Successes (cont'd)

SunFlower by Elizabeth Perry premiered at Washington Arena's Old Vat Theatre in 1999, was co-produced by ARTC Off-Broadway at The John Houseman Theatre in 2000, and continues to tour universities and theatres around the country. Bags, her musical theatre piece about the homeless debuted at the Ansonia Theatre starring Tiger Haines and Michael Zaslow. www.elizabethperryarts.com

The Last Laugh by Michael Hardstark was produced Off-Broadway by The Jewish Rep in 1992. His next play, The Gift Horse, was produced by The Jewish Rep in 1994 and by the Arizona Jewish Theatre Company of Phoenix in1999.

The Katydid, by Michael Davis Sutton was produced by the Phoenix Theater in Indianapolis in1995. It was also played at Chicago Dramatists’ New Play Festival of 2004.

 

The Women of Ireland by Susan Reed and Notes from the Underground by Robert Elston toured to a list of East coast theaters. (Photo: Susan Reed OLD AIRS.) (Photo: Robert Elston Notes from the Underground)

An Act of Kindness by Joseph Julian was first produced at the Eugene O’Neill Theater in Waterford, CT, followed by a production at the Harold Clurman Theatre. A man of all media, Julian wrote for the Theatre Guild-U.S. Steel T.V. and was featured in numerous Broadway plays, including The Rope Dancers and A Case of Libel.

 

Extras by Phyllis MacBryde, with music by Roger Bartlett premiered at A Renaissance Theatre in Pittsburgh, PA, in 1987, and a revised version was staged by ARTC at New Dramatists in 1992. Her musical Cowboy Cafe, with music by Roger Bartlett, Leslie Ellis, and Phyllis MacBryde, premiered in 1994 at The Blowing Rock Stage Company, with subsequent productions at Mill Mountain Theater, Parkway Playhouse, The Garden Theater, The JE Broyhill Civic Center, and Huntingdon Hills Playhouse.

Mushrooms by Dick Sabol and Julius Laundau was first produced in Cairo, NY, in 2010. The play was presented by the Dragonfly Performing Arts Center. The producers, John and Rita Carver, presented the one act, three character play to standing room only performances. The dark, comic melodrama was also produced by All Arts Matter, headed by artistic director Tony DeVito, in Greenville, NY, in 2010. Both productions were directed by John Johann. Pictured are actors John Beebout, Carla Brandberg, and Bill Farley.