripts. If you work better alone, that is absolutely fine, feel free to use the writein time to ask advice, opinions or give it to others who might be struggling. Or not, it’s all good and whatever gets you to 100 pages, that’s all that matters!!

First of all, if you haven’t already, you need to make an account on www.scriptfrenzy.org If you have participated in NaNoWriMo, then you already have one and can log in using your NaNoWriMo username and password. Ray awesomely got us our own region: USA::Virginia::Charlottesville (http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/eng/node/4167710), make sure to set it as your home region. There is a Google calendar there listing currently scheduled writein dates and a forum for us. Once you join the group, Ray can send emails to the participants in the region through the Script Frenzy website.

Writein dates scheduled:

Join all of us for the kick-off party at WriterHouse (508 Dale Avenue in Charlottesville, behind Bodo’s on Preston Ave.) Sunday, April 1st at 2pm to meet your fellow Frenzies and get a head-start on your page count. After that, scheduled Write-Ins are divided between Live Arts (123 E. Water Street) and WriterHouse:

Tuesday April 3rd – Write-In @ WriterHouse 7pm – 9/9.30pm
Monday April 9th – Write-In @ Live Arts 6.30pm – 9.30pm
Thursday April 12th – Write-In @ WriterHouse 7pm – 9/9.30pm
Tuesday April 17th – Write-In @ WriterHouse 7pm – 9/9.30pm
Monday April 23rd – Write-In @ Live Arts 6.30pm – 9.30pm
Thursday April 26th – Write-In @ WriterHouse 7pm – 9/9.30pm
Monday April 30th – the FINAL Write-In @ WriterHouse 7pm – MIDNIGHT
You can absolutely start writing beforehand, at 12.01am on Sunday April 1st!

We have a Twitter group: https://twitter.com/#!/cvillefrenzy and we’re in the process of setting up a blog as well, please look out for future information on that!

If you have any questions, please ask me (Louise- loulabellum@gmail.com) or Ray (rayrayman@gmail.com) and we’ll help you as best we can.

Good luck Frenzies! See you in April!

Well, we packed em in again, and had a very fun night for everyone.  January 28, 2012.  Here’s the details:

Theme:  Wait For It!

The shows, directors, casts: (photos by bud branch)

The Body

By: Matthew Minnicino
Directed by: John Holdren
CAST (in order of appearance)
Chris Baumer
Gavin Rohrer
Dannika Lewis
Mitch Voss

Wait For It

By: Kate Monaghan
Directed by: Gary White
CAST (in order of appearance)
Martyn Kyle
Kara Dawson
Brad Frazier
Tim McNamara

This Is No Hello

By: Mendy St. Ours
Directed by: Dorothy Kohlligian
CAST (in order of appearance)
Chris Baumer
Shawnna Pledger
Michael Durland
Amy Barrick

Reign: The Musical

By: Edward Warwick
Directed by: Marianne Kubik
PIANO: Kip McCharen
CAST (in order of appearance)
Marty Moore
Leslie Baskfield
Dale Marshall
Chris Baumer

Put a Shirt Over My Face

By: Ty Cooper
Directed by: Kerry Moran
CAST (in order of appearance)
Steven Levine
Larry Goldstein
Edwina Herring
Sara Shotwell

Served

By: Sean Hirabayashi
Directed by: Tracie Skipper
CAST (in order of appearance)
Claire Chandler
Chris Estey
Emma Duncan
Katy Walker
Kate Tooley

Measured in Dog Years

By: Karen Ratzlaff
Directed by: Fran Sackett
CAST (in order of appearance)
Sara Holdren
Phil Hurst

And the amazing Crew:

Producer & Host……………….……Ray Nedzel
Technical Director…………………Will Slusher
Stage Manager……………….……..Kristin Wenger
Sound Design & Operator..…….Peter Fish
Light Design……………………………Heather Hutton
Light Assistant………………………..Joe Monaghan
Costume Design……………………..Amy Goffman
……………………………………………..Linda Zuby
Costume assistant…………………..Jacquie Bay Slusher
Props Design….……………………….Lisa Grant
……………………………………………..Abigail Wiebe
Light Board Operator……………..Bob Button
Running Crew…………………………J. Stoll
…………………………………………….Mike Ustica
Box Office ……………………………..Charlotte Drummond
……………………………………………..Ernie Reed
House Managers…………………….Michael Swanberg
……………………………………………..Tom Raney
…………………………………………….Leo Arico
Concession Managers…………….Si Becker
…………………………………………….Ruth Becker
Utility Player………………………….Peter Gunter

Where do you find these people?

Well, on January 28, 2012, you’ll find them on stage in 24/7 at Live Arts, Downtown Charlottesville.  We’ve had talented line ups before, but, I mean, come on, look at this group:

Get your tickets soon… [LiveArts.org] … shows will sell out.  Just sayin’.

• Katy Walker – v
• Claire McGurk Chandler – v
• Sara Shotwell – v
• Dannika Lewis – v
• Leslie Baskfield
• Sarah Holdren
• Edwina Herring
• Amy Barrick – v
• Kate Tooley – v
• Emma Leigh Duncan – v
• Marty Moore
• Sandi Carroll – v
• Dale Marshall – v
• Shawnna Pledger – v
• Brad Fraizer – v
• Phil Hurst – v
• Scott Dunn – v
• Larry Goldstein – v
• Gavin Rohrer – v
• Tim McNamara – v
• Michael Durland
• Mitch Voss – v
• Martyn Kyle
• Steven Levine

v = virgin = first time acting in 24/7

Here’s the directorial line up for January 28, 2012 at Live Arts.

Now, this is some good direction.  This line up is like a GPS meets Google Maps meets a Garmin.

Wait, a Garmin is a GPS.  Well, you get the point.

From first time director to the most prolific director in Virginia, you’re in for an exciting trip.

• John Holdren – v
• Dorothy Kohlligian
• Kerry Moran – v
• Gary White – v
• Tracie Skipper – v
• Marianne Kubik
• Fran Smith – v

Yeah, that’s right, Fran Smith.

v = virgin = first time directing for 24/7.

For our forth year runnin’, we just keep gettin’ talent showin’ up at our door.  We have 6 new playwrights and 1 back for a reprise.

Happy, happy, wild joy to see what this group of overnight scribes delivers.

• Ty Cooper
• Shawn Hirabayashi
• Matthew Minnicino
• Kate Monaghan
• Karen Ratzlaff
• Mendy St. Ours
• Edward Warwick

Come see the 24 hour fully produced plays on Saturday, January 28, 2012 at Live Arts — in the big theatre.

Seven playwrights will write a 10 minute play based on a theme, random cast requirements, and audience suggestions.

How do we do it?  Read on MacDuff >>

Not just us, but lots of good stuff to see in the first three weeks of November, 2011.

Cry of the Mountain - Greenbelt, Md - October 2, 2012, 3pm

Cry of the Mountain, back from it’s wonderful month long performance in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is all cranked up to perform in Greenbelt, Maryland.

We are part of the closing celebration of their Artists in Residence:

• What Remains?

So, come get some green in Greenbelt.

This show, presented by recreation department, is FREE.

Many thanks to Nicole DeWald, Arts Supervisor, for making this event happen.

And as always, great banjo music, this time by Charlottesville Renaissance man Bud Branch.

And everyone gets a cookie.