Working Group Theatre "Under Construction" Solo Festival April 22-May 1
April 18, 2011 - 9:08 AM
Under Construction Solo Festival
At Riverside Theatre
April 22, 23 at 7:30 p.m.
April 28, 29, 30 at 7:30 p.m. and May 1 at 2 p.m.
Admission: $12 Students, $15 Adults - Buy a to the first week's show - use the same ticket to get in the next week!
Working Group Theatre will feature seven performers in it's first ever solo-show festival.
The first week (April 22, 23 at 7:30 p.m.) will feature our Solo Shorts – five short pieces from a diverse group of performers.
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Idris Goodwin (award-winning performer, playwright, author of These are the Breaks)
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Austin Bunn (Pushcart Prize winning author, playwright, ),
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John Kaufmann (author/performer of Starball, Johnny Lingers),
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Martin Andrews (Actor: All My Sons, Mary's Wedding, Midsummer Nights Dream)
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Jennifer Fawcett (author and performer of Goat Show, playwright: Atlas of Mud).
The second week (April 28-30 at 7:30 p.m. and May 1 at 2 p.m.) will feature two nationally-recognized performers.
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Sean Christopher Lewis (Smith Prize winner, author/performer of Killadelphia), will perform his new solo show “Just Kids” which describes how his work helping troubled kids at a Kansas school forced him to deal with his own past.
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Leslie Ishii might be familiar to an audience from her recurring role on Lost as Laura Change, or her work on numerous other TV shows. She is an accomplished stage actress who will premiere her one-person show “I Have a Spine” which describes her search into her own family history in the post-internment camps.