By Kirt Shineman

Saturday July 24th 2010 at 11am

 

By Kim Porter

Saturday July 31^st 2010 at 11am

 

By Christian Krauspe

Saturday September 25^th 2010 11am

 

By Jose’ Zarate

Saturday October 16^th 2010 11am

 

By Asher Wyndham

Saturday November 20^th 2010 at 11am

 

By Christian Krauspe

Saturday January 15^th 2011 at 11am

 

By Kirt Shineman

Saturday Feb 26^th 2011 at 11am

 

By Jose Zarate

Saturday  March 12^th 2011 at 11am

 

By Asher Wyndham

Saturday April 30^th 2011 at 11am

 

The Pornographer is neither fact nor fiction, but combines the two. Egon Schiele (1890-1918) was one of the most influential painters to emerge from Vienna at the turn of the century. Yet despite the appreciation of his art, the "real" Egon Schiele has remained elusive. But he is found in his paintings. Schiele wove himself into all of his work: a fascination with the human psyche and sexuality, and a desire to destroy the conservative facade of moral righteousness. He was controversial, but so was Robert Mapplethorpe. Egon showed us things we don't want to see. Through this play we see Egon’s adolescence and his crisis with masculinity as he struggles to find himself through encounters with Vienna's best known artist Klimt to his sexual escapades and imprisonment on a morals charge. This play offers insights into the artist's brief and troubled life, proving an artist institutionalized dies. The play paints a portrait of how institutions determine what we see.

WAKE THE BOUNTY is either the story of a suburban stay-at-home mom, stricken with postpartum psychosis, who uses life raft fantasies to escape her isolation, or the story of a woman stranded in a life raft in the Pacific Ocean who eases her isolation by fantasizing about the family she left at home in the suburban desert. Either way, Wake of the Bounty explores the intersection of loss and gratitude in the life of a woman who discovers that longing isn't just a feeling, it's also a unit of measure, but no matter how long she longs she never arrives.

 

Dinner on the Inside is the story of a group of "blue-blooded" couples who are hosting a dinner party for a young newly elected Congressman and his wife. The young couple are thrown into a mad and hilarious world where chaos reigns. Can the Congressman and his wife stick to their ideals, or will they join in the fold of the sick and twisted? 

 

Allegra: Allegra, a TV news reporter, struggles with the decision of whether to abort, knowing that the unborn baby might have Down syndrome.

 

Christian Krauspe is going into his 3rd year as a MFA playwriting student at Arizona State University. He was recently the recipient of the Ken Ludwig Award for Playwriting and the Runner-Up for the National Student Playwriting Award by the American College Theatre Festival. He originally hails from the Elburn, Illinois. 

KIM PORTER is a playwright, solo performer and playwriting educator. Her plays have received critical acclaim and awards on both coasts. Her play "Munched", which enjoyed an extended run in Los Angeles last spring, recently received 3 LA Weekly Awards and 2 LA Drama Critic Circle Awards. Originally from Texas, Porter spent most of the last two decades living and working in California before moving to Tempe in '05.

Porter is actively developing several projects most notably Blue Galaxie, a musical set against the backdrop of the retro music club scene about a beautiful but fat hipster and the chubby chaser who pursues her.

Asher Wyndham, originally from Canada, is pursuing an MFA in Playwriting at ASU, Tempe. His produced plays include Rupert (Nufan Ensemble, Chicago); Barsha Badal (Mixed Company and FORward MOVEment, NY; Bohemian Caverns, DC; Cabaret Theatre, AZ; published in STAGE THIS! Volume 3); Rigatoni (Prism Theatre, AZ); Friday, April 13th, 2036 (Eclectic Theatre Company, FL), The Next Marlon Brando (Cabaret Theatre, AZ); Veteran Silas (Wordsmyth Theater Co., TX); Phuong (University of Houston); Sisterhood School and Mere Midwest Trucking (GI60, NY) and Daniel(le) (GLBT Theatre Festival, FL; Bryant Lake Bowl, MN). Staged readings include Cassius Sargent’s Chicken Bones (Great Plains Theatre Conference, NB; ACTF, Kennedy Center; ACTF, UT; Movement Theatre Company, NY); Fatima & Maama (ATHE, LA; ACTF, UT); Allegra (Phoenix Theatre, AZ); Aquino (ACTF, CA); Fugly (Cabaret Theatre, AZ); Father Aschenbach and Love Sofa (Live Theatre Workshop, AZ). He has studied under Lanford Wilson at the Edward Albee New Playwrights Workshop, UH, TX. He is a member of Dramatists Guild and Old Pueblo Playwrights, Tucson. In April his one-act Cassius Sargent’s Chicken Bones was awarded the John Cauble Award at ACTF at the Kennedy Center. His full-length Allegra will receive a workshop production in December 2-5 at Lyceum Theatre at ASU.

 

José Zárate is a first year MFA in Dramatic Writing at Arizona State University.  He is very happy to be a part of Phoenix Theatre's 2nd Draft Reading Series.