Los Tequileros tells the story of the border ballad by the same name that commemorates a fateful day in south Texas and the revenge killing of three tequila smugglers by American law enforcement following the recent murder of a Customs inspector.

Dolores Diaz is a small-time playwright from Laredo, Texas just trying to do this story some sense of justice.  She was inspired by her brother, George Diaz, a border scholar and PHD who initially researched the tequileros and encouraged her to tell this story. Her latest short play, Border Grammar, was produced by the Theatro Chicano de Laredo.   Dolores lives and works in Austin as an editor and quality assurance professional for an environmental consulting company.

Short Fringe
Weds. Jan. 18 – Tom Horan (SW Commission)
Thurs. Jan. 19 – Rhonda Kulhanek
Fri. Jan. 20 – Raymond Whelan, Jason Rainey
Tues. Jan. 24 – Gabrielle Reisman
Weds. Jan. 25 – Max Langert (SW Commission)
Thurs. Jan. 26 – Elizabeth Cobbe
Fri. Jan. 27 – Heather Bishop
Weds. Feb.1- Kirk German (SW Commission)
Fri. Feb. 2 – Joe Hartman
Tues. Feb. 7 -  Hank Schwemmer
Weds. Feb. 8 – Beth Broderick, Anne Newsome (SW Commission)
Fri. Feb. 10 – Candyce Rusk

Long Fringe – Salvage Vanguard
Lowell Bartholomee (dirigo group) Jan. 27, 29, 30, Feb. 2
Bastion Carboni (Poison Apple Initiative) Jan. 26, 28, 31, Feb. 4
Gary Jaffe (Tutto Theatre, director) Jan. 24, 28, 29, Feb. 5
Max Langert (Punchkin Rep) Jan. 25, 28, Feb. 3, 4

Long Fringe – Blue
Trey Deason (Purple Crayon) Jan. 26, 29, 31, Feb. 5

Complete information about all these shows and all of FronteraFest can be found at www.hydeparktheatre.org.

Sunday, December 11th at 6:30
State Theatre, 719 Congress Ave.

SOUTHIE PRIDE EZZAH GIVEN by Raymond V. Whelan

Catherine Marie Louise Flynn lives in the “Southie” section of Boston, where she is devoted to her invalid mother and the Red Sox. Flynn copes with personal confrontation and family problems as the city contends with political, social and economic upheaval during the mid-1970s. Premiere of an original work.

Raymond V. Whelan is an award-winning newspaper reporter for the River Cities Daily Tribune in Marble Falls, Burnet County, in the heart of the Hill Country, where he has written countless words on contemporary political, social and economic conditions.

DALLAS

DALLAS DECEMBER SALON
Monday, December 12th, 7:00
Dallas Children’s Theatre
5938 Skillman St., Dallas (map http://g.co/maps/95c67)

MISSISSIPPI GODDAMN by Jonathan Norton

1960, Robert Monroe wants Medgar Evers off his quiet street. But his plans are jeopardized when his youngest daughter, Robbie, returns home from college, newly politicized and eager to stand on the front lines of the Movement. Her youth and passion causes her to make a serious error in judgement, with painful consequences. Twenty four years later, Robbie returns home for the wedding of the daughter she left behind for the Movement. Their reunion is further complicated by painful memories of the past.

Jonathan Norton is a playwright, director and dramaturg based in Dallas, TX. His work has been produced at Capitol City Playhouse, TeCo Theatrical Productions, and Soul Rep Theater. He recently earned his Masters of Liberal Studies from Southern Methodist University.
Jonathan is a proud recipient of a 2010 Diaspora Performing Arts Commission sponsored by the South Dallas Cultural Center, for his play My Tidy List of Terrors, which was a Semi-Finalist for the 2011 Eugene O’Neill  National Playwrights Conference. My Tidy List of Terrors was recently workshopped as part of the 2011 Texas State University Black and Latino Playwrights Conference in San Marcos. The play will receive its world premiere this January at the South Dallas Cultural Center, directed by Cora Cardona.

The November Salon will be the culmination of our Weekend Fling where members write 10-minute plays using three arbitrary ingredients over 48 hours. We’ll be reading these freshly-inked mini-masterpieces in a Salon that is open to the public.

The Liklers are in a pickle. Parson Likler suddenly finds himself a single dad to his son Larius, an apsiring serial killer, his daughter Molly, a waitress attempting to fake obesity, and his youngest daughter Beluga, a middle schooler in love with a hairy older man. The family clumsily feels their way through this new life until a phone call changes everything.

Aimée Gonzalez is a working playwright currently living in Austin, Texas. She received her MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University in 2006. She recently completed the Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive in July 2011 where she workshopped this play. She is the Member Representative (informally known as the Member Whip) and a member of the board of directors for ScriptWorks.

MORPHINE

Dr. Benjamin has undergone heart surgery and finds himself in the predicament of acquiring almost everything the hospital has to give him in the way of other illnesses, resulting in a 6-month hospitalization and a 54-day coma.  During his hospital stay, he encounters himself through morphine-induced hallucinations and the actions of his family and friends.  Comedy meets philosophy. (based not all so loosely on my personal experiences in 2006)

Gary Swaim,  received his A.B. in English from the University of California at Riverside and his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Philosophy from the University of Redlands and Claremont Graduate University in California.  A faculty member in the Master of Liberal Studies Program at S.M.U., Dr.Swaim serves as Faculty Advisor for the Creative Writing concentration and Executive Editor for Pony Express(ions).   A broadly published poet (including two chapbooks), produced playwright, published writer of short fiction, and digital painter, Dr. Swaim is additionally honored as a Minnie Stevens Professor of Excellence for the State of Texas and the 2011 Texas Senior Poet Laureate. www.garyswaim.com

KINDERMAN’S WAKE
The truth comes from an unlikely source, when a crotchety south Texas rancher is awakened from the dead by an illegal alien and spends one more night on earth, or hell–he can’t tell which, in order to reconcile with his dysfunctional family and solve a sixty year old mystery.

George Obermiller is a screenwriter and playwright who lives in Corpus Christi, Texas. His recent screenplay, Hybrid, was optioned by Daniel Elder at Elder Pictures.  George is a new member of ScriptWorks and holds an undergraduate degree in Literature, and an MFA in Dramatic Writing.

A primer in self-producing for the fringe, a workshop taught by Christina J. Moore

WHEN:
Wednesday, September 14, 7:00 pm

WHERE:
Hyde Park Theatre
511 W. 43rd St. (map)

COST:
$5 ScriptWorks members; $10 general

INFO/RESERVATIONS:
christi-at-scriptworks.org

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
This workshop, led by ScriptWorks Executive Director and FronteraFest Producer Christina J. Moore, will guide participants through the process of preparing a piece for FronteraFest. From resources for finding actors, directors, and rehearsal space to the ins and outs of the technical rehearsal, we’ll cover it all.

August 11-13, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.
August 14, 2011 at 2:30 p.m.
Kress Theater, Alexandria, LA

SSP’s play writing workshop will be presented by C. Denby Swanson:

August 11 and 12
1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Kress Theater lobby.
The workshop is free to the community.

Paullette MacDougal will be moderating a panel discussion workshop at the Colorado Community Theatre Coalition festival this week for producers, artistic directors, and play selection committee people. (The group that playwrights want to know.) It’s entitled, “Designing Your Season.” Paullette is Artistic Director of Paradox Players in Austin.