Left Out Festival
Monologue & Short Play Showcase April 24 3 pm
No Childhood Left Behind Part One – Fits and Starts
written and performed
by Robin Goldfin
Author's Note: This is the first section of a longer work. It is work of fiction--part memory, part imagination. All true.
ROBIN GOLDFIN is a writer, performer and teacher. His solo play, “The Ethics of Rav Hymie Goldfarb” played in the summer 2005 Midtown International Theatre Festival in New York. Robin’s work has been published in TIKKUN MAGAZINE, ZEEK, THE WEST 4th STREET, online @ ducts.org. and the anthologies QUEER STORIES FOR BOYS: True Stories from the Gay Men’s Storytelling Workshop and ONE ON ONE: The Best Men’s Monologues for the 21st. Century. Robin holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from New York University and teaches Writing in New York University’s Liberal Studies Program.
OLD TIME JAZZ
written by Topher Cusumano
performed by Topher Cusumano
& Frank Blocker
The boy wants a warm bad.
The man wants to be left alone.
Jazz has never sounded so sweet.
Topher Cusumano is a performer and poet, who is currently studying theatre and women's studies at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. His poetry has been seen in such publication as The Circle, Teen Ink, The Puck Review, and more. Topher was recently made a regular on Indiefeed radio's performance poetry channel, where is poem "What She Wanted" received rave reviews from listeners. His solo show "Roughhouse" won rave reviews in the Left Out Festival 2009.
Frank Blocker is currently performing FEARLESS MORAL INVENTORY on Monday nights at Stage Left through May. His last solo show, SOUTHERN GOTHIC NOVEL, was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Solo Performance in 2009. His plays include AIR MARSHALS, PATIENT NUMBER, THE WISCONSINNERS, SUITE ATLANTA, GOOD JEW and EULA MAE'S BEAUTY, BAIT & TACKLE. AEA, DGA. www.frankblocker.com
How We Began written by Richard Ballon
performed by Josef Wille
Richard Ballon's writing has been performed in NYC at the Estrogenius, Women at Work, Short Stories 5 and Left Out Festivals; at Hampden Theater and Studio 204 at the University of Massachusetts, Turner’s Falls’ Shea Theater, Walking the Wire Festival, Iowa City , Inspirato Festival, Toronto. His book: enough of a little, to know the all, was published in 2007. Ballon’s work is minimal. He believes the short play is the poem of the theater and the monologue, its lyric.
Josef Wille’s credits include playing Jesus in Ballon’s full length play, In the Name of God, Barrymore in I Hate Hamlet, Will in Hopscotch, Lee in True West, Joel in Beau Jest, and Rolf in Judgment in Nuremburg. His work has been seen in Massachusetts at the University of Massachusetts, Berkshire Public Theater, and the Majestic Theater and at Lakewood Theater, Madison Maine.
Jesus, Liza and Me
written by Theresa Diamond
performed by Sarah Koehler
Terry Diamond is a playwright and director greatly influenced by Charles Ludlum's Ridiculous Theater. Most recently, her play, Waiting for the Show debuted in the Philly Fringe 2008 and transferred for a 4 week OOB run in January 2009. Her work has been produced at The WOW Cafe Theater, The Club at La Mama, Chashama, and The Neighborhood Playhouse.
Sarah Koehler is currently the assistant stage manager of Henson Alternative's "Stuffed and Unstrung" at the Union Square Theater. Broadway/ national tour PA credits include Hairspray (NETworks Presentations), Irena's Vow, and Wicked (2nd national).
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