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Evolution Theatre Bicentennial Playwrights Festival
Troupe celebrating city's 200th year
Featuring
Six original scripts by local writers
Earlier this year local playwrights were asked to submit short plays
highlighting Columbus residents, places or events. Six scripts will be selected
resulting in an evening of new original works by members of the community and performed by members of the community.
With special productions of
Spurlos Versanckt
by Laura Fullerton Gilbert
First performance since 1925!
produced by special arrangement with the Heirs of Ms. Fullerton Gilbert and with The Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute at
The Ohio State University
Written in 1925 for a Players Theatre Play Festival this delightful story of young love is set amidst the chaos and confusion on that infamous day in Columbus history,
when “the Dam broke”!
And
“Maudine Ormsby” from YOUNG LOVE
by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
produced by special arrangement with the Estates of Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee and with The Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute at
The Ohio State University
Written by the team of Lawrence and Lee (Inherit the Wind, Auntie Mame, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail and with Jerry Herman, the hit musical Mame) and based on a true event that happened at The Ohio State University in 1926.
The year that a Holstein cow was crowned Home Coming Queen at OSU.
October 8 – 14, 2012
Columbus Performing Arts Center
Van Fleet Theatre
549 Franklin Ave.
Columbus, Ohio 43215
For further information, please call or text Evolution Theatre Company at 614-233-1124 or email info@evolutiontheatre.org
Paul Lockwood, April Olt, Kathy Sturm and Alan Woods.
Chris Hill is the Artistic Director for Solstice Theatre Company. He has directed a number of productions in Columbus, including Doubt for Emerald City Players, The Weir, Dancing at Lughnasa, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead for Solstice Theatre Company, Beware The Man Eating Chicken for Evolution Theatre Company, An Evening of Irish One-Acts for Columbus Civic Theatre, and a staged reading of Playboy of the Western World for CATCO/Phoenix. Chris was also the dramaturg for CATCO’s production of The Seafarer, “an ad hoc theatre company’s” production of This Lime Tree Bower, and OSU student group TOTTS’s productions of Sucking Dublin and Port Authority. Chris graduated from the University of Utah with degrees in Theatre and Speech Communication. He completed his Master of Arts degree in Theatre Studies at OSU, and is working on his PhD in Theatre at OSU--specializing in Irish Theatre.
Paul Lockwood has worked in theatre since 1978 and has acted, directed and/or produced in Chicago, New York, Pittsburgh and Columbus. He has also had several of his own works produced. He is currently completing his Ph.D. in Theatre at The Ohio State University and serves as Director of Communications for the Oberlin Conservatory. He is the founder and artistic director emeritus of Evolution Theatre Company.
Kathy Sturm has been active in central Ohio theatre for more then 10 years. She has directed and acted in many productions for a number of local troupes, including treading the boards at Evolution Theatre. As an actor she has many favorite roles including Mother Superior in Nunsense, Nat in Rabbit Hole, Lily Harrison in Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks, and various roles in The Laramie Project. She has also been privileged to direct and design award-winning productions of The Full Monty, Rent, A Streetcar Named Desire, and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. She currently serves on the board of directors of Emerald City Players, and was formerly the artistic director of the troupe.
Alan Woods taught theatre for several decades at an enormous local university. Trained in New York and Los Angeles, he's worked in professional theatre as a dramaturg, stage manager, and technician in Massachusetts, Texas, Indiana, Illlinois, California, and Ohio. His short plays have been produced on every continent except Antarctica. He has been a pioneer in the developing fields of Theatre and Aging, and accessibility to performance.
