Jonathan Josephson
Apr 5, 20182 min
Sometimes festivals put out calls for intimate, nuanced plays that paint artful stories that engage the mind and illuminate the human condition. And sometimes festivals just want pieces that are out-in-out zany-pants. Well, zany-pants, here we come! I'm excited to share that my short play Runed, which began its life as a spoof that I wrote for an Unbound fundraiser back n 2011, is going to receive its world premiere later this summer. The play is a riff on a riff of the M.R. James story "Casting the Runes" and follows the hijinx of four bumbling adventurers trying to avoid a terrifying curse.
Runed
World Premiere
2018 The Heartland Play Festival: Magic
Heartland Theatre Company
Normal, IL
June 7-30, 2018
Holmes, Sherlock, and The Consulting Detective has been licensed for its
second production - this one coming as a result of activity on the New Play Exchange. If you're a playwright and aren't registered with this service - look into it ASAP, it's a tremendous value and an unparalleled playwriting community. And if you're in the greater Seattle area and want to see 24 8th graders tackle this Sherlockian mash-up, let me know. ;-)
Production #2
Seattle Waldorf School
Seattle, WA
June 7-8, 2018
"Could well be the best theatre you'll see all summer!" - BroadwayWorld
The marshmallows take potato country! Thanks to the continued excellent work of YouthPLAYS, Chubby Bunny had it's first production (and my first production of any play) in the great state of Idaho! Whoo!
Production #8
Heritage Middle School
Meridian, ID
March 6, 2018
Published by YouthPLAYS
SOCAL SPOTLIGHT
The Madres
by Stephanie Alison Walker
directed by Sara Guerrero
thru April 29, 2018
Skylight Theatre
A Rolling World Premiere
I saw this play on Monday - hooray for playwright buds!!
ABOUT THE PLAY: With courage and resilience, three generations of women in a single family face a world gone mad in Buenos Aires, Argentina.