austin script works

In recognition of the expansion of our services to the Dallas/Ft. Worth area and acknowledgment that our members are spread across the country, Austin Script Works is now ScriptWorks. The organization will retain Austin Script Works as its legal name but has filed the appropriate paperwork to do business as ScriptWorks. Executive Director Christina J. Moore says “We’re very excited about expanding our programming to the Dallas – Fort Worth area, and since about a quarter of our membership lives outside of Austin, now is the perfect time to change our name to reflect our reality.”

Sunday, August 29th 5:30-7:30pm
The Vortex, 2307 Manor Rd. (map)

Members and their families, as well as area playwrights, actors, directors, designers, technicians, and those interested in finding out more about ScriptWorks are invited to the 13th Annual Meet N Greet. This is our annual party to kick-off the new year, welcome new members, swap summer triumphs and tribulations, and get informed about programming in the coming year. The event is free and open to all. We’ll will provide libations and attendees are invited to bring their favorite finger food to the potluck. (At 8pm, all are invited to attend the Vortex production of B-boy bluez by ScriptWorks Core Alum Zell Miller, III.) This party has no narrative through-line and no inciting incident, so drop by anytime and rub elbows and egos with the local bards.

The deadline for 3rd quarter Seed Support applications is July 10th. Seed Support is funding given directly to members to assist in the development of new work. Guidelines and application are available here.

July 18th, 2:00pm
Austin Playhouse, Larry L. King Theatre
Penn Field, 3601 S. Congress Ave.

Debutantes & Vagabonds, an Austin non-profit theater company, proudly presents the theatrical premiere of The Virgin w/ 10,000 Arrows written by member Jason Tremblay and directed by Francisco Rodriguez.The production received funding from ASW’s Finer Point Fund for new play production and to help us replenish the fund, D&V is donating proceeds from the July 18th matinee to Austin Script Works.

Tickets are $15 for general admission and $12 for students and starving artists.

Writing the Impossible
Saturday, June 26 2-4pm
Dougherty Art Center
1110 Barton Springs Road
Cost: $20 for ASW/ $35 for non-members

Playwright Jose Rivera encourages us to include at least one impossible thing in each of our plays. In the play that you are writing or even just thinking about, what is your one impossible thing? What *can* it be? We’ll study Rivera’s “36 Assumptions About Playwriting,” and specifically the idea of impossibility. The workshop will also include writing exercises to make room for impossibility in character, dialogue, scene direction and events.

Austin Script Works presents
OUT OF INK: The Trunk Show,
the 12th annual showcase of 10 minute plays

May 13-15 and May 20-22, 2010
Blue Theater, 916 Springdale Rd. (map)
all shows are 8 pm
May 13th is a Pay-What-You-Wish preview

$15 general admission
$12 students/seniors/ASW

For reservations,
call 512-454-9272 or
email reserve-at-scriptworks.org

Following the May 14th performance, there will be a public response session with Gary Garrison, Executive Director of the Dramatists Guild and author of Perfect Ten: Writing and Producing the Ten Minute Play and A More Perfect Ten.

This program, focused on the daily practice of writing and inspired by Suzan-Lori Parks’ 365 Days/365 Plays project, is back for the fourth year.

In 2002, Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright decided to write a play a day for a year. The resulting play cycle, called 365 Days/365 Plays, is a daily meditation on artistic life, and a radical reinterpretation of what it means to be creative — for more information on 365, please go to www.365days365plays.com.

Austin Script Works is offering our own opportunity to practice daily creativity through 30/60/90.

Dallas
Two short pieces by Gary Swaim will be read Tuesday night, May 18th at 7:00pm at the Irving Arts Center, 3333 North MacArthur Blvd. (map) in Irving.

Austin
The Bonobos by Amparo Garcia-Crow
Sunday, May 23rd @ 6:30pm
The State Theatre, 719 Congress Ave. (map)

Divorced couple Lorenzo and Antonia have been having an affair. When a cyber porn unit comes knocking on Lorenzo’s door during a tryst, the couple discovers that Tiffany, their seventeen-year-old daughter has been starring in and selling internet “instructive videos” falsely implicating Lorenzo as a child pornographer. In the process of defending his innocence, the hypocrisies of sex in one family illuminates the “missing link” that might just bring them all back together again.

Caliche Springs Dinner Theatre by Louise Richardson
Sunday, April 25th @6:30pm
State Theatre, 719 Congress Ave.

The Caliche Springs Dinner Theatre is a backstage comedy about a fictional community theatre overlooking Lake Travis near Austin, Texas. Angie Squires narrates her story of the last days of CSDT, the inside politics and the earnest efforts of a clique of amateurs to bring to life two classic productions and one commissioned work about the founding father of the mythical town of Caliche Springs, Texas. Angie is basically the entire office staff of CSDT, a Cinderella who just wants her chance to act in a show.

Jesus and Phoebe by Tommy LeVrier
Sunday, March 28, 2010 @ 6:30pm
State Theatre, 719 Congress Ave.

A punk/goth teen meets Jesus in a Hollywood cemetery and the two conflict with frightening results.