
Serving Hudson Valley Playwrights in their creative process
March Staged Readings
See both readings at the historic Brydcliffe Theatre
March 22 & 23, 3:00pm
Greenville Tomorrow
by Chris Widney

Directed by Beth Ryan Troxell
Todd and Marion, thirty-something African-American professional dancers, move from their tiny apartment in Brooklyn to a beautiful first home in lovely Greenville, South Carolina. As they settle in, however, hidden agendas emerge including a boss who’d like Todd to be the first “person of color” to participate in “some nice, friendly Civil War reenactments.” Mortified by the implications but still wildly in love with their new home, Todd and Marion must examine their own relationship and how far they are willing to go to live the American dream.

Chris Widney is a New York City area playwright, book writer and lyricist who tries to spend as much time as possible wandering around in the mountains. Full-length plays, “Big, Fat And Ugly With A Moustache” (Perry Street Theatre, NYC), “Family Men” (Arden, Philadelphia), “The Normals” (Luna Stage, NJ), “Consumed” (Barter Theatre, VA). Other full-lengths, one-acts, musicals and screenplays have been presented, read, work-shopped and honored in theatres and contests around the world including The Actors Theatre of Louisville, City Theatre, Miami and The Fire Rose Theatre in Los Angeles. He is co-author of a book about squash (the sport, not the vegetable), a member of The Dramatists Guild, the BMI Workshop, and a graduate of the Musical Theatre Writing Program at NYU. He looks forward to developing “Greenville Tomorrow” with the Round The Bend Theatre Co.! https://newplayexchange.org/users/10758/chris-widney
March 29 & 30, 3:00pm
Un Hombre: A Golem Story
by Stephen Kaplan

Directed by Sydnie Grosberg Ronga
Rebecca Wolfson, a sculptor, is struggling to get back on track after the untimely death of her husband. She is suffering from intense artist’s block, and her son is withdrawn, failing Spanish, and unprepared for his upcoming Bar Mitzvah. All seems hopeless until a lot of wine and a little magic transform a hunk of clay into the answer to all of their problems. But when her creation begins questioning his own purpose and existence, both mother and son are forced to confront their grief and grow in ways they never expected.
Un Hombre: A Golem Story has been a Finalist for the Jewish Plays Project as well as a winner of the Barbour Award in NYC, and also a Finalist for Gulfshore Playhouse New Works Festival, Chameleon Theatre Circle’s New Play Contest, Wild Imaginings Epiphanies, and a Semi-Finalist for Ashland New Plays Festival and Bay Street Theatre’s Title Wave Festival of New Works. It’s also received readings with TRU’s Voices Reading Series, NJ Play Lab, Luna Stage, Skeleton Rep(resents), Wild Imaginings, and Round the Bend Theatre.

Stephen Kaplan Selected awards and productions: NNPN Rolling World Premiere: Tracy Jones (Finalist: ScreenCraft Stage Play Contest, B Street New Comedies Festival, Trustus Playwrights Festival); Long Drive Home (Theatre Aspen Solo Flights); Un Hombre: A Golem Story (Winner: Barbour Award; Finalist: Gulfshore Playhouse New Works Festival, Jewish Plays Project, Chameleon Theatre Circle’s New Play Contest, Wild Imaginings Epiphanies; Development: NJ PlayLab); Branwell (and other Brontës) (Semi-Finalist: O’Neill); Community (Finalist: Seven Devils; Road Less Traveled National Residency, Semi-Finalist: Premiere Stages, March Forth Productions); Exquisite Potential (Theatre Ariel, Dezart Performs, Project Rushmore; Winner: NJ Playwrights Contest, Across the Generations New Jewish Play Festival, Finalist: Woodward/Newman Award, Semi-Finalist: Seven Devils); A Real Boy (59E59 Theatre, Last Act Theater, This Is Water Theatre and Semi-Finalist: PlayPenn, Ashland New Play Festival, Dayton Playhouse FutureFest and MTWorks’ Newborn Festival). SPACE at Ryder Farm. MFA: Point Park University. www.bystephenkaplan.com

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