Attention Bay Staters* or friends with friends in Massachusetts...The Main Street Stage has selected my short play, RESTRAINING ORDERS for their second-annual Short Play Festival on March 5th, 6th, 12th and 13th. Andrew Bigelow will be directing this Brooklyn-based farce about stalkers and the stalkers who stalk them. According to their blog, there were over 400 submissions to this year's festival, so, um, hooray for me! U.S.A! U.S.A.!

Main Street Stage's
Short Play Festival
March 5th, 6th, 12th and 13th
57 Main Street
North Adams, MA 01247-3403
(413) 663-3240
Tickets

*I had to look this up.

Join me on Sunday, January 31st for an informal reading of my never-before-heard-aloud play, CAR AND CARRIAGE COLLIDE, presented with five other new short works. It's a part of the F.A.C.T. Company's Words & Wine series. I'm thinking a glass of wine and a few one-acts is not a bad way to digest a little brunch, no?

A surreal exploration of a real event, CAR AND CARRIAGE COLLIDE is an imagined documentary exploring a traffic accident that makes an indelible mark on three very different lives.

F.A.C.T.
WORDS & WINE
SUNDAY JANUARY 31
3:00 PM - JORIA MAINSTAGE
260 West 36th Street - 3rd Floor
LIMITED SEATING
RSVP: jdyville@yahoo.com

Producer, Jessica Vera
CHOREOGRAPHY OF CYN AND MARTA by Rich Espey
ORI & ADDISON by James C. Ferguson
CAR & CARRIAGE COLLIDE by Ruben Carbajal
ELEANOR DESCENDING A STAIRCASE by Ian August
EARLY DISMISSAL by Vanessa David
K COMMA JOSEPH by Kirby Fields

FREE ADMISSION: DONATIONS ACCEPTED! We'd love for you to think of it as going out to a bar or lounge BUT receiving more - An Afternoon of PLAY Readings by Professional Actors/Actresses and a glass of Wine. So, hopefully, you'll give us the pocket change and/or a couple of small bills - the same thing you would leave as a TIP for your server when Just Having A Drink!

Have your 2010 calendar yet? Close to Long Island City? Like your plays brief and bleak?

If you've checked off all of the above, I hope you'll make it to The Secret Theatre for the Queens Players' Act Five Festival, which will present my one-act, HOLD, along with a program of five other shorts January 13-17. Audience favorites will be granted a short extension January 20-23rd.

HOLD is about a desperate man seeking aid from a mental health hotline, who is instead sent into a surreal, automated phone system purgatory.

HOLD, directed by Kelly Johnston
and Five Other One-Act Plays
Presented by The Queens Players
Act Five: One Acts
January 13-17th (8pm)
January 16th (3:30pm)
@ The Secret Theatre
44-02 23rd St.
Long Island City, NYC 11101
For tickets

Image by Nick Stone